My story in
a nutshell
An adventure towards remembering..
In 2009 I had my first contact with a more holistic approach towards personal healing.
At that time crystals were the first thing to shake the world that I knew back then.
They led me to go within, which gave me the insight into the importance of how we breathe and the way the body expresses how one feels inside. Our body can tell us a lot more about ourselves than we often want to admit or that we are conscious of.
Practicing mindfulness brought me to Eastern traditions on meditation and breathwork, which I combined with working on the body with kung fu. Thanks to these tools and philosophy I managed to heal myself from scoliosis, with the help of a specialist who helped me to correct my body, so I could strengthen my body through physical exercises to develop muscles to walk straight without any discomfort. By correcting my physical body, I noticed that trauma and behavioral patterns came to light by re-aligning the physical body. I understood that our emotional and mental wellbeing was connected to our physical state of being. This was a slow process that took years to understand.
Around the time that I started to work with crystals for myself, mushrooms also entered my life and opened the door towards plant medicines and more ancient ways of healing the mind and spirit. They helped me to conquer old traumas and face depression by rearranging the way I thought and perceived the world around me.
In 2016, I took my first solo trip to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, to explore the world of plant medicines, where the knowledge was still available on how to work with plants like our ancestors once did. Here I had the opportunity to sit with two amazing healers from the Shipibo lineage at Dreamglade's retreat center in Iquitos.
After my first retreat, in early 2018 I found my maestro Don Ronald Joe Wheelock with whom I started an apprenticeship working with plant medicines without knowing where this would lead. It's here that I discovered the love for trees and learning directly from them alongside my maestra Ayahuasca. After this intense opening into the world of plant medicines , through a following dieta I was directed to a Mestizo family (Panduro Navarro) in Iquitos coming from Llamas (Region Tarapoto/Peru), where up until this day, I'm still a student at Pedrito's University and walking my own direction. Learning never stops!
In 2021, I decided to let go of everything. I left my life in my native country of Belgium, and took myself as far as possible out of the system. Went off to the Peruvian jungle, with only three backpacks, containing my most precious items. There was a piece of land needing to be taken care of, belonging to a friend and an opportunity to disappear into the jungle. So I let go of everything I ever lived by. Surrendering myself to the jungle. And then the day came that I ran out of money and other luxury items to have any comfort. The only things remaining were plants and basic jungle food, my cat, chickens and a dog belonging to the property.
During this adventure I started to remember who I am as a soul, why I am here, what my mission and work on this planet is. Coming from a very rational and logical upbringing, I now can no longer deny that living a life in alignment with my higher self is essential. Triggered by seeing a lot more and discovering very intimate sides of life and our universe.
It's almost unimaginable how beautiful and loving this whole life experience can be and is at all times.
After spending six months in the jungle, and some time in Iquitos city, I ended up back in Belgium, this brings me to the second part of my journey, my twin flame, Debra. I never wanted to go back to Belgium. But the call to reconnect was bigger than my personal soul-quest. We initially connected professionally. I contacted her for an akashic records reading for myself, wanting to gain some extra insights to prepare for the jungle adventure and coming dietas. As Debra jumped into my records, she surprisingly discovered many images and memories including her presence. These insights brought more questions and Debra asked if she was allowed to dive deeper into my records, to find out what was going on. So she discovered that we've been together as one, twin flames, a truth that deeply resonated with me, the moment she shared this information with me. Initially from a distance we explored and discovered how deep this connection went in spirit and intuition. Being granted these new insights in being one within and without. After connecting and doing long distance work between Belgium and Peru. We are now on our mission together, traveling as a family, on our way back to the Amazon. Sharing and helping out where we land and flow.
First stop Mallorca!
In 2021, after 7 transformative years of intense work (most importantly the integration aspect) I gained a lot of knowledge on integration work with plant medicine experiences and traumas. Ever since gaining these insights, my mission has been to guide people further into transforming the insights that they've gained during plant medicine journeys and/or other big life changing experiences into knowledge that they can apply in their day to day life, with the goal of connecting to their essence.
My goal is to make you remember who you are, and who you can be. I’m continuing this process of growth and learned now that this is a natural part of life, which we can become more comfortable with by recognizing these cycles for what they are and to learn from them.
A very intense period of
integration passed by…
2023, we are still in Spain and have been through a huge amount of layers and transformation within our family, and on a personal level. These past years, after waking up, I had my work on my body, but mostly the last 7 years have been dedicated mainly to the development of mind and spirit. Only this process didn’t feel like a complete picture and I had a sense that I was lacking a part in order to offer my own unique service to guide people that are experiencing their own awakening.
This year I had the opportunity to connect to a very powerful tree in Europe that holds a lot of wisdom about harmony and discipline. And it brought me back where I started this story, my body. After such a long time working with the mind and the spirit it guided me back to the full spectrum. I wasn’t even looking for this and this came as a gift through my dieta with the olive tree. “Pick up kung fu again!” But where and with whom? My experience with kung fu masters in the Western world was not so good when it came to being authentic and combining it with the wisdom of plants. Until the Shaolin temple in Yunnan crossed my path… Another blessing thanks to Covid is that many things are available in online courses these days. And this specific direction will allow me the opportunity to become a disciple at an official temple recognized by the Wushu Federation and the temple themselves as a coach.
July 2023, I started to reconnect to Chinese traditions and so I found a master to continue the path of kung fu. Starting all over from scratch in the Shaolin tradition to rebuild my foundation and learn from a new master, Shifu Shi Yanjun, headmaster at the Shaolin temple in Yunnan (Kunming China). He is the 34th generation disciple Shaolin warrior monk & 17th generation disciple of the traditional heritage of Meihua Quan. Which is an ancient style that has been kept secret for 1000’s of years. These body movements and stances connect you to the power of the life force which they call Qi. Through these movements we learn to harness the essence of natural energy and gain the wisdom to find harmony and balance within. These techniques also help to rejuvenate our body and spirit and guide us through life with the fiery energy of a dragon and the calmness of a monk.
So you see, life is a never ending story of growth and potential where one that is dedicated can continue to learn for the rest of their life. For me there is no more search in what direction my life needs to go. To where I want to grow… I walk the path of a healer within the Amazonian traditions, which is a lifetime of learning and which will never stop. So it is with my new direction of joining the temple in Yunnan as a disciple under Shifu Shi Yanjun. In a way I see this for myself as bringing heaven and earth together. Spirit, mind and body… Both paths offer deep wisdom and a never ending path of growth and learning.
Just like a tree…
Roots will continue to grow deeper while the branches will continue to reach out to the sky and each year I will be enjoying more and more fruits from the hard work and joy that I discovered for myself in these practices and the unique combination of both of them to guide other people.
To bring people back to simplicity and knowledge that can guide you to grow your own tree in a healthy and balanced way in the full spectrum of life’s lessons and blessings.
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