Live the life that is truly yours.
Rooted in yourself, true to who you are,
closer to what you actually feel.
Perhaps you recognise this.
You spend a lot of time in your head. You function, you perform, you are always switched on. And meanwhile you’ve lost touch with what’s going on underneath.
That you adjust to what is expected of you. Until you barely know what you want any more.
That you keep turning something over, because in the moment you didn’t say what you felt.
That your body has been signalling for a while, and you no longer really hear it.
And underneath everything that works, something in you wants to live closer to yourself.
What can shift
A life that is truly your own.
Rooted in your own strength. Making choices that fit you, instead of overriding yourself and working hard to keep everything afloat. Staying true to who you are.
Calm that comes from the inside, not calm you perform.
Speaking up when something is alive in you, without losing yourself.
Choices that sit right with you, because you know again what you want and what you need.
And this is where it begins: learning to feel again what happens in your body, and learning to trust that.
Why through the body
Your body often knows more than your head
Your head takes you a long way: reflecting, pausing, understanding yourself. And still, thinking has its limit. Your body senses what is going on sooner, even while it sits below the surface. Your experiences live there, together with old beliefs and imprints from your past. They shape what moves you, and why you do or don’t do certain things. Think of the tightness that stops you saying something you actually want to say. The question is not how to get rid of that tightness, or think your way past it. The question is whether you can listen to what it is telling you, and what it is really about.
Often we are at war with what we feel. We look for distraction, bottle it up, try to move away from it, try to let it go. Preferably fast.
Something else is possible. You can turn towards that part of yourself with curiosity, want to get to know it, and stay with it a while. Out of your head and back into your body. So that you gradually understand what is alive in you, and can meet it more consciously. In a session or a retreat, and outside it, in your daily life.
Our deepest longing may also be our hardest task: to be ourselves. Not once, but again and again, because we lose ourselves easily. It is the work of a lifetime. And that is exactly where your growth starts to move.
Curious what this could mean for you? Or is there something you would like to explore?
Offering
How we can work together
Sacred Retreats
Journeys inwards where awareness, connection and embodiment come together. With a group that wants to explore this openly and with curiosity. For anyone longing for more freedom inside themselves, more vitality, more self-knowledge and real contact. With yourself, and with others.
One-to-One Coaching
Personal, embodied sessions around your question or your longing. At your own pace, shaped by what is alive in you.
For Organisations
Are you working on team development, authentic leadership or the wellbeing of your people? I guide teams and leaders to work from who they really are, to stay connected, and to put the undercurrent into words. With a background in boardroom dynamics as well as body-based work.
Experiences
What others took with them
Down to the smallest detail, Els creates a beautiful space for women to be themselves. Strong, vulnerable, light, emotional, animal, messy — all of it was welcome, and all of it came into the light.
Nina · translated from Dutch
It is remarkable to see how much gentleness and respect Els brings to holding a space. I felt completely free to be myself and to express myself. I am grateful for the wisdom I get to take with me and live out.
Vera · translated from Dutch
It felt like a wonderfully relaxed afternoon. Els takes the time to connect with the group, to pause at whatever is needed in that moment, and she gives everyone room. Well worth it if you want to go deeper on a personal level.
Famke · translated from Dutch
More than ten years of guiding people and groups. From light workshops to deep personal work.
About the name
Sense · U · Else.
About feeling and experiencing. Closer to yourself. And to the other. About sensory connection, and settling into your body.
Personal
I’m Els
I guide people towards a deeper connection with their own core.
Away from the conditioning and the expectations — from society, family, work — that no longer fit you. So you can live more freely, more truly, closer to yourself.
Shall we meet?
Whether you come with a clear question or just a sense that something in you needs room: you are welcome. We can always start with a free discovery call. It often goes deeper than you would expect, and together we look at what might suit you. An open conversation, and a possible beginning.