Mariet Brans

Mariet Brans is the founder of Studio Zijn in Helmond, where she offers personal coaching built around breath, awareness and what she calls each person's unique "zijn" (being). Her work includes burn-out coaching, stress coaching, breath coaching, awareness coaching and coaching for highly sensitive people. She also works with teenagers and young people and with workplaces on absence prevention. Sessions take place in person in Helmond or online via Zoom.

Her path began in the fashion industry. For years she worked at full speed as a self-described career tiger. She had the success she had dreamed of, but she lost her own sense of inspiration along the way. Her burn-out felt like a standstill at the time. Looking back, she sees it as her most important starting point. She had been living by old beliefs and the outside world's picture of success, and she had lost touch with her own feeling. When she stopped "having to" and learned simply to be, she says her inner fire began to burn again. From that transformation she made her mission, and in 2014 Studio Zijn was born.

Her mission is to help people experience that they are worth being fully themselves, without masks and without other people's sky-high expectations. Clients describe her way of working as loving, soft and attentive. One calls her approach "loving attention, softness & guidance". Another describes feeling safe with her right away. Her sessions can combine meditation, breathwork and stress regulation with a biotensor.

Mariet also shares guided meditations on Insight Timer under the name Studio Zijn. She composed them from the heart, so that they offer what the listener needs in the moment. Alongside her coaching she leads workshops, retreats and breath sessions, sometimes together with other facilitators.