About Me & My Mission
My mission is to connect people with the wisdom of their hearts, so they can shape their lives from a place of self-love and trust. To express your authentic voice and gifts, and through this, contribute to making the world a little more beautiful. This is why I do what I do.
For a long time, my own heart had no voice. I didn’t know how to listen to it. Conditioned by external expectations, I followed the beaten path: graduating from university and working in the corporate world. Until about 15 years ago, when my heart called me to pause. I began peeling back layer by layer. I discovered how much I had been living through ambition, willpower, and control. I was invited to surrender to life, to start living from my feminine qualities of being. My intuition, creativity, and self-healing capacities gradually developed. I sank deeper into my body, learning to truly feel myself again. I started following my own rhythm, making choices more aligned with my essence. Life became fuller, deeper, richer. I met like-minded people, my tribe. I began to deeply love myself and life, and I came home to myself — saying yes to life with everything it holds.
Through my personal journey, my expertise, and my gentle strength, I now share my gift with the world around me. For more than eight years, I have dedicated myself to facilitating ceremonies, guiding over 500 people on inner journeys. What I bring is softness, depth, healing, playfulness, and trust — trust that you are completely enough as you are and that you may express what is true for you.
Through my ceremonies and initiation journeys, I create a safe space to explore the inner world — free from external distractions. In connection with the elements, we travel through the deeper layers of ourselves to connect with the quiet space within you. This allows clarity to emerge, inner knowing, and the shadow parts to move into the light. It creates space for your emotional inner world, allowing your beautiful heart to speak again. From this place, you become a co-creator of your reality and can begin to share your gift with the world around you. Together, we work as one whole, each expressing our unique strengths.
Welcome home.
With love,
Karlijn
My Expertise & Embodiment
Below you'll find an overview of my background and experience. About 13 years ago, I began exploring my inner self and developing my consciousness. This led to a growing desire and a knowing within me to share this work myself.
Professional Background:
Master in Organizational Sciences (Free University Amsterdam)
Human Resource Management (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences)
Work & entrepreneurship:
Psychedelic Therapist. Inner Shift Institute (2022 - present)
Founder Truffle Ceremonies (2021 - 2024)
Lecturer in Personal Leadership at Nyenrode Business University (2019 - present)
Co-creator of Odessa Amsterdam. Platform for Communities. (2021-2022)
Team member of the Sacred Journey , guiding Plant Medicine Ceremonies. ( 2019-2021)
Co-Founder Journey of the Hero in business, Personal Development Program focused on individual and team coaching. (2016-2021)
Traineeship RvdB (Focused on Human Resource Management) (2014 - 2015)
Traineeship Fresh Outlook, Focused on Entrepreneurship and Project Management (2011 - 2013)
Volunteer work
Trainer & Coach Sunryse (Personal Leadership Program for Young Adults)
Trainer & Coach UWC (Personal Leadership Program Young Adults)
Personal Development
Tantra & Yoga Teacher Training , Rishikesh, India
Transformative Coaching Training Master I Master II Master III - Creative Consciousness Netherlands
The Sacred Journey Year Training - shamanic training for inner transformation and guiding ceremonies (including breathwork, bodywork, soul retrieval, inner child work), Netherlands
Reading & Healing annual training, Netherlands
Vortex Healing training, Netherlands
Breathwork Teacher Training, India
Vipassana 10-day meditation course, Indonesia
