About Maneesha — The Embodied Medium
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My mission is to help people transform pain into wisdom, reconnect with the intelligence of the heart, and live in harmony with their body, soul, nature, and the spiritual world.
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I am a bridge between heaven and earth, combining deep therapeutic experience with spiritual guidance, embodiment, and self-realisation work.
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For over 20 years, I ran my own therapy practice, supporting people through emotional healing, trauma, life transitions, and personal transformation. Later, I created my own therapeutic yoga center, where I guided people back into their bodies through movement, breath, and nervous system healing.
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For the past 4 years, I’ve been hosting retreats and transformational experiences from my retreat home in Spain, creating a sacred space where people can slow down, heal deeply, and reconnect with themselves.
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My own journey began through sports and dance teaching and naturally evolved into posture therapy, movement therapy, haptonomy, yoga, mediumship, energy healing, and consciousness work.
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Today, I bring all of these worlds together.
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As a clairaudient, clairsentient, and claircognizant medium, I connect deeply with the soul of each person I work with. I tune into their soul blueprint, their gifts, potential, blocks, and deeper purpose.
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But true transformation is not only spiritual.
As an embodied medium, I believe healing happens when you learn to fully live what your soul already knows: to feel safe in your body, open your heart, trust your intuition, and live in alignment with your truth.
This is why I created The Sacred Heart Journey.
A path where therapy, embodiment, nervous system healing, mediumship, spirituality, and self-realisation come together.
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I guide people through grief, burnout, loss, spiritual awakening, and major life transitions, helping them move from survival into presence, from pain into purpose, and from searching into becoming.
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Not to become someone else.
But to fully become yourself.
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To remember the love, wisdom, and power that has always lived within you.
Because love is the greatest medicine.
And living fully embodied, connected, and awake, is the true path home.
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Meet my spirit team:
What you need to know about me
1980 I come from a warm family with a background of trauma
One of my earliest memories was being exposed to death in primary school. For me, death was not a goodbye, but I knew that when we die, we will see the ones we love again. I told a friend that she didn’t have to cry about her dead cat, because she would see him again on the other side. This was strange to my friend and it was the first time I thought: “Am I weird for thinking and saying this?” Some things made perfect sense to me. Like the voice in my head that told me things, when I was lost somewhere, showed me the way and always spoke to me with love. My father’s family survived the camps of Auschwitz, but not all of their family and friends. The war and the fear were a common thread in my life. My father always said: “If God existed, not everyone would have been killed”. When my father died and I communicated more with the other world, I realized: “God does exist, because my grandparents survived and that’s why I’m here.” I learned that love is the force you need to survive.
2000 The death of my father
Brought me deeper into contact with my psychic gifts. My father had an accident in the water and was in a deep coma for three weeks when the doctors said: 'There is no life left in him if we stop the ventilator'. His death was one of the greatest lessons in pain and loss in life. He became a guide in my dreams and took me to the other world, to the other side. He gave me the confirmation that I was clairvoyant. Through his energetic presence that I felt and no one else, I knew that the spiritual world can communicate with you in different ways. I still had contact with my father and I saw deceased people and heard their message and felt their energy. I was always cold, but I had the love of my father by my side and I felt it in my heart, which allowed me to trust my soul.
2006 Near Death experience and accident
My near death experience in an accident gave me back the memory that it is about love on earth. I felt myself going up through a channel of light and it went very fast. I heard a lot of laughter, I felt “what do you think you are doing” and the sentence “Go back and he stays here”. It was clear: it was not my time, but my brother in law's. A perception of time changed, there was a different silence in me. I worked on my 'mental, emotional and physical trauma' for 2 years. 2 years later I was pain free and I felt: there is more in this life that I may discover. The reason why I am here is to learn what love is and to remind people who they are and connect with love power and consciousness.
2009 Mediumship
While I started my training as a medium, I was busy writing my thesis and finishing my studies as a haptotherapist. I knew that I would not finish this course because I had to travel. Which I started in 2011. During the training I learned that I had a waiting room of people who wanted me to convey their message to their loved ones. It came easy to me. I learned that I was clairaudient and my clairsentience became even stronger. I could feel deceased people in myself and I became them. It was something natural because I had felt them all my life and I spoke to them telepathically in my own way. Now healing, reading and making contact through a method were added to that. I lived in a period with many mediums, healers and readers around me, in which I received and could pass on many messages.
2011 kundalini experience & heart opening
I followed a 5-week training in 'hatha tantra and ayurveda' where we did spiritual exercises every day such as pujas, mantras, yoga, breathwork, meditation, satsang, devotion, fire ceremonies and deep rest and relaxation. One day, while we were singing, I felt like I was on a roller coaster and I was being pulled back. I felt something sliding down my tailbone and I felt the energy rising in my spine. I felt like I was screaming out loud, but according to my neighbor I was silent at that moment. I found it bizarre because it felt like I was exploding. My teacher called it a heart opening and kundalini experience. I had many moments of unity during that training. With my eyes open I saw the space with the people change from this reality to a black and white pixel reality. I saw the layers of illusion and the truth. I felt such a strong love in myself, unconditional. I learned to be grateful and the power of forgiveness.
2013 I opened my own therapeutic yoga centre
My work came together. I was back from traveling and got the message from spirit to open my own center in the Netherlands and I did. For 2 years I enjoyed my own playing field that I had created for myself. I developed my Embodiment training, gave yoga lessons, pilates and had my own practice. I had to extend my contract and noticed that I no longer had the energy to do everything alone and keep all the balls in the air. Financially it hit rock bottom and I decided not to extend my contract, with the result that everything I had invested in building the path I wanted to go had to be demolished. I had to demolish € 30,000 of material investments. This was painful for me. I was overstrained and had to find my way again.
2016 QHHT sessions
I had closed my center and was a bit stressed. I had everything I wanted and now I had nothing. I started my practice at home and also gave a yoga class in the city. Dolores Cannon came my way with her Quantum healing hypnosis technique. In my own first session I came into contact with one of my spirit guides Hubert, an ET. He told me that I had forgotten our contract and that he helps me to help people on earth. I didn't know what was happening to me and what I felt. I floated through the universe and felt so much unconditional love. I had to laugh about it, it was so beautiful. In another session I met Aurealis. One of my other guides who helps me in my mission to help people open their hearts and step into love consciousness. I have experienced so many beautiful and special sessions that I have no doubts about the reason why we are on earth, different realities, dimensions and life in different forms.
2019 Channeling
After a few years of giving hypnosis sessions, I heard the message: what the session can do, you can do too. I started with a 'weekend training' channeling and this was enough to help me on my way to let my guides speak and work with them. Aurealis and Hubert have helped many people in guiding their life questions and mission. Later the masters of the Light joined, just as Toth and I have the experience of being one with the source.
2022 Moving to Spain
I felt and heard the calling to leave the Netherlands and go live in Spain. Through an ayahuasca journey and a trance healing it became clear that I could live in an environment in nature where the energy is higher. In Spain my work came together again in the form of profound spiritual retreats. Together with my partner and my 5 cats I left with my car to southern Spain where I lived and worked on a mountain with a view of the sea surrounded by mountains. I had 8 chickens and a puppy. My partner left after 5 months and I was on my journey alone in Spain. Where we supposed to built a business together, he went back to Holland and I continued to built my retreat business alone.
2023......2025
Over the past years, I noticed my spirit guides were calling me to step forward more visibly and share my work internationally. I serve as a channel, offering guidance, wisdom, and messages from spirit, helping people find answers to life’s deeper questions and move into a higher level of consciousness.
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People are welcome in my home for intimate, personal retreats in small groups. These 6-day journeys are held in a space of warmth, simplicity, and high-frequency nature, surrounded by mountains, animals, and stillness. It is a place where people can slow down, reconnect, and return to themselves.
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The past three years have been a deep initiation into the sacred path of the heart. I experienced heartbreak, solitude, financial uncertainty, and moments where life stripped everything back to what truly matters. My home became a beacon of light and a place of safety, especially with the arrival of my spirit dog Kiano, who has been one of my greatest teachers.
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Life kept asking me to grow: moving homes, starting over, navigating difficult relationships, healing from trauma, and finding peace again and again within change. Even when challenges came, my hunting dog who became reactive and killed stray cats, my chicken coop killed by foxes, my sweetest cat Jaira was hit by a car and died in my arms, unexpected endings in collaborations, or lessons through difficult dynamics, I kept returning to presence.​ Through it all, I am learning to live from the heart, to see the sacredness in everything, and to trust the unfolding path.
2026 House of Love retreats at mahara nivasa
I trusted my guided path and life opened in an unexpected way: a friend Jarno, bought a house, and I was able to rent it. We moved in febuary 2026, and with that, peace returned, bringing me a sense of stability, grounding, and focus in the mountains of Colmenar, at Mahara Nivasa.
Here, life feels aligned again. I teach weekly yoga to the people living around me and offer ceremonies that help reconnect with the heart. My mission, serving both online and offline, feels fully present and alive.
This house feels like a sacred space, a home of God. It offers a place to unwind, to step into nature, to feel held and guided, and to unplug from mass consciousness. In this stillness, people are invited to return to love consciousness and the healing power of the heart.
People come here for personal retreats of 4 or 7 days, stepping into a space of deep rest, connection, and transformation. Together with a small, devoted team around me, we hold a field of care, presence, and support where people can truly come back to themselves.
In this shared way of living and serving, we thrive, offering what we can from the heart, and gently contributing to making the world a little more loving, one person at a time.
