About
Open Your Heart is a heart studio guiding you to connect with your heart.
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
We inspire and guide people into their hearts and their true essence. We believe that when you learn to listen and live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story, calling your tribe and liberating your heart. You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day. Those broken pieces are no failures or inadequacies, but true reminders that we are all in this together. We all have said YES to life with all it's joy and happiness and the broken pieces as well. And along the way on this journey we would love to inspire and guide you to open your heart.
Heart Guides
Bahareh Panjeh Shahi
As the founder of Open Your Heart Studio, I believe life is all about learning to open our hearts. I see School Earth as a place where we are challenged to stay connected with our hearts and our true essence.
I am 41 years old with Persian roots, mother of two, living in a green and peaceful area near Amsterdam and trained as a Shinrin Yoku guide, a certificated Forest Therapist. I am deeply connected with nature and live with the rhythm of the forest, the seasons, the moon and the sun. Through my background rituals and poetry is part of my life.
In 2016, I reached the point of burn-out. Working as a lawyer +60hours a week for couple of years didn't do me well. Followed by a rat race in which I was trapped because having my own sustainable fashion brand didn't do me good either. It took me some years to recover. Those essential years showed me how to make a deep connection with my heart. To listen to her and take care of her.
It's an art to stay connected with the heart and I would love to inspire and guide you in your heart journey.
Josie Sykes
I serve people who want to feel more peace and less struggle, crave intelligent and / or intuitive practice and know that Yoga is much more than bendy bikini beach bodies on the 'gram'. I believe in simple breath-led movement as the foundation of (inner) equality; let’s recognize & access the peace & power that is us, that unites us ALL.
I’ve taught on every continent (well, not the Ant/Arctic ones), on 500 hour Teacher Trainings, countless workshops and retreats. I’ve managed a traditional Yoga School with three locations and hundreds of students. I’ve experienced a myriad of disgraced Gurus and teachers and the shifting grounds of commercialized ‘yoga.’ Let me tell you, *Prana. Never. Stops. so better stop resisting the changes!
Twenty+ years of practice & fifteen+ years of teaching, here I am! Ready, willing and joyfully able to offer YOU what has held me, nurtured me, and ultimately set me free!