I’m here to guide you back to the wisdom of your own body – to reclaim your rhythms, regulate your nervous system, and rewild the felt sense of your living, breathing wholeness.
I’m a Somatic Practitioner trained in nervous system regulation and embodiment practices, reiki, and psychedelic integration and ethics. I’m a polyvagal-informed and certified coach with a MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UCL, where I explored ritual, personhood and the liminal spaces where true transformation takes place. My work lives at the crossroads of academic inquiry, embodied practice and lived experience – experimental, grounded and alive.
My path into somatics wasn’t theoretical, but survival. In my late twenties, I became deeply dissociated: trapped in cycles of panic attacks, spiraling freeze states and anxiously attaching to others like my life depended on it. I realized how long I had been disconnected from my own body – operating far beyond my capacity, without the tools to recognize or regulate what was happening inside me.
A series of psychedelic experiences, including Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies, cracked me open. Sobriety from alcohol and living off-grid on a remote island in Panama, stripped away every old structure I had clung to. I had left a career-driven life as a writer and editor in London to chase the wilds of Latin America – originally following an ethnographic research project into Ayahuasca tourism – but what I found was something I wasn’t prepared for: myself. I moved through altered states of consciousness that unraveled and rebuilt me, but integrating these experiences wasn’t instant, and it wasn’t clean. It’s been a slow, messy, beautiful return.
Somatic practices became the ground I couldn’t find anywhere else. I sought out 1:1 coaching, entered group spaces and eventually stepped into my own trainings – to understand, rewire and reclaim myself. Talk therapy had its place, but it was somatic work that taught me to live. It gave me the tools to stop surviving and start inhabiting my body, my life, my truth, without spiraling, without rumination, without fear always trailing behind me.
Now, I hold space for women on their own journeys: those who are ready to come back to their bodies, to their wildness, and to their innate untamed intelligence.
I believe in a perpetual state of becoming, while also embracing our being qualities. There is no destination, only discovery. What has my path of self-discovery looked like?
❁ Certifying as a mind-body somatic coach and becoming polyvagal-informed, learning to meet and regulate panic, anxiety, process my emotions fully and re-embody after years of disassociation
❁ Conducting ethnographic research at an Ayahuasca lodge in Ecuador for my MSc in social and cultural anthropology, and spending two months writing from the Galápagos
❁ Learning how to support others in preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences, including Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Psilocybin and LSD
❁ Leaving my life in London – choosing the jungles and beaches of Latin America, and finding community in Panama
❁ Living on a remote island of 200 people in Panama for 6 months where I processed a lifetime of stagnant emotions and confronted behavioral patterns
❁ Understanding the importance of social cohesion after such extreme isolation (as if Covid lockdowns weren’t enough!)
❁ Experiencing hours of coaching and therapy to support my embodiment, vision and clarity & to step into my role as a guide
❁ Becoming aware of the anxious attachment style driving my life, soothing that part of me that feels frightened of being abandoned
❁ Allowing myself to experience and receive meaningful connections, widening my network of friends globally
❁ Settling into my choice to live a nomadic lifestyle, and the freedom I have to wander around the globe
My trainings & education
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I earned my Master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology at UCL, conducting ethnographic research into Ayahuasca tourism and neoshamanism in the Ecuadorian andes. During this time, I lived at an Ayahuasca and San Pedro retreat centre, volunteering and participating in ceremonies. I completed modules in psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, and the anthropology of religion, plus I audited a module in the history of madness and its cross-cultural perceptions. I wrote papers on cross-cultural understandings of the self, individual and personhood, liminal space and meaning-making within neoshamanism experiences, drawing on rich ethnographies. I bring boundless curiosity and an understanding of cultural differences to my coaching.
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I trained to become a certified mind-body coach with The Embody Lab, with teachers including somatic experts Dr. Scott Lyons, Staci Haines and Manuela Mischke-Reeds. Spanning months of study, I gained intellectual and embodied understandings of interoception, neuroception, proprioception and exteroception. I’ve studied embodied introjections and reflections, mapping our body stories, embodied conflict resolution, integrating tensions, conditioned tendencies, working with boundaries and requests, embodying complexity, resisting norms and more. I learned to facilitate a cycle of change through the framework of awareness > feeling > expressing > embodied insight > action, and I came away with a toolkit of somatic practices that I use in my coaching practice.
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I learned nervous system regulation – including how to shift out of stress responses and into states of engagement, resilience and creativity – with Dr. Stephen Porges and Michael Allison. I studied Allison’s model of The Play Zone, a blended state of safety and mobilisation; of being engaged and metabolically active with our minds and body but not from an underlying place of threat. The Play Zone is grounded in joy, exuberance and deep focus, while the body and mind are aligned, connected to our passions, to others and the world. I refer to this model with clients. We practice tracking, managing and mastering our bodily state – shifting through the performance hierarchy with awareness and efficiency.
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I’ve studied psychedelic facilitation, integration and ethics with the likes of Simone Weit of Zendo Project, Adam Aronovich and Licia Sky of the Trauma Research Foundation. Modules included intercultural competency and epistemic humility, trauma and psychedelics, how Zendo harm reduction principles inform psychedelic facilitation and the role of community in psychedelic facilitation. I took a particular interest in learning about an embodied approach to the psychedelic healing journey, and the importance of establishing a relationship with oneself and increasing bodily awareness as a first step towards navigating and transforming trauma. Somatic practices are hugely supportive in the process of psychedelic preparation and integration.
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Through light touch or working remotely, I support your system in releasing tension, clearing energetic blocks and restoring a natural sense of flow with Reiki. I trained in Reiki because I found it offered me deep grounding, presence and calm in my life. Reiki works on physical, emotional and energetic levels – helping to clear stagnation, reduce stress and deepen somatic awareness. I am certified in Reiki Levels 1 and 2, trained by Megan Hayes, a Salt Lake City-based Reiki Master. My approach weaves Reiki into my broader somatic work, offering a deeply integrative experience that supports nervous system regulation, trauma release and embodied insight.
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Somatics comes from the Greek word soma, meaning “the living body in its wholeness.” It refers to the study and practice of understanding the body as an integrated, sentient experience rather than just a physical structure. The body is viewed as more than a collection of bones, muscles and systems – we see it as a dynamic and interconnected living system that holds emotions, memories and patterns of behavior.
Somatics takes a holistic approach to personal development that integrates the mind, body, and emotions. This method goes beyond traditional talk-based coaching by encouraging embodied practices such as breathwork, mindful movement and grounding techniques. We begin from the place that the mind are interconnected, focusing on understanding how emotions and life experiences are stored and expressed in the body. This practice emphasizes the role of physical sensation and movement in shaping our thoughts, behaviors and overall well-being.The body is seen as a key resource for insight and change; it is a source of intelligence and self-awareness. By paying attention to bodily sensations, movement and posture, somatics provides insights into how we experience and interact with the world. I’ll guide you to explore bodily sensations, postures and patterns of movement to uncover unconscious habits and emotional blocks. By tuning into the physical body, you can access deeper levels of self-awareness and unlock new possibilities for growth. Somatic practices help release tension, regulate emotions, and cultivate a sense of presence and agency in your life.
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Polyvagal-informed coaching focuses on helping you work with your nervous system to move out of stress-driven responses and into states of connection, calm and clarity. With training from the Polyvagal Institute, I use insights from polyvagal theory to help you understand how your body’s automatic responses shape your thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
Your nervous system constantly scans your environment, your body and your relationships for cues of safety or danger – without your conscious awareness. These assessments influence your physiological state, which becomes the foundation for patterns like stress, overwhelm or unhelpful habits. Polyvagal-informed coaching works with this system, helping you understand how these patterns emerge and guiding you toward healthier ways of responding.
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Somatic Coaching
✼ Single Somatic Coaching Session: $85
✼ Remembrance Cycle (5 Weeks): $695
✼ Wild Remembrance (12-Week Immersion): $1,595
Messaging Mastery for Conscious Business Owners✼ Breakthrough Session: $245
✼ Conscious Content Strategy (5-Session Package): $1,200
✼ Full Content Transformation (12-Week Immersion): $2,700
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Single somatic sessions and 5-week programs require full payment upfront. For the 12-week programs, I offer flexible payment plans to make the investment more manageable.Please note that I do not accept refunds. I have a 24-hour cancellation policy – if you need to cancel or reschedule, please notify me via email or WhatsApp.
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Anthropology taught me how to ask deep, probing questions, understand the complexities of human behavior, and engage with the stories that shape us. These skills are integral to my coaching practice, where I blend the insight of anthropology with the wisdom of somatics to guide you through the transformative process of wild remembrance.
At its core, wild remembrance is about reconnecting to the untamed self – the primal, instinctual energy that is often buried beneath layers of conditioning and societal expectations. It is the practice of returning to your original, embodied truth, a truth that has always existed within you but may have been lost or forgotten in the noise of modern life.
Through somatic practices and embodied awareness, I help you shed the layers of disconnection and return to the rhythms and energies that are uniquely yours. Drawing on ethnographic methods from my anthropology training, I am committed to listening deeply and observing your nonverbal cues, not for research, but to reflect back the wisdom stored in your body. My role is to help you uncover insights and recognize patterns, guiding you toward deeper understanding and self-awareness.
Together, we will explore the ancestral knowledge that pulses through your cells and the deep intuitive knowing that’s always been there. Wild remembrance isn’t just a return to something from the past – it’s a powerful, embodied reawakening to the untamed force within you, the part of you that knows how to move, speak, create, and live in alignment with your deepest self.
By combining anthropological insight and somatic embodiment, I create a space where you can safely reclaim your voice, express your wildness, and step fully into your power. In this space, you will remember not just who you are, but who you’ve always been, and from there, create the life you were meant to live.