Somatic Therapy for Trauma, Dissociation & Nervous System Regulation
Online body-led trauma-sensitive work for those who feel too much, or not at all
Using Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and Somatic Healing Practices
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 — not as concept, but as lived experience.
I work online with people around the world, who have arrived at a threshold — burnout, a major life transition, the long echo of complex trauma — and know that something has to change. Through trauma-sensitive yoga, somatic practice and shadow work, we work with the body's own intelligence to find the way back.
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 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
Hi, I’m Soraya
For years, I knew and 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 fifteen year, body-led journey guided by lived experience, intuition, and many hours of trauma-informed and somatic study.
I'm a trauma sensitive yoga practitioner, trained by Trauma Centre 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 the 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
How you begin depends on where you are,
what you’re carrying, and what your body is ready for right now.
One Threshold. Three Doorways into nervous system healing.
HELD
Held is my 1:1 offering. 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. Online, set your own time and frequency.
PIVOTAL
A four week, self guided somatic journey that you have access to forever. Short, simple practices designed to be done anywhere — waiting in line, key in the door, phone in hand, first sip of coffee. Moments of return, woven into the life you're already living.
ALCHEMY OF SELF
Alchemy is a six-month online somatic journey. Longer, slower, held within a small intimate circle with weekly meet-up’s and one to one’s. This is where the deeper layers get to surface in a held community.
Healing Complex Trauma through your Body
Trauma Sensitive Yoga, 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 allowis 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.
This work may be right for you, if
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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
slowness, but you’re scared of what might rise if you stop moving.
If any of this speaks to you, this work — somatic healing, trauma-sensitive yoga, shadow work — can meet you gently, truthfully, and at the pace your body allows.
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