Yoyo is a catalyst for spiritual awakening, inspired by mystics and non-duality teachers both from the East and the West.
For an impression of her life and work, see: The Art of Living.
Her first book, ‘Sacred Shit – Food for Spiritual Unfolding’ was launched as an e-book on Ascension Day 2025 and is available via BookBaby.
In her Laborint mystery school for the Art of Living (The Netherlands) Yoyo offers deep holistic bodywork, (online) counseling, (online) workshops and on-site courses ‘Flowering’. Once or twice a year she facilitates retreats in The Netherlads and abroad.
Upcoming retreat for inner explorations 2025
The 5-day retreat “Enjoying Life, despite…” is scheduled from July 30 – August 4, 2025 in Ohana resort for Well-being, The Netherlands.
Contact Yoyo ([email protected]) or app to +31622492501) for more information.
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 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, 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. Shortly after she had spent seven weeks in his ashram she won a first prize for European painting. She then began teaching painting, drama and massage and studying deep therapeutic bodywork, emotional integration and mind-shifting.
Sharing
Towards the turn of the century she started the Humanifold School for the Art of Living, in which she could combine her skills and experience and develop into the non-duality teacher that she now is. Here people come to heal their bodies, integrate emotions, shift their mind-set, meditate, develop their talents and awaken to who they truly are.
SACRED SHIT – Food for Awakening
This book is the story of Yoyo’s life and work.
It exposes eight life cycles (stages of awakening), symbolised by eight chakras (levels of awareness), with subjects like:
- Survival strategies and belonging
- Intimacy, sexuality and emotions
- Will-power, ambition, personality, authority
- Friendship, love, compassion
- Pure communication, resonance
- Beyond duality
- Knowing
- Ecstasy
The English translation has taken ten years to manifest and was completed in 2022. It has been presented as an entry to the Golden Door Awards 2022 (https://www.goldendoorawards.com/).