Where experience deepens awareness

Mission

As you begin to pay attention to your inner sense, something in the way you experience life may start to change.

Living by Inner Sense is rooted in a process of growing awareness and exploring inner life through lived experience. It grew from a simple but ongoing discovery: that life can be lived and understood more deeply when we learn to experience it from within. It offers a calm, educational space for those who feel a growing curiosity toward their inner world, especially during periods of change or transition.

In many ways, we grow through life without being fully aware of it. Experiences shape us, often quietly, sometimes over a long time. Yet there can also come moments when the wish arises to engage with this process more consciously, often around times of change, transition, or inner questioning.If you recognise yourself in this, you may feel the need to understand more clearly what is happening within you. To learn to recognise and acknowledge your inner sense, and gradually find ways to relate to it with more clarity and steadiness.

My intention is to support you in meeting those moments. To experience life more as a meaningful and unfolding journey, rather than something that simply happens to you. From there, space can open for insight to arrive in its own time, not forced, but recognised as it appears.This way of living is also a way of learning. Life itself becomes the teacher, through moments of clarity, but also through repetition, uncertainty, or experiences you may only understand much later, sometimes after a long time.

Over time, this opens something wider. Life is no longer only what you see or think about, but something richer that can be lived and experienced on different levels, often more subtle than we first realise. This is something I continue to explore myself. It helps me to move forward, whatever life brings or has brought. And at times, it opens the possibility of a new beginning, a kind of second spring, from within.

How this way of working developed

This way of working did not start as a method, but grew over time through a combination of personal experience, training, and ongoing learning.

Periods of change, questions around direction, and a growing sensitivity to what happens beneath the surface gradually shifted the focus away from analysing and fixing, towards recognising what is already present.

Alongside this, different forms of training and guidance contributed to understanding how attention, perception, and subtle influences can be recognised and worked with in a grounded way.

Over time, it became clear that attention itself plays a central role. Not as a technique, but as a simple and direct way of allowing insight and movement to emerge.

This includes mainly how things are felt; emotionally, physically, and intuitively, while thoughts often appear more as impressions or insights, rather than analysis.

Experience and training have also shown that more subtle and less visible influences can play a role in how people orient themselves and find clarity. This remains an ongoing area of learning, approached with care, observation, and without fixed claims.

What is offered now is a continuation of that path; simple in form, but shaped by lived experience, training, and continued development.

My Journey

A long-standing interest in human behaviour, patterns, background, and culture has shaped my path from early on, both personally and professionally. I have always been curious about how upbringing, environment, and lived experience influence the way we relate to life, work, and meaning.

Alongside this curiosity, I built a professional life involving responsibility, coordination, and ongoing learning, where change did not take place in isolation, but in the midst of work, family life, and practical commitments.

Over time, this way of living deepened my interest in questions of inner orientation: what supports sustained engagement, care, and responsiveness over the long term, without hardening or losing inner connection?

Rather than stepping away from life, this inquiry led me to explore ways of living and working with greater awareness and rhythm, while staying involved in everyday life as it unfolds. Relocating from the Netherlands to rural France was a conscious step towards a more connected way of living, and a move away from a more demanding and outward-focused pace of life.

Over the years, I continued to learn and practise awareness-based work, guided reflection, and inner regulation, integrated into daily life. Alongside this, I had already been informally supporting people around me for many years, sometimes through conversation, and at times including energetic work.

At a later stage, I went through cancer and intensive treatments, which marked a significant turning point.

This experience brought a deeper understanding of pacing, presence, and the importance of inner listening when life asks more than can easily be given.

It also shaped a more conscious way of working with physical limits, without stepping away from engagement with life.

From there, a long-standing wish to support others more consciously began to take clearer form.

That is why this work is grounded in a way of living that includes awareness on physical, psychological, emotional, and more subtle levels.

This has been essential in supporting recovery and sustaining life, particularly following significant treatments and what seems to be lasting effects.

This unfolded alongside the loving support of my environment, and a growing trust that what life brings can be learned from over time.

These experiences form the quiet background of how I work today — practical, involved, and attentive to life as it is lived.

Professional framing

Living by Inner Sense offers educational and training-based services focused on awareness, presence and inner orientation. This work is intended for those navigating change, or seeking a more grounded and conscious way of living.

This work does not replace medical, psychological or therapeutic care. All services are offered online, within a calm, confidential, and professional setting. All group formats are guided by two facilitators, offering a shared, and carefully structured learning environment.