Sanne
How I came home to myself
I was 26, and until then, I had primarily lived in my head. I did what I thought the world expected of me, without considering what I truly wanted in the world.
When someone asked what I wanted, a strange twist occurred in my mind: 'What would the other person want? Because then I'll say that's what I want.' This was so unconscious that I didn't even realize I was doing it.
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The same applied to sex. I approached sex from my head: what exactly is the purpose here, and what does the other person want from me? I couldn't fully enjoy it myself because I was so caught up in my thoughts and couldn't really feel.

At the age of 26, I taught my first yoga class (as a substitute for a friend), and that was the very first moment in my adult life when something I did felt like I was born for it. It flowed effortlessly! I was not used to that at all. I was accustomed to always working hard mentally to fit in so that others would accept me.
At this moment, I could feel a wholehearted YES for the first time and dared to take the leap. I quit my job, found part-time work that suited me better, and enrolled in a four-year yoga teacher training programme.
The first year of the training was entirely focused on our own process. I learned to meditate, and slowly my body began to relax. Beneath all the tension, I discovered so many feelings and emotions. I didn't understand anything about what I was feeling, and I frequently cried and sat with my hands in my hair, thinking, 'I feel so much, and I understand absolutely nothing!'
In the following years, I began to feel and understand myself and my feelings better. I also encountered my sexual energy and sexuality. Gradually, I started to enjoy sex more and more.
A second wholehearted YES came when I participated in Layla Martin's Sacred Sexuality programme. I felt that my next step would be Layla's coaching training. Once again, I quit my job and took the leap.

This training provided me with an even deeper deep dive into myself. I not only learned to be more aware toward towards my feelings and understand myself as a person, I also learned to love myself at a whole new level. I developed deep compassion and wonder for everything that lives within me.
I now understand that living in my head is a survival mechanism. It is a protector that wants to keep me safe. I have learned to see that I have a choice not to disappear into my head and to choose to be in my body.
And making this choice doesn't always work immediately (unfortunately!). There are days when I find it challenging to get out of my head. However, I have built a solid toolbox with various techniques that help me connect with my body and everything I feel. This way, I always come back home to myself.
And now I can truly say: I love my life and the sex I have!
I am incredibly excited to share the tools and techniques I have learned over the past years with you, so that you too can fully enjoy your sex and your life!
Official bio
Sanne Mees (1990)
Yoga Teacher
Holistic coach specialised in sex and self-love
The past 10 years have been all about coming home to her body for Sanne. Moving from being a walking head to a fully embodied human being, she has completed various trainings.
In 2016, she started the four-year Samsara yoga teacher training, immediately began teaching weekly yoga classes, and pursued several additional courses, including Yoga and Dance, Pregnancy Yoga, Qi-Flow Yoga, Yoga and High Sensitivity, and Yoga and Stress. She graduated with a thesis on Yoga and Female Sexual Energy.
Sanne is one of the teachers for the course Sensual Awakening on the Yoga Mat at Samsara and has also taught the course Pelvic Floor Yoga at Samsara.
In January 2022, Sanne started the training to become a Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach (650 hours) with Layla Martin (VITA Coaching) and successfully graduated in 2023. She specialized in Men’s Sexuality and Female Sexuality.
While still in training in 2022, she started coaching and has since worked with over 30 different clients.
The core values that guide her yoga classes and coaching are purity, love, and playfulness. What is truly alive in you? And can you approach it with love and playfulness?
On YouTube, she shares guided meditations and exercises to help people get out of their heads, connect with their bodies, and fully enjoy sex.​​


