Coen van der Kroon & Martine van Beusekom

About Coen

Coen van der Kroon was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1962. He has an academic background in Greek and Latin Languages and Culture. His MA thesis was on ancient Greek gynecology with a comparison between Hippocratic and Ayurvedic Medicine. This was the start of his interest in and study of ayurveda.

Coen van der Kroon has dedicated his life to understanding the Indian health science of ayurveda. It has been his mission to clarify the ancient Eastern advice for disease prevention and day-to-day health and well-being so that the implications can be understood by the modern Western mind. He is making this happen through his writing for magazines and books – including an international bestseller – and his teaching, centered around The Academy of Ayurvedic Studies (AAS) in the Netherlands, which he founded in 2005. 

He himself was privileged to have studied with the most renowned and inspirational teachers in the field of ayurveda and yoga, including Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Sunil Joshi, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Atreya Smith and Dr. Vijith Sasidhar (who are all visiting faculty at the AAS), as well as 3 years at the Ayurvedic Institute with Dr. Vasant Lad, in the USA and hands-on experience in India.

About Martine

Martine has an outspoken vision on spreading the word of Ayurveda in the Netherlands. By her active involvement in education for practitioners, she contributes to increasing familiarity with Ayurveda as a healing system in the Netherlands that can benefit many people.

After a corporate career, she studied at the Academy of Ayurvedic Studies in Amsterdam and also studied basic medical knowledge for a year. Her special interest goes out to ayurvedic nutrition as a tool to improve the health and wellbeing of her clients and this is what she
teaches at Delight Academy Ayurveda now. Martine has been a teacher in this field for many years.

Holistic psychotherapy as another area that she loves and practices. Besides the work for the Academy Ayurveda, she has her own clinic where she works with clients coming with various complaints. She offers consultations and works with food, lifestyle, herbs and treatments to support her clients. She wrote the book ‘het ABC van Gezond Eten’, which concisely outlines various aspects of Ayurvedic Nutrition. She loves to travel to India in order to experience the cradle of Ayurveda.