My name is Anouk Cappuyns. I was born in Belgium and I have been living in The Netherlands for more than 20 years with my partner and 2 kids. My first job as a professional dancer showed me the way to The Hague, and thanks to my dancing career I have travelled a lot and seen a big part of the world. I speak Dutch, English and French fluently , I have a basic knowledge of German and understand a little bit of Greek.
Soon into my career, I realised that I had other interests besides dancing. I followed different training courses such as sportmassage, shiatsu, polarity massage, connective tissue massage etc.
However, that wasn’t “it” yet.
My affinity for pregnant women and birth
I can say that since I was a child, I have always been fascinated with pregnancy and birth. Through my work as a masseuse I often met pregnant women and it was very special to be able to give them a massage. My passion grew.
A while ago I wanted to study to become a midwife. However, it would have been difficult to combine 4 years of fulltime study with my job as a dancer. Yet I wanted to ‘mean’ something more to pregnant women, so I took a training to become a prenatal yoga teacher. Besides teaching my own yoga classes, I worked for different years as a coach in a training-school in The Hague, educating others to become prenatal yoga teachers.
Each week I teach several hours of pre-natal yoga, meeting with about 30 pregnant women. Helping women in their preparation for childbirth is truly something wonderful! Meeting them again in postnatal yoga classes is also great. The part that I was missing was the childbirth itself, which is why I followed a training to become a Doula. Now the picture is complete.
It has been already more then 10 years I've been working in the birthcare and every year I follow different trainings and workshops to keep my knowledge updated , work with the most recent techniques. A few years back I became the first certified Spinning Babies Parent Educator in the Netherlands. Followed by that I became a Body Ready Method pro. And this year I was asked to be a Teaching assistent in the Body Ready Method training.
I am truly honoured every time I get to assist a childbirth.
MIJN TRAINING
JJ Doula advanced training, June 2013
Workshop ” Undisturbed Birth ” Sarah Buckley, Sept 2013
JJ Doula training Level 3, Sept 2013
Spinning Babies® Workshop, Gail Tully, Jan 2014
Workshop, Elizabeth Davis, March 2014
Spinning Babies® Workshop, Gail Tully, June 2014
Dona International workshop ”When Survivors Give Birth”, Penny Simkin, Nov 2014
JJ Doula training degree, 2015
Spinning Babies® Workshop, Jennifer Walker, Okt 2016
Spinning Babies® Workshop, Jennifer Walker, Dec 2016
“Balance for Better Birth”, Debra McLaughlin and Marcello Windolph, April 2017
EFT workshop, Monique van Leeuwen, Dec 2017
Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop, Gail Tully and Jennifer Walker, Feb 2018
Certified Spinning Babies Parent Educator training, Gail Tully, April 2018
Aromatherapy course, Joyce Pula, June 2022
Space of Trauma – Diving deeper, Joyce Pula and Ilena Standring, Nov 2022
