Cancer Changes Everything—Including What Comes Next
I’m Jasper—
a holistic life coach, cancer survivor, and guide in self-healing.
Read about my Story
2013
Cancer,
what now?
It started in 2013,
I was 24 years old,
when I found a lump in my neck the size of a golf ball that turned out to be Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The diagnosis brought a strange sense of relief—I knew something was wrong, and now I could face it.
Chemo was wild, but beneath it all, something deeper was awakening—it became less about surviving, and more about returning to myself.
2014
Chemo,WTF?
Although I was young. At that time I had a background with alcohol, weed, and other drugs.
I was numbing, emotions and feelings.
Chemo had a big grip on me—especially in the beginning.
It drained me physically and mentally, and I could barely recognize myself in the mirror. What hit even harder was seeing the fear in other people’s eyes.
But while doctors said food and movement wouldn’t help, I trusted my instincts. I turned to nutrition, food, meditation, and the ocean—and slowly began reclaiming myself from the inside out. There was a deep inner silence and trust!
10 Months later I was in remission!
2015
I am Alive
The transformation was real—I was slowly regaining my strength through movement, especially surfing, which made me feel alive again.
I started meditation. But underneath, fear and anxiety and questions lingered:
What if it comes back? What is health, really?
I didn’t just want to survive—I needed to understand, because the old answers no longer felt true.
2016
Surf Bro
2017
Turning inwards
In 2016, I left to Bali—
surfing 5 hours daily, drinking long nights, chasing freedom, but deep down destroying my energies.
One night, I felt it clearly:
the cancer was back—
my body knew before any scan did.
Back in the Netherlands, the diagnosis confirmed it, but this time there was no panic—only clarity:
I wouldn’t fight it, I would face it, feel it, and heal it.
I would connect with it!
After my second diagnosis,
I asked the doctors what caused it and what I could do?
They had no answer beyond medication and symptom control.
That’s when I realized:
I am my own healer.
I am the one having this body.
I will be an experiment, showing what is possible.
Even if it wouldn't work, it will provide insightful information.
I changed my lifestyle completely—
quit sugar, went vegan, took all vitamins and minerals available, meditated, journaled, and studied ancient healing. And in that process, I realized: not everything that claims to heal cancer is true. Some things are sacred. It starts in believe and hope!
In India, Ayurveda taught me to see my body, mind, and spirit as one, and Pancha Karma helped me detox and reconnect deeply with myself.
That’s when I saw it clearly: healing wasn’t just for me—it was the path I was meant to share.
Not just for me, but for everyone!
2017
I am Healed
During those ayurvedic treatments, I discovered how powerful our thoughts and believes are and I enrolled in a
10-day silent Vipassana course
(The operation of the mind).
In the deep stillness, an old trauma with my parents surfaced—not just as a memory, but as a full-body experience. Something shifted inside me—energetically, physically, beyond words—and in that moment, it felt like the tumor dissolved. I had no doubt:
I am in remission.
After Vipassana, I knew what came next—Bali, not as a victim, but as a warrior, returning to reclaim the ocean and my life.
Back in the Netherlands, The scan confirmed:
no trace of cancer—I was in Remission!
I am able to fully trust my intuition!
2017
The Relapse
After I had healed, life moved on.
I was happy, I accomplished my mission.
I healed myself from cancer!
But within a year, something felt off again.
Not physically at first, but mentally and emotionally, I was disconnected, Smoking pod, stuck in stress, a broken relationship, an alcoholic mum and an unclear purpose.
I experienced once again how deep mind and body are connected.
Deep down, Stressed, a hidden thought lingered:
Maybe I need to get cancer again to truly fulfill my mission.
And then it happened— the cancer returned,
2019-20
Yoga Therapy
When I got the relapse, I saw it as a mission and went back to India—diving back into Ayurveda, Vipassana, and deeper spiritual work I knew the medicine (I thought).
But this time, healing felt blocked;
I was disconnected from the flow of life.
My guru reminded me that healing begins
within, through balance—
Combining yoga, Ayurveda, a Simple and nourishing lifestyle.
I went into a deep yogic life to complete a full 200- and 300-hour Yoga Therapy Teacher Training,
which opened me to deeper layers of the human experience—
and of myself.
Yoga is a path to Wellbeing, Peace and Unity
2019-20
Normal Life
After a year living with shamans, gurus and yogis nothing changed. The tumor was there, small, under control, no growth.
I slipped back into a “normal” life—a job, a house—
but something felt deeply off.
I still felt disconnected, lonely, craving adventure, nature, and real aliveness—not routines and waiting for weekends.
After facing cancer, I didn’t just want to survive—
I had to live, fully and intensely. That fire became my passion:
Living life intensely
2020-21
Vanlife
All I really wanted was to practice yoga —not just the asanas, or breath, but the deeper layers: truthfulness, love, contentment and real human presence.
Yoga taught me how much we all carry, how often we project our pain, and how deeply alike we are beneath the surface.
It helped me to connect with people beyond the mat, straight to the heart.
We are all the same!
I wanted to live fully, to feel it all, to release what no longer served me, and move forward with clarity.
2021-22
LOVE
I settled in south Portugal, teaching yoga, hosting retreats, and falling in love from a space of love.
When our daughter Aurora was born,
it felt like a vision coming to life. Years earlier, during my yoga training,
I had visualized this:
a daughter, a loving partner, a life of surfing, teaching, and transformation by the ocean.
Now I was living it.
I dived deeper into Holotropic breathwork, a deep shortcut straight to unresolved trauma.
You don't need to talk about it, you can relive it!
It opened new layers of healing and added another powerful tool to my path.
Love, Breath, and Purpose—that’s what rooted me in Portugal.
2021-22
I HEAL
Yoga & Breathwork began to play a bigger role in my life.
I started coaching others and experienced how deeply the breath, nutrition and yogic asanas could transform people in their thoughts and believes.
In yoga they mention.
You cannot change the mind with mind.
You can change it with the breath.
From body to mind!
From physiology to psychology.
I began sharing my work on larger stages but inside,
There was still this tumor and I started to loose control.
I carried a belief that I was somehow causing the cancer.
That I needed to go even deeper into spiritual practice, eat cleaner, live better, search harder for the root cause.
And in that search, I kept blaming myself. Until one day, a quiet realization came:
Maybe I’m not the cause. And cancer is just fucking shit
2023-24
Medicine
I came to a powerful realization:
I wasn’t the cause of the cancer,
but it had suppressed me physically and mentally.
By then, I had built a strong foundation—
supporting myself through Nutrition, Supplements, Yoga, Breathwork, and Ayurvedic protocols.
I can combine best of both worlds
A new trail emerged Chemotherapy combined with Immunotherapy:
Tislelizumab, it allowed me to avoid heavier chemo and a deep stem cell transplant.
I went ahead, entering it strong, conscious, and supported.
It wasn’t just treatment—it was a partnership between science and everything I had learned about healing. I visualized my healing, I meditated, I blessed the treatment, It will heal me!
2024-25
Yoga & Coaching
After years of learning, healing, and integrating,
I felt called to share what I had lived.
What ever path you are choosing!
After finishing my transformational coaching certification,
I began guiding other cancer patients more actively—
holding space for real change and healing 'online and in real'.
I founded a yoga and wellbeing studio in Lagos, Portugal, where I now lead daily yoga classes and monthly breathwork ceremonies.
My focus is sustainable health (holistic as a full person)—
not quick fixes of symptoms.
For the body, for the mind, and for the soul.
For myself, and for those I serve.
The Next Chapter:
The next chapter of my life is about giving back!
Offering you the chance to truly heal, not just survive.
Cancer taught me that waiting for “someday” is a lie.
I understood that we’re here to serve, to share, and to create lives that feel meaningful now.
That’s why I offer coaching, retreats, and courses—
to help you and all the others
true a path from illness to inner wisdom in clarity, peace, and abundance!
