Discover The Way Back to yourSELF

Traditional Somatic Practices for Modern Wholesome Living

You are the HEALER
of your JOURNEY.

You are the CREATOR
of your STORY.

We are finding parts of ourselves not aligning to the environment around us - suffering from dis-EASE such as depression, anxiety, exhaustion, addiction, auto-immune disorders, and an array of other unknown health ailments. So why do we continue to walk down the same path unconsciously without the guidance towards meaningful solutions? Why do we avoid feeling uncomfortable with distractions like work, food, alcohol, substances, shopping, or scrolling? Because we were never taught to be still with our discomfort as children and now as adults, we’re left with unhealthy coping habits and unresolved stress.

Whether you’re in traditional talk-therapy, reading self-help books, joining support groups, or on a constant search to figure out the root causes of your pain, but still feel disempowered and dysregulated, it’s probably because you’re taking a “top-down” approach to your healing. It is equally important to take into account how stress and discomfort FEELS within your body as it is to KNOW what your root causes are. Physical signals in the body are often messages of deeper rooted stress and tension, and without having a safe space to process these messages with tools to attune to your Body-Mind system, you’ll most likely miss the cues over and over again. Your nervous system doesn’t want to know about the root cause of your stress - it wants to know that it is safe + supported in experience.

What is keeping you in this survival mode?

What space can you make to be in a thriving mode?

Bessel van der Kolk states,“The Body Keeps the Score”, and to fully experience a transformation requires a holistic, “bottom-up”, Body-Mind approach. Using the power of your breath, your prana, your life-force energy, as the portal between your body and mind, you can access non-ordinary, subconscious states of mind to help experience and release what’s been stored in your body in a supported space so your Body-Mind system can recalibrate and recover.

By creating an environment for your nervous system to feel supported with the discomfort, your Body-Mind system can begin to open and release tension - both emotionally and physically. The natural state of relaxation allows the body and mind to re-build trust within itself, allowing the protective armor and masks to eventually come down.

This healing journey is not about being regulated and calm all the time. It is about learning how to navigate the human experience - both the joys and the sufferings - and create endurance and resilience to hold all those emotions and uncomfortable situations. To live in the present moment of your authentic being and experience the moment just as it is.

If you are ready to commit to a lifelong relationship to self-discovery, self-love and self-fulfillment, then become the creator of your story.

You are the healer. You are the medicine.

Traditional Somatic Practices for Modern, Wholesome Living

Awareness through Breathwork

Ancient Asian and Indigenous cultures have deeply influenced the development of Breathwork, integrating it into spiritual practices, health systems, and meditation traditions. Breathwork has been used across centuries to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. These ancient practices continue to shape modern-day Breathwork therapies today, contributing to a more holistic approach to mental health, healing, and personal development. A modern somatic breathwork journey can be a transformative experience using the body’s innate living intelligence - your own intuition.

Learn to rewire your Body-Mind system to access awareness and interoception through somatic practices. When we can start to become consciously aware of our physical, mental and emotional states, then we can begin to attune to our needs and intuition more clearly.

Harness your Energy

From the universal life-force energy practices in Qi Gong and Reiki to the focused mindfulness and intentions of Buddhist meditation and the transformative power of pranayama in yoga, understanding the flow of your vital energy is essential to attuning to your physical, emotional and spiritual health. The breath is the essential gateway and bridge between the Body-Mind system, and by controlling your breath through various breathing techniques, you can essential control the flow of energy within.

Attuning to your energy flow provides real time bio-feedback of your personal needs, and can help decode messages from your Body-Mind system of what your next steps should be. This is essential to help prevent overwhelm, burnout, exhaustion, and functional freeze.

Understand your Nervous System

To understand nervous system regulation, you have to first understand how your own personal nervous system was formed and shaped as a child and how it currently operates as an adult. Once you understand your dominate stress response and how your own nervous system operates, you can begin to notice situations under a new perspective and find new opportunities and choices for change.

The goal isn’t about being regulated and calm all the time. It is about learning how to navigate the human experience and create endurance and resilience to hold ALL of emotions to support yourself without overwhelming your nervous system. To be resilient is striving to embrace, honor and hold the full spectrum of the human experience as a WHOLE - the body, the mind and the soul. When you embrace the gray storm, you experience the appreciation and joy of the rainbow.

This is balance + harmony.

This is yin + yang.

This is The Way.

A Holistic Body-Mind Approach

Body-Mind Awareness

RECOGNIZE
Be the observer of your human experience and attune to internal bodily sensations such as hunger, heart rate, breathing and pain, as well as emotional and stress response states. Validate your experiences without judgement or attachments.
Processing

RELEASE
Create a personalized safe + supported space to process and express your emotional states and allow the release of unwanted stress or tensions from the past or in daily life. This is your sacred space to freely and responsibly release your emotions and healing.
Internal Connection

REFLECT
Self-identity drives our unconscious actions. Stories from our past can distort our perceptions about ourselves. Connect with your authentic values and inner-self. Be in the space to witness your needs and bring meaning + purpose to your life by aligning your desires through small, but actionable changes.
Neuroplasticity

REFRAME
Strengthen your neuroplasticity by creating changes that form new neural pathways and connections. New habits and reframing situations into new perspectives can lead to positive changes in the whole Body-Mind system, including nervous system resilience.
Integration

RESPONSIBILITY
Take radical responsibility + accountability. Be empowered to make authentic choices and actions that aligns with your values + needs. Experience the present moment - flow with the failures while celebrating your wins and find joy in the progress.

Our Somatic Offerings

A one-on-one breathwork experience personalized to your specific needs. A single session consists of a 2-hour Breathwork journey and a follow up 1-hour integration zoom call.
An assessment of your current lifestyle and “ki” (energy flow), followed by a full-body therapeutic treatment and energy cleansing.
Experience relaxation + grounding for your body and mind through harmonic frequencies and vibrations. Connect to yourself and the present moment for deep, therapeutic healing to restore and reset your nervous
Design your home, office, or personal space using a holistic interior design approach that integrates physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of an environment.
Rather than solely focusing on aesthetics and trends, this intuitive approach creates spaces that are balanced and harmonious, and support the well-being of the user. Intuitive design combines various philosophies including color theory, Feng shui, and energy work.
Keiki Reiki is a children’s program developed to help kids build confidence, self-awareness, mindfulness and encourage empathy, compassion and resilience through self-directed energy movement.
Workshops can be taught as a single class, or an 8-week module. Parents are encouraged to attend!
Coming Soon - Summer 2025!
A 10-week advanced immersion program for clients ready to make the deep dive into exploring the WHOLE SELF with curiosity, commitment and community. The Spaceis a sacred place where you will meet yourself just as you are, without judgment or attachments and learn how to flow with the dualities of the human experience. Find balance - the yin and the yang - in your life.
The Spacewill meet via Zoom, with weekly Breathwork experiences, learning about how your own Nervous System operates and responds to your dominate stress response. Find your SPACE of safety and community to process and release tension and pain in a contained and supported environment.
Limited spots available - sign up to receive a notification for when the program drops!
Connect with us to co-create group workshops + special events for Breathwork journeys, Reiki sound baths and more!
Email info@maumsomaticwellness.com or fill out the contact form for more information.