ABOUT YOYO
Background
Yoyo was born in the ‘hunger winter’ of 1944 in Amsterdam. Her grandparents having emigrated to the East Indies – a Dutch colony at the time – to escape World War 1, both her parents were born and raised in a culture where Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and and tribes with indigenous religions lived side by side.
Shortly after they met on the boat from the Indies to The Netherlands for a visit to their motherland, World War II broke out
and they found themselves trapped in ‘Holland’.
They married and had four children, Yoyo being the eldest. By 1950, when Yoyo was 6 years old, they their marriage stalled and they divorced, never to see each other again.
Calling
This background formed the basis for Yoyo’s calling later in life: bridging seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Both internally and externally.
Having initially dedicated her life to the Arts she started her spiritual journey in 1979 with the Indian non-duality teacher Osho Rajneesh. After she had won a first prize for European painting she began teaching painting, drama and massage classes and studying deep therapeutic bodywork, emotional integration and mind-shifting. In 1999 she founded the ‘Humanifold’ school for the Art of joyful Living, which to date continues to offer individual counseling, workshops, Flowering courses and retreats for Awakening..
Calender of Activities
This is when her work with people began. In her painting classes she found that (chronic) physical tension often blocked creative unfolding. Looking for ways to relax the body she discovered holistic deep tissue massage as a means to release chronic tension and integrate undigested emotions. By the end of the eighties she had finished her training and started her own practice. After that she was trained as an Avatar Master and Wizard with Star’s Edge in Florida. For 12 years she practiced the techniques she learned for liberating the conditioned mind.
Self unfolding and the Art of Living
Towards the turn of the century she founded the Humanifold School for the Art of Living, in which she could combine her skills and experience and develop into the non-duality teacher she now is. Here people come to heal their bodies, integrate emotions, review their mind-set, meditate, develop their talents and awaken to who they are.