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Slowing Down: A Practice of Tenderness & Compassion 🍂
November, autumn… As the seasons shift and the weather gets colder, our inner rhythms begin to change too. For this edition, we invite you to slow down with us, to explore the tenderness, affection, and compassion that can emerge when we give ourselves permission to simply be.
With November also bringing Week van de Werkstress (Work Stress Awareness Week) in the Netherlands, we felt this was a beautiful moment to create some space for slowing down, reconnecting, and taking care of ourselves and one another.
In this edition, Can will guide you through an extended, meditative journey of Yin and Restorative Yoga. Rather than focusing on performance or achieving something, we'll explore the subtle art of being with ourselves. Some moments might feel comforting and joyful, while others may bring a little discomfort. How do we meet these different experiences? How do we care for ourselves when things don't feel so easy?
Because compassion isn't just something we think about. It's something we can practice, feel, and embody. And perhaps that's one of the most precious gifts we can offer ourselves.
Oscar will bring a slower, gentler approach to breathwork, inviting us to deepen our relationship with our breath, to listen more closely, and to discover what happens when we stop trying to control it and simply become curious about it.
No pressure to achieve, no need to be anything other than who you are.
We're so looking forward to sharing a soft, tender, and compassion-filled Sunday with you. A little space to slow down, breathe, and simply be together. 🧡
With love,
HEALIVE.
Programme
09:45: Doors open
10:00: Opening Circle
10: 10-11.30: Yin and Restorative Yoga Practice & Yoga Nidra
10 min break
11.40-12.40 : Breathwork
12:40–13:00 : Closing circle
Why Queer Yoga?
Our Queer Yoga events, launched in 2026, are not only about yoga or movement. They are about creating a safe and welcoming space where we can:
- Spend time with like-minded people
- Feel part of a community
- Support our personal growth
- Move, breathe and reconnect with ourselves
- Meet new people and build meaningful connections
Enjoy a fun and nourishing weekend together!
Good to know:
- Wear comfortable clothes that allow you to move freely.
- All yoga props are available at the studio, but feel free to bring your own mat.
- Tea and coffee will be provided.
- You can also get healthy snacks from our bar.
- The practices are suitable for everyone — no previous experience is needed.
For questions, please contact hello@healive.co.
Come as you are. Move, breathe, connect, and enjoy being together. 💛
Meet Your Instructors 🌈
Can:
Can has been teaching yoga and meditation for 20 years and is also an interdisciplinary artist and somatic instructor. Alongside his workshops in Istanbul, Paris and Barcelona, he continues to explore the body, movement and self-awareness through both artistic and somatic practices.
He sees yoga as one of the most powerful tools for understanding ourselves and connecting with our own potential. Through HEALIVE., the platform he founded in 2022, Can offers individual somatic sessions and yoga practices.
In 2026, he also founded HEALIVE. – Queer Yoga Community, a growing space for connection, personal growth and shared practice. The community continues to expand through guest instructors and different collaborations.
Can’s classes are playful, deep and challenging in the best way: inviting you to move beyond your limits with the right guidance, curiosity and a good dose of joy.
Oscar:
Hi, I’m Oscar. A Spaniard who somehow ended up breathing for a living in Amsterdam — which is not exactly what I told my parents, but here we are.
I come from a pretty intense corporate background, with Netflix being my last stop. I left before it completely consumed me and started looking for something that could genuinely help people caught in that same loop. That’s when I found breathwork.
I now run my own practice, Niu d’Oscar, here in Amsterdam.
This session is built around joy — not the performed kind, but the kind that sneaks up on you when your walls come down and you realise there are other people in the room going through something similar.
Through activating breath, vagus nerve stimulation with humming and a soft Tetra close, we’ll create space to set an intention and actually feel it.
Come ready to breathe, make some noise and laugh without apology.
www.healive.co
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