is this you?
✧ you long to feel more alive, connected, and at home in your body
✧ you have lost touch with joy amidst daily to-do's,
stress, or emotional heaviness
✧ you are a seeker who values depth, authenticity, and
soulful living over surface positivity
✧ you are navigating emotional numbness, burnout,
or a sense of disconnection from self and life
✧ you are a soul who feels deeply and want to learn
to hold both pain and pleasure with openness
✧ you long to integrate joy into daily life, relationships, and leadership
—not as a fleeting feeling but as an ongoing state of being
✧ you long to reclaim wonder and awe in life
✧ you yearn to express yourself more freely, authentically, and joyfully in the world
✧ you are tired of “fixing” or “improving” yourself and ready to honor yourself
✧ you find it hard to enjoy the moment
✧ you feel overwhelmed or numb
✧ you feel like a dimmed light
✧ you cannot remember the last time you giggled out loud
✧ you realize you rarely smell a flower with presence,
sip your tea mindfully, or truly hear the birds sing
true joy, peace and flourishing we find in the small moments of our lives
I believe happiness is a practice, joy is a state to devote to in ourselves, and flourishing is what comes from being present with the tiniest moments in our lives. As we become more intimate with our moment-to-moment experiences, our life shifts. We shift from emptiness to fulness, from lacking to longing, from feeling rattled, to feeling more radiant.
your joy is your essence.
What if you felt...
➳ that life is filled with infinite little moments of magic?
➳ that your daily doings are lived more fully by the use of attention, small prayer, daily ritual
➳ that the slower you become, the more you experience?
➳ that authentic expression gives a sense of peace within?
➳ that joy is your natural state of being?
➳ that the epitome of being is in the joy you find in your daily doings?
➳ that shifting your state of being brings inspiration, aliveness and wholeness that ripples into all asepcts of your life?
➳that joy opens your body, beyond the ache or the ecstasy, beyond pleasure and pain?
A JOY IN BEING
a month-long journey
into the essence of your joy
You will receive...
𑁍 teachings to feel more alive in your body & discover ways to access joy in your daily life through embodied practice, ritual and self-inquiry
𑁍 practices to make you present to your daily doings so you can enjoy life more fully
𑁍 a unique knowing of what joy feels like in your body, and find what peace feels like in your bones
𑁍 release unneccesary patterns that take you away from enjoying moments & becoming skilled at consciously choosing your peace over your patterns
𑁍 open your heart to life's full spectrum, without shutting down
𑁍 become lighter in being, trusting your wholeness, and authenticity in expressing yourself, learn ways to anchor in your unique expresion of joy
𑁍 learn ways to welcome pleasure beyond pain, learn to unite your ache with your ecstasy
𑁍 see magic in the mundane & bring joy into your daily moments, relationships, and work”
“A Joy in Being is a 4-week journey to rediscover joy as your birthright. Through guided embodiment, breathwork, creative expression, and relational practices, you’ll expand aliveness, deepen self-love, and learn to hold both the ache and the ecstasy of life with an open heart.”
bring joy to your daily doing
step into one of these two tiers.
you choose.
what if life wants you in your joy?
the details to your flourishing...
WEEK 1
THE PLAY OF INSPIRATION
expanding aliveness, wholeness and joy through embodied practice and felt sensation in the body
WEEK 3
THE ACHE AND
THE ECSTASY
deepening somatic and reflective practices to open to life's full spectrum, to feel and move beyond pain and pleasure for joyful living
WEEK 2
LOVING THE SHAPE
THAT YOU ARE
embodying authentic expression and celebrating your unique presence in life
WEEK 4
THE EPITOME
OF BEING
weaving joy in daily life, love and leadership, infusing presence and rituals in relationship to self, partner and life.
schedule
week 1: june 4th
week 2: june 11th
week 3: june 18th
week 4: june 25th
all calls are Wednesdays,
8 pm Amsterdam time
(convert time zone)
a joy in being
a journey for your joy.
about Tessa
Tessa is a somatic therapist, mentor, and teacher guiding individuals into deeper embodiment, authentic expression, and soulful connection with life.
Her work weaves together the art of relating, somatic therapy, and sacred feminine practice, inviting others to rediscover joy, beauty, and intimacy as natural states of being.
With over a fifteen years of study and training across somatic psychology, embodiment, relational healing, Jungian and yogic traditions, Tessa holds a grounded, compassionate presence that welcomes the whole of who we are.
Her approach is deeply informed by her own journey of healing, her devotion to living with an open heart, and years of mentoring clients through personal transformation, retreats, and workshops.
Through A Joy in Being, Tessa invites you into a journey of softening, awakening, and belonging—to your body, your aliveness, and the magic woven through everyday life.
this is what my clients tell me they long for
(and why I teach it inside A Joy in Being)
“I want to feel at home in my body.”
“I want to experience joy that doesn’t depend on circumstances.”
“I want to welcome all of me—the tender, the wild, the aching, the radiant.”
“I want to live with more wonder, play, and deep presence.”
“I want to remember that joy is available even in life’s complexity.”
