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At Tiger & Turtle we use the tool of breath to steer your state, leading you on a breathwork journey to a new place of inner peace.

10/09/2026

Today, I’m heading to Paris for another sold-out Creative Calling weekend. 🇫🇷✨

And this time, the room will bring together women from 🇺🇸 the US, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France and 🇳🇱 the Netherlands.

Three days of creativity, conversations, recovery, new ideas — and hopefully a little bit of magic.

It feels a long way from where this story began. And as a writer by 🩷 I can’t believe this is happening.

A few years ago, I went to Nepal because I wanted to get away from my life.

I was living in Singapore with my husband and our two-year-old daughter, building United Letters, and feeling caught between motherhood and work.

I thought I needed to escape the outside world.

But somewhere beneath the Himalayan stars, I discovered something much more interesting:

The world inside me.

That experience changed how I think about creativity, work and recovery.

Because sometimes we don’t need another strategy.

We need space.

Space to breathe.
Space to think.
Space to reconnect with ourselves.
Space to hear the ideas that usually get drowned out by everything else filling our days.

That’s what I love about bringing women together in places like Paris.

Different countries. Different businesses. Different lives.

And yet, so many of the same questions:

✨ How do I want to work?
✨ What do I want to create?
✨ What kind of life do I want to build along the way?

You have to believe it’s possible before you can build it.

And maybe that’s one of the reasons Creative Calling has grown into what it is today:

A space for ambitious, creative women to step outside their usual environments, spend a few days together, and give themselves permission to both create and recover.

I can’t wait to see what happens in Paris. ❤️

If you want to come along for the journey, follow me on - link in bio.

Wherever we go, the world goes with us. ✨

09/09/2026

We often think of travel as leaving one world behind and entering another.

But you never actually leave the world behind.

You take your thoughts.

Your habits.

Your body.

Your nervous system.

And your way of seeing the world.

And then there is your breath.

Every inhale brings something from the outside world into you.

Every exhale gives something back.

The air we breathe has passed through trees, oceans, animals and other human beings.

We are constantly exchanging matter with the world around us.

We often say we want to

“connect with nature.”

As though nature is somewhere outside ourselves.

But we never actually left.

We are nature.

The world isn’t simply around us.

It is moving through us.

I wrote about this after remembering a night in the Himalayas when a breathing meditation gave me a completely different experience of connection.

Wherever We Go, the World Goes With Us

Read the full essay in
Between the Worlds.

Link in bio

11/06/2026

Date Night with Yourself – Breath · Beat · Bliss

There are moments when life feels full, fast, and loud.
And then there are moments when we remember to come back to ourselves.

I’m inviting you into a series of intimate evenings in Het Gooi — a space to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with your inner world.

Each Date Night with Yourself is a guided journey through:

🌬️ Breath – a nervous system reset through conscious breathwork
💓 Beat – gentle movement and music to let your body flow
🌙 Bliss – reflection and connection over raw cacao

Think of it as a small reset for your system. A pause button for your life. A soft return to yourself.

🕯️ Time: 20:00 – 22:00 on 30th June, 21st August and 4th of September
📍 Het Gooi
🎟️ Limited spots available

Upcoming dates and booking:
All evenings are now open for registration via the link in bio / Linktree.

28/05/2026

Recently I shared what I loved about 10 weeks in Curaçao 🇨🇼☀️

Today — what I couldn’t wait to get back to 👀
And yes… one of these surprised me too.

1️⃣ The energy of Amsterdam, Paris, London 🌆✨
Curaçao is warm and beautiful in every sense — but sometimes a little too Dushi for me 🌴💛
I realized I actually like the busy.
The hum of a city where things are always happening, where creatives and entrepreneurs come together to exchange ideas ☕🧠
I missed it more than I expected.

2️⃣ Colder temperatures 🌧️🚲🌷
Dutch weather has a terrible reputation and I genuinely missed it 😂
The tulips, cycling in the rain, cool summer mornings.
It rained 3 times during our stay in Curaçao and I LOVED it ☔

Also — with constant 30 degree weather, I noticed my productivity dipped 🌡️
Apparently I function best at around 20–22 degrees 😅

3️⃣ My bike 🚲
I drove around 2 hours a day in Curaçao — school runs, meetings, dinners.
Coming from Amsterdam that felt borderline absurd 😅

Dutch cycling culture is honestly one of the most underrated quality-of-life things in the world 🇳🇱✨
And I completely took it for granted.

4️⃣ My community 🤍
I’ve lived in Beijing, San Francisco, Singapore, Amsterdam and more 🌍
So I know what it costs to rebuild a network every time.

In Curaçao we leaned deeply into family, which was amazing 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
But I missed my people. My community. My creative ecosystem. I am incredible grateful for curacao and grateful for my home in Europe. Thus I cannot wait to see many of you in Paris in September- link in bio. Almost sold - out.

26/05/2026

On some level, I’ve always known: creating makes me feel more like myself.

I wrote 6 books while working in corporate, building a startup, and raising a family.

Not in long, romantic writing retreats.
But in sprints. Early mornings. Stolen hours.

And every time I finished something creative, something shifted.

It reset me.
It reminded me who I was — underneath all the roles.

Over the years, I started seeing the same pattern in other women:

High-achievers with full lives…
but a quiet sense that something was missing.

Not success.
But space to create.

And increasingly, people started reaching out to me —
asking how to finally begin their own creative projects.

That’s why I created Creative Calling.

Together with a Berlin-based artist ,
I designed a small, intimate weekend in Paris
for women who are done waiting for “someday.”

No pressure. No performance.
No need to be “good” at anything.

Just:
– making art and diving into their creative parts
– nervous system reset
– honest conversations
– and a city that brings you back to life

📍 Paris, Sept 11–13
👯‍♀️ Small group
💫 3 spots left

Early Bird ends 1st of June. Secure your Spot through link in bio. Friend discount available.

21/05/2026

Arctic Recovery 🌌 Waitlist now open.

Everything we do at Tiger & Turtle lives between two animals.

🐅 Tiger — sharp, active, in motion. 🐢 Turtle — slow breath, deep rest, full restoration.

You asked for more Recovery.

So we’re going to the Arctic. 🌌

Arctic Recovery is built almost entirely around the Turtle side. The kind of rest that actually shifts something — not a spa weekend, not a quick escape. But…

A small group. Polar night. Wilderness. Space to be and create.

What’s included 👇 🌌 Northern Lights snowmobile under open sky 🐕 Dog sledding through snow-covered silence 🌿 Breath + music + visualization sessions 🍽️ Long dinners in remote wilderness cabins 📖 Real creative space — think, write, build, imagine 🛏️ Your own room. Your own pace.

The women I work with aren’t burned out in the obvious way. They’re just running on too little margin. Best ideas buried under noise.

Darkness. Cold. Silence. Movement. Together they do something nothing else can.

Happens Jan/ Feb or March 27 — building the waitlist first so this happens for the right people.

Comment WAITLIST below and I’ll send you the details personally 💌
.. DeepRest FounderWellness WorkAndWander FemaleFounders CreativeSpace PolarNight SlowDown HighPerformers MindAndBody
Image by Radomír Adámek from Pixabay

07/05/2026

We moved our family to the Caribbean for 10 weeks. Here’s what actually happened 🌊☀️ — Part 1

Ten weeks ago we packed up and moved our family to Curaçao 🇨🇼
Not a holiday — a proper experiment in how we want to live and work ✨

So many of you asked. Here’s the honest version. Starting with what I loved 🤍

1️⃣ Working outside, 4 minutes from the beach 🏝️
My health data — recovery, energy levels, HRV — all improved 📈
Sun, movement, being outside ☀️🚶‍♀️🌴
It worked in a way no productivity hack ever did.

2️⃣ Curaçao is a tropical melting pot 🌎
Caribbean, Latin American, Dutch, American ✨
My kids went to a Dutch school 🇳🇱, I spoke Dutch and English everywhere, and they even picked up the basics of Papiamentu 💬
It made the whole thing feel like home much faster than I expected.

3️⃣ Throwing my kids into a completely new school and environment for 10 weeks was a deliberate choice 🎒🌍
New friends, new rhythms, a new language in the background.
Adaptability is the curriculum nobody teaches — and I believe it’s becoming one of the most important skills in the age of AI 🤖✨

4️⃣ The sun ☀️
Every. Single. Day.
That part I will genuinely miss 💛

Next up: the 4 things I could not wait to get back to 👀
And one of them surprised me a lot.

Adres

Amsterdam

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