I'm Martine Wieten. Forever curious and student. I've studied Languages at the University of Groningen and the Free University of Amsterdam. 

 

Alongside my love for verbal language, I've always been fascinated with the way our bodies speak. By the way they hold, and are formed by stories and experiences. 

I've studied yoga, meditation and breathwork since 2008 with many different teachers, such as Shirley Woods, Lino Miele, Petri Räisänen, David Swenson, Richard Freeman, Gregor Maehle, Katiza Ivulic and Kevin Woods.

 

My main teachers have been Claudia Pradella and Eva Ugolini, who guided me since 2012 on the path of ashtanga yoga. This practice has offered me a practical, embodied way to explore my heart and mind, and my connection to the world around me. 

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Exploring embodiment, I discovered the effortless power that lies in the pelvis. Through my own inner research, and through the stories of others, I found that this subtle yet fierce potential oftentimes seemed to be blocked or repressed by tension stored within this place. 

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I learned that many women experience feelings which are often taboo and not spoken of when connecting to their pelvis; feelings of pain, shame, grief and guilt. These feelings might stem from personal painful or traumatic experiences, but also from intergenerational, and collective, historical experience. History has been violent toward sexuality, and female sexuality in particular. And history does not remain in the past. Its effects quite literally live on in the present. We carry history with us, and we store it in our bodies. 

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Coming to know about this pain and repression broke my heart, and made me want to do something about it. Despite, and also exactly because of seeing my own taboo around sexuality and the pelvis, I decided to study Integral Pelvic Therapy® & Holistic Pelvic Care™. I'm fortunate to have had Daphne van der Putten, Mariëtte Frits & Tami Lynn Kent as my teachers, and am thankful for the tools and knowledge I received during this training, which enabled me to look at my own pain with compassion, and allow it to soften.

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With a quality of warmth and a pinch of humour, I love to work towards facing these taboos and hopefully break them.   

 

In my work as an IPT practitioner, I genuinely wish to offer the space for women to meet their own pain and grief with clarity and kindness, and set it free. To find their own wisdom, voice, and authority.

Because your body, your pelvic bowl, they know.