Temple of Happiness

Temple of Happiness We welcome you in the Temple of Happiness, a light and spacious conscious Temple on the first floor in Broedplaats HetSalon, Amsterdam.

Also available for hiring. near train Station Sloterdijk. After 7 pm and in the weekends free parking!

24/04/2026

Before this is a memory....
welcome to our program, spring 2026!

" Closing is not bad, it is Movement. You are in Movement.”
— Daniel Odier

It’s early morning as I write this.

The past weeks I’ve been feeling a quiet shift.
Something is softening… and something is coming to a close.

After almost 10 years, on July 1, I will be letting go of Temple of Happiness as a place.

Not because something is wrong —
but because something in me has changed.

For a long time, I was always “on”.
Holding the space, organising, taking care, bringing people together.

And now I notice… I don’t have to anymore.

There is more space.
More quiet.
More simply being.

And from that place, this feels right.

🌿 A transition:

From July 1, Temple of Happiness in its current form will come to an end.

The space will be continued by Rakesh & Elfriede,
who will bring their own energy and vision after the summer. The new name is : The Conscious Place,
at Condensatorweg 36, Amsterdam. It
opens on 12 September.

I feel happy to pass it on —
and curious to see what will grow there next.

🌿 What’s still happening in the Temple - till 1 July:

In the coming weeks, there is still a beautiful and diverse program unfolding in the space.

Besides our own events, you’ll find regular evenings like Yoga ( new!) and Biodanza every Wednesday, as well as workshops in movement and embodiment, emotional release meditations, a ta**ra weekend hosted by colleagues, and several Temple nights guided by other facilitators....

There are also new events being added to the agenda in the coming weeks, as many reservations are still coming in.

So if you feel the call — this is a special time to come and experience the space one more time, in all its richness and diversity.

🌿 Hosted by the Temple of Happiness & Wilde Ziel:

Alongside the wider program, we will be offering a final series of gatherings — created by our own Temple of Happiness team and by Wilde Ziel.

These are the last moments we come together in this form.

✨ Barefoot Happiness – Royal Edition (25 April)

We celebrate Koningsdag with a playful Royal Edition — come as your inner king or queen 👑 An evening of potluck, cacao, live music, and a full dance journey. With a cozy massage corner and a playful makeover space, this night invites you to arrive, express and dance freely in the warm, home-like atmosphere Barefoot Happiness is known for.

https://facebook.com/events/s/barefoot-happiness-dance-royal/1907915829842244/

✨ Ta***ic Energy Transformation (9 May)

A grounded, experiential day where we explore how to stay present with life energy as it moves through you. Through breath, awareness and simple practices, you’ll learn to remain connected to yourself — even in moments of intensity. A deep yet practical introduction into ta***ic awareness.

https://facebook.com/events/s/wilde-ziel-ta***ic-energy-tran/1726601714970260/

✨ Barefoot Happiness – Bird Day Edition (16 May)

A playful and slightly crazy celebration where you’re invited to come as your inner bird 🐦 We start with a connecting Ta***ic Dance session by Rakesh & Elfriede, followed by a high-vibe dance journey with Esta Polyesta and a warm closing set by Jivan Mukta. Expect feathers, music, connection and freedom — and yes… there will be cake.

https://facebook.com/events/s/barefoot-happiness-dance-bird-/1856995241771854/

✨ Temple of Love & Celebration (20 June)

A Temple day where we explore ta***ic energetic lo******ng as a living experience — something that begins to move when you allow it. Through a grounded workshop and a more open, playful evening space, you’re invited to feel, follow and trust the movement of life energy in your body. Raw, subtle, alive.

https://facebook.com/events/s/temple-of-love-celebration-tan/917151127756423/

✨ Final Party – Temple of Happiness (27 June)

After almost 10 years, we close this chapter with one last gathering. An evening of potluck, shared moments, music and dancing — to celebrate everything that has been created together. A space to reconnect, feel, and say goodbye in your own way. Call to action: Bring your own acts, creativity, music to the Temple to share!

https://facebook.com/events/s/barefoot-happiness-dance-end-o/1635171220757881/

🌿 And for me:
This is not an ending — it’s a shift.

I will focus more on bodywork and massage,
creating space for deeper, more personal sessions.

At the same time, I feel that ta**ra will remain part of my path.
Workshops and retreats may return in a new form… but first, I’m allowing myself time to rest and listen.

If you’d like to stay connected: see website in the comments below.

🌿 Thank you....

For being part of this space.
For dancing, sharing, growing.
For all the moments we created together.

It has meant more than words can say.

With love,
Janine ( Jivanmukta) 💛

16/04/2026

Call for a Massage Practitioner – Conscious Dance Party (April 25)
For our upcoming Conscious Dance Party on April 25, themed “The King or Queen Within You,” we are looking for a massage practitioner to join our beautiful celebration.
Unfortunately, our original masseur had to cancel, so we would love to welcome someone who feels inspired to step in. Whether you’ve just completed a course, are looking to practice, or already have experience—this is a wonderful opportunity to share your work and connect with a conscious community.
We offer:
Free entrance to the event
A shared meal (potluck-style)
A warm, joyful and supportive atmosphere
In return, you’re welcome to offer massages during the event. You can:
Set your own price (for example €1 per minute, or less)
Work on a donation basis
Use this as an opportunity to promote your practice
We truly appreciate your contribution to the atmosphere and experience of the evening.
Feel welcome to reach out to Janine if you’re interested or have any questions.
With love,
The Temple of Happiness team ✨

Hipsy event 25 April: https://hipsy.nl/event/193098-barefoot-happiness-dance-royal-edition

23/03/2026

🌱✨ Barefoot Happiness – Royal Edition (April 25) ✨🌱

Conscious Dance meets Conscious Clubbing...

This time, we’re creating something truly special…

Not just an Ecstatic Dance — but a full evening experience.
A warm, playful and vibrant conscious clubbing night, with space to connect, celebrate and fully be yourself.

Think:
✨ a shared potluck dinner
✨ a cozy fire outside (weather permitting), massage corner, and royal outfits/makeover corner, bar
✨ a cacao ceremony
✨ live music + 2 DJ journeys!
✨ a dancefloor that moves from depth into celebration

A place where you can arrive, ground, open… and then really enjoy the night together.

💛 Want to be part of the team?

To make this evening flow beautifully, we’re looking for a few helping hands.

Nothing heavy — just simple, shared contributions:
🔥 Someone to help create and tend the fire outside
🥣 Someone who enjoys making a big pot of soup beforehand
🍲 A few people to support the potluck & tea flow
👀 A bit of spaceholding / keeping an eye on the space
🔧 Setup helpers before the event
👉 And most importantly:
🧹 Cleanup team (min. 3 people)
We finish dancing around 12:00, and close together by 1:00 AM — in a nice, relaxed group effort.

🌿 Join us
Whether you come to dance, connect, or contribute — you are very welcome.

And if you feel a connection with the Temple of Happiness or these kinds of gatherings, you’re warmly invited to join our community and help co-create future events.

📩 Want to join or help out?
Send me a message:
WhatsApp: +31613795437
Email: Janine@TempleofHappiness.nl

And become a member of the special WhatsApp group for preparing this event: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CAaunG41tm8BAi4RBAoJ0T?mode=gi_t

Let’s make this a beautiful night together ✨

With love,
Janine

Event:https://hipsy.nl/event/193098-barefoot-happiness-dance-royal-edition

12/12/2025

Ta***ic Dark Chocolate: non residential ta**ra retreat! (27–28 Dec)

✨ Between Christmas and New Year lies a magical in-between — a space where your body can breathe deeper, your energy awakens, and something new begins to unfold… ✨

🍫 Ta***ic Dark Chocolate — Non-Residential Ta**ra Retreat
📍 Temple of Happiness, Amsterdam
🗓️ 27–28 December 2025
➡️ A rich, sensual and embodied ta**ra retreat for singles and couples, where you will:

🍫 slow down and drop deeply into presence
🍫 melt tension like dark chocolate
🍫 awaken your inner energy
🍫 experience ta**ra massage, conscious touch and movement
🍫 close your year with warmth, grounding and inner openness

🌑 In these in-between moments — when the world becomes still — we open.
We drop into the body, feel what is true, and step toward what wants to grow in 2026.

Book now, while there are still early bird tickets!

https://hipsy.nl/event/142965-ta***ic-dark-chocolate-non-residential-ta**ra-retreat

https://facebook.com/events/s/ta***ic-dark-chocolate-ta***ic/2328946264198061/

✨ Special Winter Deal:
When you join our Ta***ic Dark Chocolate, you receive a €25 discount on the Temple of Letting Go on Sundaynight from our friends Bambi & Julia— if you sign up for both using the code JANINE at checkout. ✨

👉 End your year with your body, energy and heart wide open, feeling safe and regenerated.
📍 Amsterdam — non-residential
🎟️ Early bird & regular tickets available

🖤 Ta***ic Dark Chocolate — melt deeper. awaken your presence. taste your aliveness. ✨

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🌟 Ecstatic Dance – Shanti Class Edition (with a wink 😉) Did you know that the Dutch holiday Sinterklaas was originally a...
01/12/2025

🌟 Ecstatic Dance – Shanti Class Edition (with a wink 😉)

Did you know that the Dutch holiday Sinterklaas was originally a dating party for (future) lovers —
long before it became a children’s celebration? 😏

So this Friday… we bring the love back.
A playful gift-swap ritual + an Ecstatic Dance Journey with DJ Shanti Erik 💃

👉 Tickets: https://hipsy.nl/event/142970-ecstatic-swirl-ecstatic-dance-shanti-class-edition-dj-shanti

14/11/2025

Tomorrow Barefoot Happiness: ✨ Workshop Highlight: “Playful Connection” by Shanti & Madhuria ✨

We are excited to welcome Shanti & Madhuria with a heartwarming and fun connection workshop — the perfect way to open the night and meet new people.

It’s not a dating game and not a performance — it’s a playful exploration of presence, curiosity and human connection. Through light-hearted partner exercises, eye-contact, movement and joy, you’ll get to know others in a relaxed and authentic way.

This workshop is designed to help you: 💫 arrive in your body
💫 feel safe and open
💫 connect with others in a natural, joyful way
💫 start the evening with warmth and laughter

Whether you come alone or with friends, you’ll feel immediately welcome and included. Shanti & Madhuria have a gift for creating an atmosphere where everyone can be themselves.

Let’s begin the night in celebration — discovering community, connection and playfulness together. 🌺

🌺 The Ta***ic Juicebar – A feast of awareness, play and connectionImagine a bar with delicious drinks. Everyone is welc...
31/10/2025

🌺 The Ta***ic Juicebar – A feast of awareness, play and connection
Imagine a bar with delicious drinks. Everyone is welcome to sit down, share, taste and enjoy. That is the spirit of The Ta***ic Juice Bar.
For us, Ta**ra is like a rich smoothy: sometimes light and playful, sometimes juicy and intimate, sometimes deep and nourishing. It’s not about techniques or rituals alone, but about experiencing, discovering and letting life energy flow. You choose what you’re thirsty for – we provide the grounding, the guidance and the magic.
The menu of The Ta***ic Juice Bar:
🍧 Ta***ic Popsicles – fresh, playful workshops that leave you wanting more. We combine a workshop with a shared dinner and close with the Playground.
🍯 Ta***ic Milk & Honey – soft, sweet courses in non-dual Ta**ra. Start with an introduction and continue with weekend levels that gradually open up the essence layer by layer.
🥟 Ta***ic Fingerfood – bite-sized ta**ra massage weekends. Every two months a new level starts, where you learn to touch, feel and receive with more awareness and relaxation.
🍫 Ta***ic Dark Chocolate – intense and rich, like pure cacao. These weekends bring emotional release, expression, surrender and the power of ecstatic energy. For those ready to dive deep.
🍹 Ta***ic Spice – spicy (red ta***ic) retreats for couples. Whether you are hetero, le***an or non-binary: in these weekends you build energy together, explore intimacy, and let your relationship flow.
🍬 Ta***ic Temple Treats – our exclusive ta**ra nights and temple parties, members only. Sweet little indulgences that let you taste playfulness, sensuality and connection again and again.
🍋 Ta***ic Lemonade – refreshing weekly practice evenings. Meditation, dance, ta**ra massage, satsang or ta***ic dance – each week a new flavor on the table.
👩‍🍳 Ta***ic Foodies – specially for facilitators and spaceholders. Step into the concept of spaceholding in Ta**ra, learn how to create a safe container, and guide groups with loving presence and grounded strength.
Why The Ta***ic Juicebar?
Because Ta**ra cannot be captured in a single taste. It’s not a fixed recipe, but a feast that keeps changing and becomes richer the more you taste it. Sometimes you start light, sometimes you long for a nourishing course. Everything is welcome – your thirst, your curiosity, your desires.
At The Ta***ic Juice bar, there is always a place for you.
Come, take your seat, drink, taste and discover… and let yourself be nourished by the abundance of Ta**ra.

https://hipsy.nl/shop/temple-of-happiness

🌸 Dankbaarheid is goed voor je breinMorgen (zaterdag) organiseren we een Ta**ra workshop met als thema "grace". Dat is n...
10/10/2025

🌸 Dankbaarheid is goed voor je brein

Morgen (zaterdag) organiseren we een Ta**ra workshop met als thema "grace". Dat is niet de genade die God uitspreekt over je hoofd, maar iets levends in je eigen systeem, waar je bij komt door dankbaarheid te beoefenen. Dankbaarheid is goed voor je hersenen en dat is bewezen. Even een verhaaltje erover, n.a.v. wat ik erover kon vinden op internet....

Wanneer we spreken over Grace, spreken we over het moment waarop het brein niet meer hoeft te vechten, analyseren of oplossen.
Het is het moment waarop de amygdala — het deel van de hersenen dat waakt over gevaar — het signaal ontvangt:

“Je bent veilig. Er is niets dat nu opgelost hoeft te worden.”

In dat moment gebeurt er iets wonderlijks in het lichaam.
De amygdala stopt met het zenden van alarm-signalen naar de hypothalamus.
Het stresshormoon cortisol daalt.
De adem verdiept zich.
Het hart gaat rustiger kloppen.
En de prefrontale cortex — het deel dat verbonden is met inzicht, compassie en creativiteit — krijgt meer doorbloeding.

We noemen dat de parasympathische activatie: het systeem dat het lichaam herstelt, heelt en vernieuwt.
In deze staat worden herstelgenen geactiveerd, de spijsvertering herstelt, het immuunsysteem kalmeert, en er ontstaan zelfs nieuwe verbindingen in de hersenen — dit is neuroplasticiteit.
Je neuronen leren een ander pad te lopen:
van overleven naar vertrouwen,
van spanning naar stroming,
van angst naar aanwezigheid.

Wanneer we vervolgens gratitude — dankbaarheid — toelaten, versterken we dit proces.
Dankbaarheid activeert gebieden in het brein zoals de mediale prefrontale cortex en de anterior cingulate cortex.
Dat zijn gebieden die betrokken zijn bij empathie, zelfreflectie en verbinding.
Ze zenden kalmerende signalen terug naar de amygdala, waardoor de oude angstpaden verder verzachten.

Je zou kunnen zeggen:

Dankbaarheid is de taal waarmee je je zenuwstelsel vertelt dat het veilig is om te rusten.

Zelfs als je je niet goed voelt, kun je dit systeem wakker maken —
door te herinneren: “Er was ooit een moment waarop ik niets hoefde te doen, en het was goed.”
Die herinnering alleen al verandert de chemie van je hersenen.
Ze opent de poort naar Grace: de moeiteloze staat van zijn waarin je niets afdwingt, en toch alles in beweging komt.

In die staat beginnen lichaam en geest weer samen te ademen.
De grens tussen denken en voelen lost op.
En wat overblijft, is zachtheid —
het besef dat je niet gemaakt hoeft te worden,
maar mag ontvouwen, precies zoals je bent.

Tot zover een stukje theorie en onderbouwing, wat wij westerse mensen zo fijn vinden. Maar je mag natuurlijk ook gewoon komen om te landen en te genieten van de heerlijke energie, zaterdag 11 oktober.

Ons hele team staat klaar om je ontvangen:

Carla is DJ, Dassana Bambi en Anne geven allebei een prachtig ritueel, ik neem jullie mee in een Ta**ra oefening met de Bandha's en adem (Tantrische Kriya Yoga).
De rest van ons team verwelkomt jullie bij consent oefeningen en als spaceholders waarbij je terecht kan met vragen of om gewoon even er voor je te zijn.

Veel liefs, vergeet de potluck niet!

De link naar het evenement vind je onder opmerkingen, onder deze post.

Namasté Jivanmukta ( Janine) en team Temple of Happiness.

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Condensatorweg 36
Amsterdam
1014AX

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+31613795437

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Amsterdam heeft een prachtige plek erbij, waar je in een aangename sfeer ontvangen wordt en even tijd hebt voor jezelf en je eigen ZIJN... Centrum voor Happiness! Het is gelegen in een heerlijk groene, rustige wijk, met heel veel ruimte. In een culturele broedplaats, waar je omringd wordt door ambachtelijke en speelse kunstenaars, zoals: pottenbakkers, boetseerders, fotografen, edelsmeden, zeepmakers, illustrators, kunstschilders, theatermakers, dansers, meubelmakers, circusartiesten en decorbouwers.

Een plek waar je moeiteloos kunt parkeren, en waar je de stad niet voor in hoeft, want het is op 5 minuten van de A10. En als je dat toevallig wèl wilt: je bent in 10 minuten fietsend of met OV in het Centrum! Dat kan alleen maar in Amsterdam Nieuw West. Ons Centrum voor Happiness is gelegen in de Culturele Broedplaats HW10, de ingang is linksom het gebouw aan de achterzijde.

We hebben de beschikking over twee mooie ruimtes waar oa Yoga, meditatie en diverse soorten dans wordt gegeven.

Elke vrijdagavond is er iets leuks te doen! Zoals Chitta! Elke 4e vrijdag van de maand: met workshops of satsang of muziek concert vanaf 19.30 uur en aansluitend lekker dansen op heerlijke hart muziek van een bekende en/of talentvolle DJ.