“You are Free. You just have to believe it and the magic will happen instantly.” Marlies
She passionately believes that through a retreat with Journey sessions, outdoor coaching, and yoga you can reach your true potential, by changing not yourself, but your old patterns, emotions, and perceptions, leading to a life lived more freely, lightly, and healthily.
Freedom, love, peace, and silence can only be found within yourself. They are there, within, they are your true nature and define you as a person.
Marlies studied in England, Italy, and The Netherlands and worked for over 20 years in her practice in The Netherlands. After several travels to India, South Africa, New Zealand, and Tahiti, she started to organize retreats on the Italian island Sardinia in 2010.
In 2011 she moved to this beautiful island, where she now lives on the Southern coast with her family.
Sardinia Island Yoga offers
- Transformational private and group retreats with kundalini yoga, outdoor coaching and Journey therapy on Sardinia. Find out more about the retreats
- Private & group Kundalini yoga lessons in beautiful locations in nature on Sardinia Island at the seaside
- Coaching in nature, hiking, coaching conversations and meditating in the mountains of Sardinia and along the coastline of this beautiful island
- Journey therapy sessions to let go of old luggage and to live more free and light in the present
- Coaching sessions online
- Journey therapy online.
- Online live private or group classes all year round
- Pregnancy guidance for mother and/ or father with yoga, coaching and Journey sessions online or on Sardinia (pregnancy retreats uptill 6 months of pregnancy)
“Live your life from this fire within that guides you to what makes you feel full of love and of pure joy.” Marlies
Curriculum Vitae
“With 24 years of experience as a counsellor and natural medicine therapist, I treat both adults and children with passion and dedication in my own practice, Terra in Lucem in The Netherlands. I do this with a strong belief in the true potential that resides within every person. I started Sardinia Island Yoga from my passion for the island, for nature and for my work which I truly love. To be able to be for a longer period of time with one or more persons to dive even deeper into self development, is a great way of living my life. Last but not least, I get to work in the most beautiful places in nature. To see clients reconnect with themselves and their true nature, makes me, simply said, happy.
From a young age I have been interested in why people react certain ways and what communication truly is. How do we communicate how we feel to each other, what drives our reactions, how do our thoughts impact the way we feel? And what is freedom and where do we find silence? Not just the human psyche, but also the collaboration between body and spirit fascinates me.
I studied natural medicine at the Hippocrates Academy in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands and graduated as natural medicine therapist, counsellor/ coach and iridologist. After finishing this five year degree I followed the Journey Practitioner programme in England, where I was tought by Brandon Bays herself, the founder of the Journey Method, and am therefore an accredited Journey Practitioner. In 2001 I started my own therapy practice Terra in Lucem, treating both adults and children.
In 2010 I started organising women’s transformational retreats on Sardinia and in 2011 I moved to this beautiful island, where I now live on the Southern coast with my family. On Sardinia I followed programmes to become a certified Kundalini yoga teacher and children’s yoga teacher and since 2016 I am a registered yoga teacher with the Italian UISP. I organise transformational retreats with yoga, coaching in nature and Journey sessions, I give yoga lessons and online (private) yoga lessons in English, Italian or Dutch. I divide my time between the Netherlands and Sardinia, between my therapy practice and my retreats.
Besides my work as a therapist in my practice I have worked as a volunteer in several projects: In 2003 I worked with homeless people and terminally ill patients in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in 2006 I helped start-up and execute a project for 65 children living in the slums of Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa, for the organisation Journey Outreach. I have also worked as a voluntary trainer at Journey seminars in the Netherlands and South Africa and at workshops for children with emotional issues.
Through my travels around different continents and countries, such as India, Africa, Sardinia, Tahiti and New-Zealand, I have experienced and learnt more about communication and I have been privileged to get to know different cultures and their methods of therapy and healing techniques, such as the traditional Maori and Celtic healing methods.
I passionately believe that through therapy and yoga you can reach your true potential, by changing not yourself, but your old patterns, emotions and perceptions, leading to a life lived more freely, lightly and healthily. Freedom, love, peace and silence can only be found within yourself. They are there, within, they are your true nature and define you as a person.
I look forward to get to know you, to support and to guide you through your journey.”
Sardinia Island Yoga focusses on creating beautiful retreats together with you through Kundalini Yoga teachings & meditation, personal outdoor coaching and Journey sessions. All in an amazing place surrounded by nature and sea. Personal growth, professional guidance and integrity are highly valuated by me.