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?

I have always been passionate about building communities for meaningful change. Over the last decade, I’ve built several networks for regenerating cities. Along the way, I realised something really important: healing the world around us like restoring the land, is tied to healing ourselves, our own inner landscapes. This realisation, which I shared in my TED talk, showed me that the way we’ve disconnected from nature is the same way we’ve disconnected from ourselves.

After years of building networks for sustainability, I burnt out. It was then that I realised I needed to reconnect to nature, and myself. 

So I took a step back and dove deep into the practises that would nourish me - Permaculture in Portugal, ecological gardening in a community garden in Amsterdam, studying Herbalism at Ecoversity, and diving further into my yoga practise. Through these experiences, I learned a simple but powerful truth: like plants, we need fertile soil to be able to truly thrive and bloom. 

When I became pregnant, this truth became my reality. Growing my baby meant tending to my own inner garden - nourishing my body with healing herbs, connecting with nature through forest baths, and making daily yoga a part of my life.

I also surrounded myself with a community of supportive women - doula’s, herbalists, yogis, Ayurvedic nutritionists and holistic coaches - who supported me every step of the way. Pregnancy became a ritual of tending to my soil, so I could bloom in the most vibrant way possible. 

Now, as a newborn mama, I am more convinced than ever that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ and more so, to support a mother. Becoming a mother is one of the most profound transformations a woman can experience—and it deserves to be embraced as a true rite of passage.

I believe this journey should never feel lonely, depleted, disconnected or isolating. It should be a time of deep nourishment, joy and connection. 

That’s why I created Soil to Bloom - a space where women can tend to their own inner gardens with the support of holistic tools and a caring circle of women.

Relevant Trainings

2024 100 Hour Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training at Awakened Spirit Yoga

2023 100 Hour Regenerative Herbalism at Ecoversity 

2022 Permaculture Design Course in Portugal

2021 Yin Yoga Energetics Training at Pure Energy Yoga 

2018 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Hatha & Vinyasa at School Yoga Institute Costa Rica

Soil to Bloom blends yoga, herbalism and community to help mothers(to-be) to cultivate the fertile ground they need to grow and bloom. It’s about building a community where women feel supported, nourished and empowered. Motherhood should be a journey of vitality, not isolation - and I am here to share the tools and practises that helped me thrive.