journey
fall into the place where everything is music… | RUMI
M a r c u s
resonant musician | embodied coach
J u n g l e
soothing source
for whoever is surviving their own jungle
In my play of sacred sound, I create a natural atmosphere to release and relax. People often tell me they felt a kind of healing, whole again, gently connected with “source of being”.
Like you, I went looking for healing through my own jungle. Carl Jung called it becoming a “wounded healer”, individuation, an alchemy of your struggles that reveals who you actually are beneath them.
What I found wasn’t more effort. It was compassion, winning by losing judgment. Of myself, of others, of how healing is “supposed” to look. You win by loosening your grip on needing it to make sense.
From my own deep, lively “Jung-le”, I invite you into that same place, source, where nothing needs to be judged to be felt.
I live what I give.
It took all of this, to arrive at that simplicity…
my spiritual free jazz immersion
s a c r e d s o u n d y ā t r ā
My journey of discovering yoga & sound meditation is a lifestyle, an ongoing pilgrimage, like a yogic yātrā. Here are some of my inspirations, so you have an idea where I come from, when you join my sessions.
Gong Master Training | Mastery & Mystery of Sacred Sound | Gong Meditation & Spiritual Free Jazz Retreat | Hawkwood UK | Don Conreaux & Aidan McIntyre
Harmonic Gong Coaching | The Oak Root Gong Forge | Personal seminar | Eichenwürzel by Hans-Jürgen Hagel
Bansuri Improvisations | Krishna’s Sacred Yoga Flute | Personal seminar | Tepuibansuri by Juan Tepui
Syotanka, Voicing Emotion | Native American Flute | Private course | Pranaflutes by Raffaello Hendrickx
Himalayan Bowls in OM Harmony | Samavihara Center for Yoga & Sound Wellness | Private course by René Stahn
Deep Sound Bodywork | Fundamental Training | Healing Contact – Expertise Center in Himalayan Bowls by Iwan Boersma
Voice as Medicine | Course & private coaching | Kayla Krishangi Lila | Kirtan Devotional & Intuitive Singer/Teacher
Natural Voice | Private coaching | Sound & Silence | Geert Kumpen | Shamanic & Intuitive Singer/Teacher
Canto Puro | Private coaching | Carla Maffioletti | Classical Brazilian Opera Singer & Teacher
Voice Liberation | Awakening in Joy | Summer retreat | Neda Boin | ACIM Sacred Chant Singer
p e r c u s s i v e i n i t i a t i o n
Raizes do Brasil | Cultural-Spiritual Music | 600H | Two-year professional project by Dudu Tucci | Percussion Art Center Berlin & Bahia | For me this was a flashing spark of life change, a footing in 8 seasons of spirited conga drumming & so much more, deeply into the forests of Lorelei, crowned by a breakaway to the palmy beaches of Itapuã, Brazil.
Escuelas do Samba | 10 years | Played and learned in two Blocos de Samba, Saltando and Diversão!
LatuLaConga Percussive Improvisations | 5 years | Private training | Congas, cajon, small percussion | Johan Latupeirissa
Conga Skills | 2 years | Private training | Conga Percussion School Aachen | Ruth Schmithüsen
Laboratorio Cajon Flamenco | 1 year | Private training | Sonido d’Oro | Cris Lopez
Bendir, the Framedrum | Private training | Tamburi Mundi | Murat Coskun
Djembé & West African Percussion | 7 years | Continuous training & summer seminars | Jo Koreman, Diana Rutten & Sidiki Camara
outside in, inside out
i n s p i r a t i o n a l
The 5 Blessings | Fundamental Shamanic Training | 5 months | Institute for Siberian Shamanism | Byelka Petra Giesbergen | Blessings of the Sacred Purification, the Inner Seer, the Totem Helpers, the Nature Energies and the Soul Healer.
Forest & Trees | Body Oriented Coaching | Autonomy & Emotional Safety | Neuroception & Polyvagal Theory | Bronacademie | Hans Velders | Learning to “heal” with mindful music as a tool of choice.
Coaching for Professionals | Life Consciousness & Work Manifestation, According to Carl Jung | Yeartraining | Dutch School for Coaching | A personal year of “quest” wherein I learned to listen to my body intelligence, my inner knowing, literally stepping into discovering and sensing forest nature.
Journey of a Man | Identity, Father and Mother Ancestry | Roudonck | Peter Houtman | Can’t say it better than with Peter’s own words “This is a journey to your roots, a root canal treatment for old pains”.
y o g a & m e d i t a t i o n
VYN200 Yoga Instructor | Specialisation Trainings in Body Adjustments & Painrelease, Iyengar Restorative Yoga and Chi Flow | VYN200 Certification | YogaRoots Parkstad VYN & European Yoga Alliance Training Center
RYT Yinyoga XL Teacher | Yin, Nidra, & Mindfulness | Graduated in Meditative Music | Yeartraining RYT200 Certification | Adhouna Yoga Alliance RYS
Kundalini & Gong Yoga Immersion | Bhajan’s Seven Steps to Happiness | Breathwork, chanting, gong meditation, mindwalk & detox retreat | One week at Radhadesh Spiritual Community | Soul Sound Yoga by Fiona Crossley
s p o r t s
Archery Trainer-Coach | Certification Training NOC*NSF Qualification LVL2 Intermediate Profile | 6 Months | Royal Dutch Archery League
Tai Chi & martial arts fundamentals | 3 years | diverse international schools
Latin & Ballroom Dance | Gold Star Level & Latin Shine Trainings | 300H | 3 years | Dance Center Swing-Inn | Dutch Dance Association
the rock
w o r k
The enabler of my mystery & mastery journey into sacred sound is my work. I’m a seasoned professional in inspiring, leading, and organizing how people change and learn in business life.
With a Master of Science (MSc) degree, I set out on a path of projects around the world, and years later, had the chance to reflect on that work through a PhD in applied sciences, on the essence of inspiring, “leadership to make a change”.
About this “making”, I learned that some change you can “make”, but most change you generate, in interplay with fellow people, seizing coinciding opportunities, like jazz on solid rock!