Josine Maenen

About Josine

TM came my way entirely by chance. In 1980 our family was staying for a while in a holiday home that belonged to a TM teacher. Our house had been sold, and at that moment there was nothing available nearby where we could live as a family.

My parents wanted to give “it” a try, Transcendental Meditation, and asked whether we children, my brother, my sister and I, would like to join. I thought: well, why not. So all five of us started TM back then. I liked it. I became calmer, more myself and also somewhat more self-confident. Over the years those qualities have kept deepening.

I trained in Seelisberg (Switzerland) in 1999 and have been a TM teacher since 2000. I teach in the Maastricht-Valkenburg region, in Dutch, English and now and then in German. I also regularly teach courses at the MERU Academy in Vlodrop, and every year I am course coordinator for advanced meditation courses in the Netherlands and abroad. I have worked for SABO in Valkenburg and for several years for Maharishi Ayurveda.

It is inspiring to be a TM teacher and to see people become more themselves again, freer of worries and tension. It is a technique I can stand behind completely, partly because so much scientific research has been done on it. The nice thing is that you don't even have to believe in it.

And my heart belongs to my home town of Maastricht, a good cappuccino and chocolates from Friandise.

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