Janine Van Der Merwe was born in 1973, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, of Dutch, Scottish, German-Slavic origins. She currently lives in Friuli, a multi-ethnic region, like her origins, and mother of three children. Independent researcher of the Deep Self, facilitator, author and trainer in Ja Method Vagal Regulating Systemic Representations.

Since 2010, she has been leading systemic work groups with an evolving methodology.
In 2012 she founded the association La Via dell’Albero (The Way of the Tree), whose purpose was to promote techniques and methodologies of energetic, naturopathic and eco-sustainable valence, where the growth and awareness acquired by each individual could contribute to the evolution of the community and its evolution in relation to its territory and the Earth. The experience allowed her to integrate in her work, a deep rootedness and to contact the resource of her multi-ethnic origins, African and Nordic, a union of two opposite worlds.
Since 2016 she has been teaching trainings for practitioners in every field, helping them to get in touch on the traumas stratified in the pre-cognitive period on an experiential level. With her first book, “The Natural Man and the Natural Woman,” published by BioGuide Editions in 2018, she brought to consciousness in her work, the insight into the effects of the adrenal womb, of transgenerational fear now fixed in women’s bodies, in the development of the embryo and consequently in the individual, recognizing the basis of the fragmentation of the Self and on a collective level, of a neurotic and alienated society.

A little over a year later he published “The Key to Time,” a further development of the previous book, linking the distorted and speeded-up perception of time precisely as a result of the adrenal womb; a collective of individuals fleeing from an enemy not real but present in the cell, already in gestational memory; the adrenal attack.
In 2021 his third book “Black and White: Life is in the Middle,” also published by BioGuide Editions, was released. In 2021, the third book “Il bianco e il nero: la vita sta nel mezzo” was released, also published by BioGuida Edizioni. An essay focused on gestation and birth, a simple and powerful text, on the rediscovery of the fundamental role in human evolution, of the sacredness of the passages, birth. From all this, “Rappresentazioni sistemiche Metodo Jan” was born, because we are no longer talking about family constellations but about epigenetics applied to systemic representation, being able to work on cellular memory, in gestational and birth blocks. The etymological root of Jan comes from the native Sanskrit language, from which our Indo-European languages originate and means “The creative spirit that is born from the Waters”.


Since 2022, Janine Van Der Merwe, has reconnected with her African roots by experiencing traditional therapies in Senegal. In parallel, she has brought Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory and its applications at the body level more and more into her work, thanks to these very experiences. She is currently in the process of publishing her fourth book, with the publishing house Elybra.