The Coaches Behind RYME
RYME co-founders and best buddies, Hanna Attafi + Loes Hurkx
Meet the Duo
We’re Hanna and Loes, the two humans behind RYME.
RYME wasn’t built from a single method or a polished plan. It came from lived experience, from learning how to regulate, how to listen inward, how to repair old patterns, and how to return to ourselves in a world that rewards speed over presence.
Everything we offer is grounded in nervous-system awareness, trauma-informed care, and a deep respect for your capacity.
Hanna: the grounding, body-led guide
Hanna’s work is rooted in movement, breath, somatics, and a lifelong relationship with the body. She has practiced yoga for over half of her life and taught for nearly a decade, guiding people not through intensity but through softness, curiosity, and presence.
Before RYME, she worked as a public school teacher, an experience that taught her how to attune deeply, how to create safety through steadiness, and how to meet people exactly where they are. Her Master’s degree in Education, focusing on mindfulness and the neuroscience of stress, gives her a grounded understanding of how the nervous system learns, protects, and slowly opens when the right conditions are present.
In RYME, Hanna brings all of this into her work:
• breath-led grounding
• somatic sensing
• nervous-system softening
• mindful movement
• subtle interoceptive awareness
• spacious, gentle presence
People often describe feeling calmer the moment she enters the room, like their system finally has permission to breathe. Her guidance helps you reconnect with your body’s signals, even the ones you stopped noticing years ago.
Loes: the trauma-aware anchor and inner-world guide
Loes brings a complementary depth to RYME’s work, one centered on trauma-aware care, Polyvagal-informed guidance, hypnotherapy, and EMDR practice. Her approach blends nervous-system regulation, somatic awareness, subconscious re-patterning, and emotional clarity in a way that feels safe, intentional, and deeply human.
Her path into this work came through her own lived experience with dysregulation, overwhelm, and survival patterns that shaped her early life. Learning to regulate her system, understand her patterns, and rebuild safety inside her body shaped the way she coaches today.
In RYME, Loes guides through:
• Polyvagal Theory–informed nervous-system work
• trauma-aware presence
• EMDR practitioner tools
• hypnotherapy and subconscious processing
• breathwork and grounding
• gentle emotional attunement
• somatic clarity work
Clients often describe Loes as an anchor, someone who brings calm without pressure and clarity without overwhelm, someone who sees them, instantly. She helps people understand what’s happening inside them and feel safe enough to slowly shift old patterns, one regulated moment at a time.
Together: why RYME feels different
When our paths crossed, it quickly became clear that we worked differently, but believed the same thing at our core: people don’t grow through pressure, they grow through safety, presence, and being met exactly where they are. Our strengths naturally wove together into a way of guiding that feels both spacious and precise.
Together, we create a space where you don’t have to arrive perfect or prepared. You don’t have to perform or share more than you want. You don’t have to push yourself into a new way of being. Instead, you can come as you are, tired, unsure, braced, open, hopeful, and be met with gentleness and attunement. Our work honors the pace your system can hold, not the pace the world expects from you. We believe in subtle shifts, slow openings, small moments of safety that build over time into something steady and real.
That’s what RYME really is: a soft landing in a fast world. A place where your nervous system is allowed to exhale. A space where you get to return to yourself without rushing, fixing, or forcing. We’re here to walk alongside you, to hold the space with care, and to support you in finding the rhythms your body has been asking for all along.
This is who we are, two women committed to creating a steadier, kinder way of doing inner work. A way that feels human, honest, and deeply rooted in safety. A way that lets your system soften, settle, and shift at a pace that’s actually sustainable.
