Live a Sacred Life.
Take Charge. Rise. Live True to you.
'Many of us move through life disconnected from Self, others, and nature. Life is sacred and deserves more. Petals and Aum is about showing up, deep inner work, and living a sacred fulfilling life with intention through ancient yoga, death doula offerings, coaching, gardening, and nature-based practices.
Welcome to Petals and Aum!
Welcome to our sacred space where life, death, and nature collide with presence and purpose.
Guided by Ingrid van Oostrom, Petals and Aum works with people who are ready to remember their power and live a truly sacred life. Ancient yoga, authentic coaching, gardening, death doula wisdom, and earth-based energy practices come together to help face challenges and fears, and live with grace and joy.
This is a place for anyone who is ready and willing to do deep inner work. Fears are faced and discomfort is confronted to make space for growth and to truly embrace all that life has to offer. Through ancient yoga (not the westernised watered down version), grief circles, personalised coaching or death doula support, we hold space for you. Embrace the messy, the transformative, the sacred AND the fun!
Ingrid also uses horticultural know-how to create sacred garden sanctuaries and remembrance spaces, where plants become a living tribute to cherished memories and a space to heal, have fun, and be.
Whether online or in-person, Petals and Aum is your ally in reconnecting with your true Self, owning your story, and living in harmony with the natural world around you. Live a Sacred Life!
Yoga: A Discipline for Life
On and off the mat
Yoga, often translated as one-ness or unity, is a complete guide to living, rooted in thousands of years of wisdom. True yoga brings awareness to the connection between body, mind, and spirit and calls us to live with awareness, integrity, and courage both on the mat and in our daily lives off the mat.
Practice on the mat through movement, breath, stillness, and sound is only the beginning. Off the mat, yoga asks us to embody its teachings in how we speak, think, and act. In this honest space we grow, expand perspectives, face fears, and step into a richer life.
Our rāja (classical), bhakti, and yin yoga offerings honour yoga's ancient roots and nurture spiritual connection. Through āsana (postures), prāṇāyāma (breathwork), meditation, mantra, philosophy, and yoga nidrā you will build resilience, strength, presence, clarity, and more. Join us in class, on retreat, or for private sessions - online or in person.
Are you ready to embrace yoga? To challenge yourself, deepen your practice, and incorporate teachings into life? Click the button below.
Death Doula | Befriending Death
Death doesn't only happen when a life ends. We experience grief also for the world, ourselves, a past relationship or career. A death doula, also known as an end-of-life or soul doula, offers emotional and spiritual support to anyone who is grieving and to individuals nearing the end of their lives and to their loved ones.
Ingrid helps ease fear around death, foster acceptance, hold space for grief, and create sacred and meaningful transitions. This work flows naturally from yogic principles of presence, kindness, and honesty: being fully present and honouring your journey.
This may include offering active listening, facilitating conversations about legacy and remembrance, guiding meditative or spiritual practices, offering respite for loved ones, host grief circles, helping grow plants that symbolise loved ones, holding sacred vigil during the final stages of life, and creating rituals to honour your loved one’s and your own life.
Ready to explore how this support can bring acceptance to you or your family or friends? Click below to learn more.
A Selection of our offerings
Life Coaching
Stepping into your life fully honouring your boundaries can feel both exciting and challenging. It can stir up tough emotions like grief, anger, fear, or frustration and leave you feeling isolated or stuck.
Coaching with Ingrid is about meeting yourself honestly, sharpening your self-awareness, and building real resilience. Through a powerful mix of mindfulness, honest reflection, and coaching tools, she guides you to face what holds you back, break old patterns, and reclaim your strength.
Whether you are seeking a one-off session or a transformational journey, working with Ingrid is for those ready to do deep inner work. To grow, heal, and step into a life that is meaningful and fun.
Yoga, energy work, and ritual are optional add-ons, not requirements, if you want to explore your spirituality.
Click below to learn more and take the next step.
Creating Sacred Garden Space
Do you want to create a beautiful garden space where you can retreat to but are not sure which plants to incorporate? Are you looking to create a remembrance area in the garden to remember loved ones? We offer garden consultations and assistance with a focus on plants that are suitable for you and your special space. Consultations are held online and in person.
Whether you need help with plant health, pruning, propagation, planting designs, greenhouse management, general plant and garden advice, or plant shopping we are here for you.
Ingrid has RHS horticultural qualifications and has many years of experience as professional horticulturist and loves to help you with your green sanctuary space.
Please click the button below for more information.
Handpoured Candles
Candles create sacred space through the transformative power of fire which burns away the old, illuminates the present, and ignites new beginnings. The flame guides us through transitions, brings clarity, and connects us to the unseen.
Ingrid creates handpoured pillar candles designed to serve as a powerful tools for transformation, meditation, and remembrance. These candles are created with love and with the planet in mind. They consist from a mix of soy wax and beeswax and an eco friendly dye and wick. Click the button below to learn more and see examples.
A note on pricing
We honour the principle of dāna for some of our services, an ancient practice rooted in Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain traditions meaning “generosity” or “the act of giving." Traditionally, it is a way to offer support given freely from the heart without expectation of return. This practice recognises that giving and receiving are interconnected, they are both an offering and a privilege.
In the modern world, dāna continues as a way to cultivate generosity and ensure accessibility while honouring fair exchange. Our offerings are priced to reflect the time, energy, skill, and care we devote to this work, yet we also believe support should not be limited by financial means.
If cost is a concern for any of our services (not products), please reach out by clicking the button below as we are happy to explore options that are fair and sustainable for both of us. If you feel so called, in selected group offerings you might notice a sliding scale incorporating dāna.
Why work with Ingrid
'Everyone deserves a purposeful and fulfilling life. We are all humans and we all carry baggage. It can be tricky dealing and processing that in a kind way towards ourselves and others.
I have experienced loneliness and much heart break which led me to a choice: Continue living the way I was or do the work and create a more fulfilled life. I now navigate life’s challenges, losses, and growth with honesty and effort, not by quick fixes. I take 'walking the talk' seriously.
Years of experience in yoga, horticulture, spiritual practice, and life coaching have shaped how I live my life and how I support others: with compassion, expertise, honesty, integrity, and a no-nonsense approach that calls you to show up, do the work, and own your journey, while also having fun.
When you work with me, we create a path that honours your truth, supports your growth, is sustainable, and leads to a sacred life.'
Please don't take our word for it, scroll down to take a look at the testimonials below or click the button to learn more about Ingrid.
Click the button to read Ingrid's articles on 'Sacred Living'
Testimonials
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"Ingrid devised personalised yoga nidras for me. It led to deep reflections which helped me solve and resolve personal and interpersonal challenges and increase my sense of purpose in the world. Simply wonderful. She also devised life coaching with me when I felt stuck. I can't recommend her insight and guidance enough. She got me thinking from a different perspective and showed me practises that I still use to this day. Thank you Ingrid. You have shown me that change does indeed comes from within."
- Sonia, Yoga and Life Coaching
"I was fortunate enough to meet Ingrid when she was just at the beginning of her adventures into plant husbandry and herbal medicine. Seeing her fuse together all her passions, which are also her skills, has been amazing - but to be able to benefit from these as her yoga student has been a sublime and grounding experience. Ingrid is thorough in her approach, and sees the individual first and really works with you to help you find a connection into your body. If you work with Ingrid you are choosing not a life coach, a herbologist, yoga instructor or gardener - you're choosing someone to partner you through whatever transformation it is you need to make. Her kindness, dedication, and sense of fun are evident in every aspect of her work, and life. I couldn't recommend her more highly."
- Maya, Yoga
"Ingrid's life coaching was wonderful! She helped me gain clarity on where I was at and where I wanted to go, including digging out some things that I hadn't realised were important to me. Throughout several sessions, she was patient, understanding and went the extra mile to help keep me accountable for the plan she was helping me set. Would recommend"
- Brendan, Life Coaching
"I have had back pain for more than a year. Ingrid has given me some stretches which I have been doing twice a day. What a difference!! Thanks so much Ingrid!"
- Yvonne, Yoga
"I have always wanted to try life coaching but never knew where to start until I met a friend who suggested that I contact 'Petals and Aum'. It has exceeded my expectations. Ingrid is a friendly, warm and at the same time professional and well-organised person who helped me to clarify my career goals and life's priorities, both so important for personal development and for making the most of one's time. Definitely earned my five-star rating and enthusiastic recommendation."
-Klara Anna Capova, Life Coaching
"The Self-Care Sunday session was a wonderful start to the day and a grounding start to the month. I enjoyed the mix of different activities over the course of the two hours - chants, yoga, journalling and more. I hadn't tried journalling before and I wasn't sure how I'd find it. However, with the calmness - physically and mentally - which Ingrid Van Oostrom had helped me to create, thoughts and intentions flowed readily from head to page. Thank you Ingrid. I look forward to future sessions."
-Catherine, Yoga and Coaching
"Having used Ingrid's gardening skills I can safely say she is excellent. As an experienced gardener who just doesn't have time currently I needed someone who understands my plants and their needs and isn't just going to cut the lawn and leave (she cuts lawns as well though). If your garden needs some TLC or even a bit of a makeover be assured she is very good and willing to work with you to achieve what you want in your garden."
- David, Gardening
"I didn't know what to expect when I started Yoga. It has really helped me clear my head and I've learned techniques that re-centre my thinking when I feel overwhelmed. It is an exercise for the whole body - it may look easy but it isn't! Ingrid is an excellent teacher, gently guiding and adapting where necessary. Her preparation is thorough and she will taillor each private session to your needs, whether that's an overall goal or specific needs each week. I wouldn't have anyone else!"
-Amanda, Yoga
"I had a great time on this trip in Greece! As a novice sailor and not very experienced yogi, it was a great learning experience and great to see how what I learnt from yoga can be applied to sailing and vice versa. Blair was a great teacher who explained the basics of sailing to me throughout the trip and encouraged me to apply the newly learnt skills during our daily sailing sessions. Ingrid really immersed us in the world of yoga. She started the journey with some lighter and meditative exercises, developed them further and increased the level of difficulty day by day. I enjoyed learning to be present and fully embrace the experience. Having a group from all over the world made this trip very special and I hope that the friendships made on board will live on. All in all, I can only recommend the sailing-yoga retreat! You will have an unforgettable experience!"
-Joëlle, Yoga and Sail Retreat 2023
"I had sessions with Ingrid because I felt stuck. Ingrid patiently listened without judgement to my concerns and gently guided me by getting me to think about things in a different way. She made me understand how my thought processes had been gearing towards pleasing others and thinking too much about what others thought. With this knowledge I was able to make decisions with increased clarity and confidence. I have taken these lessons and tried to use them with present situations. It is an ongoing process. Thank you Ingrid for all you have done."
-Annette, Life Coaching
"Ingrid is a agreat yoga teacher! She creates a very welcoming, friendly space and fun environment to practise yoga, whether it be indoors or outdoors amongst nature. Her classes always leave me feeling a combination of relaxed, energised and re-set, and I love how accomodating Ingrid is and will add any requests into her sessions to target any aches or little tweaks you may have! She is a very lovely person too."
- Michelle, Yoga
"I worked with Ingrid for a number of life coaching sessions recently. I found her integrity, understanding and her ability to hold me accountable very helpful. I have many projects on the go (always!) and sometimes I know I have scattered thinking and Ingrid worked with me to refine the key areas I wanted to work on. I have already had results from the marketing actions I put in place after our conversations. Also (and perhaps more importantly) Ingrid also made sure I also relaxed and took time to celebrate and enjoy my life! I would highly recommend Ingrid to you if you are looking for someone to shine a light to uncover your habits/beliefs, to help you make positive shifts in all areas of your life."
- Theresa, Life Coaching
"I have used Ingrid a few times now for supporting with the upkeep of my garden and can say she does a fantastic job. She offers great advise and feedback on plants in my garden and what she had achieved/ planned to do on her visit and completes any tasks I ask to be completed. It's also a great support to know if I need advice she is there to offer support. I would really recommend Ingrid."
- Donna, Gardening
"Ingrid devised personalised yoga nidras for me. It led to deep reflections which helped me solve and resolve personal and interpersonal challenges and increase my sense of purpose in the world. Simply wonderful. She also devised life coaching with me when I felt stuck. I can't recommend her insight and guidance enough. She got me thinking from a different perspective and showed me practises that I still use to this day. Thank you Ingrid. You have shown me that change does indeed comes from within."
- Sonia, Yoga and Life Coaching
"I was fortunate enough to meet Ingrid when she was just at the beginning of her adventures into plant husbandry and herbal medicine. Seeing her fuse together all her passions, which are also her skills, has been amazing - but to be able to benefit from these as her yoga student has been a sublime and grounding experience. Ingrid is thorough in her approach, and sees the individual first and really works with you to help you find a connection into your body. If you work with Ingrid you are choosing not a life coach, a herbologist, yoga instructor or gardener - you're choosing someone to partner you through whatever transformation it is you need to make. Her kindness, dedication, and sense of fun are evident in every aspect of her work, and life. I couldn't recommend her more highly."
- Maya, Yoga
"Ingrid's life coaching was wonderful! She helped me gain clarity on where I was at and where I wanted to go, including digging out some things that I hadn't realised were important to me. Throughout several sessions, she was patient, understanding and went the extra mile to help keep me accountable for the plan she was helping me set. Would recommend"
- Brendan, Life Coaching
"I have had back pain for more than a year. Ingrid has given me some stretches which I have been doing twice a day. What a difference!! Thanks so much Ingrid!"
- Yvonne, Yoga
"I have always wanted to try life coaching but never knew where to start until I met a friend who suggested that I contact 'Petals and Aum'. It has exceeded my expectations. Ingrid is a friendly, warm and at the same time professional and well-organised person who helped me to clarify my career goals and life's priorities, both so important for personal development and for making the most of one's time. Definitely earned my five-star rating and enthusiastic recommendation."
-Klara Anna Capova, Life Coaching
"The Self-Care Sunday session was a wonderful start to the day and a grounding start to the month. I enjoyed the mix of different activities over the course of the two hours - chants, yoga, journalling and more. I hadn't tried journalling before and I wasn't sure how I'd find it. However, with the calmness - physically and mentally - which Ingrid Van Oostrom had helped me to create, thoughts and intentions flowed readily from head to page. Thank you Ingrid. I look forward to future sessions."
-Catherine, Yoga and Coaching
"Having used Ingrid's gardening skills I can safely say she is excellent. As an experienced gardener who just doesn't have time currently I needed someone who understands my plants and their needs and isn't just going to cut the lawn and leave (she cuts lawns as well though). If your garden needs some TLC or even a bit of a makeover be assured she is very good and willing to work with you to achieve what you want in your garden."
- David, Gardening
"I didn't know what to expect when I started Yoga. It has really helped me clear my head and I've learned techniques that re-centre my thinking when I feel overwhelmed. It is an exercise for the whole body - it may look easy but it isn't! Ingrid is an excellent teacher, gently guiding and adapting where necessary. Her preparation is thorough and she will taillor each private session to your needs, whether that's an overall goal or specific needs each week. I wouldn't have anyone else!"
-Amanda, Yoga
"I had a great time on this trip in Greece! As a novice sailor and not very experienced yogi, it was a great learning experience and great to see how what I learnt from yoga can be applied to sailing and vice versa. Blair was a great teacher who explained the basics of sailing to me throughout the trip and encouraged me to apply the newly learnt skills during our daily sailing sessions. Ingrid really immersed us in the world of yoga. She started the journey with some lighter and meditative exercises, developed them further and increased the level of difficulty day by day. I enjoyed learning to be present and fully embrace the experience. Having a group from all over the world made this trip very special and I hope that the friendships made on board will live on. All in all, I can only recommend the sailing-yoga retreat! You will have an unforgettable experience!"
-Joëlle, Yoga and Sail Retreat 2023
"I had sessions with Ingrid because I felt stuck. Ingrid patiently listened without judgement to my concerns and gently guided me by getting me to think about things in a different way. She made me understand how my thought processes had been gearing towards pleasing others and thinking too much about what others thought. With this knowledge I was able to make decisions with increased clarity and confidence. I have taken these lessons and tried to use them with present situations. It is an ongoing process. Thank you Ingrid for all you have done."
-Annette, Life Coaching
"Ingrid is a agreat yoga teacher! She creates a very welcoming, friendly space and fun environment to practise yoga, whether it be indoors or outdoors amongst nature. Her classes always leave me feeling a combination of relaxed, energised and re-set, and I love how accomodating Ingrid is and will add any requests into her sessions to target any aches or little tweaks you may have! She is a very lovely person too."
- Michelle, Yoga
"I worked with Ingrid for a number of life coaching sessions recently. I found her integrity, understanding and her ability to hold me accountable very helpful. I have many projects on the go (always!) and sometimes I know I have scattered thinking and Ingrid worked with me to refine the key areas I wanted to work on. I have already had results from the marketing actions I put in place after our conversations. Also (and perhaps more importantly) Ingrid also made sure I also relaxed and took time to celebrate and enjoy my life! I would highly recommend Ingrid to you if you are looking for someone to shine a light to uncover your habits/beliefs, to help you make positive shifts in all areas of your life."
- Theresa, Life Coaching
"I have used Ingrid a few times now for supporting with the upkeep of my garden and can say she does a fantastic job. She offers great advise and feedback on plants in my garden and what she had achieved/ planned to do on her visit and completes any tasks I ask to be completed. It's also a great support to know if I need advice she is there to offer support. I would really recommend Ingrid."
- Donna, Gardening
"Ingrid devised personalised yoga nidras for me. It led to deep reflections which helped me solve and resolve personal and interpersonal challenges and increase my sense of purpose in the world. Simply wonderful. She also devised life coaching with me when I felt stuck. I can't recommend her insight and guidance enough. She got me thinking from a different perspective and showed me practises that I still use to this day. Thank you Ingrid. You have shown me that change does indeed comes from within."
- Sonia, Yoga and Life Coaching
"I was fortunate enough to meet Ingrid when she was just at the beginning of her adventures into plant husbandry and herbal medicine. Seeing her fuse together all her passions, which are also her skills, has been amazing - but to be able to benefit from these as her yoga student has been a sublime and grounding experience. Ingrid is thorough in her approach, and sees the individual first and really works with you to help you find a connection into your body. If you work with Ingrid you are choosing not a life coach, a herbologist, yoga instructor or gardener - you're choosing someone to partner you through whatever transformation it is you need to make. Her kindness, dedication, and sense of fun are evident in every aspect of her work, and life. I couldn't recommend her more highly."
- Maya, Yoga
"Ingrid's life coaching was wonderful! She helped me gain clarity on where I was at and where I wanted to go, including digging out some things that I hadn't realised were important to me. Throughout several sessions, she was patient, understanding and went the extra mile to help keep me accountable for the plan she was helping me set. Would recommend"
- Brendan, Life Coaching
"I have had back pain for more than a year. Ingrid has given me some stretches which I have been doing twice a day. What a difference!! Thanks so much Ingrid!"
- Yvonne, Yoga
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