Hi, I’m Jenny…
I help people reconnect with themselves through the wisdom of the body, the breath, and the parts of themselves that have long been waiting to be heard, seen and held.
For those who are tired of managing life from a distance — and are ready to come home to themselves.
I offer one-to-one somatic therapy, breathwork and integration support, online and in-person.
My work is rooted in somatic therapy, breathwork, and deep presence. Together we listen to the parts of you that learned to cope, protect, perform, or disconnect — and create the conditions for something deeper to emerge, where these masks can be put aside for a moment.
Not through force.
Not through fixing.
But through compassionate relating.
My Approach
Healing isn’t only something that happens in the mind — in analysis, insight, understanding, or the right reframe.
It happens as the nervous system slowly learns that it is safe enough to soften.
It lives here, in sensation. In what the body has been quietly carrying alone.
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.
My role is simply to help create the conditions where healing can unfold and become an embodied lived experience.
Breathwork and somatic practice can open something profound.
But what makes that opening meaningful is the preparation, presence, integration, care, attunement and safety that surrounds it.
Nothing here is forced or performed.
What I offer is a slowing down.
A quality of attention.
A space where your system is met as it actually is…
From that honest ground, something real can shift.
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 weaving and the way through.
Together, Somaaya means: the path back to your felt self.
You are not a problem to solve. Nor a symptom to treat.
I came to this work through my own unraveling.
My Story
I spent most of my teenage years into adulthood living in my head — thinking, analysing, achieving and managing life from the outside.
Beneath it all, my body carried a quiet language I hadn’t yet learned to hear. Tensions that never fully softened, breath that stayed shallow and constricted, emotions that remained just out of reach — too painful to fully feel and face.
Without consciously realising it, in order to survive I had learned to escape the very place I needed to return to.
Over time I realised healing wasn’t about becoming someone new.
It was about remembering the person beneath the fear, who had always been there.
What changed wasn’t a single moment. It was a slow learning to remember the parts of me hidden in the shadows and learning what it means to feel safe enough within myself and my environment to stay.
To merge back with the wisdom of the body not as an act of will, but as an act of trust.
What Experience has Taught Me
Transformation doesn’t come through force.
That’s the most important lesson thirteen years of training, personal practice, and accompanying others has taught me.
For years, I was deeply committed to talking therapy. I often left sessions feeling understood, but somehow still empty and unchanged. I had revisited my life, understood where many of my patterns came from, yet my body still braced, my breath was short and my heart protected itself again and again. My life was still organising itself around the same unconscious protections.
In 2013, I had an out-of-body experience during a meditation retreat at Dhanakosa in Scotland. For several hours, I experienced myself beyond the usual boundaries of my body and felt, for the first time, what true peace was like. My body now knew something my mind did not yet have a concept of. A seed had been planted.
It was only when I began to include the body — through breathwork, somatic practice, parts work, shadow work, ceremony and deeper experiential processes — that something began to shift. What had been stored in my body, held beneath words could finally be felt, met, and gradually integrated.
That experience has shaped the way I work.
My work draws from psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), breathwork and other trauma-informed approaches developed through years of study, supervision and personal practice. Each has influenced me, but none has become a script.
Together, we create the conditions for your whole system to slow down, soften, and reveal what it is ready to meet. Change is not imposed from the outside. It begins to emerge from within, in its own timing and in a way your system can hold
My practice is grounded in lived experience, not technique alone. That shapes how I hold space.
Qualifications & Specialised Training
Each qualification 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
Training matters. How you embody it matters more.
Because healing happens in relationship — not through expertise alone.
If something in these words resonates, I'd love to meet you.
Whether you are curious about breathwork, somatic therapy, shadow work or simply wondering where to begin, a discovery call is a gentle place to explore what feels right for you.