After 5 months of yoga experience I flew to Bali to follow a Yoga Teacher Training (TTC). A combination of the yoga styles Vinyasa flow and Yin yoga (Yin & Yang). My Dutch yoga teacher advised me against it, because of my short knowledge and experience with yoga compared to the intensity of the training, but of course I went anyway. A whole new world opened up for me, the time of my life and I loved yoga! I have whiplash from a car accident twice. I spent years figuring out how to handle the pain and find a way ‘how I could live with it and deal with it’. Pain day in and day out. During my training, my entire body changed and for the first time in years my pain changed. This was so special, it made me curious, I wanted to learn more and share it with everyone. Why would we live with physical complaints if it is also possible without?!
After my return I started giving yoga lessons in the Netherlands, met so many special people in my lessons and was always happy to hear that I could inspire them in some way. I soon made the choice to follow my path back to Asia, I wanted to gain more international yoga knowledge from people all over the world, eat healthy, come to myself and find out what my path in this life really is. During my time living in Asia I followed several new yoga trainings and learned a lot from all the beautiful people who came my way during this period. I also gave lessons in special beautiful places in ‘paradise’.
As I have experienced in a special way, yoga does a lot to a person. It gives you a strong body and a good ‘core’ structure. Peace, balance and many more things that everyone can experience better personally. Since yin and yang are important in the body and in life, because this gives the balance, I also teach various yoga forms that are yin and/or yang related. Powerful yoga forms that make your body strong, and powerful yoga forms in the yin way that challenge you in a different (calm) way in postures. You also encounter a lot about your own body and yourself as a person, self-knowledge.
When I returned after living in Asia for more than a year, there was another crossroads in my life. What am I going to do, where am I going and where am I going to live? I always wanted to start something for myself. I came from fashion & media and worked as a clothing stylist for celebrities. I really like fashion, creativity and clothing. This also led me to design, have produced and set up my own yoga clothing line during my stay in Asia, Lively Collection. I had reached the basis of creativity and clothing, which is one of my passions, and after my return to the Netherlands I found that it was time for my other passion; a yoga studio. I thought if it is not my path, then this will become clear by itself. I got a lot of responses about how I was going to approach it and whether it would ‘work’. I had no idea, in my opinion it is important that you do the things in life that you like, then the rest will follow automatically. My motto was; Let go of ‘your worries’ or insecurities and function from your heart. Insecurity is a negative energy and will not bring you anything positive. After two months of renovation, I was able to open my beautiful studio on February 1, 2017. I enjoy this place every day and I hope that you experience this too or will experience it in one of my lessons or with one of the other fantastic teachers who help me teach the lessons in the studio, which I am so incredibly proud of!
Live from your heart and don’t think too much, life is not that complicated. Above all, follow your passion and belief in what you want to do and achieve in this life, and the rest will take care of itself.
With love,
Kelly
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