Welcome! Pura Vida literally means the pure life or living closer to your nature. With Puras Vidas I want to spread this pure, happy life in the world.

Hello, I'm Natalie. In 2012 I completed my Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Training in Costa Rica, the land of the Pura Vida. When I was back in Belgium, I founded Puras Vidas, with the aim of spreading the happy, natural lifestyle that I experienced in Costa Rica. I started with teaching one hour of yoga a week. But this hour (in addition to my day job as a lawyer and policy officer for Natuurpunt) quickly grew into more. Curious about what it would feel like to fully focus on yoga for a year, I took a sabbatical to open myself completely to where my heart was leading me.

After this year I took the leap into entrepreneurship. Since then I have been working full-time for “Puras Vidas”, to organise and teach group and private sessions, retreats and workshops. In addition to yoga, I have also studied other healing (movement) arts such as NLP, soul art, Qi gong, Ayurveda, ...

The core for me is to connect with your true self, your body and your soul, in everything you do. You go beyond thinking, into a deeper knowing, into an inner bliss, into the flow. You follow the laws of nature that also live in your body. Nature is balanced. There is a movement inward, a moment of rest, that than transforms into fullness and opens to the full potential of that moment. The more you nourish your body and soul, the more it will grow and expand. Nature is not linear, always producing more and more. There is an in breath, before there is an out breath. There a nourishment before there is a giving.

Conscious movement such as yoga, qi gong, meditative dance, ... let you make that movement inward and provide a stronger connection with your body and soul. You can release tension, create newer healthier patterns and nourish yourself on a deep level. From there, your life force can grow and will naturally expand out to all areas of your life: your talents, your work, your relationships, your environment, ...  Your Pura Vida is taking shape!

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Hoe noem je de dans die helemaal vrij is, en die je de kracht van je natuur laat ervaren? Een dans die begint met yoga en qi gong, maar waarvan je niet weet waar hij eindigt? Een dans die natuurlijk aanvoelt en spontaan vanuit je ware zelf ontstaat. Ik noem deze dans voorlopig “puras vidas dans”. Maar de naam kan veranderen en is niet zo belangrijk. Het belangrijkste is de ervaring van de dans.

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