About me.
Hey there! I am Jennifer, first-time mom of a boy, living in Amsterdam and day-dreaming about creating a Permaculture Yoga Farm, where we can all connect and tend to the land and our families together. But right now I am busy building Soil to Bloom. So who’s behind this community?
For more than a decade, my life was devoted to building communities for meaningful change. I spent my days creating networks for regenerating cities, bringing people together around a shared purpose. I believed deeply in the power of community to restore the world - and I still do.
Along the way, I gave interviews at different news outlets such as TIME Magazine and gave a TED Talk about something that had become possible to ignore: our disconnection from nature mirrors our disconnection from ourselves. We cannot restore the world around us without tending to our own inner landscapes. But while I was saying those words on stage, I didn’t yet realise how much they applied to me.
Because behind the scenes, my own landscape was quietly asking for attention. It started as exhaustion…then a burnout…then a concussion…then a broken foot - all the ways a body can whisper, then speak, then finally scream: slow down, something inside needs tending. My body was clearly trying to get my attention, and I could no longer ignore it.
So I stepped back.
For the first time in years, I gave myself permission to pause, to soften, to recalibrate. And in that space, I returned to the things that had always nourished me most: the grounding rhythm of nature, the healing wisdom of plants, and feeling it all through yoga.
I studied Permaculture in Portugal.
I got my hands back into the soil in a community garden in Amsterdam.
I dove deeper into Herbalism at Ecoversity.
I expanded my yoga practise not as exercise, but as devotion - an anchor back to myself.
Slowly I began to understand something simple but important:
like plants, we can only truly bloom when our soil is nourished.
Then I became pregnant - and everything I had learned landed in my body in a whole new way.
Growing my baby meant tending to myself with intention: herbal infusions, daily movement, forest bathing, moments of stillness, and rituals that helped me feel rooted and connected. What transformed me most, though, was community. I gathered around me a circle of supportive women - doulas, herbalists, yogis, holistic coaches, Ayurvedic nutritionists - each offering something I didn’t even know I needed. And I realised:
This is the village we talk about.
This is what every mother deserves.
This is what I wish every pregnant woman could experience. Feeling held by nature, movement and people.
Because becoming a mother is not just a physical event - it is a profound rite of passage. Yet so many women walk though it feeling alone, depleted, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
I knew then that all the threads of my life - community building, nature connection, herbalism, yoga, and my own journey of motherhood - were weaving together into something new.
Soil to Bloom was born from that weaving.
Born from my own longing.
Born from the truth that we are not meant to do this alone.
Soil to Bloom is a container for women to root deeply, rise gently, and be held wholeheartedly. A place where nature, ritual, wisdom, and community come together.
A space where you can nourish your inner garden - so that you can bloom into motherhood with confidence, joy, and support.
Because when we tend to the soil of the mother, everything else flourishes.
