Maike van Ees

Maike van Ees describes herself as a soul-led business soul mentor and teacher in energetic massage and healing. She calls her way of working intuitive, clear and decisive, and says she holds the space for inner processes and growth. Her work invites people to connect deeply with body, heart and soul, to release the energetic charge of systemic patterns and developmental trauma, to build inner calm, safety and rhythm, and to live from self-love and joy.

Her path, in her words, is one of falling and opening. A concussion once brought her to a standstill and her nervous system crashed. She says that fall became her opening. She learned to reconnect with her body, heart and soul, to see and revisit her coping mechanisms, and to stop carrying other people's energy.

Before this she studied commercial economics and communication science, travelled widely, and worked as a project leader and market researcher, a freelance marketing communications creative, and a hiking guide in Iceland and Norway. She then trained in shiatsu, reiki and pranic healing, and sampled many other body-oriented traditions.

She went on to run an energetic massage and healing practice in Amsterdam and later Garderen, and to offer somatic soul mentoring and cacao ceremonies. She also ran online mentoring and meditation journeys, led retreats in the Netherlands, and teaches energetic massage at Mood Massage Academy. She has trained more than a hundred body- and soulworkers and supported more than a hundred people on a personal path. Her Insight Timer page adds that she facilitates group healings, clearing meditations and soulful movement mornings.

Today she mostly works online, with one-to-one soul mentor sessions and a business community for massage therapists, soul mentors, energy workers and other soul-led entrepreneurs. She helps them build work that follows their own natural rhythm rather than forcing it. She is also the author of the book Lichtdeeltjes.