MEET SARAH
Sarah is a feminine embodiment teacher, artist, and community guide devoted to the path of love and the reclamation of feminine essence. She supports women in reconnecting to their bodies, healing conditioned patterns, cultivating feminine leadership in romantic relationship and business, and returning to a deeper sense of wholeness and authentic expression.
Her work bridges psychological foundations with embodied and energetic practices, weaving together trauma-informed healing, polarity and feminine mysticism. Through retreats, mentorship, and her global community, The Temple Of The Feminine Flame, she creates spaces for deep connection and transformation.
Born in the north of Holland into a warm family of psychologists, Sarah began travelling the world as an international model at the age of eighteen. Over the following eighteen years, her career offered her the opportunity to follow her restless curiosity, immerse herself in different cultures, and explore their spiritual traditions and practices.
Yet these experiences also brought her face-to-face with the superficial ways society perceives feminine beauty, a growing disconnection from her body, and a deep hunger for meaning.
After years of struggling with disordered eating and body dysmorphia, she reached a turning point at twenty-four when an illness called labyrinthitis left her confined to bed for two weeks, lying in darkness and silence. What began as a period of physical illness and burnout became a pivotal moment in her journey towards authentic living.
Her philosophy
“What else are we here on Earth for, if not to release our conditioning, awaken our unique expression, and walk our sovereign path of living as love?
And how else do we do this than by reclaiming our stories - what has happened to us, how it has made us feel - rewiring our nervous systems, and learning to trust the wisdom of our bodies once again? To turn our aches into art, follow the calling of our hearts, and make space for our feminine power and magnetism to flourish?
This is what awakens the world from its mind-centred living and spiritual slumber: women with open hearts and connected wombs, offering their deepest longings and emotional wisdom as artful, soul-shaking, groundbreaking gifts.”
While she was blessed with a grounded foundation in psychology through her parents, she always sensed that something was missing. A yearning for something more, for deeper truth, for a sense of coming home.
What followed was a devotional path of healing, embodiment, and spiritual awakening. Beginning with meditation, yoga, and creative expression through poetry and painting, she eventually found her deepest healing and expansion through inner child and trauma work, plant medicine, dance, breathwork, sisterhood, and the rebalancing of masculine and feminine energies.
Daring to feel the full spectrum of her humanity, reclaiming the wisdom of her body, and exploring the path of the sacred feminine became essential parts of her transformation. As she began weaving together the rational understanding of psychology with embodiment and the energetic world, everything started to fall into place.
After years devoted to art-making and modelling, she felt called to share her story and the practices that had brought her such profound liberation with other women.
“Embodiment is essential to feminine healing and practice. Uniting the mystical with the sexual, living from the truth of our hearts, restoring balance between the feminine and masculine, and being held in loving, compassionate sisterhood are not merely personal paths of transformation, but part of a much larger collective awakening.”
Her work today
Sarah has studied Biodynamic Breathwork, energy healing, shamanism, feminine embodiment, somatic movement, EFT, and polarity work, and continues to deepen her knowledge through ongoing study and training.
Today, she mentors women through deeply personal 1:1 containers, facilitates several retreats each year, and offers couples programs alongside her husband, Nic. She is also the founder of The Temple of the Feminine Flame, a global online community that runs for nine months each year, bringing women together through bi-monthly circles, mentorship, and embodiment practices.
Being of service through this work is her life's greatest calling and deepest pleasure.
Beyond her work
Outside of her work, Sarah spends her days devoted to motherhood, creating new programs, moving her body, singing medicine songs, writing poetry, cooking, or indulging her slightly obsessive curiosity about the feminine essence and the mysteries of the cosmos.
She lives in Amsterdam with her husband Nic, their sons Atlas and Wolf, and Minerva the cat. Each European winter, the family can be found in South Africa, enjoying family life under the African sun.
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A note of gratitude
I’d like to offer my deepest gratitude to my mentors, sisters and brothers who’ve guided me on my path, some with whom I’ve journeyed in the physical, some online. Some are big names and others live in the woods without ever having used IG, yet with teachings that have touched me just the same.
Heart-felt gratitude to my father and mother, Wouter and Barbara, my blood sisters Nienke and Benthe and my soul-love & husband, Nic. To Veronika Poola, Ayaruna Bol, John Wineland, Alexandra Roxo, Charles Liburd, Alexander Holmberg, Nina Lombardo, The Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies, The Rosa Mystica Lineage, The Santo Daime Lineage, and all my soul brothers and sisters who walked me home along the way.
“I get it now. I get why the work I’ve gotten to do speaks to so many. We’re hungry. We’re yearning from the depths of our hearts for more. Being more, being wild, being raw and unapologetically all of us. we long so deeply to expand the width and depth of what we can be and offer. What often is expected of us in life, is just a sliver of our potential. Shoved into a corner with words like be nice, don’t be so selfish, get in line, make room for others, dim your light, we are starved of the true spark of life. Our power is intimidating, because when it’s let loose, is starts fires, opens rivers and shakes structures. it creates true change. it’s an honour to get to shed, let go, change, grow and evolve into more of myself with you. I love who I’ve become next to you. Let’s do this.”
— Lisa, Sweden (Participant of seven retreats)