Meet the team

Founder & Facilitator

With years of experience in psychology, meditation, and self-development, Karlijn is known for creating powerful, clear, and transformative experiences.

She graduated CORE retreat in 2014 and has been facilitating the experience ever since. It propelled her forward into big changes in her life. She believes CORE is the most powerful experience she wishes to others and to herself.
She lives in Haarlem and Asia and when she is not faciitating explores movement and dance.

Event Producer & Community Manager

As event producer, host, manager of the CORE Graduate Community, her intention is to create brave, nature-connected, wholehearted healing spaces.
Brigid is the founder of Hartgedragen.nl, where she dreams, designs and brings to life the work that makes her heart sing. She guides women’s ceremonies, assists in sweat lodges, leads vision quests, and hosts transformative retreats and soul-journeys. Together with her dog Benji, she is based in Amsterdam.

CORE Assistant

Lotus is a professional trainer, team coach, and co-founder of Rise and Shine Academy. With over 15 years of experience, she creates safe, open spaces for groups and individuals to connect deeply and grow.

Specialized in human skills and authentic connection, she brings a lively mix of peace and playfulness. Esther believes in the power of vulnerability and diversity and invites others to “get real” – meeting each other beyond roles and masks, with humor, warmth, and clarity.

CORE & HEARTCORE Assistant

Durga is a ‘24 CORE graduate and lead assistant of HEARTCORE. She has a background in yoga, Tantra and emotional bodywork for over 15 years. She works as a corporate HR manager, and is founder of B-conscious guiding people towards body awareness and aliveness.
One of her own practices is kirtan with The Bhakti Groove. Durga’s global travels on her bicycle gave her life-changing insights. She loves working with groups, sharing her playfulness, care and inspiration.

CORE Assistant

Ramon is a biology teacher, professional trainer and co-founder of Rise & Shine Academy. He is warm, engaged, approachable and sincere, with an inquisitive interest in people. He makes you feel safe easily.

Besides being a father of two girls, wood worker and loving husband to his high school love, he is an eager, and critical scholar and visionairy on social dynamics, human behavior, learning & development and holistic biology.

In the CORE retreat and LEAD days he brings empathy, insight, humor, support and perceptive curiosity.

CORE Assistant

Anna Sati is a Tantrika and Psychologist. She teaches Tantra at her company Growing Loving Relations, and with her partner founded the Tantric Joy Festival Amsterdam in 2020. She has been working as a Psychologist for 27 years.

She has always dedicated herself to acquiring tools that support a healthy relationship between body, mind and soul; focusing on love relations as the source of healing. She considers her partner Mark, their three grown-up daughters and grandchild, her best teachers in life.

CORE Retreat Chef

Sanne is a vegan / plant-based retreat chef and the founder of Puur Sann. She cooks seasonally, using ingredients from her father’s biodynamic vegetable garden, and trains others in her programme to for retreat chefs. Her food is nutritious, innovative, caring.. With her positive, professional and bubbly energy a true asset to the CORE retreats.

“I believe my food & love can support building a more beautiful world in the most beautiful way.”

Strategy Advisor

As a ‘23 CORE graduate he is the strategic and technical backbone, and counselor of KABI·RA.

Nutan is CEO and Co-Founder of Bookboost, a platform that helps hotels connect with guests through smart, efficient technology. With a background in tech development and entrepreneurship, he focuses on creating practical solutions that simplify hotel operations and strengthen guest relationships. He is a proud father of the first CORE baby Seppe.