Dolphin Centre

A centre for personal healing and health therapies

You can email Irize for more information or make an appointment:

Irize Loots
Parlevinker 7
EszenzZ Centre (1st floor)
1034 PX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0)6 29 363 066

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a therapy based on the healing properties of essential oils. Massage and the aroma of the oils heal the body according to its needs, e.g. lavender oil relaxes a person, mandarin oil serves as a "pick-me-up" oil; thyme aids in healing bronchitis, while peppermint oil relieves nausea, etc. This therapy can simply relax you or aid in healing more severe problems. Massages vary from a simple back- to a full bodymassage, which takes longer and costs more.

Reiki & Intuitive Healing

Reiki is an ancient Japanese healing art, discovered by Usui Shiki Ryoho. Reiki focusses on healing with Divine energy. (Literally: Rei=Divine and Chi=energy.) The healer places her hands over the chakras, or energycentres of a person's body. As a channel of Divine energy, the healer is like a tap opened up to give water. I offer Reiki as healing form, and as Reiki Master, I also teach Reiki to anyone interested to learn more about the powerful art of healing.

Weekend Courses in 2006 & 2007

Irize's training and philosophy for personal development

The goal and result of the therapy I offer is the growth of the personality. The aim is to gently get to the areas where growth has stagnated. We all interact with our environment and this includes the people we interact with. Through this interaction we develop and grow, but when the interaction is disturbed and we cannot make contact with others, we become stagnant and do not have the lust for life we have a right to. Life seems boring and uninteresting, and we live without passion, and often without compassion, for ourselves and others.

A healthy person has a creative interaction with his environment. The aim of my work is to heal those areas where creative interaction is missing. When energy is blocked it causes functional and/or personal disturbances. Such complaints are mostly visible in relation to others, at home and/or at work. Physical or psychological complaints such as tiredness, stress, depression or anxiety, backaches or stomachaches etc. are all signs of disturbed interaction with the environment.

Furthermore the healing therapy I offer is an experimental and creative way of journeying with yourself and taking responsibility for your own personal development. A client will learn about the background and history of his problems and will learn to experiment with finding new solutions for himself through therapy. I hope to teach my clients about making contact firstly with themselves, and then build the bridge to interact with others. The first contact of the client will be with myself in a session. After we, you and I make contact, everybody else follows - be it through a group you are working with, or in your personal life. Exercises, body work, nonverbal expressions are all used to aid you on this journey.

More about therapy in a group: Learning to deal with our situation in a group adds a new dimension. A group works in support of each other in finding where blockages exist and developing new skills through bodywork to release and heal these blockages. We also focus on awareness in groupwork, how to be here-now, and how to listen to the body as an instrument to personal healing. Through movement we release that which is blocked. Group work can be a great relief, in that you are not alone, but also it supports self-confidence as you learn and grow together. You will develop awareness, get energy and support (from the group) to complete "old", unfinished business, and learn to make contact with others in a new way.

For group therapy we have a set fee of € 150 for a block of three months, getting together once a week, and it includes one weekend workshop.

Meditation and/or Relaxation classes

I offer meditation and/or relaxation classes. I am inspired with gentle meditation music, and these classes are very experimental. Even though I have done various forms of meditation and training in this field, I still follow my intuition at any given time.

Our meditations will include a relaxation first, where after we will continue with a nature meditation and/or a spiritual healing meditation. We do spiritual transformation meditations, and we work with breath and visualizations. Also healing is promoted by opening up your energy centers in the body so that energy can flow and you can become a whole/complete person again.

Online

Meditations can now also be listened to online, by clicking here - You can therefore meditate whenever suits you and whenever you feel the need to do a meditation or relaxation exercise at home.
All you need is a chair (preferably upright), enough warmth for your feet (i.e. socks, or slippers), and you must make sure the soles of your feet make proper contact with the floor.
You can do these relaxation/meditation exercises alone or with someone else. If you decide to meditate with a friend make sure that you both are comfortable, have enough space between your chairs so that you have space to move where I ask you to, and then breathe with each other, and listen to my voice and music together through the online link. Be in compassion with each other always, and move into your heart and body through breathing together gently.

Enjoy!

Irize's background

Irize Loots was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After creative years in theatre, and some 9-5 jobs, she became interested in alternative healing therapies.
She focused herself by following classes in Iyengar Yoga and later Kashmir Yoga in Amsterdam. In 1996 she completed an intuitive healing course (with aura and chakra balancing) with Evert Pauw (magnetizeur) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In 1997 Irize did Reiki I, Reiki II and Reiki III and became a Reiki Master. This was done with Reiki Master, Diana Segall, in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
She also completed a Mystic Crystal Healing course with Jaqueline Schulte-Zurhausen, Reiki Master and Holistic Healer, in Cape Town. This focused on the knowledge and healing properties of crystals and gems.
This year she also focused on developing her psychic abilities by following various courses and workshops with Vernon Frost from South Africa. (*Vernon Frost works both as hypnotherapist and metaphysical teacher, and does transformational workshops all over the world - i.e. The Netherlands, Turkey, England and South Africa.) Irize also completed a workshop with Carolyn Myss to improve her knowledge on intuitive healing, and is a great admirer of her work and writing.
In 1998 Irize completed her studies in becoming an Aromatherapist (with knowledge of the healing properties of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy massage techniques). She did this with Francis Brooks, Cambridge Aromatherapist, registered with the AAOSA (Aromatherapy Association of Southern Africa). At the end of 1997 Irize opened a healing center, The Dolphin Center, in Cape Town, offering healing, tarot readings, psychometry and various therapies.
In 1998 she completed an advanced intuitive healing course with Evert Pauw (magnetizeur) in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

She has also advanced herself as a therapist by studying Gestalt Therapy with Tine van Wijk, Gestalt Therapist in the Netherlands, at Centrum De Walvis in Amsterdam. This study was completed at the end of 2002.

Irize now lives and works in Amsterdam and runs her own Dolphin Centre again - a centre for health and healing therapies.

Irize does individual healing/therapy sessions, combined with music to relax the body and to work on a deep level to promote healing - be it healing required on the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual level, or a comibination thereof. The aim is a holistic approach - in other words, working with the 'whole' of the person. Irize sometimes organizes workshops for *Vernon Frost in the Netherlands also.

Irize also is a trained pianist, and teaches piano for children, loves too paint as a hobby, loves reading, and writing stories, enjoys nature, and does Classical Yoga for her own body balance. She hopes to travel the world, and to meet new and interesting people. Her favourite places visited to date are Rustler's Valley (Free State, South Africa), Table Mountain (Cape Town, South Africa), Vancouver (BC, Canada), Dieren (The Netherlands), Jerusalem and the Dead Sea (Israel), the Greek Islands, and Venice (Italy).

Click HERE to view some of her drawings, paintings and other creations.