Yoga Nidra Meditation & Gentle Yoga
by Leontine Merkies
About Me
"The moment you live in openness and let every situation come to you, you flow with the real current of life…. Be awake, attentive without tension, free from any strategy or intention. When you aren’t living from memory, there is no repetition. Your seeing is completely new. Stillness never leaves us. We leave it."
- Jean Klein -
My Story
Hi! I am happy to meet you here!
My name is Leontine Merkies.
Yoga Nidra instructor on Aruba. A person of many worlds.
A teacher, a guide, an education lover, inspirator, coach and mentor.
I love life, I love traveling on this earth, I love knowing that we are all part of something bigger. I love bringing people together into sharing what really matters. The essence of our being here, the joy of being alive.
My passion is to help people to come home to the silent space of their true selves. The place where the true heart lives. The place where we experience our natural state of being whole and complete, exactly as we are, no matter of what we bring with us in this silent space.
I do this by sharing by sharing the incredible wisdom, richness and effective tools from iRest® Yoga Nidra meditation in group classes, individual sessions and in iRest® courses and special yoga events.
My Approach
I wholeheartedly welcome you to come experience for yourself what iRest® and yoga nidra may twinkle within you.
Sometimes as seekers we have to travel long and far and wander around in many ways as I did, finding many inspirations and many wonderful and not so sweet experiences before we realize that all that we need is already here… we were born with it… and it cannot be taken away from us…
I am formed and inspired by the following:
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Cultural Anthropology (KU Nijmegen)
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Psychosynthesis (Assagioli)
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Body focused psychology and practices (Ad Stemerding)
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Synergetic massage & intuitive development (Ad Zeeuwen)
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Teacher training of psychology and pedagogy
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Many forms of Yoga practices; most importantly Chakra yoga, Kum Nye yoga, DRU yoga, Siddha yoga, Aplomb yoga
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Yoga teacher trainings (certified by Universal Holistic Health & Yoga Center (2006) and by Amitabha Yoga Center (2013)
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iRest® Yoga Nidra meditation (Richard Miller) (Certified teacher 2020)
As a person I am very inspired by non-dualism as it’s taught e.g. in Kashmir yoga, and at the same time I find it essential to have a strong focus on being fully anchored in our body and in this world.
Testimonial
"Leontine's work helped me in profound and deep ways. It empowered me and gave me hope. It helped to bring my struggles out of my head and into my body where I could identify them and relate with them in an honest way. I was given the gift of seeing them for what they really were. This was truly transformative."
- J.M., former client -
"Leontine's work helped me in profound and deep ways. It empowered me and gave me hope. It helped to bring my struggles out of my head and into my body where I could identify them and relate with them in an honest way. I was given the gift of seeing them for what they really were. This was truly transformative."
- J.M., former client -
