Breathwork
Arturas
I attended one of Dorien's breathing group sessions in Amsterdam by sheer chance, having some extra time prior to my flight to London. This has lead to a beautiful and heart-opening experience, beyond what I would have expected. Surrounded by a group of brave women deeply experiencing their emotional layers - I have come to some of my own realizations and experiences. In the safe space created by Dorien, I was able to reconnect to my own buried feelings and release some heaviness I've been carrying around for a long time. This has served as a powerful transformative experience for me, leading to a deeper understanding of myself and others. Thank you for the work you are doing!
Louve Louwes
I decided to meet Dorien this last month for a personal breath session. I met her in a a group a few months ago, where she showed us already how to breathe.
Even if it was not the main activity, it was already great and I felt very good and safe to have Dorien next to me. Her strong, grounded and peaceful energy really helped me to go a lot further in my process.
This last month, I did a one on one session with her and it was very POWERFUL! I had a lot of very old emotions to release and Dorien was perfect in her role. I really could feel my whole body releasing old tensions, that I forgot were there because they have been there already for years and years.
Even my boyfriend, who I met a few hours after the session, told me that my body was different, so much more relaxed.
I really believe the person to do the breath work is one of the keys for deep healing. I'm so grateful I met this wonderful soul on my way.
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I'm living in Brussels, so unfortunately, I cannot go to her to do more regular work. I tried to find someone to try it with in Brussels, and it was absolutely not the same.
If you have the luck to live nearby, go for it ! It's really worth it.
Floris
I have had a number of sessions with Dorien and I am impressed and comforted by her natural way of guiding me through the more difficult parts of trauma recovery. Her sessions are very valuable to me in dealing with a hard subject. Very much recommend, including for those having difficulty "getting out of their heads".
Tessel Nederbragt
A breath session with Dorien is always a full journey. With only little words she is able to understand what my body and my spirit need. When I am in Dorien’s hands I feel so safe that my body already opens before we even start to work. Every time we breathe she lovingly pushes me over again another boundary. Anger, sadness, fear or total madness, we have gone through quite some extremes and we always end up in total bliss. Dorien is capable of bringing breath, light and love to things that are hiding sometimes for a hundred years. Dorien has helped me to surrender and made me flourish in ways that I cannot put into words. She is an incredible woman and I would highly recommend her and her breathwork to anyone.
Daan Gorter
We invited Dorien to come do work at our biweekly men’s circle. It was deep, transformational and a lot of fun. We were able to get the most out of the session because of Dorien’s ability to apply soft touch and also to give us the extra push where needed, to sink deeper into ourselves and our bodies. She does beautiful work, professional and with care. I would highly recommend her, for breathwork and guidance of healing sessions. Recently she came to guide both my parents through a breath session.
Soraya Steen
I never experienced a transformational breath session before, so I didn’t know what was going to happen exactly. Dorien guided me beautifully through our session. I felt safe, I felt helt, I felt supported in feeling everything that came up and I felt guided in releasing all that my body wished to release there and then. I wish to continue to take sessions at Dorien, and release more and go deeper. She feels safe and emits so much love.
Annelotte Rutten
From the first time I met Dorien, she has been an inspiration and role model to me. Her presence is very powerful, soft and loving at the same time. I see a woman embodying her essence and truth completely, only with her presence inviting you to do the same. Breathing and Dorien make a perfect couple, as they both advocate a no-nonsense approach. Going straight to the pattern/emotion/defense-mechanism, powerful but with love and gentleness. Creating a safe and effective environment for you to face your 'shit'. She is able to hold space for any shadow, because she faced her own. The best thing of it all, breathing puts you in the control seat. It requires you to show up, breathe and stay present with whatever happens . The body does the work for you. You don't need to work through your stories, keeping you trapped in the mind. As they say: The mechanism which created the problem, will not be the solution to it. That's why breathing has been so powerful in my process. After each breathing session, no matter how heavy the emotions were I dealt with, I felt full of life, grounded in my body, in touch with my whole being. What a blessing.
The one on one sessions were powerful because Dorien knows exactly which pressure points to press for a release to take place. With more personal attention you are able to go even deeper. But the group sessions were just as powerful in a different way, because of the group element. Which to me was an invigorating experience, you are facing your shit together in the same space. Encouraging you to really go for it.
Marjolijn Krommenhoek
Before meeting Dorien, I had been going to traditional coaches but these sessions did not cut it for me. My ratio works like a charm. I just strongly felt like I was only scratching the surface of what is actually going on within me by talking about challenges in life. Coaches used to tell me I had to start to ‘feel’ my emotions. The issue was, I did not know how to feel. Through yoga nidra I learned about Dorien’s breath work. Visiting Dorien for the first time, I was somewhat anxious as I was not sure what to expect. Boy, my first session was intense. I cried, I yelled, I laughed and my body was cramped and full of tingling sensations. It was such a magical experience. Albeit we only had two sessions, doing breath work with Dorien has changed my life. I am able to actually feel when emotions need to go out and even though doing breath work at home by myself is just the light version of the real deal together with Dorien. I know already I will continue to do so all my life.
Myra Driessen
In one on one sessions or with specific attention during a group session, Dorien is so dedicated and experienced, she feels and sees precisely where you are and what you need, how you can continue, if you can be a little kinder towards yourself or push a little harder.
She knows exactly where she can touch you a little extra to trigger you a little more in honesty. Breathe, flop, breathe, flop, the breathing I can do by myself now after multiple sessions focused in a real moment with myself. But with Dorien I go deeper, further.
I feel safe, seen and supported. My focus let's go of even the last bit of control, and yes then I really go. THANK YOU DORIEN, you are an important gain in the spectrum of healers! Female strong, no bullshit, sincere, in depth.
Tim Bakker
Breath report 2! Last weekend I had my second breathing session from Dorien. This time it was, in contrast to the group session I told you about earlier, an individual one. And yes(!), it gave birth to whole new sensations in my body I had never felt.
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Apart from the feelings of intense pain, anger and grief that arose during the session, in the end relaxation a very terrifying/unsafe feeling came through me twice. In the form of a wave that was too high to catch with a surfboard and would most likely kill me. Funny enough, after Dorien guided me through this, I could hear the sound of the ocean very distinctly wich subsided after a while. This was so unreal and even funnier considering I was lying in an apartment on the fourth floor in Amsterdam.
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And I sure as hell don't want to leave out this physical reaction: This time I experienced a natural high! Suddenly a locker with very cool hinges and locks, the plant in the corner catching sunlight through the window and the sofa rug were insanely beautiful. So much gratitude and love went through me...also almost immediately my ego started to interfere with this fascinating feeling and made me think how I would get home without looking this weird and wooly. Luckily Dorien gave me enough time to feel it out and slipped me some pure chocolate. Part of the no-nonsense approach she has;)
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I also got a better sense of how my body works and what it needs to process long stored proverbial shit..for example whenever anger emerged I felt a lump in my throat that could be cleared by screaming in a pillow to let go of it. Whenever grief emerged through tears, I could relax in it and breath it away.
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The effect of breathwork is tangible in daily life as well. The first session I gained a more steady feeling of strength within my core, wich clearly gave me more focus, less easy to lose myself in the rat race and when I do I could go return to this peaceful part inside more easily. Resulting in radiating more peace outside of me I am able to connect with my daughter more easily. Just because I am more connected with myself. The same goes for afraid of losing connection with another it actually means fear of losing connection with myself. So (happy sigh), the benefits of using the breath seem endless.
Tarik Speelman
The breathwork sessions with Dorien, whether group sessions or privates, have been liberating experiences!
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Without shame and welcoming everyone and everything, she’ll take her time for every one of us to share our stories. To figure out where we’re at, and where we’re going for this shared moment together.
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I feel heard.
And I can learn from other people’s stories… to witness I am not alone in whatever I experience; there are always other participants with the same struggles, doubts and fears.
Her group sessions make me connect to people quickly! A surprise, knowing that my default and traumatized setting is to disconnect first. To isolate myself in order to protect myself and to hopefully keep me safe… eventhough as an adult, the effects are opposite to this. In Dorien's group sessions and privates, I feel I can open up; I am safe here with myself. I am allowed to open my heart and throat to share.
I will be safe here.
And if I doubt, or if my inner childs are starting to scream, Dorien is quick to acknowledge this. With her loving and caring voice – the voice of nourishment – she puts my inner childs at ease. Like little children they seek shelter under the warm blanket of her voice and presence.
She guides us through the sessions, takes us by the hand when we need it, and lets us be when we can be. The fact I can sense she is with us, her being making contact with me, is all I needed to open up and explore my feelings.
It is painful at times, it is scary at times, it is heavy at times… but it is equally liberating, freeing and opening.
I have learned to breathe. I have learned to express. I have learned to let go. I have learned to relax. To be with my pain, with my trauma, with my emotions and feelings… I can practice to accept all of it, and be with it as a calm, loving and playful observer. Sometimes I fight it, but I always remember I can be at peace with it too.
It is all okay.
I am light.
