Somatic Therapy for Trauma, Dissociation & Nervous System Regulation
Online body-led trauma-sensitive work with nature-based retreats
for those who feel too much, or not at all
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 becoming 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.
I work online with people around the world navigating major transitions - menopause, burnout, and the long echo of complex trauma. Guiding them back to the wisdom of their body through trauma-sensitive yoga, somatic practices and nervous system regulation.
Somatic Therapy Rebuilding Safety, Sensation and Self Trust
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 invites you to reconnect with your body as your guide—
To learn the rhythm of your nervous system.
To listen to the quiet, inner language beneath the noise.
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 repair, and reclaiming your truth.
This work may be right for you, if ……
You look calm on the outside—but inside, you feel numb, disconnected and like a stranger to yourself
You’ve done the therapy, read the books, can name your trauma—and still feel stuck
You live mostly in your head, rarely in your body
You crave feeling more—joy, anger, longing—but don’t know how touch it safely
You override your needs daily, and can’t remember the last time you truly rested or put yourself first
You ache for slowness, but you’re scared of what might rise if you stop moving.
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
You don’t just want healing—you want to live from your body, your truth, your sovereignty
If any of this speaks to you, this work can meet you — gently, truthfully, and at the pace your body allows.
What others have experienced
A Threshold into Nervous System Healing
There isn’t one right doorway.
A threshold is simply a moment of pause — a place where something old no longer fits, and something new hasn’t fully formed yet.
How you begin depends on where you are, what you’re carrying, and what your body is ready for right now.
HELD — 1:1 Guidance
Sometimes what we need isn’t a course or a group.
It’s a steady hand.
A safe space.
Someone walking beside us as we learn to feel again.
HELD is my 1:1 offering.
A trauma-informed space where we use trauma-sensitive yoga to gently unwind what your body has been holding.
This is not about fixing you.
Or rushing your healing.
It’s about meeting you exactly where you are —
numb, guarded, restless, or raw —
and being held as you cross into deeper self-trust, one step at a time.
Each session is an invitation to:
Reconnect with your body as a guide
Learn the natural rhythm of your nervous system
Stay with sensation instead of pushing it away
Discover what it means to feel safe enough to feel
Whether you’re navigating CPTSD, the threshold of menopause,
or the quiet exhaustion of holding everything together —
HELD offers a way through, you don’t have to carry this alone.
Pivotal — 4-Week Self-Guided Journey
Sometimes you don’t need a long commitment.
You need a pause.
A turning point.
A way to feel what’s possible before you go further.
Pivotal is a four-week, self-guided introduction to the Alchemy of Sovereignty.
A gentle entry point for those who feel the call to change — but need to move at their own pace.
This is a quiet, private journey.
No pressure to share.
No need to keep up.
Through short trauma-sensitive practices, somatic inquiry, and simple rituals, you’ll begin to reconnect with your body and listen to what it’s asking for now.
We work with the four pillars of alchemy:
Earth — Grounding finding steadiness and support.
Water — Emotional Reconnection softening numbness and allowing feeling.
Fire — Power of Choice noticing where choice is possible again.
Air — Embodied Sovereignty creating space to breathe, reflect, and orient.
Pivotal is not about transformation overnight.
It’s about sensing the shift.
Feeling the hinge turn.
And discovering whether this path is right for you.
A small step with real weight.
Alchemy of Sovereignty — 6-Month Online Journey
Menopause — and other thresholds in life — can feel like collapse.
Like losing the self you once knew.
But what if it’s not the end?
What if it’s the threshold?
Alchemy of Sovereignty is a six-month rite of passage for those ready to move beyond surviving…and begin living from inside their own skin again.
Through trauma-sensitive yoga, somatic practices, and elemental wisdom, you’ll be guided to gently thaw numbness, release what’s been carried too long, and rebuild trust in your body.
You don’t walk this path alone.
You journey alongside a small circle of women moving through the same terrain — each at her own pace, held within shared intention, safety, and respect.
We move through four living pillars:
Rooted Safety
Emotional Reconnection
Power of Choice
Embodied Sovereignty
Each is woven with the intelligence of the elements
Earth — Grounding coming home to the body. building safety, stability, and support.
Water — Emotional Reconnection softening what has frozen, allowing feeling to move again.
Fire — Power of Choice reclaiming inner authority, learning to respond instead of react.
Air — Embodied Sovereignty living with clarity and truth. breathing space back into your life.
This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about remembering what was never lost…
and being witnessed as the body leads you home.
…….and discovering how healing deepens when it’s no longer done in isolation.
Raw & Real Retreats
Nature-based yoga, community, and self-development retreats
These aren’t polished wellness getaways. They’re raw and real — intimate gatherings in wild corners of the UK and Europe, where we strip things back to what matters: nature, presence, truth.
Rooted in simplicity and community, these retreats open a threshold: a space to lay down the armour, step out of performance, and meet yourself as you are.
We weave somatic yoga, shadow work, sound, and elemental practices — with the land itself as guide. Mountain, river, fire, forest. Each reminds us how to return to our authenticity.
This isn’t about escape. It’s about remembering.
A remembering of your body, your voice, your belonging.
A remembering that happens not in isolation, but through being witnessed — raw, unpolished, and real.
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Healing Complex Trauma through your Body
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga is grounded in trauma theory, attachment theory, neuroscience, and traditional Hatha Yoga.
It is used as an adjunctive approach for 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.
Hi, I’m Soraya
I am an intuitive guide, a coach, a healer, and a trauma survivor.
Our stories may be different, but I know this: the path to healing is not one-size-fits-all.
From my own journey of reclaiming who I am, I’ve come to understand that trauma lives in the body and so does the truth of who we are. For years, I could explain why I was the way I was. But knowing didn’t help me switch it off. I needed the how
That question — how do I stop living in constant override? — took me on a twelve-year, body-led journey. One guided not only by textbooks, but by intuition, lived experience, and listening deeply to the body.
Along the way, I’ve studied and worked with trauma-sensitive yoga (TCTSY), somatic practices, sound healing and chanting, plant medicine, osteopathy, homeopathy, and other body-based therapies — with embodied yoga as my home practice for over 35 years.
I’ve been facilitating for more than 20 years, with over 1,000 hours of embodied study, not only through formal trainings but through trauma-informed, somatic, and intuitive practices that go far beyond today’s wellness trends.
But what shapes me most is lived experience. I lived much of my life without realising I was carrying trauma. My protective patterns were so polished, so praised, that I didn’t know I was still in survival mode.
Today, I weave these threads — yoga, somatics, sound, shadow work — to create spaces for others to untangle their past and return to themselves.
My role isn’t to fix you, it is to guide you back to your own north star, so you can begin to guide yourself, with compassion, understanding, resilience and love
You are already wise. Already whole
This is the work of remembering.
@sorayayoga
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Notes from the Path
Reflections on trauma, embodiment and the quiet work of becoming
PTSD, C-PTSD, Complex trauma, big T trauma and little t trauma, what the heck are they all?