From a free online introductory call to daily guidance, close by digitally. Every path starts easy and builds at your own pace.
Free online introductory call →One session, entirely tuned to you, in English. In person in Zandvoort, Haarlem, Amsterdam or by arrangement. Ideal if you want to feel what it does before going further.
We start with a short conversation. What brings you here? What do you feel? No analysis, no diagnosis, simply being present with what is there.
You sit or lie down, close your eyes and follow my guidance. The body does the work. All you have to do is breathe.
After the session there is room to land. Whatever came up is welcome. No compulsory debrief.
After every session you take home concrete techniques. Not 45 minutes on a mat, but a breathing pause that fits your life.
Daily guidance to break your patterns. Ada draws up your personal weekly plan and guides you through it day and night via WhatsApp. Sjoerd decides how she does that and reads along. As if you could knock on your breath coach's door at any moment: before the meeting you are dreading, after the call you took out into the corridor, and at 02:00 when your mind will not stop churning. No app to download; Ada simply lives in WhatsApp, where you already are. Ada is an AI, you know that from day 1, and that is the idea. But there is a real person behind her: Sjoerd reads along where needed and raises the alarm himself if he is worried. What you tell Ada stays between you, Ada and Sjoerd.
Ada only speaks Dutch for now, but will be speaking English soon.
You send Ada a message on WhatsApp and you have started. The first two weeks are free, without payment details in advance.
A few minutes of breathing together every day. Ada knows your rhythm and adapts to your day, busy or quiet.
You do not have to go anywhere or keep track of anything. After a few weeks you notice that stopping gets easier.
Daily guidance via WhatsApp, in Dutch for now
Every day you get a few minutes that are yours alone.
Meet AdaTwo short breathing sessions via WhatsApp. No account, no payment. That way you feel straight away whether it suits you. In Dutch for now.
A 20-minute online call, in English. Afterwards I draw up your personal weekly plan and you start right away.
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Rather start straight away? Answer 5 questions and I will get to work.
One more step: send Ada a message. Then she knows this number is yours and can walk alongside you right away, without you having to wait for anything.
Send Ada a messageIncluding a monthly session
A 20-minute online call, in English. We discuss your situation and you start right away.
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Rather start straight away? Answer 5 questions and I will get to work.
Sjoerd will go through your sign-up and you will hear from him within 24 hours. Your first breathing pause follows soon.
Ada asks whether you really want to stop or would rather pause for a while, and then stops it. No phone call, no email and no cancellation screen to get through.
The first two weeks are free and you do not leave any payment details in advance. After that you can cancel monthly. What you have already paid for, you keep: your access runs until the end of the period you paid for.
Reviews are shown word for word as people wrote them, so in Dutch.
Ik ben nu een paar weken bezig met de dagelijkse begeleide adempauze. Ik begin mijn dag ermee, en soms kom ik tussendoor nog terug in de oefenruimte om andere oefeningen te doen. Het helpt mij enorm met even stil te staan, uit mijn hoofd terug te komen in mijn lijf. Hoe vaker ik het op de dag doe hoe meer effect en profijt ik ervan heb.
Daarnaast is Sjoerd echt een hele fijne ademcoach met een zachte energie, maar ook doortastend. Ik heb een aantal verbonden ademsessies bij hem mogen doen en voel mij enorm dankbaar voor de goede begeleiding. Er heeft van alles door mij heen kunnen bewegen en het heeft me veel inzichten gegeven.
Ik doe de Adempauze nu een aantal weken. Ik merk dat ik er ontspannen van word maar ook dat het ademmoment als een anker in mezelf voelt. Fijn om iedere dag een berichtje er voor te krijgen. Door de dagelijkse herhaling ga ik het effect er van steeds meer voelen. Sjoerd begeleidt op een heldere en duidelijke manier en gaat goed in op mijn vragen. Ik ben er heel blij mee.
Fijne, praktische app! Helpt me om tenminste een keer per dag even rust te nemen en wat meer in m'n lichaam te komen. En moedigt aan om ook voor andere doelen dan rust ademoefeningen te doen.
Ik ben heel blij dat ik de Adempauze doe. Het heeft me een anker en meer innerlijke rust gebracht.
Marja · message to Ada
"I am very happy I do De Adempauze. It has given me an anchor and more inner calm." Marja breathed along for over two months and cancelled herself in September. Not because it did not work, but because she could do it on her own.
A group session for your team, in English or Dutch. With music, eye masks and guided breathing techniques. Demonstrably effective for stress reduction, focus and recovery. Qualifies as a psychosocial workload (RI&E PSA) measure under the Dutch Working Conditions Act.
Read more about team sessionsA team session qualifies as a psychosocial workload measure (RI&E PSA) under the Dutch Working Conditions Act (Arbowet). For employers in the Netherlands, that makes it a targeted exemption, fiscally and legally, rather than a discretionary wellness expense.
Three things almost everyone thinks at this point. They are all fair, so they are simply here.
That is probably true, and that is why a breathing pause takes two minutes. Not forty-five minutes on a mat. It fits into moments you already have: before the meeting you are dreading, or in the car before you walk in.
Familiar. The problem with apps is that they wait for you to take action. And on an overfull day, that is exactly what slips.
Ada turns it around: she simply sends you a message on WhatsApp. Nothing to install, no account to create and no logging in. What is more, she remembers what was going on last week, so you never have to tell your story all over again.
You stop by sending stop, and that is the whole procedure. No phone call, no email, no cancellation screen. The first two weeks cost nothing and ask for no payment details in advance, so you can try this without committing to anything.
In two minutes you breathe yourself calm. Prefer to talk first? Plan a free twenty-minute introductory call in English, no obligations, no sales pitch.