Meet the tribe

Being tonko

“With Body-dearmouring therapy, massage and guiding ceremonies, I love to work together to help you to connect within.”

Tonko de Wind was born a real appreciator of life with a loving and ever willing character. Together with Tessa he’s built himself a home on an idyllic spot in the middle of nature where they simplify life. Back to the basis. It is important to him to be a part of the nature around him. From here originates his mission to bring people back to their true place within the whole. To come back to the essence.

Due to the fast paced lives and the hectic, fully booked agendas that so many have, it is very easy to lose the connection with that which binds us all together. We may have forgotten our connection with the guiding flow of life but we definitely have not lost it. Many steps are needed in order to remember it. To make these steps it is important to understand the connection with your body and the workings thereof. By offering exercises from practices such as Yoga, Triggerpoint therapy and breathing exercises, Tonko helps you to better understand this vehicle we call our body and our life. In this way he takes people out of the city and into nature. First to the basis. No difficult techniques but simplifying instead, to come back home.
Tonko acquired a lot of his knowledge during many years of travelling around the world, where he learned from different tribes in the Amazon, Africa, Asia and Australia. He also developed his skills during his trainings close to his own European roots. With a background in care-taking Tonko has developed himself in several areas. Among other through his work with street youths, palliative care and caring for those with acquired brain injury he discovered how important it is to be aware of the moment and to live with compassion. Aside from his work in care-taking; Tonko guides people to break through their deepest patterns with triggerpoint therapy, and guides ceremonies together with a team where they work with the plant medicine Rapeh. Together with his life partner Tessa he is working hard at paving the road to creating a retreat, a place from which they can carry out their mission with full dedication.