About Johanna
I spent almost two decades inside high-performance corporate environments. And simultaneously years of deep embodied practice in Bali. This work isn't theory I learned from a textbook — it's the integration of both lives, and it's what I now offer for you.
For almost two decades, I built my life inside the high-performance world. I managed teams and navigated high-pressure, fast-growing environments for renowned fashion brands and fast-paced e-commerce businesses. I know how to perform, how to achieve, how to grow a business and hold it all together. I always carried myself with independence and drive. From the outside, my life looked like a picture of young success.
I was good at it. The strategic mind, the pace, the ability to deliver under pressure — that was real, and it still is. It is part of who I am, not something I left behind.
But underneath the competence, my nervous system was running on empty. I was performing a life rather than living one — disconnected from my body, my joy, my own aliveness. And during those same years, I was also moving through a deeply difficult relationship that left its own imprint and a very traumatic experience that almost destroyed me.
“To survive I chose what I thought was strength: I pushed through. But pushing through is not the same as healing.”
For years, I did what so many high-achieving women do. I pushed through. I poured myself into a new demanding career and kept the performance running, even as it grew hollow and burnout loomed.
On paper my life looked perfect but inside I was feeling as if I was in a golden cage. My sleep became worse, my body tense, my natural joy for life diminished and after several breakdowns I started to see: that I had been living entirely from drive and survival, and that no amount of achievement was going to regulate a nervous system stuck in alarm.
That was the beginning of the real work.
Yoga was my first lifeline — the practice of breath, movement, and mindful connection that brought me back into my body as my corporate life began to feel unsustainable. For the first time I felt the power of somatic and energetic bodywork and honestly I don’t know where I would be without it today.
And slowly, slowly, with the help of an amazing coach, I made the decision to quit my whole career and move towards a new life that is more free, more aligned, and would give me the time and space to heal the trauma I was carrying and to study in depth the wisdom of body, mind and heart coherence.
“Bali didn’t just give me a new life. It taught me the body of work I now teach.”
It led me to leave that life and move to Bali.
But Bali became far more than a beautiful place to live. It became my teacher. Over years of living and studying there, I learned — in my own body, not from a book — the work I now bring to my clients: nervous system regulation, somatic release, breathwork, inner child healing, shadow work, tantra, and feminine embodiment. I reconnected with my own suppressed emotions. I learned to feel and release what had been stored in my body for years. I learned that my body was the gateway — to regulation, to aliveness, to genuine self-love.
In Bali I also learned what feminine radiance actually is — not a look, but a state: what becomes available in a woman’s body when she stops running her whole life on drive alone. I studied the feminine arts deeply — what it means to be a woman in this world, and how to come into balance between my own masculine and feminine poles instead of living from one and abandoning the other.
And I learned something that reframed my own burnout entirely: women are not built to operate the way men do. We move through different rhythms, different cycles, different energies. We need different tools, different practices, different meditations — not the same optimization strategies handed to everyone. Trying to run a woman’s life on a masculine operating system is, itself, part of what breaks us.
I rebuilt my relationship with myself from the inside out. Not through more analysis. Through the body.
This is the work I am most passionate about now: helping women operate in a fast, demanding, masculine-driven world — without losing touch with their feminine essence.
Today, I stand between two worlds, and I bridge them on purpose.
I know the high-performance world from the inside — its pace, its pressure, its rewards, and its real cost. And I know the deep embodied work from the inside too — what it actually takes to regulate a fried nervous system, to come back into the body, to restore the feminine radiance that achievement alone slowly erodes.
Most coaches in the embodiment space have never lived the corporate world. Most people who understand high performance have never done this depth of inner work. I have lived both — and that is exactly why I can guide the high-achieving woman. I speak her language. I know her nervous system. And I know the way back.
That is the work of Inner Glow. It is the bridge I walked, made into a path I can hold for you.
Training & Credentials
Corporate Leadership Background — almost two decades managing teams for international fashion brands and fast-paced e-commerce businesses. I understand high-performance environments from the inside, and I bring strategic clarity to deep inner work.
Certified Trauma-Informed Tantra Practitioner — trained in classical and neo-tantric philosophy, somatic practice, breath, sound and movement, shadow work, and feminine embodiment. The foundation of my body-based approach to transformation.
Advanced Psychodynamic Work With Me — trained with Joelle van Harten (EMCC-accredited, Post-Bachelor in Psychodynamic Therapy from Academy of Psychodynamics). This gives my work clinical depth for accessing childhood wounds, attachment patterns, and unconscious dynamics.
Yoga Teacher & Practitioner — years of dedicated practice and teaching in Bali and internationally. Yoga was my first doorway back to the body and remains central to everything I offer.
My approach combines nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, parts-based work, and childhood wound resolution. This means you get both identity-level depth of transformation and real-world results.
