At home in your body
A six-month small-group program for people living with chronic inflammation/pain, autoimmune conditions or long-term illness who want to understand their body more clearly and support it with food, rhythm, movement, rest, and daily practices that work during daily life, creating relief and building resilience.
You have already tried to help yourself.
You’ve read up on your condition, listened to your doctors, adjusted your food, tried the supplements, followed the protocols and tracked your symptoms. You’ve rested when you could, pushed through when you had to and started over more times than you can count. And somewhere along the way you’ve probably wondered whether you’re missing the one thing that would finally make your body feel less difficult to live in.
Maybe you’ve been told that medication is the long-term plan or that there’s not much more to be done. Maybe your labs are stable enough, so the fatigue, the pain and the unpredictability are simply something you will have to live with now.
And still, something in you knows there has to be a more supportive way to live in your body.
I don’t think you’re looking for a miracle cure. You’ve become too well informed for big promises, and too tired for another program that assumes your energy will be the same every week and rushes you through a one-size-fits-all approach. Maybe what you want now is more honest and more personal: understanding what your body is asking for, a way to know how to make your body a bit more livable every day.
That is what we practice in At Home in Your Body. Over six months you learn to read your body’s signals, recognize the patterns behind your symptoms, and adjust your food, movement, breath and rest in ways your body can actually work with.
This is for the part of you that has not given up.
The part of you that wants to stop fighting your body.
The part of you that wants to stop treating every flare, dip, or hard week as proof that you failed.
Being at home in your body is available. It doesn’t mean you’re cured, and it doesn’t mean everything is fixed. It means living in your body with more understanding, steadiness and trust.
What most programs miss
Most health programs work well for bodies that behave predictably. You get a protocol, a plan, a routine. For a while that feels reassuring. You know what to do, you feel hopeful and you start making changes. I’ve been there. When I started treatment for my kidney condition, my nephrologist put me on a very strict diet, hoping it would support my kidneys and improve the long-term prognosis. It was hard, but I followed it faithfully. Four months later my labs looked better, but I felt like I was falling apart. I was hungry all the time, low on energy, my period was turning strange, and I felt more unstable and anxious than I had in years. The diet had worked for my kidneys, but not for the rest of my body or mind. So we adjusted. The diet became less strict, and slowly everything stabilized, while my kidneys still got their support. That experience taught me that protocols work until they don’t, and your body is your best guide. Maybe you know your own version of this. The plan works, until it doesn’t. Your energy drops, inflammation returns, pain moves to a new place, digestion becomes unpredictable, a stressful week eats your capacity and the program that assumed consistency has no answer for the week your body needed pacing. It treated your symptoms as problems to control while your body was trying to say something. It gave you more information when what you actually needed was discernment: what matters now, what can wait and what is the next supportive step for this body, today. This is where so many people with chronic conditions get stuck. You are doing the work, but the work just wasn’t built for your unique situation.
The promise of At Home in Your Body
Over six months, you build a practical foundation for understanding and supporting your body and mind from the inside out.
By the end of the program you have a personal map. You know what tends to support you and what tends to aggravate your symptoms, how your digestion and energy speak to you, what this phase of your life needs, how stress and the seasons move through you, what kind of movement releases tension, and what to do when your body and mind start asking for adjustment.
You learn to work with food through an Ayurvedic lens without turning eating into another strict system. You start to recognize when your digestion needs support, when your body asks for warmth, simplicity, rest or gentleness, and how to make small changes that fit the day you’re actually having. Creating more good moments and days.
You learn to use therapeutic movement as a way to listen instead of push. Movement becomes a practice to notice where your body is bracing, protecting or gripping, where there is ease or space, and what supports you most now. You build practices for the days with energy and for the days without. And gradually experience more ease and confidence in the way you move.
And you learn how to meet the moments that are more challenging. Flares, dips and low-energy weeks are part of the terrain when you live with a chronic condition, so in this program they are part of the work. You practice pausing, simplifying, adjusting and returning, without turning a hard week into proof that you failed. It becomes a week in which you actively cared for yourself.
Most of all, you leave with your own language of how your body communicates with you, and enough lived practice that you no longer need someone else to interpret every signal for you, while reducing the intensity of those signals along the way.
What will be different
Understanding your body can sound abstract, so let me clarify. After six months of practicing together:
- You notice the first signs of a dip or flare up and know what to do, instead of waking up in the middle of it.
- You know how to simplify your food and daily rhythm when energy is low, symptoms are acting up, or something outside of you is throwing you out of balance, without needing a new protocol every time.
- You know how to simplify your practice on a low-energy day, instead of skipping it.
- A flare becomes information you work with, instead of something you fear.
- You trust yourself more in spite of your condition, because you’ve practiced all of this in your own life, week after week, on good days and on hard ones, and experienced the benefits.
Who this is for
This program is for you if you live with an autoimmune condition, chronic inflammation, chronic pain, digestive issues, fatigue or recurring symptoms that shape your daily life. You’ve already tried several approaches, and you know from experience that generic advice hasn’t worked for your complex body.
You want a sustainable holistic approach that sits alongside your medical care and makes daily life more workable. You’re willing to participate in your own healing and you need that participation to respect limited energy, changing symptoms and a real life. You’re ready to be guided and supported over time, without turning your whole life into a health project, able to celebrate the little wins.
And who it is not for
Six months is a real commitment, so let me be clear about this too.
This is not the right place if you’re looking for a guaranteed cure or a fixed timeline for symptom resolution. It doesn’t replace medical care, and it’s no reason to stop medication without your doctor’s guidance. It’s also not a rigid protocol where everyone follows the same diet and the same routine, and it’s not a library of information to collect without practicing.
And it’s not for you if you’re hoping to be fixed from the outside. I will guide you, support you and help you understand what’s happening. The relationship with your body is something you build from the inside, and that part of the work is yours.
How the program works
The group is small on purpose, maximum 8 participants, so the work stays personal while you still have the recognition and steadiness of others who know what it’s like.
We begin with a personal Ayurvedic intake. In a two-hour session we look at your specific symptoms, digestion, sleep, energy, food patterns, daily rhythm, stress, movement and medical context, and at the ways your body has been trying to get your attention. This gives us a starting map, so you’re not applying general advice to a body that needs something more specific.
Live classes every two weeks. The group meets for a live class of around 60 minutes, followed by about 30 minutes of sharing. The classes move through the body in phases, alternating therapeutic yoga with somatic movement and breath in one session and restorative practice with Yoga Nidra and inquiry in the other. The sharing time gives space to process, ask questions and learn from each other’s experience.
A personal check-in on the weeks in between. Every other week you have a 30-minute session with me, to bring the work back to your actual body and your actual week. Sometimes that’s Ayurvedic follow-up or food adjustments, sometimes a movement question, sometimes support through a dip or a flare. After each check-in you receive the recording and notes in your mailbox, so you don’t have to remember everything while you’re in it.
A group chat with set response days. Between sessions you can bring your questions and observations to our shared chat. I read along and respond on set days, so the space stays alive and supportive, and the rhythm stays sustainable for all of us.
Practice videos, given at the right moment. Every month you’ll receive selected yoga therapy videos relating to what we’ve been practicing. Most are short, around 10 minutes, so they’re usable on real days, including the low-energy ones. You can pick the ones most useful for you, so you’re not overwhelmed by a large library you have to figure out alone.
Everything lives in one place. You get access to a personal members area on my website, where you’ll find the recordings of the group sessions, the practice videos as they’re released, and useful recipes and practices to support you along the way. If you missed a class, the recording is waiting for you there.
What’s included
- A two-hour personal Ayurvedic intake
- Live group classes every two weeks for six months, each with 30 minutes of sharing
- A personal 30-minute check-in every other week, with recording and notes sent to your mail
- A small group of maximum 8 participants
- A shared group chat with set response days
- A personal members area with recordings of the group sessions, recipes and supportive practices
- Yoga therapy practice videos, released in phase with the group practice
- Guidance around food, digestion, daily rhythm, movement, breath, rest and body awareness
- Support for the dips, flares and moments your body asks you to adjust
Practical information
Start date: [date TBA]
Live classes: every two weeks on [day] at [time] CET, online via Zoom
1:1 check-ins: 30 minutes, scheduled together on the weeks in between
Language: English
Recordings: all group sessions are recorded and available in your members area
Group size: maximum 8 participants
You can do this from wherever you are. All you need is a quiet space where you can move and a stable internet connection.
Why now
When you live with chronic symptoms, it’s tempting to wait. Until things are calmer, until after the next appointment, until the flare passes or until you feel ready.
Chronic conditions rarely wait for the perfect window. Your body keeps communicating inside the life you already have. Food still happens, rest still happens, stress and sleep and digestion keep shaping how you feel. So the real question is whether you keep figuring it out alone, one symptom at a time, or give yourself a supported structure that will give you clarity and a new perspective on the patterns?
This work begins where you are. It doesn’t ask for a good health season, it only asks for enough willingness to stop seeing your body like the enemy and start working with it more intelligently.
About me
I'm Rianne, an Ayurvedic health counsellor, certified yoga therapist and Thai bodyworker, with a background in molecular biology and more than ten years in scientific research.
I also live with a chronic auto-immune kidney condition. I know what it means to have a body that asks for attention, pacing and honesty, and I know how it feels to sit across from a doctor who reads you the numbers while you're wondering how to live the rest of your life. My own health has been a slow journey, one puzzle piece at a time, and that is exactly why I don't work with quick fixes.
My work brings together scientific curiosity, classical Ayurveda, yoga therapy and all my lived experience. I won't ask you to override your body to follow a plan, I help you understand what your body is showing you, so you can support it with more clarity and trust.
Investment
At Home in Your Body is €1,150 for six months. A payment plan of about €190 per month is available.
Because the program includes a personal intake, individual check-ins and a small group, there are eight places at most.
A note on medical care
This program is educational and supportive. It doesn’t diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease, and it doesn’t replace medical care, medication or treatment from your healthcare provider. It’s complementary. If you’re under medical care, you continue that care. This work supports your relationship with your body alongside it.
Questions you might be having
What if I’m in a flare or a dip when the program starts?
You don’t need to be in a good phase to begin. Flares and dips are part of living with a chronic condition, so they are part of the work here and often the most valuable part. The practices scale down to what your body can handle that week, and your check-ins help you adjust instead of pushing through or dropping out.
Do I need experience with yoga or Ayurveda?
No. The movements are simple and therapeutic, guided step by step, and can be done on a mat or from a chair. The Ayurveda is practical and concrete, about your food, digestion and daily rhythm, so you don’t need any background knowledge to work with it, you will get that in the program.
How much time does it take each week?
Each week holds either a live class of about 90 minutes or a 30-minute personal check-in. Alongside that, you’ll work with short practices of around 10 minutes that fit into ordinary days. The rhythm is designed for fluctuating energy, so on low weeks the program shrinks with you instead of piling up.
What if I have to miss a class, or even a few weeks?
Life with a chronic condition is exactly why everything is recorded. Group sessions are waiting for you in your members area, your check-ins bring you back into the work personally, and the group chat keeps you connected in between. The program is built for return, and it doesn’t punish absence.
Can I join if I’m on medication or under specialist care?
Yes. This program is complementary and works alongside your medical care, never instead of it. Your medical context is part of your intake, so what we build together fits your treatment rather than competing with it.
The first step
The first step is to apply. Your application helps me understand what’s happening in your body, what kind of support you’re looking for, and whether this six-month container is the right next step for you. If it’s a fit, you’ll receive the next steps to join. If another starting point would serve you better, I’ll point you there instead.
A final word
You may have to live with a chronic condition. You don’t have to live disconnected from your body.
You can learn its signals. You can build practices that still support you on low-energy days. You can return after a flare without making the flare mean you failed. Slowly, you’re building more resilience and ease in the body you have.
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