I had such a beautiful experience. My friend’s son came to me for a session. His mother gave him a tantric massage for his birthday. His first one. The tantric massage that is, not the birthday. ;-) I don’t offer tantric massages anymore, but for my friends I’d love to do it for their young adult sons. It was the second time one of my friends have send their sons for a tantric massage. Both times I’ve felt so touched by the trust and the gift they give their sons. It

I want to share an email exchange (with permission of course) that gave me goose bumps and moved me to tears from gratitude when I realized the impact the work I teach can have on peoples lives. Dear Mariëlle, I participated the yoni release workshop last week and I just wanted to let you know how much the release has helped me. I really had all kinds of problems in my pelvis and genitalia in the last two years since I started to go to therapy in relation to trauma from chi

In the Touch Academy a question that is often asked is one that sounds like: 'What if my body feels a big yes to being sexual with someone, but my mind has a lot of reasons why I shouldn't or my heart feels this is not what I really want?' I want to share a little bit about my view on this with you. Maybe it brings more clarity to you as well. This question has been a huge learning and transformation for me in the past years. Where I first mostly followed my mind and ignore

When I was a primary school teacher I felt very frustrated with the school system, the way I was draining my own energy day after day, week after week, always feeling exhausted. I felt this was not what life was meant to be about. But I thought and was told I couldn't quit before I knew what else I wanted to do, because we needed the money. And I believed it. So I kept on, getting burned out, depressed, sick, recovered and started again. Until I just couldn't do it anymore.