About Rachel

I’m Rachel Bonkink. I work with people at moments where clarity can no longer be postponed.

My work is not about self improvement or becoming someone new.
It is about stopping the subtle adaptations that slowly pull you away from what you already know to be true.

I guide people who are capable, reflective and used to responsibility, yet sense that something essential is no longer fully aligned. Often nothing is “wrong”. Life works. And precisely because of that, recalibration gets postponed.

Through meditation, embodied practice and precise inquiry, I create the conditions in which clarity naturally emerges. Not as an insight you have to hold onto, but as a reference you can no longer ignore.

My role is not to motivate or reassure.
It is to help restore inner authority, so decisions simplify and direction becomes honest again.

Over the past fourteen years I have guided more than one hundred retreats worldwide, many of them in Morocco where I lived for four years. These years shaped the grounded, no-nonsense approach that defines my work today.

My book Flex Your Mind, on integrating yoga philosophy into daily life, was endorsed by Yin Yoga innovator Paul Grilley. I am currently writing my second book on meditation and manifestation, focused on clarity, regulation and lived practice.

I live in Portugal and work internationally with people who recognise that timing matters.