Somatic Therapy for Trauma & Dissociation
Online body-led, trauma-sensitive practice for those who feel too much, or not at all
When knowing isn’t enough; Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and Somatics
To alchemise the stories of your past into lived wisdom, felt sensation & embodied truth
You’ve carried your past like armour, therapy may have helped you understand it, But knowing isn’t the same as feeling.
Healing begins in the body - when we learn to listen to sensation instead of overriding it, disconnecting, or going numb.
When we stay with what’s here, instead of pushing it away.
This is the work: not escaping your story, but transforming your relationship to it.
This is shadow work and nervous system regulation — not as concepts but as lived experience.
I work online with people around the world, who have arrived at a threshold: the realisation that what they're carrying is complex trauma, burnout, or a major transition such as perimenopause, menopause or the end of a relationship. They know something has to change.Through trauma-sensitive yoga and somatic practices we work with the body's own intelligence to find the way back to colour.
What is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a body-led approach to healing trauma. Alongside understanding what happened, it works with movement, sensation and breath to help your nervous system rebuild safety, widen what it can feel, and learn to trust itself again.
We all have a deep need to understand what hurt us. But before we can tend to what's wounded, we must first return to ourselves as a whole.
This work begins with felt safety — and invites you to reconnect with your body as your guide.
To learn the rhythm of your nervous system and window of tolerance.
To listen to the quiet, inner language beneath the noise.
To cultivate felt safety.
To exist beyond the story of your trauma and into the truth of who you are now
This is the essence of somatic therapy: a body-led approach to trauma healing, nervous system regulation and reclaiming your truth
Hi, I’m Soraya Allison
I discovered I had childhood trauma, eventually I could explain “why” but knowing didn’t help me switch the reactions off, I needed the how. That question, “how do I stop living in constant override?” took me on a fourteen year, body-led healing journey guided by lived experience, intuition, and many hours of trauma-informed, somatic study and practice.
I'm a trauma sensitive yoga practitioner, trained by Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) and have been practising yoga for more than 35 years and facilitating for 20yrs.
I weave trauma-sensitive yoga, somatic practice, and nervous system work to create spaces where people can soften, rebuild internal safety, and return to themselves.
Our stories may be different. But I know this: trauma lives in our body — and so does the truth of who we are. Healing is not one-size-fits-all, and my role isn't to fix you. It's to walk beside you as you remember your own capacity for choice, clarity, and sovereignty.
What others have experienced
One Threshold. Three Doorways into nervous system healing
How you begin depends on where you are,
what you’re carrying, and what your body is ready for right now.
One-to-one online sessions for people of all genders living with trauma, overwhelm or nervous system exhaustion. One person, one body, one story at a time, worked with gently through trauma-sensitive yoga and somatic practice, at the pace your nervous system sets.
HELD
PIVOTAL
For women in perimenopause, menopause or a life in transition. Four weeks of ten-minute somatic practices, woven into the day you're already living: key in the door, first sip of coffee. Small moments of return, and a little colour coming back.
ALCHEMY OF SOVEREIGNTY
Six months, a small circle of women, and time to go deeper. Weekly live sessions and one-to-ones for women in perimenopause, menopause or a life in transition, where what's been waiting underneath finally has room to rise.
Healing Complex Trauma through your Body
Trauma Sensitive Yoga, is grounded in trauma theory, attachment theory, neuroscience, and traditional Hatha Yoga. It works as a body-based complement to treatment for treatment-resistant complex trauma (C-PTSD) and treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress (PTSD), supporting nervous system regulation, safety, and choice.
You don’t need to be flexible, spiritual, or experienced in yoga. This work meets you where you are, and moves at the pace your body allows.
Is this work right for me?
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Inside, you feel numb, disconnected and like a stranger to yourself
You’ve done the therapy, read the books, can name your trauma and yet still feel stuck
You live mostly in your head, rarely in your body
You override your needs daily, and can’t remember the last time you truly rested or put yourself first
You’re high-functioning, capable, praised for your strength—yet exhausted by holding it all together
You feel like you’re sleepwalking through life—and something in you is ready to wake up
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to feel more; joy, anger, longing but don’t know how access it safely
to slow down, but you’re scared of what might rise if you stop moving.
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There are three ways to work with me: HELD, one-to-one sessions open to people of all genders; PIVOTAL, a four-week self-guided course; and ALCHEMY a six-month group programme. Pivotal and Alchemy are for women in perimenopause, menopause or a major life transition.
If something here sounds like you, there's no need to work out the next step alone. Somatic healing, trauma-sensitive yoga and shadow work can meet you gently and truthfully, and a conversation over a virtual cuppa is the easiest way to find out how.
Understanding trauma and your body
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