Welcome, I’m Charlotte

We all have an innate capacity to self-heal. I teach body, breath and mind tools that you can use to regulate your nervous system and self-sustain greater physiological, mental and emotional stability. Only from a stable foundation can we thrive. These are the tools that have changed my life.

  • Through this 40-day, one-to-one, individually tailored program I empower clients to develop a daily, self-guided body-breath-mind practice. Find out more ➞

  • I am a ceremony facilitator and director of the body-breath-mind program for ESSENTIYA Retreats, taking trauma sensitive yoga, meditation and breathwork as complementary modalities into legal, safe and therapeutic psychedelic retreats in The Netherlands. Find out more ➞

  • The power of psychedelics, when approached with respect, lies in their potential to transform our entire worldview in a short period of time in ways that years of talk therapy on its own often cannot. However, the insights gained must be carefully and patiently ‘integrated’ into day-to-day life. Find out more ➞

  • My teaching combines millennia-old Eastern sciences with the latest findings of Western peer-reviewed clinical research into the beneficial effects of body-breath-mind practices. More about me ➞

I COMBINE NEUROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH TRADITIONAL WISDOM 

Clinical studies increasingly show that talking therapy on its own is not enough to return to a sense of wellbeing and wholeness, because our past pains and disappointments live first and foremost in our bodies. They live in dysregulated nervous systems that are primed to be fearful, defensive and on edge, showing up as symptoms such as anxiety, depression, rage, overwhelm or perhaps a pervasive sense of not-enough-ness.

Careful, strategic bodywork, breathwork and meditation tools…

…developed millennia ago and increasingly adapted for modern therapeutic settings, can help us to slow down, rest, re- balance and rejuvenate our nervous system. This in turn helps us to manage stress, digest better, sleep better, improve our moods and to respond more healthily to our own needs by befriending rather than suppressing difficult feelings. 

In essence, these tools offer us an opportunity to re-connect to, and live in greater alignment with, our authentic Self, which exists beneath the noise and hustle of our busy lives, conditioned beliefs and others’ expectations of who and how we should be. 

HOW WE COULD

WORK TOGETHER

  • Engineer Stillness®

    Through this 40-day, one-to-one, individually tailored program I empower clients to develop a daily, self-guided body-breath-mind practice. This enables them to self-regulate their nervous system, quiet their mind and support physiological, mental and emotional wellbeing independently of classes, subscriptions to online platforms and even me. Ultimately, they are able to practice whenever and wherever they want.

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  • Psychedelic Retreats

    I am a ceremony facilitator and director of the body-breath-mind program for ESSENTIYA Retreats, taking trauma sensitive Yoga, meditation and breathwork as complementary modalities into legal, safe and therapeutic psychedelic healing retreats in The Netherlands. Our experienced team holds space while participants work in a ceremonial setting with psilocybin truffles, which are legal in The Netherlands.

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  • Psychedelic Integration

    That psychedelics can transform our entire worldview in a short period of time in ways that talk therapy alone may not, means a psychedelic journey can create some mental-emotional unrest in the days, weeks and months afterwards, as we try to integrate its insights into daily life. A stabilising body-breath-mind practice can be a powerful anchor. My Engineer Stillness® program may be adapted for this purpose.

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My method combines bodywork, breathwork and meditation tools drawn from:

  • An ancient school of practical psychology emphasising meditation.

  • Designed to help people feel safe in their bodies again, and in fact to re-learn what it is to ‘have a body; developed by Western psychiatrists, trauma experts and Yoga teachers working with communities affected by PTSD and complex (developmental) PTSD. Read more about it here.

  • An ancient science that developed bodywork and breathwork techniques to ease tension, manage energy and shift conscious states.

  • A meditative technique incorporating open, compassionate and non-judgemental noticing of what is in our field of awareness at any given moment, pioneered by Buddhism.

  • A floor based practice that targets energetic release within the deeper tissues – the fascia, ligaments and joint capsules - developed in the West over the last half a century though based on the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine.