What they say about the Jan Method
This training is one of the most beautiful gifts I have given to myself and my life. I recommend it to everyone: it is a path for oneself, to honor one's life and let oneself come to the light and to love, not just a training.
When you are ready to open doors to enter spaces of being that are difficult to explore alone, Janine is there at your side with discretion and assertiveness, with a full and heartfelt presence and helps you to tidy up and clean, to put things back in place in that space of feelings and emotions often frozen because they were "too much" to be fully experienced and processed. With her guidance, which supports and contains, those masses of pain that we carry inside begin to melt and clarity arises, a relaxation that is experienced in the body. And meeting after meeting you realize that there is more and more Light and Space to inhabit your body, with presence, and awareness, for a full and intense Life, in all its perfection as it is. Thank you from the Heart Janine for what you bring. For accompanying the rediscovery of the Self, of one's tools and talents.
I find this work very deep and complete. It's time to reclaim your body and these techniques are a valid step. Janine and Emanuele are present and appropriate at all times. In the training course I found many answers and clarity.
I met Janine Van Der Merwe and Emanuele Portelli many years ago. Our paths crossed again when my desire to deepen the path of awareness undertaken "naturally" led me to Janine. I rediscovered his great human and professional qualities together with a spiritual tension that permeates and gives depth and depth to all his work. His teaching transcends systemic representations and techniques for resolving bodily trauma, to which he nevertheless provides solutions, to become "Inspiration" and "Healing". Through their meetings, Janine and Emanuele offer, with great generosity and equal humility, a true path of Self-Recognition and of one's Spiritual Essence.
My training journey began in 2016 and ended in 2022. In between there were the Covid years which brought revolution and also evolution. During this long period I was accompanied by Janine, Emanuele and all the participants of the groups that were created over time. A real journey. We started from scratch, tackling all the unresolved issues, the most difficult and complex dynamics, the deepest fears and the confusion of this historical era. The method is tidy, clear and basic. There is everything: birth, growth, death, elements of nature, the world of thoughts, feelings, physicality. Every question is welcomed and guided towards the intimate answer that resides within ourselves. There is knowledge, experience and intuition, all guided with attentive listening, without pushing, as is done with a small child who is learning to walk. I recommend this path to those who feel lost, alienated, broken, misunderstood, blocked. Janine and Emanuele bring talents of simplicity, authenticity, integrity and so much compassion. I am full of gratitude and from this experience I bring with me many more resources and much more calm to be with everything that is there!
I met Janine a few months ago, during the training I attend and my life is taking shape. For the first time in my life, I see a way out, and I see solutions. His presence, the way in which he delicately opens a sheet of paper inside me, and another one again, the humility with which he does all this, opens up a new world in front of me. I recommend this training to everyone regardless of whether one wants to pass on this method to others or not. I think that we all need the connection found in this path to live fully. Thanks 🙏
I came to Janine by chance, about three and a half years ago, without any particular expectations, unaware that I needed help, so it was all a succession of emotions and discoveries. For me, this meant changing my life by improving coherence, self-esteem and compassion towards others. Do it! I highly recommend it even if you think you don't need it. The choice sometimes passes through the belly
I deeply thank the universe and those forces greater than us that made me start this path of awareness and made me meet Janine on my path. A woman, a guide who transmits strength, courage and at the same time peace. In all the experiences I have had with her, from the "take back your childbirth" course to her books to the meetings it is always growth, one small step after another. To anyone I know who is in difficulty or simply in a "strange" period of their life, I would like to recommend Janine.
"take back your childbirth" was a sacred, intimate experience of connection with other women MOTHERS.. together we made soul 💞 for me a further step towards myself in this soul journey that began almost three years ago with the guidance of Janine 🙏 THANK YOU
I would like to leave a testimony of what I received in the "Take Back Your Childbirth" seminar.
I follow the Jan method and I have experienced in my body how much my birth was a trauma, but also how much the gestation itself later influenced my life, in the choices of new beginnings. Janine's books explain very well how medicalization has been and is the great black hole into which humanity has fallen, we are trying to remedy it but we are still too far from what is natural and instinctive. But I am also a mother and my 2 births were acted upon by foreign hands, foreign substances and eyes came between mine and that of my children. Working on what my uterus remembers as an invasion was as important as feeding my children, I take back my birth, I take back my uterus, I take back my vagina, I take back my voice and I push my children to life, because they are of the world. Thanks Janine always.
I would like to thank our traveling companions and Janine who accompanied us on these two evenings dedicated to women, we remembered the moment we became mothers.
We were invited with kindness, into the energy of water, into the energy of sisterhood, of the intimate complicity that only women know how to create when they find each other and recognize each other. We let go of the burdens, the hardships, the pain and unraveled the skeins that held us back to create a new harmony inside and outside of us. I highly recommend all women who are traveling to have this experience, where it is possible to recreate contact with themselves and live in freedom and care. Today I urgently feel the need to be together with women who carry their sacred feminine within them. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart, for the profound and intimate exchange, the joy, the laughter, the dancing. May our souls be protected by the care and space we have created. I dedicate this song to all of us, a hug https://youtu.be/YSgGcy16H0w Patrizia
The intent with which I write a few lines on this site is to share and give back a little of that life that I discovered within myself, thanks to Janine's works, her work and her humanity. I came into contact with her through her books, I tried the Jan method on my body and I had a great welcome in moments of discouragement. I find in his words a great source, living water. I believe that getting lost in his words is truly a gift that each of us can give ourselves. I am so grateful for Janine's courage to show up! Thank you
"The natural man and woman" is one of the most intense books I have read. Each chapter is a journey into emotional baggage and important cultural legacies that men and women carry with them like boulders, without even being aware of it. Every step that I read and processed was a real liberation... I would define it as a therapeutic act, because discovering and bringing to light what is described in this book is a real gesture of love that we do not only to ourselves but also to all of humanity. I would define it as a great little tool to start a journey of personal transformation. Thanks Janine! 🙏❤️
I have always wondered who a Master was for me. And Janine Van Der Merwe certainly was that for me during my training. But then, still in the making, something happened: that continuous return to Me through the sensations of my body, as well as that insistent but always loving look at my emotions, finally seen without judgment on my part and without fear of that of others, brought out a unique tool: the Inner Master, that voice/coherence/alignment to what is truly important to me and which allows me to find orientation in my daily life in an autonomous and natural way. And then I understood that the true Master is the one who accompanies you to be one "yourself": this is Janine for me because first of all she is the one who carries herself with Coherence, Awareness and Strength. And with lightness. Because you also have fun: and going deeper with this state of mind is as precious as what you discover "down there".
A path that truly changed my life. A real, spiritual, rooted experience and always respecting my times and my feelings. The most powerful tool I have encountered on my path.
The Jan Method, for me, meant transformative action combined with awareness. Janine's presence of mind together with the support of the group helped me to dissolve a block that I had been carrying since gestation. The miracle was being accompanied to a place that I couldn't reach on my own, observing it with all the time necessary to experience it, letting the body make gestures in a natural and silent way leading to a profound understanding and acceptance. All protected and welcomed. I have rediscovered a great wisdom of the body that goes beyond any rational explanation, a pure and sacred willpower. I am grateful and honored by this experience. It left me with a great breath and a sense of liberation.
The experience lived in a circle accompanied step by step by the presence and coherence of Janine allowed me to experience the time of loving care, the right time for each step, learning to stay in the intensity of what lives within you, feeling what happens in the body to surrender to Love.
The systemic representations conducted by Janine are a judgment-free space where I can see and dissolve my traumas and has given me the opportunity to meet beautiful people. I am grateful to Janine for her contributions to my personal growth.
I met Janine in 2017 during a time of great personal transformation. Through his guidance I finally explored deep and unconscious issues. Being unbalanced towards the outside, the eternal projection of parts of me, terrible experiences that shake the foundations, emotional dependence. I came to you confused and hurt. A long and painful training opening me up to awareness. I have died and been reborn many times in his arms, yet always opening myself to life and the joy that comes when you are at peace with yourself. With her I explored various forgotten traumas in the fragility of emotional memories. The birth, the gestation and especially the eyes of my mother and the guidance of my father, the significant figures in my development, the love... The relationship. With her I explored the adrenaline womb, time and gravity. I experienced my birth many times and it greatly influenced my approach to the world. But also gestation and this was an important discovery. Janine is a woman who takes you to places you didn't even think of going, intuitive and sensitive to energy movements, she guides the constellation with the nose of a shaman. It intuits, speaks a subtle language with the forces in play, and in the end SEVERES the ties that are no longer of this life, reconnects the broken bridges and leads you to be re-born in one piece. I strongly recommend her path and her method (Jan), to get to know her there are also video interviews in addition to her books, which open up to superior knowledge. For all those who come across her, have a good journey.
Janine's books are not just made of paper, they have another consistency. They are real, effective, powerful. They are a profound experience of the body, they can be felt.
The Natural Man and Woman A book that gets inside you in the true sense of the word. Janine's words pass through your gaze and down into your body. While reading this book, the emotions and sensations I felt were different, from shivers that ran throughout my body, to small tremors, to an accelerated heartbeat or other times I was left holding my breath. In every sensation and emotion I felt accompanied in my feelings. I had faith and it really felt like that book was speaking to me!
Black and White: Life is in the Middle I read it in one sitting! Direct, courageous, clear and clear. Fluent writing, light but also profound and touching. The author lays herself bare by bringing examples from her life experience, creating a bridge of understanding between the modern crisis and ancient wounds. It is a book full of gifts, a journey that the author invites us to travel with authenticity even through small exercises and quotes from great personalities. To start again with new eyes!