The journey back to yourself begins with your next breath.
In an increasingly complex world, breathwork offers a direct path back to yourself. It regulates the nervous system, deepens awareness, and turns understanding into embodied wisdom. It’s a fundamental human technology.
Explore breathwork in a holistic approach in a private session, Series, or multiple-day immersion; The Great Pause. A time in which you'll have all the space to open to the source of complexity and discover what is seeking your attention for inner growth and healing.
My intention is to work with you as a whole person; the body, intelligence and intuition. In a session and therapeutic setting, you will carefully learn to relax into what's arising, and experience what it feels like to have openings endings in new places of power, curiosity, connection, and responsivity - vitalizing the relation with yourself, others and the nature. A session can give profound renewed insight focused on deep recovery and personal growth where new realities can join you, a new syntony, a new harmony can emerge - and a new depth, a new possibility can become you.
Start your Journey
RE-MEMBERING WITH
THE PLACES THAT
HOLD US
You breathe over 23,000 times every single day, with each breath sending signal back to the body and the brain to shift in a certain direction. When you start to use your breath consciously it can be a powerful tool to shift your physical, mental and emotional state.
The Great Pause
Two-Day Intensive / Non-residential
Starting from
€ 3000
(excl. 21% tax)
The Great Pause is a tailor made program and individual guidance to work deeply and thoroughly through barriers in the psyche and body. It brings together the cutting edge in breathwork and bodywork, holistic counseling, deep psychological practices and tools which you can use for the rest of your life. A synthesis which enhances deep and lasting inner growth.
Work with Katrien
When I founded Open Up in 2015, my intention was to pioneer breathwork as a new kind of process that seamlessly combines inner and outer world - that has a focus on transforming ourselves, ánd transforming systems. With this unique perspective, I’m helping people to open up in consciousness so we can expand our relationship to our mind and body and discover new ways to make sense of ourselves, and our world, and the way we participate.
I'm inspired to work with what is most alive to come alive; which is often where life is. My guidance shows up as a deep investigator, intuitive and sharp listener and contributor to discover untapped possibilities. I'm able to open up what is unseen and unmet in yourself and help you unlock and open blocked energy associated to traumatic or lost memories, and make them available for discharge and processing.
I work with CEOs, founders, healthcare professionals, refugee youth, artists, activists, politicians, celebrities, academics and executives, but also with young potentials who:
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Operate at the highest level and seek a trusted space to step back, challenge their thinking, and gain clarity and impact beyond immediate challenges.
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Are ready to strengthen their clarity and confidence for the road ahead.
I have had several breathwork sessions before, but what Katrien offers is something very special. It's beyond just breathwork. She is incredibly intuitive and able to sense exactly where you are at and what you need. She has an exceptionally healing presence, and uses touch and sound to deepen the journey. The sessions offer a window into your deeper self and allow profound healing and awareness to come through.
– David Fuller, Founder
Rebel Wisdom
My sessions with Katrien were one of the most delightfully powerful and unique experiences of my life. I enjoyed wonderful creative insights and felt calmly energised beyond anything I’ve previously experienced, and all from just air! I felt well supported and in safe hands, and I’m truly grateful to Katrien for guiding me through an experience that now lives deep inside.
– Seth Tabatznik, Musician &
Founder Be The Earth Foundation
"Katrien creates a beautiful space, the method is disarmingly simple. In what felt like very short space of time I experienced a very intense, pleasant, tingling in my entire body which grew in intensity as I continued to breathe. When we finished I felt like something significant had been released from my system. Thanks Katrien, hope to cross paths with you again."
– Marcus Tudehope, United Nations, Afghanistan