About Roos-Veerle Krijnen

If you knew me as a child, you’d know that I longed for synergy and joyous togetherness in the family I got born into. Even though my parents only divorced when I was 17 years old, there was rarely true togetherness and harmony in my family home. Feeling the pain of disconnection between all of my family members that were living so close physically, yet so far, emotionally - it inevitably made me want to create a life that is filled with deep (emotional) connection, healthy support systems and love.

Feeling the pain of an emotionally absent father… Feeling the pain of my mother who couldn’t create a loving togetherness in her marriage… Feeling the pain of rivalry between my brother and I, instead of collaboration… Feeling the pain of not knowing my place in my own family system… Mothering my little brother and feeling the burden of being his second mum… Trying to protect my father from falling in love with any other women that wasn't my mother… Telling my parents how to raise my brother… Being a pillar for my mother when she was in pain and needed emotional support… Trying to fit myself into a role that I was an easy-going child, and trying so hard not to create any more difficulty… Trying to be the glue between the broken pieces that nobody gave words to…

Because of all of my roots, life invited me to integrate all my family members into myself. Life invited me to explore the unfelt pain from my ancestors. Life invited me to remember who I am as a sister, a daughter, a friend, a lover, a partner, as a woman. And to remember who I am in all those opposites. While still being true to my nature.

After finishing my studies in Psychology, I got off the beaten path and traveled the world for 2.5 years. I wanted to study and live a life with my body and with my feelings. In 2013 I entered the world of yoga and tantra in Thailand, and that opened my eyes to the wisdom within. Later Vipassana meditation and plant medicine also weaved themselves onto my path.

My first business was ‘Yoga with Roos’. After that came ‘Roots & Wings’, a transformational retreat center in Amsterdam that I was running together with my friend Rosa. And now it’s time for my third offering: ‘Naked Truth’. The medicine of Naked Truth is what I need most, for myself, in the first place. And from that centered place, I invite all others who feel the call, to come along and embrace their own Naked Truth.

I have been facilitating retreats for the last 6 years and doing 1-on-1 coaching trajectories with people from all corners of the world. It’s from my instructions within that I feel guided to restore trust between human beings and the connection we have with our own body. Our body, that is part of nature, because it is made from the same molecules as nature. And nature, will always guide us towards pure love, because it simply is love.

Here I share a longer version of my Roots & Wings.