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Hendrik van der Merwe/Zendrik has over 37 years experience as a massage an somatic, bodywork therapist and yogi. He started his formal training in Buddhist philosophy and meditation and Hatha Yoga at the age of 21. He was trained as a Sivananda Yoga teacher and has been teaching yoga for 25 years.
He studied with two Zen Masters in his formative years and received transmissions from Namkai Norbu, a renowened Tibetan Dzogchen teacher. His life and work is also influenced by non-duality teachings/Advaita Vedanta and Nisargadatta as well as A Course in Miracles. He has also done extensive work with plant medicines.
Zendrik is also a musician, sound healer and sculptor.
He founded the Ananda Healing Center in San Marcos La Laguan on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, where he taught courses and provided therapeutic services in Thai Massage, Chi Nei Tsang (Taoist Abdominal Massage), Reiki and Esoteric Healing from 2014 to 2018.
Since then he has been traveling and teaching in Europe and South Africa and from January 2020 lived and worked in India for 2 years, in Goa, Auroville and Dharamsala. He is also a breathwork facilitator and has been offering self mastery and self healing training, and tantra workshops and retreats for couples for over 15 years.
Zendrik is an integrative practitioner, combining various disciplines, techniques and modalities to approach healing and personal growth in a holistic way. His yoga classes are focused on the harmony of the inner and outer asana. His work as a healer and teacher is predominantly focused on releasing emotional and mental energy blockages and old cellular memories for deep lasting healing and spiritual growth.
Singing, dancing, making music and art is all a part of his spiritual practice.
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