Welcome
I'm Rianne
I'm passionate about the wisdom our body holds - how when you learn to listen and understand its signals, you don't have to suffer unnecessarily.
Years ago, sitting in my body-oriented therapist’s office trying to deal with my anxiety attacks, she laid a rope in a circle on the floor and told me to step inside. “This is your circle,” she said, and then stepped in with me. I looked at her, confused, and she asked why I was letting her into my space. “Push me out,” she said.
I tried, giggling nervously, thinking what the problem was of her being in my circle. While she stood there completely grounded, not budging one bit. I was all over the place, uncomfortable, lost, my mind racing and suddenly I felt it: how ungrounded I was, how far away I was from my own body, how I’d been letting everyone walk right into my space because I couldn’t even feel why it mattered they didn’t.
The weakness I felt in that moment was devastating, but what came after was worse – realizing I’d been ignoring my body’s boundaries for so long, it had to scream at me – the panic attacks were what happened when just didn’t listen. That’s when something shifted, my body that I had been fearing, was actually wisdom and my way out.
That moment changed how I related to myself, but it took another experience years later to show me just how precise and powerful that body wisdom actually is.
I was sitting in a doctor’s office after being diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune kidney condition – IgA nephropathy. At this third checkup, the doctor looked at me with new urgency. He leaned forward and said, “You can enjoy Christmas and New Year’s, but I want you back here the second of January to start treatment. If you don’t, dialysis could come sooner rather than later.”
What surprised me wasn’t just the warning, but the look on his face, and the way I froze as it dawned on me he was dead serious. My life wasn’t permanent. Living the way I was, in a van in a community, might not be possible soon. Realizing that things can be going seriously wrong even though I felt fine, made me feel defeated.
And then my determined science brain kicked in. With a BSc in Life sciences and over a decade of experience in laboratory research I knew I had to take this seriously, research alternatives, and find ways to take some control back instead of being a bystander. That moment became the beginning of going back to the basics: nourishment, lifestyle, daily rhythm. What could I do?
Through classical Ayurveda – which I learned about during my Yoga Therapy training – I found a framework that made sense of what my body had been trying to tell me all along. Not vague wellness concepts, but precise cause-and-effect relationships between how I lived and how I felt. I trained as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor with Dr Mona Warner and Dr Anusha Seghal, continued into Practitioner studies, became a certified Yoga Therapist with Susi Hately, and deepened my understanding of the body through Thai bodywork and years of study in somatics, tantra, biomechanics, bodywork and kinesiology.
The transformation happened bit by bit, more profound every time. My kidney function stabilized. I learned to read my body’s signals before they became screams. And I realized that what worked for me – this combination of precise traditional wisdom and lived scientific understanding – could help other people who felt stuck with their chronic conditions.
Now I work with people living with chronic pain and disease who sense there’s more they can do but feel overwhelmed by where to start. Together we go back to the basics that actually support the body – nourishment, daily rhythms, movement that serves rather than strains. Not the rigid rules, but learning to listen and respond to what your body is actually telling you.
I still live simply, together with my beautiful partner Itay – on a piece of land in Spain in my van, dome and caravans, working with my hands on green roof projects, building things, sewing, or watching series and movies with my man, when I’m not in sessions or teaching. I still have IgA nephropathy. My kidney function sits around 35% and I manage it with light medication and the foundational practices I teach. I’m feeling really well, because I’ve learned to work with my body instead of against it.
That’s what I help people discover: that freedom that comes from understanding your body’s language and having the tools to respond, without having to be rigid about it.
From panic attacks to chronic disease, my body is my greatest teacher. Now I get to walk alongside others on that same journey home to themselves.
