You are Earth, having a human experience

Reconnect with the balance, wisdom & creativity that is already within you

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You belong — equally much as the trees & rocks, air & water

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This space is dedicated to all who have ever found themselves:

  • feeling chronically stressed, overwhelmed, disconnected

  • struggling to balance caring for oneself with attending to the needs of others

  • questioning one’s place in the world, especially in human society and relationships

  • sitting alone with existential questions of meaning, purpose, identity and authenticity

  • repeatedly trying and failing to “get unstuck” in life

  • cautiously curious about developing your own creativity & intuition, or “coming out” as a sensitive & intuitive person

No matter where you’ve been, how much you’ve gone through, and how heavy the burdens you have been carrying — you are welcome here, exactly as you are.

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Grounded & embodied spirituality as creative practice

I offer practices and experiences that intend to support you in coming home to yourself, rediscovering your innate sources of wisdom and creative potential, and reclaiming the belonging that is your birthright in the world.

All of my work is done in partnership with spirits of land and place. To me, awareness of our relational entanglement with the living world is an inherently spiritual experience.

I do not see science & spirituality, rationality & intuition, or even nature & culture as opposites. These conceptual dualities have contributed to a lot of collective "getting stuck” in modern culture.

So, I practice “spiritual” healing and guidance techniques, in intentionally “skeptic-friendly” ways.

I practice “nature therapy”, intentionally online and in urban environments.

My practices are intentionally eclectic and creative; respecting traditions while committed to finding ways to bring them closer together.

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Practices

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    Reiki, Sound & Shamanic Healing

    Gentle techniques for healing and rebalancing mind-body-spirit.

    In-person sessions combine hands-on Reiki healing with singing bowl massage.

    Online / distance sessions combine Reiki with Shamanic healing.

    1-1 Reiki training and mentorship.

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    Intuitive Guidance with Tarot

    Consulting imagery-based (tarot and oracle) cards as a method for guided, creative self-inquiry.

    Practice leaning into the unknown and trying on unexpected new ways of looking at existing issues.

    Supporting you to become confident in your own intuitive wisdom & abilities.

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    Ecospiritual Counselling & Mindfulness Coaching

    Customised individual support on questions of home, belonging, exile, meaning & purpose.

    Energy healing and ceremonial work for homes, offices & spaces.

    Disability & neurodivergence-friendly guidance on deepening your personal mindfulness and/or nature connection practice.

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    Heart-centred circles & gatherings

    Group containers for heart-centred presence and relational mindfulness practice.

    Facilitated sharing circles around specific topics & lived experiences.

    Online gatherings in service of global connectedness and cross-cultural dialogue.

About your guide 🐾

A smiling Kirien with curly black hair, wearing glasses, a beige shirt with brown polka dots, and a beaded necklace with an orange tassel, standing outdoors near a canal with green trees and buildings in the background.

People often ask how long I’ve been interested in meditative or spiritual practices, or related with the world in an ecospiritual way. The answer is: since birth.

All of my public offerings grew out of lifelong personal study and dedicated practice on myself and with people close to me. This is not something I “do”, but an active expression of honouring who I am and always have been.

On the outside, my life story has looked like:

  • Growing up, living, studying & working in multiple countries

  • Learning multiple languages and having multiple “careers”

  • Experiencing the world through multiple sex and gender roles

Home and belonging are the most elusive and complicated concepts I have ever known. I spent most of my life actively, continuously distorting myself into unnatural, unhealthy, unsustainable shapes so that some person, group, or state would “give me permission” to experience those things.

Eventually, my body forced me to give up that futile mission and to start showing up in the world authentically. To reclaim for myself what it means to belong.

Can you relate to that, in your own way?

I am not here to give answers, but to hold compassionate space — by your side — in co-inquiry about your questions, bringing curiosity to the nuances of your particular life context. I especially welcome the parts of you that have felt, or been told, that it somehow does not belong or cannot be welcomed by others.

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hi~ do you have one minute?

please enjoy this small gift of relaxation from when my life partner & i offered reiki & sound healing sessions and events together in the netherlands 🧡

“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.”

—David Abram