What happens on a mindfulness retreat?
Three habits that can improve your sleep
Sleep is a complex process. There are so many factors to consider when talking about what you can do to improve it. However, there are three crucial habits that are probably responsible for 80% of...
Building in powerful stress relievers in your daily life
Actually, not much is needed to take care of yourself in situations in which you feel powerless and overwhelmed. For my favourite exercise, called “box breathing” you only need: your breath. And as...
Improving your energy levels with small morning and evening rituals
In the past months, everything has changed more dramatically than anyone could have imagined – and our bodies have taken its toll. Here are some morning and evening rituals to support your energy...
Presence 2.0 – Bringing more presence into remote working
Now that we're all remote working, we're noticing a lack of idle time. Bringing back small talk in our digital communications can go a long way in recreating some of these unplanned moments of...
Breathe yourself to sleep: How conscious breathing can help you fall asleep
Breathing happens by itself without even thinking of it, while at the same time we can consciously control it. It can be a powerful instrument to help us fall asleep (again) when we are struggling...
9 reasons to engage in a Mindfulness Teacher Training
Are you interested in boosting your mindfulness practice or perhaps becoming a teacher? There are many reasons to take up the challenge of a teacher training.
How to recognise burn-out
Burn-out is a stress-related condition. In itself, stress is not necessarily a bad thing. A bit of adrenalin can make you perform at your best when a deadline is in sight, or when something is...
Setting an intention for 2021: Rebuilding trust and connectedness
Many of us are longing for a new start after an extraordinary, exhausting year. But can we build the new year on our learning and insight instead of just ‘starting afresh’?
What if ... a year in review
What if 2020 was not a lost year but rather a year that made a grow on various levels?
Longing for more Humanity
Stepping out of the rat race
We spend a great deal of our waking hours at work. Yet the digitalisation has further diminished the difference between private and professional life and therefore many of us are feeling...
Boost your happiness with gratitude
November is the time of the year when we need to celebrate good moments in our life in order to compensate for the gloom of the darker and colder days.
Did you know that gratitude is a happiness...
Staying sane in winter lockdown
By now, we are all familiar with the lockdown phenomenon, where we have to limit our social contacts to a minimum. Though we may be better prepared...
How to soften your inner drive system in times of crisis
In these uncertain times it is important to learn ways how to calm and ground yourself.
Calming your anxious mind with conscious breathing
In these turbulent times it is normal to feel quite worried and anxious and we have all the reasons and we have all the reasons to feel like that. however it is not heathy for our body and mind to...
Letting life surprise you
What else is here besides the thinking?
We are so much caught in thinking all day long that sometimes we forget our body. in mindfulness we learn to expand our awareness so we are less caught up in the tightness of stressful thinking and...