The experience of seeing beauty
A beautiful highlight when you visit Amsterdam, the Netherlands is visiting the Spring garden, the Keukenhof, with your own eyes. All that beauty, the spectacle of color, the essence of the tulip that no photo can really capture. But we all try, don’t we? A picture of yourself with the colorful tulips in the background is the best souvenir to take home with you. To color your memories when you are back home. The Keukenhof is the most photographed garden in the world.
See what no one else can see
However the true magic of the floral beauty lies in what happened months before. Invisible and powerful. To bloom in March and April, a tulip must spend the entire rest of the year in the dark, cold earth. Here, safely underground, for no one to see, each and every bulb is nourished by nature and the Dutch soil. Peacefully, in solitude, it is given the time and space to restore and be nourished with essential minerals and trace elements. We have to be patience from May to March and wait for beauty to show itself.
Effortless manifestation
While surrounded by millions of blooms, take a deep breath and realise: a tulip doesn’t compete with the one next to it. It just blooms when it’s ready. Every tulip is given what it needs to bloom, it has no stress, no worries and it doesn’t take more than it needs. It doesn’t need to learn anything to be better, it is already exactly good enough the way it is. It lives in abundance and therefor it can show its abundant beauty
Patience and Blooming on Your Own Terms
How different do we treat ourselves, right? In many cultures, there is a pressure to be “always on”—to be the vibrant flower every day of the year. So, I invite you to take this opportunity, while you staying at the Connect Inn B&B in Amsterdam. Pause for a moment and reflect on your own life season. In which season am I? Am I allowing myself the time and space I need to grow, Am I being nourished? or am I trying to force a bloom before my time?
Take the secret of blooming home with you
Just as the tulip needs the right conditions to grow, you deserve the tools to flourish in your daily life. Are you ready for a little more magic? To help you manage stress with ease, I invite you to a Silent Hands discovery session.
This session is a gentle, low-key way to learn a powerful technique you can carry in your pocket and use wherever you go. There is no pressure—only the opportunity to take something truly valuable home with you. Let this stay in Amsterdam be the season where you learn how to bloom, even when life gets busy.