Somatic Healing and Embodiment Coaching
Come home to your body. Reclaim your power.
We store our life experiences in the body. Grief, trauma, stress, and even unspoken desires can live in our tissues long after the moment has passed — shaping how we think, feel, move, and relate to the world.
Somatic Healing & Embodiment Coaching is a trauma-informed, body-first approach to emotional and nervous system healing. It’s not about talking at your pain — it’s about giving your body the safety, tools, and rhythm to move through it.
This work supports you in reinhabiting your body, reconnecting to your innate wisdom, and reclaiming joy, agency, and self-trust.
I have seen and experienced how yoga can be a key to psychological and emotional healing as well as resolving issues with self-confidence, relationships, and more; which is why in 2018, I decided to educate myself more and completed a 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training in Golden Bay, NZ and registered with Yoga Alliance.
As a trauma-informed yoga teacher, I guide practices that help you feel safe in your body again. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, grief, or simply feel disconnected, my yoga sessions focus on:
Nervous system regulation through breath & movement
Restorative & somatic yoga to reconnect with felt sensation
Empowered embodiment through intuitive movement
Inner stillness & emotional release
This is not performance-based yoga — it’s a healing space to soften into presence and reclaim your inner rhythm.
Bridging therapy and somatics to help you come home to your body.
The SAH Method™ (Somatic Activated Healing™)
The SAH Method™ is a powerful trauma-informed modality designed to release stuck emotions from the body through movement, breath, and sound.
As a certified SAH Facilitator, I guide you through a sequence that may include:
Somatic body keys
Trance & rhythmic dance
Breath activation
Dynamic meditation
Vocal release & positive affirmation
This method works from the bottom up — helping you shift the way you feel to shift the way you think. It’s non-invasive, deeply embodied, and transformational. You don’t need to “retell your story” — we move the energy instead.
For most of my professional life, I supported others through insight and understanding. But after profound personal loss and heartbreak, I realized that no amount of talking could move what my body was still holding. I could analyze and articulate my trauma; yet I didn’t feel safe enough to feel it.
One of the hardest things I’ve ever learned to do was feel safe in my body.
Through yoga and the SAH Method — a blend of breathwork, mantra, meditation, and movement — I began to process emotions that had been frozen for years. The practice helped me move from intellectualizing my pain to embodying my healing, reconnecting me to my joy, intuition, and strength.
Now, I integrate my background in counseling, trauma-informed care, and somatic practices to help others do the same. My approach bridges the clinical and the spiritual — guiding people to release stored emotion, regulate their nervous systems, and remember their wholeness.
Whether in private sessions or retreat settings, I hold a compassionate space where movement becomes medicine. Each breath, beat, and gesture is an invitation to return home — to safety, to self, and to love.
My intention is to help others not just survive their stories, but move through them with grace and courage — one breath, one beat, and one dance at a time.
Retreat Services
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A trauma-informed, slow flow yoga experience designed to help participants map, regulate, and restore their nervous systems. Blends Polyvagal Theory with mindful breath, somatic cueing, and gentle movement to support internal safety and embodied awareness.
Includes: Nervous system psychoeducation, functional breathwork, grounding, heart-opening yoga flow, orienting & integration practice
Best For: All retreats, especially those focused on stress relief, nervous system health, or trauma recovery.
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A meditative, heart-centered journey to reconnect with the inner child using Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work, somatic anchoring, and self-compassion practices.
Includes: - Guided visualization - Gentle breath - Inner child journaling or art - Optional sharing circle
Best For: Deep healing retreats, women's circles, trauma work, integration days.
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A music-guided somatic activation and emotional release class combining TRE-inspired tremor work, intuitive movement, and freeform dance.
Includes: Grounding + tremor release warm-up - Shaking + Somatic movement - Ecstatic dance - Mantra - + stillness integration - Group reflection or journaling
Best For: all retreats, trauma release practice, embodiment-focused gatherings
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An intentional, somatic-based ceremony for releasing resentment, shame, or self-blame - making space for freedom and compassion.
Includes: - Visualization & letter writing - Somatic heart opening + breath - Optional water/fire/flower ritual (customizable) - Integration prompts
Best For: Integration days, grief retreats, relationship healing, new moon/full moon rituals.
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A trauma-informed psychoeducational session exploring how to integrate non-ordinary states (plant medicine, breathwork, etc.) into daily life.
Includes: Talk on nervous system + integration, Group dialogue + reflective prompts, Somatic regulation practice (breath/humming/orienting) - Optional art or journaling
Best For: Retreats involving plant medicine, breath work, or other altered state modalities.
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In addition to workshops, I offer trauma-informed space holding as a licensed professional counselor. I provide grounded emotional support, co-regulation, and integration guidance throughout the retreat. Whether participants are moving through emotional release, psychedelic processing, or simply need to feel seen and safe, I offer a steady, compassionate presence.
Includes: 1:1 emotional support and check-ins, Co-regulation during high-intensity moments, Psychedelic/somatic experience integration, Pre- or post-retreat processing if needed
Best For: All retreats with deep inner work, emotional vulnerability, or altered states needing sensitive, skilled support.
“Yoga is a psychology—the whole practice helps us work with the nature of the mind, the nature of being a human, how emotions live in our bodies, how they affect our behavior and our minds”
The Story of the Lotus
Unlike many other flowers, when the lotus first begins to sprout, it is surrounded by water and covered in mud and muck.
Despite these conditions, it miraculously re-blooms each morning undeterred by its dirty environment without a trace of residue on its petals.
The lotus continues to resurrect itself, coming back just as beautiful as it was last seen. With such refusal to accept defeat, it's almost impossible not to associate this flower with the symbolism of hope and unwavering faith.
A lotus is a survivor, as it pushes its way through muddy waters and finds the sunlight.
It stuns people with its ability to grow in the mud, dip into the grime, and revive itself unscathed. The lotus flower’s story is one of inspiration because it continually finds strength while growing and overcoming its environmental obstacles in order to show the world its beauty.
You don’t need to be spiritual to understand that we are all like the lotus flower. Many of us live in that murky water, and never make it to the surface so we can blossom. Many of us are close; we are just buds, ready and eager to feel the sunshine of life on our skin. No matter which stage of life you are on, I’m sure you can relate to the lotus and see yourself in its story. The conditions that produce beautiful life are not always ideal, but that never stops the lotus from rising through adversity, opening its petals, and blossoming in the sun.
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud - the obstacles of life and its suffering. The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life.”
- goldie hawn
“Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.”