Education & Experience

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

MASSAGE & BODYWORK | GUIDANCE | MARTIAL ARTS & SELF-DEFENSE | UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

MASSAGE & BODYWORK

  • 2024 May – Touch Therapy and trauma release for people dealing with cancer – Thai Massage in the Oncology environment (assistent during 5 day course)
    Roni Gilboa – The Yuri Shtern Holistic Care Center (Jerusalem, Israël)/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in (New York) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2024 May – Thai Acupressure: treatment of Lower Body Disorders (assistent during 5 day course)
    Noam Tyroler – School of Thai Acupressure (Metula, Israël) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2023 Jan – Dancing Thai Yoga Massage (teacher during 5 day course)
    Carollyne Tjong Ayong – Lepeltje Lepeltje Knuffelsessies & Massage (Amsterdam) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2023 Sept – Touch Therapies – Massage & Trauma – Massage techniques for working with trauma – Trauma 1 (5 day course)
    Roni Gilboa – The Yuri Shtern Holistic Care Center (Jerusalem, Israël)/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in (New York) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2023 Juni – Thai Acupressure: treatment of Lower Body Disorders (assistent during 5 day course)
    Noam Tyroler – School of Thai Acupressure (Metula, Israël) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2023 May – Thai Pregnancy & Post-partum massage (5 day course)
    Noam Tyroler – School of Thai Acupressure (Metula, Israël) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2022 Nov – Thai Pregnancy massage (assistent during 3 day course)
    Thai Dee – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2022 Oct – Thai Acupressure: treatment of Upper Body Disorders (assistent during 5 day course)
    Noam Tyroler – School of Thai Acupressure (Metula, Israël) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2022 Sept until present – Assistent teacher and guest teacher at Thai Dee (acknowledged bachelor- education institute for Thai massage therapy) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2022 Sept – Touch Therapy and trauma release for people dealing with cancer – Thai Massage in the Oncology environment (5 day course)
    Roni Gilboa – The Yuri Shtern Holistic Care Center (Jerusalem, Israël)/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in (New York) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2022 May – Thai Acupressure: treatment of Lower Body Disorders (5 day course)
    Noam Tyroler – School of Thai Acupressure (Metula, Israël) – Borkel en Schaft, Netherlands
  • 2022 Jan – Thai chairmassage (2 day course)
    Thai Dee – Nieuwegein, Netherlands
  • 2020 – 2021 Basic Medical Education (1 year education)
    Current education at EsoTerra – Bilthoven, Netherlands
  • 2020 – 2022 – Thai Massage Therapist (3 year education)
    Current education at Thai Dee – Nieuwegein, Netherlands
  • 2019 Nov – Thai Acupressure for Orthopedic Disorders (10 day course – 60 hours)
    Noam Tyroler – Sunshine Massage School – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2019 May – Embodied Trauma Healing – restoring alliveness (8 day seminar)
    Ralf Marzen – Sunshine House – Evia Island, Greece
    The subjects: Shocktrauma and developmental trauma. The approach of treatment methods: SE (Somatic Experiencing) and NARM (Neuro Affective Relational Model) are body oriented therapies that work with the effects of shock, trauma and stress. By accessing awareness of the body, they reconnect us with our own natural healing capacities, so that both physical and emotional symptoms of traumatic events can be released.
  • 2019 March – Structural Energy Awakening (SEA) (2 days private tutoring – 10 hours)
    Mike Tan – SEA Bodywork – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2019 March – Therapeutic Thai Massage (10 day course – 60 hours)
    Suriyan Punyafoo – Sunshine Massage School – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • Specific treatment protocols for:
    * Sprained ankle
    * Menstrual complaints
    * Headache & Migraine
    * Lower back pain with radiation/pain to upper leg until knee (e.g. sciatica/piriformis syndrome)
    * Middle back pain with radiation to upper leg and stiff calf Middenrugpijn (e.g. sciatica/piriformis syndrome)
    * Shoulder complaints e.g. Frozen shoulder
    * Stiff neck
    * Triggerfinger, painful/stiff fingers/hands in general, arthritis
  • 2019 Feb – Postpartum Mothers Thai Treatments (Yu Fai) (2 day course – 12 hours)
    Ong’s Thai Massage School – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2019 Feb – Pregnancy and Baby Massage (2 day course – 12 hours)
    Ong’s Thai Massage School – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2019 Feb – KamInTouch 30th Thai Yoga Massage Symposium (7 days)
    Amaravati Ashram – Mae Rim, Thailand
    * Sri Anatta – Metta & Dharma presentation
    * Gisele Seto – Practitioner’s Self-Care Budokon Yoga Flow and reviewing Thai yoga massage foundations – palpating, simplifying, the mind/body
    * Albert Lee – Wang Ji Wu Neigong: Exercises for Health and Longevity
    * Carollyne Tjong Ayong – Safe space & Safe touch, as it relates to Thai Yoga Massage
    * Kenneth Chen – Therapeutic view on essential energetic (sen/marma) and biomechanical principles: working with the elderly and pregnancy (prenatal & postnatal), A tango face-off of Thai yoga massage creative infusions and special elements in building a successful Thai yoga massage career
    * Edgardo Beilin – Shoulder and Lower Back Protocols in Thai Massage
    * Daniel Reid – The Tao of Health, Sex & Longevity and Traditional Chinese Medicine
    * Valerie Gaillard – Zen shiatsu approach to Thai massage using the hara and Ki (vital energy flow)
    * Emily Baxter – Partner & Acro Yoga
    * Ramy Abou Jaoude – Sports therapy & plexology as multidisciplinary applications in Traditional Thai Massage
    * Dominique Warfield – Devoted & Mystic: Stories of Thai massage
    * Ralf Marzen – Embodied Trauma Healing, as it relates to Thai Yoga Massage
    * Patty Murray – Healing Thai Yoga Touch & Reiki (for both yin yoga classes & families with addiction)
    * Ramy Abou Jaoude & Carollyne Tjong Ayong – Animal Locomotion & Martial Arts Yoga
    * Michael Sitzer – Incorporating metta & spirituality into Thai Massage classes
    * Kaori Endo – Feeling is Healing, techniques based on natural therapies such as: Sen Therapy Nuad Bo-Rarn Thai (Khun Chongkol), Advanced Thai Medical Massage Therapy (Khun Sarmat), Lek Chaiya Traditional Nerve-Touch Massage (Mama Lek), and Thai massage for babies and infants
  • 2019 Jan – Structural Energy Awakening (SEA) Foundations (5 day course – 30 hours)
    Mike Tan – SEA Bodywork – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2019 Jan – Yoga for Menstruation (4 hours workshop)
    Nadia Farahani – Women’s Healing Systems – Auroville, India
  • 2019 Jan – Laughter Yoga Leader course (2 day course + 3 practicumclasses – 20 hours)
    Nikhil Thapar – Auroville, India
  • 2019 Jan – Traditionele Thai Yoga Massage & Teacher Training (7 day course – 50 hours)
    Itzhak Helman – The School Of Thai Yoga Massage Around The World – Auroville, India
  • 2019 Jan – Traditionele Thai Yoga Massage for advanced Practitioners & Teacher Training (5 day course – 40 hours)
    Itzhak Helman – The School Of Thai Yoga Massage Around The World – Auroville, India
  • 2019 Jan – Awareness through the Body (ATB) (2 hour workshop)
    Stefania – Auroville, India
  • 2018 Sept – Thai Acupressure: treatment of Lower Body Disorders (5 day course)
    Noam Tyroler – School of Thai Acupressure – Riethoven, Netherlands
  • 2018 Aug – Traditional Thai Yoga Massage & Teacher Training (10 day course – 90 hours)
    Itzhak Helman – School of Thai Massage Around the world – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2018 Feb – (month course – 200 hours)Thai Massage Circus – The Sunshine Network – Waterfall Sanctuary, Luang Prabang, Laos
    * Arno L’Hermitte, Ithzak Helman, Pau Castellsagué, Thomas Blobelt – Thai Yoga Massage (Basics & Therapeutics) & Osteopathy
    * Rachel Ellery – Anatomy & Biomechanics
    * Nico Trian – Chi Gong
    * Anastasis Koutsogiannis, Danny Paradise, Sonia Ama – various Yoga disciplines & Meditation
  • 2018 Jan – Traditional Thai Massage and The 5 Bodies (5 day course – 30 hours)
    Ralf Marzen – Sunshine, School of Traditional Thai Massage – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2018 Jan – Traditional Thai Yoga Massage for Advanced Practitioners (35 hours)
  • 2017 Dec – Traditional Thai Yoga Massage & Teacher Training (10 day course – 90 hours)
    Itzhak Helman – The School Of Thai Yoga Massage Around The World – Auroville, India
  • 2017 July – Nuad Thai Massage (10 day course – 90 hours)
    Itzhak Helman and Pau Castellsaqué – Sunshine Network – Vienna, Austria
  • 2017 Jan – Structural Energy Awakening (SEA) Fundamentals (55 hours)
    Mike Tan – SEA Therapy – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2017 Jan – Body Assessment, Treatment and Rebalancing (24 hours)
    Mike Tan – Sunshine, School of Traditional Thai Massage – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2017 Jan – Ayurveda & Thai Massage Therapy (5 day course – 30 hours)
    Kam Thye Chow – Sunshine, School of Traditional Thai Massage – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2016 Dec – Thai Yoga Massage (11 day course – 90 hours)
    Itzhak Helman – Sunshine Network – Lahu Village, Thailand
  • 2016 Dec – Dancing Thai Massage – Art of Transitioning (5 day course – 30 hours)
    Kam Thye Chow – Sunshine, School of Traditional Thai Massage – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2016 Dec – Energy Release & Self Protection in Thai Massage (2 day course – 12 hours)
    Bob Haddad – Sunshine, School of Traditional Thai Massage – Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2016 Sept – Level 1 Thai Yoga Massage – Nuad Bo Rarn (2 day course – 12 hours)
  • 2016 Oct – Level 2 Thai Yoga Massage – Nuad Bo Rarn (2 day course – 12 hours)
  • 2016 Oct – Level 1 Acupressure Therapy Massage for Health – Wat Po (2 day course – 12 hours)
    Nicole van Zurk & Manuel Aguilera – ITM Thai Hand – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2016 Aug/ Sept – Nuat Thai, Wat Po, Traditional Thai Bodywork (2 months private tutoring)
    René Marcellino – Thai Bodywork – Amsterdam/Amersfoort, Netherlands & Paris, France
  • 2015 Jul – Innerfire training (8 dagen)
    Wim Hof (The Iceman) – Innerfire – Monte Perdido/Pyrenees, Spain
    * Wim Hof method, adrenalin-boosting activities, breathing techniques, cold baths, yoga and more
  • 2015 March – Reiki level 1 (1 day course)
    Justin Peach – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2012 Dec – Quantum Touch Level 1
    Armand Amatali – Quantum Touch – Paramaribo, Suriname
  • 2011 – 2013 – Incompany massage courses
    Spa Sport Hotel Zuiver – Amsterdam, Netherlands
    * Pregnancy massage
    * Lomi Lomi massage
    * Hotstone massage
    * Hamam-massage
  • 2010 – 2011 – (Sport) massage NESPG (1 year education)
    Leffelaar educations Veerman College – Amsterdam, Netherlands

INDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE

In addition to the courses and work experience mentioned below, I study books and theories by, among others, Gabor Maté: When the body says no, Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger, Heal ing Trauma, Stephen Porges: The Polyvagal Theory, Laurence Heller: Healing developmental trauma, Iris Koops: Recovering from narcissistic abuse, “Van weerzin naar weer zin (From disgust to “lust”, about healing from sexual trauma): Carlie van Tongeren & Ingeborg Timmerman, Bessel van der Kolk: The body keeps the score.

  • 2023 Feb – Trauma of Racism – Strategies for Working with the Wounds of Racism.
    Hosted by Dr. Thema Bryant and Dr. Ruth Buczynski. For this trauma training program, we turned to 19 experts in the field of multicultural psychology. They shared with us their best culturally informed strategies to help clients of color heal from the hidden wounds of racial trauma. Presented by nicabm – National Institute fore the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine
  • 2022 April – The Wisdom of Trauma 70+ hours of continued learning
    Gabor Maté and other impactful voices in the field of trauma healing.
    This course from Science and Nonduality (SAND) is an essential guide to understanding and integrating trauma through educational materials featuring Dr. Gabor Maté, in conversation with 72 leading experts, artists, authors, and activists such as Stephen W. Porges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Esther Perel, Bessel van der Kolk , Tara Brach, Alanis Morissette, Peter A. Levine, Daniel Siegel, Sia, Marianne Williamson, Sharon Salzberg and many more. For the full list visit and more info thewisdomoftrauma.com and drgabormate.com.
    This powerful, self-paced guide gives anyone the ability to explore how trauma relates to every facet of life including parenting, politics, climate crisis, the medical paradigm, spirituality, and more. Learn from the wisdom and clarity of Dr. Maté and other dynamic voices to expand the individual and collective experience on the path of true healing. Including:
    * Returning to wholeness – a guide to understanding and integrating trauma – 7 hour course with Dr. Gabor Maté
    * 60 hour course programme on trauma
    * ‘Talks on Trauma’ series hosted by Dr. Gabor Maté
    * Documentary on the work of Gabor Maté: The Wisdom of Trauma​
    * much more
  • 2020 until present – various long-term Individual Guidance Programs
  • 2019 March until July – Intensive Individual Guidence Program
  • 2017 March – Sept 7 course days & weekly fieldwork
    * Connecting from the Emotions
    * Suicide Prevention
    * Personality disorders
    Hulplijn Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2011-2014 – Weekly practical project Personal Guidance
    Vriend GGZ, Stichting CAV en Kopzorg

MARTIAL ARTS & SELF-DEFENSE

  • 2016 Apr – Rock & Water for Women – 8 training days
  • Years of training experience where no degrees were awarded
    University Sport Centrum – Amsterdam & Budo Academy Phshysical – Ede
    * Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (also competitions)
    * Grappling (also competition)
    * Boxing
    * Kickboxing
    * Karate (Kyokushinkai & Wado Ryu)
    * MMA
    * Krav Maga
  • 2009 Sept: Teacher Self-Desense & Defensibility
    Edgar Kruyning – Budo Academy Physical – Ede, Netherlands
  • 2009
    Edgar Kruyning – Budo Academy Physical – Ede, Netherlands
    * 2009 Dec : Kobudo (Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu) 5e Kyu (green belt)
    * 2009 Jul: 3 months Uchi Deshi bij Edgar Kruyning
    * 2009 Jul: Yoseikan Jujutsu 3e Kyu (Brown belt)
    * 2009 Jul: Yoseikan Aikido 4e Kyu (blue belt)
  • 2008
    Edgar Kruyning – Budo Academy Physical – Ede, Netherlands
    * 2008 Dec: Judo 2e Kyu (Blue belt)
    * 2008 Jul : 3 months Uchi Deshi bij Edgar Kruyning
  • 2006 Dec – Jiu Jitsu 1e Kyu (Brrowm belt)
    Universitary Sportcenter – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1991 Sept – Judo 2e Kyu (Blue belt)
    Judoschool Anbergen – Hoogeveen, Netherlands

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

  • 2008 Feb: doctoral/master Linguisics, specialisation: Language pathology/ Sign Language
    University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2002 Aug: Propedeuse German linguistics and literature
    University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2002 Aug: Propedeuse Dutch linguisitics and literature
    University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam, Netherlands