Honor the life and wisdom within you
Somatic Relational Mentorship for sensitive, thoughtful humans wanting to feel more at home in their bodies, more present in their relationships, more creative and available for the lives they desire.
I’m honored to work with you in service of your healing, your embodiment, your expansion, and your meaningful participation in your life.
my approach
Somatic Experiencing® / Authentic Relating / Care of the Soul
I believe that our struggles make sense and carry their own wisdom. What may now feel like a limitation was once a survival response to an impossible circumstance, and now you’re ready to learn a new way. When we learn to listen, these same patterns can reveal what we long for, what we've lost, and the direction of our healing.
Rather than shaming or rejecting the uncomfortable parts of ourselves, we can honor them with curiosity and compassion; integrating them as our path to wholeness, nuance, and depth.
Through our work together, we will tend to the life that is asking to be lived through you: listening to the guidance of your soul, cultivating a richer presence in your relationships, deepening your capacity to feel your body and emotions, and creating the conditions for a life that feels more embodied, sacred, and alive.
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Somatic
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Relational
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Integrative
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Trauma-Informed
About Natasha
I’m devoted to supporting you in returning to your body, breath, and inner knowing. Through somatic, relational, and trauma-informed care, I work with individuals rebuilding lives of meaning and coherence after trauma.
I’ve led groups and healing spaces within wellness, clinical, and grassroots settings, including my work within non-profit organizations, as a facilitator and apprentice in a women's recovery house, as a yoga therapy teacher for 15+ years, and during my years living in an ashram as part of the core staff.
I'm especially attuned to working with those who are highly sensitive, socially anxious, empaths, or still learning to inhabit their bodies and emotions. Those who are healing from emotional neglect, shame, narcissistic abuse, chronic stress, illness, and disability, who may have learned to silence their needs, or carry too much alone.
My work is integrative, weaving together Somatic Experiencing®, Authentic Relating, mindfulness, visioning, self-inquiry. and yoga therapy. It’s grounded in 15+ years of multidisciplinary training, lived experience, and facilitation; and more recently in my work as the program manager at Sage Integrative Health, a role I’ve been honored to hold for 5 years and counting 💚
Experience
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15+ years teaching yoga, therapeutic movement, and embodiment (various locations across San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Portland OR)
Somatic Experiencing® (currently pursuing 3 year certification)
Authentic Relating (various trainings and groups)
Women's recovery work (Facilitation and Apprenticeship over several years, ShaktiRising.org)
Clinical collaboration, Care Coordination, & Clinic Management (Sage Integrative Health, 5+yrs)
Nonprofit, Community Building, & Intentional Community work (various organizations in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland OR)
Yoga Therapy modalities including Meridian Yoga Therapy, The Thinking Body-Feeling Mind, Restorative, Anusara Yoga, Siddha Yoga.
Mindfulness, Self-Cultivation, Spiritual Practice
Herbalism & Ecology (Ongoing)
Group facilitation
Facilitating Retreats & Teacher Trainings (multiple locations)
Multi-stakeholder collaboration
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immigration and belonging
living between cultures
recovery from acute and complex trauma
chronic illness and medical gaslighting
life-changing injury, hospitalization, disability
burnout
complex grief
coercive relationships
rebuilding community
finding one's way back after losing oneself
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My work is informed by formal training intersected with complex life experiences and an ongoing commitment to my own healing and contemplative practice. I continue to study, receive mentorship, spend time in nature, deepen my understanding of the nervous system, and practice the relational skills I invite my clients into.
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Over the past fifteen years my work has taken many forms. As a yoga therapist, facilitator, mentor, coach, program manager within an integrative mental health clinic, and student of the nervous system. The thread running through it has remained the same: creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, with one another, and with lives that feel meaningful.
Having lived across cultures, navigated profound relational and spiritual trauma, periods of chronic illness and life-threatening injury, and the nonlinear work of rebuilding trust, community, and belonging, I know that healing rarely follows a straight line. I also know that our greatest transformations often emerge not through force, but through relationships that are steady and loving enough to allow a new self to unfold.
My life experiences allow me to meet many forms of suffering with less urgency to fix, but rather a genuine curiosity, deep love, and great respect for each person's capacity to recover their power.
work with me
A collaborative space to slow down, listen deeply, and tend to the world within you.
Through somatic awareness, relational practice, and gentle inquiry, we tend to the places where life has asked you to disconnect; and support the threads that want to come back into connection, expression, and belonging.
1:1 Somatic Relational Coaching
In relationship is where most of our nervous system patterns formed, as well as where they can be rewritten, strengthened, wounded, or healed.
Group offerings create opportunities to practice presence, authenticity, boundaries, listening, grounding, vulnerability, and connection alongside other humans walking a similar path as yours.
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Groups & Community Offerings
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