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ABOUT ME

”If my journey to Ignite can spark light to just one person's life - my mission is done.

When we shine, we allow others to do the same. There is room for all of us!

Where did your journey start?

I was only 17 when my body said NO! I was walking up the stairs in my school, when suddenly I faint. Once I got back up on my feet I threw up, and almost fainted again. I got sent to the ER. For months I'd been tired without explanation, lacking energy to concentrate at school and preform physically. I was a people pleaser, over achiever, top A-grade student and elite soccer player - who saw her body as something that puts limits to her need to be validated through her performance - being good enough. The doctor sits down with me, shows me perfectly healthy test results and explains what a 'burn-out' is: to be "sick from stress".

I slept for many weeks and struggled to leave the house. For a long time public transport, loud noises, fear and stress caused me to have panic attacks. I didn't know how to tell people what I was going through, both with friends and with my family. When we feel alone it's easy to develop unhealthy attachments. I struggle with codependent patterns - building a home in my partner, rather than in me.

I was diagnosed with panic attack disorder and worked together with therapists on and off for years to understand what happens in the body when we feel fear: since panic attacks are actually described as 'fear of fear'. Through Cognitive Behavior Therapy my knowledge of the nervous system expanded as I had to re-think everything 'I thought I knew' about the world.

BURNOUT - Ignited my Art

A bit late in life I discovered that when you do things you love it actually 'gives' you energy. In colorful abstraction I found 'flow' and 'joy'. My art teacher gave me keys to the studio and I learnt to walk in with emotions and walk out with art. This brought a huge change to my life. Suddenly I did not fear intense emotions, instead I was looking forward to see what I could create from them. Giving myself the time to really feel my emotions deeply - and turn them into art, poetry or music. I welcomed darkness, it was my canvas.

GALLERY

YOGA: the Masculine path to Liberation

I started studying psychology and ancient eastern wisdom of meditation, tantra and yoga. 2018 I became a certified Tantra Yoga Teacher and started learning about Somatic Therapy, Non-Violent Communication, Internal Family Systems and Attachment Theory.

GRIEF - Ignited my Poetry

September 2021 my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and seeing him slowly disappear in front of my eyes is the biggest grief I've ever experienced. I moved back home and for months I though every day that today would be his last day. I felt stuck in a survivor mode, and I didn't know how long it would go on for. The only way I could tell the difference of 'yesterday' and 'today' was through writing poetry and funny anecdotes of my dad. Each day had it's own content, it's own gold. These poems is so much more than words, they are survival - on paper. Writing them was like oxygen.

Library

TANTRA: the Feminine path to Liberation

After 4 years of Tantric and Somatic Practices like yoga, meditation, movement, sharing circles and work around female embodiment I wanted to expand my theoretical and experimental knowledge of Tantra. 2022 I became a certified Tantra Teacher and did my internship at Samma Karuna School of Healing and Awakening. I started facilitating weekly Women Circles and holding space for men, women and couples to ask questions about Tantra, sharing my theoretical knowledge. My work was always with groups, but as people were coming to me with more personal problems or staying after workshops - I started working with individuals and couples 1:1.

DEATH - Ignited my voice

Once my dad passed away, my grieving process was by the piano. He is the musical one in the family and when I sing I know that's 'him' in me. It's a way to feel close to him. When he passed away I felt the courage to make my voice heard, I've always been shy but suddenly I felt like my voice had a purpose. Honoring my dad's memory my songs colored the funeral and brought connection between friends, family and relatives in grief. Traveling the world, I keep him alive in my voice and in my memory. I've learnt he is not in my tears of grief, but in love and connection. When I make my voice heard and share my story, beautiful moments of connection are created. It's in those magical moments, where our hearts are shining - that everyone we have loved and lost still lives. This place is where feeling Ignite was born.

Studio

”Our emotional world creates lasting effects on our health and is tightly linked to sickness and disease. Most people don't seek help until their body screams for it! .”

Most people reach out because of relationship problems, and for personal development. I've also worked with women and men around self-worth and confidence to face our fears.

IGNITE was born

I don't pretend to be perfect. My certificates are not special. My personal experiences and the value I have extracted from any situation, is what might set me apart. In my work, I like to place emphasis on self-reliance and self-discovery, meaning that I prefer to take the role of a facilitator or a mentor, rather than being the one with the answers. What we need is often not someone to tell us “what to do”, but someone who listen. Saying things out loud helps us hear ourselves and most of the time we know what we should do - we just need a little support, accountability or a sense of “doing it together”.

I mentor people online and in person as I travel around the world. This website is a piece of my soul. If you have a dream, adventure or project you are procrastinating, I also offer a full on service to come live or travel with you, you and your partner or your family - where I can hold space for emotional processes as they happen.

I've burnt my wick in both ends. I've been afraid to be burnt again. I've searched for hands to shelter my flame. I've lost my light to grief and heart-break.

Darkness is the space in which we can really see our light.
Fear is believing it is not there if we can’t see it.
Liberation is knowing that we hold the matches in our hands and we can always IGNITE again. Things or people in life that “blow us out” are not enemies, but old friends in disguise trying to remind us who we are.

My methods

EXPERIENCE

Emotional awareness

THOUGHTS & SENSATIONS

Emotional awareness is our inner compass, navigating the gap between action and reaction by understanding the connection between thoughts and sensations. Using tools like non-violent communication, self-inquiry and meditation we start to break free from patterns and traumas, choosing beneficial responses over reflexive ones.

Somatic Practices

BODY & MIND

Somatic Therapy is a holistic approach bringing awareness to the connection of Body and Mind. Practices may include movement, breathwork, body-mapping or sensory engagement and can be done at home or enriched by adventures in nature. This therapy works to soothe the nervous system and release stress, tension, and anxiety from the body.

Creative Expression

EMOTIONAL ALCHEMY & TRUTH

Truth is not always as we want it to be. Stop running away from uncomfortable feelings and uncertainty. What we resist, will persist. Adapt a mindset of extracting value from anything life throws at you - and turn emotional lead into Gold: by creativity, cognitive thinking and rhetoric. Emotional Alchemy is about your character.