About Tjitske de Boer
My path back to lightness, space, and ease
By the time I was nearing thirty, I was in pain almost everywhere. One body part after another made itself known, which was discouraging and at times downright depressing. I knew: I don’t want to go on like this.
The Feldenkrais Method found me at exactly the right moment. During the lessons I discovered how I could change my movement habits in small steps. It wasn’t fast and certainly not all at once, but each lesson gave me that same feeling of possibility again and again:
“If I can feel like this now, then I want to feel like this always.”
That feeling became my compass — first for myself, later in my work with others.
From physiotherapy to Feldenkrais
At that time I was working as a physiotherapist, supporting many people with pain and movement difficulties. There were no Feldenkrais teachers in the Netherlands then, so training in the method was the only way forward.
After a number of years — with occasional setbacks, but always progress — most of my complaints gradually disappeared. To this day, I see pain as information: a signal that shows how I’m doing and what I need.
Until recently, I never stopped learning. I followed advanced trainings, masterclasses, and assisted for decades in Feldenkrais trainings in the Netherlands. The field keeps deepening, and I grew along with it. At this point, I mainly take other courses to broaden my insights and approach.
Working with adults, children, and especially babies
In 2008 I completed the Child’Space training, which is strongly inspired by the Feldenkrais Method. I became an assistant, trainer, and organizer of the international Child’Space training in Amsterdam.
Working with babies and young children touches me deeply. Their capacity to learn and recover is immense — and incredibly sensitive to small nuances.
I guide parents in how they can support their baby’s motor development, with great attention to contact, attunement, and movement.
You can read more about my work at:
- childspaceutrecht.nl – about my work with babies
- parent2b.com – for expectant parents
- intuitiefouderschap.eu – for people with a wish to have children, pregnant women, and parents with a baby, and the sales page for my book Intuitive Parenting
Until 2022, I also regularly taught workshops in Frankfurt am Main for thematic Feldenkrais weekends. In 2015, I worked in Saint Petersburg with children with special needs — an impressive experience that still inspires me. Six months later, I gave a workshop there for parents of these children.
In 2024, I developed the Baby Alphabet – From “we” to “me” and “you”, a practically oriented card set with guidance for every letter of the alphabet.
Additional training
Over the years, I have continued to deepen my work through trainings and education that strengthen both my intuitive and professional skills:
- Intuitive Development – Center for Life and Intuition
- Post-HBO Hypnotherapy – SETH
- Bodynamic workshops and year training (including focus on PTSD)
- Masterclasses with Chava Shelhav and Anat Baniel (working with babies, children, and special needs)
- Feldenkrais Mentor Training – Larry Goldfarb
- Matrix Energetics
- Light Body
- Life Skills University – Open Circles
- Mastery Academy – Tony Robbins
Together, these trainings form the foundation of how I work today: with attention, precision, gentleness, and deep trust in the human capacity to change.
In 2020, I wrote Intuitive Parenting – Energetically Connecting with Your Child from Conception. In it, I brought together everything I had learned and practiced up to that point.
After more than forty years
After more than forty years in this field, Feldenkrais still moves me — not because it is a method, but because it is a way of learning and living: gentle, curious, and always leaving room for possibility.
Everything I have experienced myself, I bring into my teaching — in group classes, individual sessions, and in my work with parents and children.
For me, it all comes down to one thing:
helping you feel that there is always a path to more lightness, movement, and freedom.
Always.