18-month mentorship programme with Karin van Maanen

Karin reached a half century in age in 2021 so has accrued a reasonable amount of useful life experience. She’s lived in two countries and has travelled quite a bit. She’s been practising yoga and meditation for 21 years and her curiosity about the marvels of this universe drives her forward to keep exploring and learning herself. Some people call her wise. 

Her curiosity extends to other people, especially those who want to make the world a better place. She is particularly interested in supporting people who are eager to learn and want to be in service to humanity (especially to less advantaged humans). 

She lived in The Netherlands until the age of 25 and then moved to the UK where she has spent most of her time since. In her teens and twenties, she was very interested in performing and creative arts and studied performing arts in Amsterdam and at the University of Kent in England. She ended up in arts management in different roles from fundraising to developing projects with a wide range of communities. She worked in prisons, schools, residential homes for older people, with people who have disabilities, and with disadvantaged communities in areas of high deprivation.

After completing an MSc in Mindfulness Studies in 2010 she went on to teach mindfulness in different countries. In the past decade, she travelled widely to study and practice Buddhism with different teachers, mostly in the Zen Plum Village and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.

She has been successfully self-employed for nearly 20 years and has an illustrious career which is still growing and flourishing, encompassing:

EMBODIMENT-RELATED TRAINING

• Yoga and meditation teacher since 2008
• Embodiment trainer and coach since 2017
• Embodied Yoga Principles teacher-trainer
• Co-lead trainer on Embodiment Unlimited’s Embodied Meditation Teacher Training
• Trainer on several of Embodiment Unlimited’s courses
• Yoga and meditation teacher training, including complex course content design for accredited courses
• Professional supervision for yoga and mindfulness teachers
• MSc in Mindfulness Studies from the University of Aberdeen
• BSc in Performing Arts from the University of Amsterdam

CREATIVE ARTS

• Performing arts (design, performance and management)
• Community arts (research, fundraising, delivery and project management)

MANAGEMENT

• Marketing manager for theatres and arts centres
• CEO for an arts in criminal justice organisation involving developing complex partnerships between UK government departments, prisons and arts organisations 
• On the board of trustees for several UK-based charities, one of which works internationally
• Mentor for self-employed creatives and start-up social enterprises