Hey, I’m glad you landed here. 😊
Since you’re curious about the person behind Hortari, let me tell you a story — maybe a little bit mine, maybe a little bit yours too.
You know how at school they ask, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
My answer kept changing. Ten times, at least. In the end I picked a field of study, but deep down I always had doubts. I felt pressured to lock myself into one single career… and maybe you’ve felt that too, that weight of “choosing right.”
My path zigzagged through lab work, craft, engineering, and eventually… life surprised me.
I quit my “golden” job as an environmental engineer in a chemical company, and that leap propelled me into drawing educational comics for the same company. For a while, I thought I had found the holy grail. Living from your passion? Sounds like a dream, right?
Except reality was trickier. I loved working with this one client, but as soon as I tried to make illustration a full-time career, the joy slipped away. Prospecting, polishing my image, adapting my style to fit the market… it drained me. I felt more and more isolated, stuck behind a screen, and completely out of balance.
It took time (and quite a few “what’s wrong with me?” moments) before I understood. What mostly helped was stumbling upon Emilie Wapnick's TED Talk on multipotentialites — people with many passions who don’t fit neatly into one box.
Suddenly, it clicked. There was nothing wrong with me. I just wasn’t wired to follow a straight line.
I thrive when I can juggle, explore, and weave different paths together.
Maybe you’ve felt this too? If so, don't worry, you’re not broken! You just work differently. And that’s okay.
Once I had that in mind, I started to harmonize my life around my core values. That shift was made easier by a big leap my partner and I took: moving to Lanzarote for a year to breathe, reflect, and reassess our next steps.
That’s when yoga moved from the background to the center.
Yoga gave me what I had been searching for all along: a way to live with authenticity, balance, and joy. It taught me to care for myself, grow with grace, embrace my many passions (illustration, music, sports, nature, teaching...) and most importantly, to turn toward others.
And that’s how Hortari began: as a small seed that sprouted in my own life. But it was never meant to be my project. A seed only grows when it’s shared, when others bring their own light, water, and soil.
So if you’re here, maybe that seed resonates with you too. Maybe you’re also looking for harmony, authenticity, or simply a moment to pause and reconnect. If that’s the case, Hortari is as much yours as it is mine.
Welcome. Take what inspires you, share what feels true, and let’s see what we can grow — together. 🌞
I'm currently training to become a certified yoga teacher
(Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training) with Béatrice Savaris & Moena de Jong at Tula studio...
I want to help you get back that spark of wonder: noticing the song of a bird, the stillness of a tree, or just the softness of your own breath.
My role? To guide you back into your body, your breath, and your natural rhythm.
Because when we land in that kind of presence, life feels lighter, fuller… and we remember what really matters. 🌿
Based in Amsterdam and shaped by travels, by science and art, I hope to teach yoga like a constellation — a map where you can reconnect your stars, and trace your own path.
Yoga here isn’t about twisting into pretzels or being deadly serious.
It’s about connecting body, breath, and mind — and feeling how that ripples into the rest of your life.
It’s a practice where biomechanics meets energy, movement meets stillness.
Yes, there’s patience, humility, and presence…
but also space to laugh, to play, to connect, and to simply feel human. 🌞
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... with the intention to share what I’ve discovered through a sensitive and accessible practice.
