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Brenda Balvers | Catalyst for Change 𓄂𓆃

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𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 🌹
Rooted in truth. Living & leading from within.

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She is here: Elemental Woman 🌹

A creation straight from my heart.

This is for the woman who is ready to come home to the truth of who she is.

Ready to come home to herself, her body and to nature.

The woman who is done with becoming more, fixing more, understanding more, and instead feels a longing to remember and live from what she already knows deep down inside.

We will gather in a private Quinta surrounded by nature, where there is space to root back into your body and your heart, to feel what is deeply alive and real within you, and trust it enough to let it guide you.

We let the land hold us, the elements move through us and the earth strip away what’s not ours.

We move, breathe, sing, laugh, dance, listen, feel, express, soften and roar.

Remembering what it feels like to be fully alive.

Six women, one sacred space.

Elemental Woman.
Wild. Rooted. Free.

A journey home.

30 October - 3 November 2026, Portugal

Doors are open. Find all the information through the link in my bio, or send me a DM ♥️

If you feel the pull but would love to connect first, you’re welcome to book a connection call with me. This is a moment for us to meet, aks your questions and explore if this journey is for you.

Love,
Brenda taken in Portugal by @brendabalvers

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2 months ago

Some words of the women who stepped into the field with me ♥️

They said yes.
They went full in.
They remembered.

Their words speak for themselves. Read through them and feel what awakens in your body.

Love 🌹 by @brendabalvers

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a year ago

Welcome, dear one🌹

I’m Brenda.

I’ve always been guided by a deep curiosity. For life, for truth, and for what it means to be a woman.

That curiosity became a calling, leading me through ancient wisdom teachings, somatic healing, modern neuroscience and into the mysteries of the feminine in her truest essence.

This journey cracked me open. Asking me to shed, heal, trust and surrender. The gift in it all: it brought me back home. Into my truth, my body, my heart, my womb and my fire.

It has been raw and confronting at times, but also deeply liberating. Shaping me into the woman I am today. A woman rooted in Truth, devoted to Love, and who embraces life and herself fully: the beauty & the mess, the joy & the pain, the soft & the wild.

Having walked this depths myself, I now walk beside other women as they walk theirs. Not with theories or concepts, but through embodied knowing. Through the fire, the tenderness, and the truth of lived experience.

My own journey continues. Because the feminine never settles. She is ever-changing and unpredictable. She descends and rises, again and again. Always taking me deeper home🌹

Some more things about me:
I live in Portugal, though my roots are in the Netherlands. Most days you’ll find me outside: dipping in the ocean, drinking my cacao, walking barefoot and letting the sun kiss my skin.

I am both mystical & grounded. Playful & fierce. I feel deeply, see through masks, and sense what is unspoken. From here, I meet you where you are. With clarity, truth, and deep presence.

Friends call me the GIF-queen. Probably because I always find the most hilarious ones 😉

My name means fire, torch, sword. A reminder that I am here to bring light and clarity by cutting through the false. Letting only the truth remain ♥️

If you are here, something in you already knows. A call to remember. A threshold waiting for you to cross. The question is: will you step through?

When you do, I walk beside you. Not to fix you or make you into someone else. But as a guide and a mirror. Reflecting back your truth, power and your feminine magic. Remembering and awakening that which has always been within you.

With love & devotion,
Brenda🌹 by @brendabalvers

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a year ago

It’s the choices you make that create a difference in your life ♥️ taken in Mother Nature by @brendabalvers

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4 days ago

In the depths of her eyes, a universe untamed,
Where constellations of dreams softly flamed.
 Her spirit, unbridled, like rivers that flow Through valleys and canyons where wildflowers grow.

In her laughter, echoes the songs of the earth,
A symphony of resilience and boundless worth.
 She carries the secrets of ancient trees, In the whispers of winds and the hum of the bees.

Her wildness speaks of stories untold, Of ancestors’ courage, brave and bold. 
In her dance, the rhythm of seasons collide,
Each step a testament to the untamed inside.

She is Wild & Free.

~ Poem written by Siân Williams ♥️ by @brendabalvers

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8 days ago

Five days aways from all the doing and the noise to root back into your feminine nature.

An intimate gathering with like minded women.

We move, breathe, sing, laugh, dance, listen, feel, express, soften and roar.

We let go and strip away what’s not ours.

We weave a field where you are invited to just be and embrace all of yourself. Where we leave the masks outside and meet what is present and real ~ even when it is uncomfortable or messy.

We gather around the table, around the fire, and beneath the trees. We walk barefoot, swim in the ocean and the pool (n@kedness allowed 😉) and let nature be our teacher.

We wander beyond the familiar, as sometimes adventure is exactly what reminds us that life isn’t meant to be controlled but fully lived.

We share, rest, slow down, listen and leave space for what asks to be felt, instead of rushing past it.

Something will soften in how you meet yourself, as there is no need to perform or fix anything during our time together.

You will begin to notice what it feels like to hold yourself, without leaving yourself.

All while being supported by the land, the women beside you and the elements that move with us as living forces in the body and in nature. Each one a mirror, each one a medicine.

Elemental Woman
31 October - 3 November
Portugal

For the woman who feels the call to join this pilgrimage home.

Send me a message if you want to know more or find all info in my bio ♥️ taken in Mother Nature by @brendabalvers

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12 days ago

I’ve been sitting with a lot of frustration and anger these last days.

Some of it is related to personal things, but mostly it’s related to what I see happening in the world on a collective level.

Sometimes it looks like this world is becoming more crazy by day.

Since when is using Botox just as normal as going to the dentist?

Since when are most of the world leaders children with unresolved trauma in grown-up suits?

Since when did walking a conscious path became something to perform?

Since when is it normal to daily see all the suffering that’s going on in the world as if it’s just part of the usual?

Since when did the answers of AI become more valide than your own body of wisdom? The body that holds all the answers if you’re willing to sit down and listen?

Since when did screen time become more important than time in nature or time with your loved ones?

Sometimes I look around and wonder where the aliveness in people’s eyes has gone.

How disconnected we have become from ourselves, from each other, and from the beauty of life.

Maybe this is what happens when we lose connection with what is real

With the body, with nature, with each other, with our inner knowing, with real beauty, with truth, with Soul.

And I know I am not outside of this either. We all have our own ways of disconnecting.

But then I take a deep breath, look around at the people I have surrounded myself with, the women I get to work with, the people who are doing the work, who are asking the questions, choosing love, truth and connection even when it would be easier not to.

And then I feel hope. Hope for humanity. Hope for what is being born right here, right now. And as we know, birthing is never an easy process.

There are moments I feel like giving up. Where I want to burn everything I’ve built down and just retreat somewhere. And yet, I know that escaping is not the answer.

So I choose to keep walking. Even though I don’t have all the answers, nor do I know exactly where we are going, but because I trust the path.

And I keep reaching out my hand to those who want to walk with me.

-X- taken in Mother Nature by @brendabalvers

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15 days ago

I don’t do superficial. I just can’t.

Not in my relationships, my expression, my conversations, my work…it’s simply not where I thrive or what lights up my soul.

If anything, the opposite is true.

Superficiality dries out my Soul. It leaves me feeling disconnected and drained.

Therefore I cannot do shallow waters. I want to dive deep. Into the murky water. Into the underworld. Into the places that ask us to feel, to unravel, to remember, to meet ourselves more honestly.

But without drowning or making it heavy.

This is also what I bring forth in the work I do. Although, truthfully, I don’t even see it as work. It’s my soul’s mission.

To guide women home to themselves.

To root them more deeply into the core of who they truly are.

Whether that happens through my 1:1 guidance, through writing and transmissions, or through gathering women together in intimate spaces ~ the essence is always the same.

Going beneath the surface.

Peeling away what isn’t true.

Coming back into the body.

Listening to the whispers that have been there all along.

And remembering the woman underneath all the layers.

All of this comes together in Elemental Woman.

A space where we don’t have to perform, pretend or stay on the surface. Where we can go deeper ~ into our bodies, our desires, our truth, our heart, our connection with nature, with each other, with life itself.

And I know this is not for everyone.

It’s for the woman who feels the call to come home to the truth of who she is.

The one who feels that something within her is ready to be lived, because she has outgrown the version of herself she once needed to be.

Who is ready to shed what no longer belongs to her, and longs to live from the truth she carries within her ~ deeply rooted in who she is.

It’s for the woman who doesn’t want another retreat where she simply escapes her life for a few days, but who wants to meet herself more deeply within it.

If you’re ready to go deeper with me, I invite you to join Elemental Woman ♥️

30 October - 3 November, Portugal

You find all the information in my bio. Connection calls are available 🌹

Love
Brenda taken in Mother Nature by @brendabalvers

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a month ago

Is it hard to life a live devoted to truth?

A question someone asked me recently.

Sharing my experience and view in this video.

It can be hard for sure. Because when you are living in truth, you have to face yourself fully and not many people are ready for that.

But it’s also deeply liberating if you choose truth over comfort, as truth is what sets you free.

Curious to hear if it resonates for you and what you take away from it 🌹

Love
Brenda by @brendabalvers

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a month ago

Imagine……

…..arriving at a place where your body softens before anything has even begun.

Days moving in their own rhythm.

Guided by the land, the elements, your body, and whatever is ready to unfold.

Where the only sounds you hear are the birds, and the wind moving through the trees.

Some moments you’ll be simply sitting quietly with yourself.

Others, you’ll find yourself moving, laughing, crying, speaking words that have been waiting to be spoken. And maybe letting the ocean cleanse what no longer belongs.

There will be moments of stillness. And moments of release.

Soft openings and honest truths.

Moments that shake something awake in you, and moments that let you root more deeply into yourself.

Nothing is pushed. Nothing is forced.

Just space to meet yourself exactly as you are.

Elemental Woman
Wild. Rooted. Free.

30 Oct - 3 Nov, Portugal

Find all the information through the link in my bio, or send me a DM.

If you feel the pull but would love to connect first, you’re welcome to book a connection call with me.

✨ Special Price Offer until September 21 ✨

-X- taken in Mother Nature by @brendabalvers

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a month ago

We’ve been taught to believe that our biggest contribution comes from doing more, but actually it’s the opposite.

Especially for women.

As women we thrive best when we allow ourselves enough rest.

Something that’s hard for most of us to surrender to, because it’s deeply ingrained in our system to always do more: more showing up, more giving, more tending, more creating, more taking care, more pushing ourselves through to respond, even when our body is asking us to stop.

And then we wonder why we feel depleted…

I know this one well. There was a time when I would have pushed through a night of almost no sleep, forcing myself to create when I was on my bleed, or to keep going when my body was just tired.

These days I choose differently. I now listen to what my body needs, because the body knows when there is energy to move, and it knows when it needs to retreat, slow down and rest.

And I feel this is something so many women have forgotten. Because most women are so used to tending to everyone and everything around them, expect themselves.

When do you really take a moment to stop and check in with yourself how you are feeling? What you actually need?

Rest is not something you have to earn after you’ve done enough, and it’s also not a luxury.

It is part of the rhythm.

This is when your body is recalibrating and integrating what needs to be integrated. And it’s in the resting that most times the best ideas and insights come as there’s space to receive, instead of forcing things.

So let this be your reminder:

You don’t have to constantly DO things to be of value.
You are allowed to take rest.
To listen listen.
To let your body lead.

And then, when it’s time to move again, you move from a different place. Not from a place of fear, pressure or the feeling that you should, but from having actually listened to yourself.

In my eyes that’s part of what feminine embodiment asks of us:

To stop living by a rhythm that was never ours to begin with, and to remember that our bodies have their own intelligence, their own cycles and their own timing.

There is a time to move and there is a time to retreat.

Both are part of the creation 🌹 by @brendabalvers

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a month ago

There was a time when I thought I had to do it all by myself. And if I am honest, sometimes I still do.

I became very good at holding myself. At finding my own way through things, processing what I felt and carrying what was mine without asking anyone to meet me there.

For a long time, I saw that as strength. And in many ways it was. But underneath that strength also lived the belief that I shouldn’t need anyone. That it was safer not to lean, not to ask and not to let myself be held too deeply.

It’s a wound many of us women carry.

We’ve learned to survive on our own, to take care of ourselves and to keep moving, even when a part of us is longing to be met.

Because of this, we start to believe that coming home to ourselves is something we have to do alone too.That we need to go deeper within, heal more, process more, understand more. All by ourselves.

But what I have discovered is that so much of who we are, we remember in relationship.

We remember when we come together with women in a space where all of who we are is welcome and celebrated. Where we can drop the masks, speak our truth and be seen without having to shrink ourselves, dim our fire or pretend to be anyone other than who we are.

I’ve witnessed this over and over again in the circles and ceremonies I’ve facilitated throughout the years.

When one woman speaks her truth, she gives another woman permission to meet her own. And one woman’s tears can soften something in the whole space. We recognize parts of ourselves in each other when we are together. Parts that we had forgotten or learned to hide.

Because the feminine doesn’t ask us to become better, softer or more perfected versions of ourselves. She invites us to remember and return to what has always been there.

This is the heart behind Elemental Woman ♥️

A five-day intimate experience in Portugal this autumn, for only six women. A space where we stop trying to become and allow ourselves to return home.

To our bodies. To our truth. To nature. To the elements. To the woman beneath everything we have learned to be.

Together.

If you feel Her calling you, you’re welcome to reach out for a connection call. Find all the info in my bio 🌹 by @brendabalvers

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