Jan Vlasman

Jan’s story

I am Jan Vlasman, 45 years old. Married and father of 3 kids. Former soldier/veteran (airmobile brigade 96′ – ’01), 23 years in the police force.

Yoga teacher and owner of yoga with Jan since 2020. And I am one of the trainers affiliated with unbreakable academy.

In 2017 I discovered yoga. I was like many who are also unfamiliar with yoga. That lame, vague stuff, just let me hang on to the irons in the gym, play football, throw around my strength, especially no balance. That was why yoga had to come my way. I was plundering my body, I was always on. Yoga created peace in my mind and the realization that things had to change. Yoga became the ideal balance between effort and relaxation for me.

In 2019 I was confronted with the diagnosis of MS, a hard blow. But because of how life had shaped me. The lessons I had learned in the defense, police and my own development through yoga, among other things, have helped me to follow my own path. A path that fitted in almost seamlessly with the start of my yoga training.

In 2019 I started a 4-year yoga course at Saswitha, the yoga and philosophy course in Bilthoven. After four intensive years, various modules (anatomy and yoga, yoga for the elderly, Ayurvedic massage and basic Ayurveda training) and a completed thesis, I received my diploma in 2023, after completing the specialization year of chakra psychology.

Interested?
Then I hope to meet you in class, so that I can share my enthusiasm, life lessons and yoga with you.