Founder
Co-Creator in a Vast Universe
Céleste Banning (1965)
I am a pioneer — and a bit headstrong — and that’s exactly how I began my personal journey of discovery. At the age of twenty, I left for America. There, I lived for over six years in the wild, untamed nature of the Kawaiisu Indian region in California. For three thousand years, this land was theirs, and the cave within walking distance of our home at the time was known to them as the “Creation Cave.”
According to Kawaiisu tradition, this cave was considered a sacred site, where the world and their people were believed to have originated.
This place — full of rock carvings, arrowheads, and ritual energy — was my first encounter with what I now understand as “The living memory of the Earth.”
In 1992, I returned to the Netherlands with my family. My love for people and for society as a whole led me to pursue a degree in Cultural and Social Education (HBO). During those same years, I also participated in various professional trainings and workshops, including Emotional Bodywork, Empowerment, Communication & Self-Management, and Intuitive Development.
From 1998 to 2009, I worked as a social and cultural worker, project leader, and educator in adult education, where I developed and facilitated a wide range of trainings. Through my one-on-one coaching sessions with participants, I felt a growing desire to support people on a deeper level. This led me to complete the training program for Intuitive Guidance, as well as its advanced course.
Since 2006, I’ve been offering training and guidance focused on developing awareness, integrating life experiences, and creating (new) possibilities beyond existing frameworks.
Since 2011, I’ve worked as co-owner and guide at Uniovision, and together with my partner Rien, I co-created De Werfeling in Utrecht — a center for consciousness development in a thousand-year-old wharf cellar.
The Original Foundation
In the spring of 2025, I founded The Original Foundation.
Bringing the foundation to life feels like the sum of a long personal and professional journey — as if all the threads of my life are now converging in TOF.
On one hand, my deep interest in cultural and spiritual traditions has always been a steady undercurrent. On the other, there is the will — the heartfelt desire — to apply my knowledge and experience in service of a more integrated and harmonious society, where human potential can truly thrive.
I am deeply grateful for all the experiences and inner processes I have gone through. They have given me the unconditional freedom to fully live who I am.
“I see the path before me,
its destination hidden.
Yet it is precisely this mystery
that invites me to walk it.”
– Celeste Banning –
Céleste Banning (1965)
I am a pioneer — and a bit headstrong — and that’s exactly how I began my personal journey of discovery. At the age of twenty, I left for America. There, I lived for over six years in the wild, untamed nature of the Kawaiisu Indian region in California. For three thousand years, this land was theirs, and the cave within walking distance of our home at the time was known to them as the “Creation Cave.”
According to Kawaiisu tradition, this cave was considered a sacred site, where the world and their people were believed to have originated.
This place — full of rock carvings, arrowheads, and ritual energy — was my first encounter with what I now understand as “The living memory of the Earth.”
In 1992, I returned to the Netherlands with my family. My love for people and for society as a whole led me to pursue a degree in Cultural and Social Education (HBO). During those same years, I also participated in various professional trainings and workshops, including Emotional Bodywork, Empowerment, Communication & Self-Management, and Intuitive Development.
From 1998 to 2009, I worked as a social and cultural worker, project leader, and educator in adult education, where I developed and facilitated a wide range of trainings. Through my one-on-one coaching sessions with participants, I felt a growing desire to support people on a deeper level. This led me to complete the training program for Intuitive Guidance, as well as its advanced course.
Since 2006, I’ve been offering training and guidance focused on developing awareness, integrating life experiences, and creating (new) possibilities beyond existing frameworks.
Since 2011, I’ve worked as co-owner and guide at Uniovision, and together with my partner Rien, I co-created De Werfeling in Utrecht — a center for consciousness development in a thousand-year-old wharf cellar.
The Original Foundation
In the spring of 2025, I founded The Original Foundation.
Bringing the foundation to life feels like the sum of a long personal and professional journey — as if all the threads of my life are now converging in TOF.
On one hand, my deep interest in cultural and spiritual traditions has always been a steady undercurrent. On the other, there is the will — the heartfelt desire — to apply my knowledge and experience in service of a more integrated and harmonious society, where human potential can truly thrive.
I am deeply grateful for all the experiences and inner processes I have gone through. They have given me the unconditional freedom to fully live who I am.
“I see the path before me,
its destination hidden.
Yet it is precisely this mystery
that invites me to walk it.”
– Celeste Banning –
The Earth carries information, energy, and memories,
just as a body can remember trauma or love.
You could see it this way: certain places on Earth carry ancient knowledge, events, rituals, and intentions. Not as something dead or belonging to the past — but as something alive — something you can feel, intuitively sense or remember, or even receive in images and dreams.
For example:
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Sacred caves like the Creation Cave hold not only traces of human activity, but also a palpable presence of what once took place there.
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Certain power spots — such as ancient temple sites, stone circles, natural springs, or mountain peaks — can activate memories in those who are sensitive to them.
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The Earth as a whole is seen in some traditions as a conscious, living being (like Gaia), with her own memory, rhythm, and healing capacity.
Get in Touch
Celeste banning
+31 6 21272736
info@theoriginalfoundation.com