Hi, I’m Jenny
I work with people who are ready to stop living at a distance from themselves — and find their way back in, through the body.
My work is somatic. It moves through breath, sensation, and the nervous system. Through the parts of you that learned early to cope, protect, and hold on — and the deeper layers that have been quietly waiting.
I came to this work through my own unraveling.
For a long time, I lived in my head — managing, analysing, staying just above the surface of myself. I could feel that something was held in my body, in the places where tension never quite left, where breath stayed shallow, where certain emotions simply didn’t arrive. I had learned, without knowing it, to escape the very place I needed to return to.
What changed wasn’t a single moment. It was a slow learning — what it means to feel safe enough to stay. To come back into the body not as an act of will, but as an act of trust.
Thirteen years of somatic practice, Grof® Holotropic Breathwork training, Rebirthing, IFS, and trauma-aware facilitation have shaped how I hold this work. But what stayed with me most was something simple: the body holds experience long after the mind believes it has moved on. And so much becomes possible when the system finally feels safe enough to soften.
My approach is gentle, but it goes deep.
We don’t chase catharsis here. Instead, we slow down — and let your system reorganise at its own pace, so that change can emerge without force, and without cost to your nervous system.
This work is about:
Safety · Embodiment · Integration
And about learning to meet your life — and yourself — with more capacity, more clarity, and more ease.
If something here resonates, I’m here — steady, present, and ready to begin when you are.
If you feel ready to reconnect with yourself, I’m here to offer a steady, supportive hand.
My Approach
I created Somaaya because I believe the body isn’t something to manage or overcome — it’s the place we come home to.
The name holds that. Soma — the living body, its breath, its felt essence. Aya — path, movement toward, the way through. Together: the path back into yourself.
Not a problem to solve. Not a symptom to treat. The very ground of healing.
Because healing isn’t only something that happens in the mind — in insight, understanding, or the right reframe. It happens in the breath catching and releasing. In the moment a shoulder drops without being told to. In the nervous system learning, slowly, that it’s safe enough to soften.
It lives here. In sensation. In what the body has been quietly carrying.
Somaaya is a space for the healing of the felt self — the part of you that knows through experience, not just thought. That holds grief in the chest before the mind names it. That braces before you’re consciously afraid.
This work isn’t about peak experiences or dramatic release. I’m more interested in what comes after — how change is held, how new ways of being actually take root, how life starts to feel different from the inside.
Breathwork and somatic practice can open something profound. But what makes that opening meaningful is what surrounds it: preparation, presence, integration, and enough nervous-system safety to let what surfaces actually land.
Nothing here is promised or performed. What I can offer is a slowing down. A quality of attention. A space where your system is met as it actually is — and where, from that honest ground, something real can shift.
A note on breath (and why it matters to me)
As a teenager, I had panic attacks that left me unable to breathe. I learned early that the instruction to “take a deep breath” wasn’t soothing for me — it felt forced, even overwhelming. My body didn’t yet know how to receive the breath.
Years later, on a retreat at Dhanakosa in Scotland, something crystallised in a simple mindfulness-of-breathing practice: I realised I didn’t actually know how to breathe in a way that felt safe or natural. I had to learn again, from the beginning.
That moment began a longer inquiry — toward more ease, more peace, and a different way of being in my body. Over time, that inquiry shaped the way I hold space now: not leading from the front, but listening, tracking, and responding to what is present — with the breath as a bridge back into relationship with oneself.
At that same retreat, I experienced a profound stillness — a moment where awareness felt as if it were floating above my body, held in a quiet peace I had never known before. That contrast stayed with me: the struggle to breathe, and the possibility of deep ease.
It marked the beginning of my real inquiry — a search for more peace, more ease, and a different way of being in my body.
Over time, that inquiry led me to Stanislav Grof’s work and Holotropic Breathwork — a path oriented toward wholeness, using the breath as a vehicle for inner exploration and healing.
Training matters — but only if it translates into something you can actually feel: being met at your own pace, with care and without pressure.
The thread running through everything I do is attunement — to your nervous system, your rhythm, what your system is ready for in any given moment. Sessions adapt to that. Depth is never assumed.
I place strong emphasis on:
Preparation — especially before deeper breathwork or non-ordinary states
Consent and choice — central to everything, not an afterthought
Resourcing — building stability and safety before moving toward intensity
Integration — so that what opens in a session doesn’t just pass through, but becomes part of how you live
I don’t work from a single method. I draw from a range of approaches in response to each person and each moment — always in service of your safety, your agency, and a relationship with your body you can trust.
I’m a trained Rebirthing and Holotropic Breathwork facilitator and space-holder, with experience guiding both one-to-one and group sessions.
My work is informed by conscious connected and rebirthing breathwork, somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, trauma-aware facilitation, and integration-focused principles. Alongside formal training, it’s shaped by ongoing personal practice, supervision, and lived experience supporting people through emotional, physical, and psychological processes with care and discernment.
Qualifications & Specialised Training
Each qualification below represents years of dedicated study, supervised practice, and personal immersion. This breadth of training allows me to draw on multiple approaches — meeting each person exactly as they are.
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WPF Therapy | 2019
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Institute for Consciousness Exploration
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IFS Institute | Trained by Senior TrainerMariel Pastor
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Sacred Tree, UK
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Atira Tan
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Embody Lab
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Sacred Tree