I write songs and mantras to integrate my lived experiences, and to accompany me in ritual, ceremony, and daily life. When a process resurfaces, returning to a song helps me anchor, soften, and re-orient my nervous system. You’re welcome to use these in the same way: as reminders, anchors, or gentle entry points into presence. Click the title to find the lyrics and, where available, chords.
Songs
De Spiraal Waar Ik In Dwaal
To return to trust when life throws a curveball
Written around a labyrinth meditation, this song invites you to let go of expectations and attachment to outcomes. To meet life as it comes, trusting that even the detours are part of returning to your center.
Het Meisje van de Zee
To honour the shedding of an old self
This song holds the grief of an old self coming to an end, alongside the peace of feeling that it was time. A farewell that is tender rather than tragic, where letting go becomes an act of trust.
Het Oog van de Storm
Recognising the calm that exists within turbulence
This song invites you to find your center in times of turmoil and describes how from this place an intense life becomes enjoyable.
Niet Meer te Ontkennen
Living from the heart in surrender, during times of big shifts
This song gives imagery to that sense when you are in the middle of a big transition, your head has no idea what will be on the other side, but your heart beats with a steady trusting.
Verhouden tot de Veelheid
To find simplicity in times of overwhelm or complexity
This song speaks to life meeting you fully when you step into your power. It traces a journey from fear of failure toward alignment with inner trust.
Vlak Voor de Zon Opkomt
For moments of threshold, melancholy, or despair
This song touches the cycle of transformation: turning toward the growth edge and choosing change – while also honoring how dark and vulnerable the moment just before that turning point can feel.
Voeten Volgen
To ground in your own worth in moments of self-doubt
This song reflects how recognising ourselves in the behaviour of others can help us reconnect to our own essence. It builds through the imagery of feet: from trying hard on your tippy-toes to sinking into the heels and following the feet where they lead you – without having to know what is to come.
Mantras
Filling up and Spilling Over
Enjoying the abundance of life, going with its flow
This mantra is an adaptation from the song Waterfall by Cris Williamson. The song was sung which such passion by a lovely and youthful 75-year-old at a retreat I was at, spontaneously, because she just couldn’t hold it in. When you tap into the stream of life, can you connect to agelessness?
I am the Source
To find calm when time or space seems scarce
I wrote this mantra while on my way to catch a train: not wanting to rush, yet needing to move efficiently. It invites a felt inquiry: how does your body respond to the idea of being the source of time and space?
Léchiya He Ho
An invocation into presence
This Lakota mantra I wrote to move some energy and to ground back into presence. It serves in moments that call for grounding, activation and arriving here: in the body and in community.
Ma Cacahuateotl
To accompany the preparation or drinking of ceremonial cacao
This mantra, written with Aukje Dijkstra, invokes the qualities of “divine cacao,” or food of the gods, as it was known in Mesoamerican traditions. The lyrics weave together Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs), Spanish, Dutch, Frisian, and English.
Om Yana Yatra
To realign with your true nature and life’s path
I wrote this Sanskrit mantra to anchor the intention I weaved into the fallow deer drum I made and use in my ceremonial work. This mantra invites embodiment, integrity and compassionate wisdom.
These songs are also part of the field I work with in Inner Echoes – a guided, embodied exploration of voice, resonance, and inner listening. You’re warmly invited to join when the timing feels right, check Hipsy to see when the next event takes place.