Somatic Trauma Healing

My signature 1:1 somatic trauma integration program

First, as a survivor, I find it really important to let you know that you are not alone.

#metoo

I myself have experienced so many of the consequences of trauma as listed below, and for years I thought there wasn’t much more I could do to change that. I thought it was something I had to learn to live with, as I ended up believing that was my personality, that was who I was.

Luckily, I was wrong, so wrong!

Whether you were molested, sexually assaulted, neglected and abandoned by your main caregivers as a child, grew up in a violent and unsafe household, or have to deal with ongoing pervasive trauma like racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., I truly desire that you know you can still have a fulfilling and exciting life.

Healing is possible!

If you have unintegrated trauma, you might be:

trapped in fight, flight, freeze or fawn
feeling numb and dissociated from your body
dreading moving towards your soul’s goals and desires
experiencing a deep sense of powerlessness and overwhelm
stuck in the past memories and flashbacks of the traumatic event (s)
unable to tap into the magic that deep inside you know you are worthy of
terrified of your sexuality, unable to enjoy your eroticism with ease and safety
suppressing your emotions, because most times they are way too intense to feel
disconnected from your aliveness and vitality – in the bedroom and the boardroom
feeling stuck, defeated, unable to live, love and show up in your relationships in the way your soul truly desires to.

Thriving is still your birthright, despite of what happened to you, and the key is your body.

Meaning: once you understand that trauma is stored in the body, and as such can be healed with a bottom-up approach, you can feel hope and excitement again.

We experience life through our bodies and senses, and if we want to feel more integrated and healed, the body needs to be intentionally engaged in the process.

At the end of the day, this work is about reclaiming your divinity, and recognizing the divinity in all beings. Your divinity is your wholeness.

I need to share that, to me, trauma healing is about human liberation. It’s sacred work.
It’s really about the birth of the New Earth and the next and expanded level of human consciousness.

You see, it is possible for you to feel confident enough to move towards your Soul’s desires and live in a way that that turns you on and lights you up.

You can actually fall in love with your body and really enjoy feeling all sorts of pleasure, including sexual pleasure. And then, you can have sex with who you want, only in the way that feels good and in integrity with your body’s wants, limits and boundaries.

You can feel brave enough to open your heart and let yourself be touched by others. You can trust yourself to be in intimate, meaningful relationships, while honoring your sense of self and holding your dignity all along the way.

You can learn to connect and attach in a deeper and more secure level – with family members, romantic partners, professional relationships and different members of your community. This is medicine that impacts the entire planet!

You can embody your sense of agency and really own your right to choose. You reclaim your power to decide and to recognize your ‘yes’, ‘no’ and ‘I don’t know’.

Just imagine feeling the energy and strength to show up to build the world you actually want to live in. From a full cup, you can overflow as you honor the ways you really want to be in this world – when caregiving, in business, in bed, in love, in politics and all.

An important disclaimer

Trauma Healing & Integration doesn’t mean you become immune to normal human experiences.

Your humanity is still here and you’ll still feel all things associated to being an incarnated human being: grief, sadness, anger, loneliness, envy, etc.

When you find integration, your sense of Self, your core essence, the part of you that is worth protecting, feels empowered and strong enough to be online and is able to move through life without a total sense of shame or defeat.

You become more resilient to experience the fullness of life and allow your authenticity to be openly expressed.

How we journey together to experience healing, integration, expansion, empowerment and erotic aliveness.

Your desires, our North Star

We start off by stablishing your Desire Map, a collection of your goals and desires for our work together, and in a larger view, for your life moving forward.

This is your Soul telling you what it wants.

Trauma is not our guide, as our work is focused on freeing yourself from the consequences of traumatic events so you can fully thrive.

Befriending the body & releasing stuck energy

For people who have unintegrated trauma, the first step is to create safety for you to feel your body again.

You need to teach your brain that right here, right now, you’re are safe enough and it’s ok to reconnect with your body again.

We then weave Somatic Experiencing® and other trauma healing methodologies to regulate your nervous system with very gentle and effective somatic embodiment approaches.

Giving voice to the body-mind

Once you are able to feel your body again, with a sense of curiosity and present-moment awareness, we are ready to hear the messages the body has to share.

These messages will always be held with love and compassion, our healing superpowers.

We also learn to listen to your body-mind’s needs, and from that awareness we do integration processes that will profoundly heal those past wounds, the rejected or neglected parts of us that are screaming for attention, affection and protection.

We also experience the magic that happens in our sessions…

That’s because when you give yourself permission to let your body-mind wisdom speak through you, you also have the most magnificent experiences.

This piece of the work is really hard to put down in words, but I want to invite you to dive deep with me, so you can taste what your magic looks like.

Creating the inner ecology in alignment with your Soul’s desires

Once you are able to be more present with your body, you are familiar with so many different pieces of your body-mind – and all the consciousness they have – we keep healing, integrating and empowering the parts that come up so that you can achieve your goals and desires.

You’ll notice that the messages from your deeper intuition, from your body-mind wisdom, are really aligned with your soul’s purposes, and together we’ll create the appropriate inner ecology that will allow you to thrive.

Sexual empowerment & erotic bliss

It’s my greatest desire that everyone has the opportunity to reconnect with their sexuality in the most loving and authentic way that is possible and available to all of us, regardless of your upbringing or past traumatic experiences.

You are also worthy of sexual bliss! You belong here!

Because pleasure is a key aspect of our embodiment journey, you’ll also learn beautiful and inspiring ways to reconnect with your sensuality and sexuality from a place of power, agency, potency and divine inspiration.

You’ll learn Sacred Sexuality embodiment approaches that are based on Tao and Tantric Traditions, and you will understand how sexual empowerment is the missing piece towards a fully thriving life.

How somatic coaching has helped others

Hear it directly from my amazing clients

Marina is a grounded, embodied and heart-centered earth woman. She's also a radiant lionness with a lot of courage and strength, yet her approach is always very gentle and makes you feel completely held and safe. Our beautiful sessions together have been full of compassion, love and magic. Marina's been inspiring, supportive and patient with me during my six month online coaching journey with her. Our work together has supported me to feel more courageous, to feel safer in my body and to gently heal past traumas in a unique way, by anchoring into the goodness and the pleasurable sensations in my body as a support throughout the healing process. Thanks to our sessions, I've finally been able to find that elusive "happy place" to anchor into that everyone has always talked about that I've never been able to find in the past. I've also received so much benefit from the recorded practices shared after each session. I recommend any woman who wants to do a sexual healing and growing journey to work with Marina!

Thelma Storm

Bali

Working with Marina has enabled me to heal trauma that kept me in an almost constant trigger mode to feeling deeply peaceful and empowered. She holds truly safe and loving space that has been crucial for me to do this deeply profound healing journey. I always felt she was completely present and brought with her so much compassion and deep wisdom. I am eternally grateful for her!

Kattis Jonsson Ludvigsson

Sweden

When you combine leading from the heart with experienced training in one's field, you get the kind of practitioner everyone wants to work with! This is Marina. She is supportive, empowering, loving, and present, no matter what you are bringing to the table. It's been a couple months since I finished working with Marina, and the more time passes, the more I realize how much her work has transformed me. Her work has a way of sneaking up on you--at times her methods may feel subtle, but I would realize afterwards how much had shifted...And how much my nervous system actually needed that subtlety!

Maddie

USA

As you integrate your wounds from the past, you can now show up in the world from a place of authenticity and inner-trust.

When you go through this deep journey of healing, empowerment and flourishment, you no longer need to secretly envy all those people who seem to be so self-confident, powerful, well-put together and sexy.

You slowly start embodying all the qualities you are claiming as yours too. And as a result, you become a much more potent Soul-centered leader, successful professional and caregiver, passionate lover, devoted teacher and inspiring way shower.

And you realize you are resilient enough to face life’s adversities and keep moving forward, embracing your truth and your magic, doing amazing things for yourself and your community.

You see, throughout my life, I did years of talk therapy, but it was only when I finally integrated mind-body-spirituality, through Somatic Embodiment, that I found the depth of healing my soul was craving for. And to be honest, the healing and unfolding are still happening, as deep wounds are healed in layers.

As an adult, I was pretty successful as a professional and in my friendships, and yet I knew there was something a bit off with some ways I was showing up in different areas of my life.

The main area of my life that was affected by my experiences with sexual and racial trauma were my romantic relationships.

Even though I was perceived as a very “put together” kind of person, I ended up dating people who were not at all aligned with my core values and beliefs, and one relationship after the other I experienced heart break, psychological abuse, and tremendous emotional suffering. Partner after partner, I kept choosing people who were emotionally unavailable, who had very little to offer in terms of deep love and trustworthy connection, and who would lie and cheat in the most unimaginable ways.

It was exhausting and I knew it was not so much about them… it was about me!
I was done with it, and ready to take full responsibility for myself.

Learning embodiment with a focus on my sexuality through Tao & Tantric approaches, opened up a new world of bodily pleasure, energetic potency and spiritual power. That was automatically translated into how I opened up to deeper intimacy and connection, which was what my soul really craved for, but I had been too scared to experience because of all the layers of trauma I hadn’t integrated yet.

Pleasure became my medicine and not only did I learn to be more embodied, but also to navigate the challenges of life with the support of my whole, integrated self. Because trauma is also about fragmentation, and healing means finding our wholeness back!

Mind, body and spirit were filled with aliveness and a vitality I hadn’t known before. And changes began to come…

Relationships started shifting and I began to date people who were so much more aligned with me. I was finally open for deeper connection, and so I received it!
Fast forward to marrying David, the love of my life, and now I can say that I’m in the kind of relationship I know in my bones to be healthy and incredibly loving.

My corporate job was not making any sense anymore, and I followed my inner wisdom to transition to this new and fascinating career that I have now. And I love it so much!

This new chapter of my life is inspiring, and all challenges and difficulties I face (because yes, life still happens!) can be met with a sense of groundedness and the inner knowing that I can overcome all of it when I show up fully for myself.

I can deal with my humanity when I hold myself with love, compassion, acceptance and patience.
And I keep healing, because I accept help and surrender to the vastness of support that come my way when I allow it in.

Working with Marina over the last 2 years has been incredibly enriching to all areas of my life. Working in a very demanding corporate job had depleted me close to burnout and I was making all the wrong choices in my dating life. Marina's deeply compassionate and kind nature combined with her incredible intuitive wisdom tuning into her huge array of trainings created a nourishing container that I was able to surrender into twice per month to release layers of trauma and pain. I was able to release grief held on to for a long time and breakdown a lot of the defences I was holding around my heart. The layers of pain were big and I was surprised with how much softening and opening was needed to allow myself to let life back in again. Since working with Marina, I have allowed myself to reclaim my personal power, take on a new leadership position at work, start building a team and taking on bigger client projects with more gentleness. I feel safe to allow more of the divine feminine energies to guide me, trusting myself more and more as I practice speaking up and expressing my truths more in life. I am finding my authentic voice which is softer, more feminine and less forceful. It feels beautiful.

Victoria

Australia

First I experienced Marina's coaching when she was a teacher during my VITA training. Immediately I felt safe in her warm, motherly and humorous presence. After the VITA program, I really wanted Marina to become my personal somatic coach, and I am so happy that this worked out. Her sessions are like a soothing warm bath, but one in which you are lovingly brought to the most deep parts of your system. The process was sometimes fierce, sometimes gentle, which was exactly what I needed. The sessions with Marina always brought me a huge step further in my process. I learned to feel and connect with myself and my body in a way I never experienced before. The process helped me to finally move trough my feelings of loneliness and tension - two major forces that had until then determined my life in a very negative way. I'm able to embrace so many more of my emotions and sensations now with loving presence, which makes my life so much more valuable. Thank you so much Marina for your deep guidance and wisdom.

Anna

The Netherlands

This is what I wish for you too: that you connect with that part of yourself that is done with the chains of trauma and is ready for this deeper and integrative approach to healing.

Because I know in my bones that you can thrive.

I crave for you to tap into that inner magic that you have.

I know you can overcome numbness, disconnection and fear.

I truly desire for you to learn to hold yourself with unconditional love and radical self-acceptance.

I wish for you to regain your sense of power and agency, so you can take full responsibility for how you show up in this life. You deserve this too!

And I wholeheartedly wish for you to embrace your empowered eroticism and enjoy a life filled with pleasure, joy and sexual bliss.

This is what will allow you to fully thrive and finally embody the magnificence that you are!

IS THIS JOURNEY FOR YOU?

I find this deep healing approach to be most beneficial for you if

You allow yourself to be messy and show up as you are
You resonate with energy healing and/or spiritual support
You are curious about integrating Somatics into your healing process
You have already done other modalities of therapy, coaching & self-development
You’re ready to prioritize your journey and you can commit with time, money and energy

And you might not be ready to take the best out of this work yet if

You are dealing with severe depression and mental health imbalances that prevent you from functioning in life and doing things like going to work, leaving bed, or interacting with loved ones. If that’s you, you might really benefit from a psychotherapist and/or psychiatrist first
You have done very little self-development or healing work and are very new to this
You’re not ready to show up for our sessions and can’t commit with the financial investment
You are expecting this to be like talk therapy and are unwilling to add Somatic Integration to your healing

Ready to say yes? Here's what to expect:

Book your free initial conversation

This is a pressure-free 30 min call for us to meet each other and make sure that we vibe, that what I offer is what you’re looking for, and decide if this is the right time for you to start this journey.

An important note:

I’m currently fully booked and not taking new clients until I wrap up with a few of my current ones.

That said, I invite you to join my waitlist so I can let you know once I’m ready to onboard you into this beautiful container.

Please make sure to add my email to your contacts so my messages don’t end in your spam folder: [email protected]

Once we start working together

1. We create your Desire Map in our 1st session

We talk about and outline where you want to get with our work together. This is our North Star, which will help me design a specific route to help you get where you want.

2. We dive deep for a minimum of 6 months of 1:1 sessions (2 or 3 sessions/month)

In each session, we start with a qualified conversation on the topics we are working on together. Then we do an embodiment practice or integrative process that helps you heal and deal with the pieces that keep you away from your desires.

Finally, we reflect on the insights of the session and define together what attitudes or actions you can do at home in the time in between our meetings.

This methodology has helped dozens of my clients find their way back to their bodies, recover their sense of agency, power, aliveness, vitality and eroticism, which makes it possible for them to experience a more thriving life, despite of what happened in the past.

If you’re curious, the tools and techniques used in our sessions include:

Energy healing
Somatic Experiencing®
Nervous system regulation
Ancestral and spiritual support
Gentle trauma healing techniques, including non-erotic touch for nervous system regulation (online and in-person)
Giving voice to your body-mind, even when it doesn’t seem to make much sense, and acknowledging and honoring all these pieces
Integrative process of the pieces that need it the most, that is, those pieces that are really wounded due to trauma, repression and rejection: inner child, inner feminine, the sexy adult, the naive teen, the wise crone, inner rebel, etc.
Somatic Embodiment practices like: conscious breath, movement, sounding, visualization, journeying, energy cultivation, meditation, Tao & NeoTantric pleasure rituals, etc.

3. You continue integrating the work with at-home practices between sessions

A day after our call, I send you an email with brief notes from our conversation and supporting material for you to continue practicing alone.

The material varies a lot and can be: guided audio practices (my client’s favorite!), questions for reflection, a movie or book suggestion, among others.

Your Investment

Because I truly believe in the healing and transformative power of relationships, I only work with clients who can commit to a minimum of 6 months with me.
This allows us to go deeper and get the most amazing results this work has to offer.

In 6 months, we have sessions of 60 min each (2 or 3 sessions a month), followed by a brief summary email and supporting material like guided audios and embodiment practices.

2 monthly sessions: USD 860 per month for 6 months
3 monthly sessions: USD 1,290 per month for 6 months

Working with Marina was a great gift. I felt held, seen and safe enough to share about stressfull and even traumatizing experiences. An important part for me was also, that Marina understood some experiences I had due to identifying as mixed race - that is still rare in the coaching world, especially in Germany! In our work together I had some major releases of stuck feelings and I learned how to feel okay about myself even though I experience challenging emotions.

Sanata

Germany

Marina is an incredible coach, in fact I don't feel this title 'coach' does her services justice. When working with Marina I always felt seen, heard and most importantly safe. With her support I was able to unravel and identify and most importantly integrate many aspects of myself that had fallen into my shadow. We worked with inner child trauma, my wounded masculine and feminine energies and embracing my power. If you are ready to level up with your growth in a. safe and supportive environment, Marina is the coach for you.

Ashley Hohenstein

Mexico

I loved this process and how deeply it nourished me. Every session seemed to turn up something new to explore and I was often amazed by what would arise. The safe space and the sense of being fully seen and supported helped me drop into my body and trust that if I stayed with the sensations and images that arose, I'd grow and find healing, which I did. Marina is extraordinarily skilled at holding space and at reading people, even over a video call! She could always tell when I'd shifted into a new experience in my body, or was falling into story and needed support to move back into the present moment. This is also the first time in my life that inner child work actually *worked* for me. That was a lovely gift of healing, alongside all the other positive steps into deeper awareness, integration and expansion.

Lisa M.

USA

Hi, I’m Marina, Somatic Trauma Healer, Embodiment Coach, Teacher & Mentor

I have an Education BA, Business MBA, Ontological Coaching Certification, VITA™ Sex, Love and Relationships 1-year Certification and completed the 3-year Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Healing Training.

Working with hundreds of clients worldwide, both in my coaching practice and also as a Senior Teacher at VITA™ Coaching Certification, I have witnessed the power of somatic embodiment as a healing and empowering path.

I see myself as a body enthusiast, passionate about the wisdom and healing power of our bodies and all the ways we are able to integrate mind-body-spirituality in a conscious and loving way so we can thrive.

In my 1:1 coaching, I help people trapped in past trauma heal, regain their sense of power, agency and erotic aliveness so they can thrive in all areas of life.

As a mentor and teacher to Sex, Love and Relationship Coaches, I offer ongoing support with Case Consultations (supervision), Continued Education and Sustainable Business Development.

I grew up in Brazil and now live in the SF Bay Area, CA, with my beloved husband David, our baby daughter Isabella and our rescue dog Jessie.

L earn more about me here .

Love, trustworthy connection, compassionate presence and sensorial pleasure are our healing superpowers.

When you’re ready to embark on this life-giving journey, I’m here for you.

When I started working with Marina, I was experiencing PTSD symptoms and processing body memories of childhood sexual abuse. While I already had been doing a lot of inner work and had come to a somewhat stable place with it all, I was still flooded with debilitating fear at times and my body was feeling a lot of shut down. As I write this testimonial, I am struggling to find words to express just how transformational the sessions with Marina have been for me. They were so safe and gentle, that the healing just settled over me, and I only realized how much things had changed when I really thought about it. The change felt so natural, like waking up in the morning to sunshine and just feeling good, and not remembering how challenging things had been… Marina’s presence is gentle, super warm and powerful. She made me feel so safe, seen and understood, while guiding me through processes that helped me shift my perception of things in a really healthy way. At times she felt like the Goddess… Holding the eternal power and magnificence of my nature as part of all nature. At times she felt like a mother, holding space for me lovingly and reassuringly. At times she felt like a sister, celebrating with me and understanding me as a woman. She also was a very skilled and experienced guide… The kind of guide you’d want when braving the wilderness of your psyche. It was the perfect blend of being able to relax because I trusted her guidance, and being able to find my own answers and chose my own path to healing. I felt protected and empowered. And now that I have had a few weeks to integrate, the shift is nothing short of miraculous. My nervous system has calmed down and I am excited to feel and explore my feelings - all of them. I feel embodied and at home inside of myself, even in fluctuations of energy. I am waking up to much deeper pleasure. My deepest love and gratitude to you, Marina. You are an exceptional woman, coach and healer.

Verena Maeder

New Zealand

After much personal growth and development work, I came to realize that some of the challenges that I was working to shift weren't shifting just by changing my mental models. My intuition whispered... look for the wisdom in the body. This led me to seek out Somatic Experiencing Therapy. My friends recommended Marina. Marina listened to my story with all of her senses. I felt safe, seen, and heard by her. Marina customized every session to guide me to connect with my body's wisdom. The shifts in my body could be felt in each session. I gained greater mind and body awareness, practical tools for daily living, and a sense of peace with my life's journey. Marina's coaching completed the puzzle for me. I have so much gratitude for her work in this world. Marina is a blessing.

Erika M.

USA