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Where yin meets sound, and poetry becomes ritual
I create spaces to soften, to feel, and to remember what matters. Through music, writing, movement and ritual, I explore the ways art and presence can help us reconnect with ourselves, and with each other.
Poetry · the book
SALT
Salt water heals. Sweat. Tears. Or the sea.
Poems to explore love, longing and finding yourself again.
I wrote these poems when I was lost in love. Somewhere along the way, they became the map back to myself. If you are somewhere between heartbreak and becoming, this book was written for you.
★★★★★
“Poignant, tender, ethereal and somehow also so grounding.”
Samantha, Amazon review
“I love keeping it on my bedside table and returning to a few poems before falling asleep.”
Pauline, Amazon review
For readers of Rupi Kaur, Ocean Vuong and Mary Oliver.
Buy the bookPaperback & Kindle, on Amazon
Six words, six chapters
The journey of the book
SALT is told like a love story, in six chapters: from the first spark, through love and heartbreak, to being reborn, knowing ourselves more deeply than before. Each chapter opens with a word for a feeling we rarely have a name for.
- [S]onder The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own.
- [Me]tanoia A transformative change of heart; especially, a spiritual conversion.
- [A]gape The love of others over self.
- [C]harmolipi Joyful mourning, sweet sorrow. Having mixed feelings about something.
- [A]nagapesis No longer feeling any affection for someone you once loved.
- [M]amihlapinatapei The wordless, meaningful look shared by two people who both want to begin something, but are reluctant to do so.
Extracts from SALT · Tap a page to read it
Retreats for women · Ibiza · 2025 & 2026
Two summers, two circles
Six days and five nights at Har en Mar, a finca by the sea in Ibiza. Women between thirty and fifty, gathered each summer around a different intention.
Summer 2025 · 8 women
Summer Bliss
The first circle was about pleasure in its plainest form: a body that is rested, fed, warmed by the sun and salted by the sea. Nothing to fix, nothing to achieve. Eight women remembered that life can feel this good, and that it doesn’t have to be earned.
Summer 2026 · 9 women
Goddesses Gathering
The second circle went deeper. Not rest this time, but rising: meeting the wild feminine within, the part of us that knows her own power and lets her life overflow. Nine women, and four of them had already sat in the first circle the summer before.
Women keep coming back, again and again, to the retreats and spaces Debora creates.
Held by Debora Lasoen · Nourished by Cecilia Foga, holistic chef
One day at the retreat
Whatever the intention, the days follow the sun.
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Sunrise
We wake up. We swim in the sea.
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Morning
A sun meditation. Slow yoga, deep stretch. You choose your intensity.
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Late morning
A nourishing brunch. We laugh.
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Afternoon
We nap, we read, we journal, we create. We talk about history, wellness, books, philosophy, art. We share our own stories.
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Late afternoon
In the afternoon, a little snack, some more movement. A workshop about fermentation, allowing wellness, or awakening pleasure.
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Sunset
At last, sunset comes. Maybe another swim before dinner.
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Night
Our last meal of the day. A sound bath. A ceremonial space to open our hearts. Something sweet before bedtime.
Voices from past gatherings
“There is something truly magical about Débora’s retreats.
Having experienced two of her beautiful gatherings in Ibiza, I can honestly say that she has a rare gift for creating a space where women feel seen, held and free to simply be themselves. From soulful yoga practices and deeply restorative sound baths to meaningful conversations, incredible food and the beauty of the Mediterranean, every moment feels thoughtfully woven together with so much love and intention. It’s a beautiful journey of self-discovery, softness and peacefulness that nourishes not only the body, but also the soul. What makes it truly special is the feeling you carry home with you long after the retreat has ended.”
Yeşim · 2025 & 2026
“It felt like a total reset.
5 heavenly days of being nurtured with yin yoga, gong, sharing circles, blissful swims and the best wholesome food. I’m so grateful to Debora for creating this alchemical space and to Cecilia for the delicious food!”
Zoe · 2026
“Deeply nourished, emotionally and spiritually. The retreat was a beautiful invitation to slow down, reconnect, and simply be. I left with a full heart, a clearer mind, and many soulful memories that I will carry with me for a long time.”
2025 participant
“Retreats with Debora are just magical.
She has such a profound knowledge about yoga and all the spiritual things and I just love listening and practicing with her. Her soundbaths are so unique, given the fact that she also sings in such a beautiful way. Listening to her during shavasana or a soundbath makes me feel super content and happy.”
Maria · 2025 & 2026
“The retreat was such a beautiful space for relaxing, unwinding, and recentering.
It felt great to disconnect from the daily routine, and all the activities were curated to really help me reconnect with myself. The morning swims in the sea and the evening sound baths were my favorite parts, and it was lovely to form heartfelt connections with the other amazing women on the retreat. I also enjoyed the sharing experiences through workshops where we learned from each other and through the sharing circles that felt like collective love and healing. The retreat helped me to reflect on my own patterns, and the wisdom and insights that the other women shared shifted how I see the world.”
Kelly · 2026
“The finca felt peaceful and grounding. The open design and deep connection to nature created a true sanctuary, a place where time gently softened and the mind could rest.”
2025 participant
“Debora’s retreats are the perfect place to get out of your routine and out of your head and look inward.
It’s a beautiful time to share with fellow women to step into abundance and power without feeling forced to show up in a certain way. It’s a very nourishing and inspiring place for any yogi who wants to reconnect with their inner magic!”
Juliane · 2025 & 2026
Next gathering
Two summers, two circles. A third is being dreamed.
The place and the dates are still taking shape. Leave your name, and you’ll be the first to hear when the third circle opens.
Yoga · weekly classes in Berlin
All we ever only have
is now
From “Sweven”, SALT
Yin and yang yoga, breath and intuitive movement. Yoga as an artistic practice, and a tool of self-transformation. Come as you are.
- Wednesday 9:00 am Sha-La Waterfront ↗ Recover: Core, Hips & Soothing Hour
- Wednesday 7:00 pm HAR Loft ↗ Sunset Yin & Sound
- Friday 5:30 pm HAR Loft ↗ Surrender to Yin & Sound Bath
My story with yoga
I came to the mat at twenty, living off the grid on a farm in South Africa: two years with no internet. After years of control, restriction and disconnection, lost in the French Riviera’s world of appearances, yoga was how I found my way back into my body. It felt freeing: a place to play, to move, to find my centre again.
Years later, in Thailand, I took my first Yin yoga class, and it was a revelation. I could barely stay still. I wanted to push, to perform. I didn’t know how to be patient. How to soften. How to care. It opened a world of self-enquiry: a practice that taught me to regulate myself, and to give myself time to simply be and feel.
Over the years, it became the catalyst for a deep transformation within. After five years in senior leadership in the tech startup world, I left for the unknown, on a journey that led me to become an artist, a musician and a yoga teacher.
My practice is hard to define, but if there were one single message, it would be this: be yourself, there is only one of you.
“You’re not here to perform. There are enough places for that already, outside the mat, outside this space. Here, you come to connect with something deep within: to let go, to trust, to soften. Sometimes the real effort isn’t in doing more. It’s in being patient, in listening to your intuition, in trusting the process. This is how we become kinder to ourselves, and to each other.”
Training & certifications
Yoga
- 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
- 100-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
- 100-Hour Yin Yoga & Chinese Medicine
- 60-Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training
- 60-Hour Yin Yoga Training
Sound
- Diploma in Music Production
- Sound Healing PRO Course
- Sound Therapy
Coaching · online
Real change starts in the body
For years I led teams in companies. Then I trained as a coach, in somatic healing and in hypnotherapy, and learned that real change rarely starts in the mind. It starts in the body, and in being deeply listened to.
First circle · January 2027
INAE
A seven-week online circle for women in long-term relationships, to rediscover desire, intimacy, and the body as a source of life force.
Seven chapters, seven live calls, a small circle of women. Named after Inanna, who passed through seven gates, and Eros, desire as a life force.
Training & certifications
Coaching
- CBT Coaching
- Positive Intelligence Coaching
- Team Coaching
- Co-Active Coaching Fundamentals
Body & mind
- Certified Somatic Mind-Body Healing Practitioner
- Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis Certification Diploma
- Group Hypnosis Diploma
Music · as LEONCE
Poetry becomes music, movement, memories.
One of my earliest memories is of singing outside in a garden, playing, and feeling my voice move through me like something that heals. I have been following that feeling ever since.
I grew up at the piano, trained as a classical pianist at the conservatory from childhood, and began composing in my teens. In my twenties, through loss and a search for who I was, music became my medicine. Living on a farm in South Africa, with no internet and no piano, I wrote on the guitar.
Years later in Berlin, my husband showed me Ableton, and I started composing right away. When the startup I had co-founded ran out of funding and I lost my job, I took it as a door, not an ending, and went to art school to study music, a dream I had carried for years.
Today I write songs like poems, and build soundscapes from voice, words and texture: intimate, haunting, and unafraid of contradiction.
About
She writes from the in-between
Debora Lasoen is a poet, musician and yoga teacher living in Berlin. Her work moves between language, sound and the body: the poems of SALT, songs written like poems, and slow Yin and sound classes that bring people back into themselves.
In between cultures, between passions, between who she was and who she is becoming. Born into a story of immigration and reinvention, she carries her mother's exile from Kinshasa and her father's departure into work that is at once sensual, melancholic, and defiant.
Before art, there was another life: business degrees, years of leading teams, a startup she co-founded. She trained as a coach, in somatic healing and in hypnotherapy, and learned that real change rarely starts in the mind. It starts in the body, and in being deeply listened to.
Hosting retreats since 2025 and moon ceremonies since 2023, she has gathered a strong following of women who deeply trust her approach to self-discovery and self-love.
Coming in January 2027
INAE, a seven-week online circle for women in long-term relationships, to rediscover desire, intimacy, and the body as a source of life force.
Musician, poet, and maker of intimate worlds, she turns longing into language: not to resolve it, but to stay inside its beauty, and be nourished by it.
