Veda Wellness invites you to come home to yourself. Through the gentle yet transformative power of somato-energetics, fascial release, and soul-deep bodywork, we guide women on a journey of healing, renewal, and self-discovery. Each session is more than skin care or bodywork—it’s a ritual of release and restoration through all dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic. Here, we embrace the philosophy that true beauty and vitality stem from nurturing the interconnected harmony of all our parts.
“Creating space for wholeness to re-emerge”
MEET JOANA
Joana is a fascial and somatic therapist with a focus on integrative body work. She focuses on an a somato-energetic approach that integrates body work with the nervous system, polyvagal theory, and trauma resolution.
Joana brings forth an embodied wisdom, and a therapeutic method that encompasses multiple dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic. She explicitly address each of these dimensions, ensuring that insights and releases at one level are incorporated across all aspects of the client's experience.
As a teacher she trains practitioners to hold therapeutic presence, embody the 3 dimensions of touch, and hold acute awareness for both the structural and subtle body. Her method provides a clear framework and theoretical understanding for deep somato-energetic work, and the ability to address individual client needs as they emerge..
Joana integrates the ancient healing arts with modern science backed methods, in a blissfully elegant way as she works on the whole system; both physically and energetically. She brings selfcare back to an art form and therapeutic ritual for the whole person.
“I entered the wellness world from the system of yoga, ayurveda and fascial therapy. In ayurveda, we honour that we are more than just the physical body and see life as a ritual. When we treat life as sacred ritual ; its wisdom is revealed, and this is the same for the body. Our body is our vehicle for experiencing our life, it holds all our stories and our medicine. In my training in somatic therapy, this concept was given structure with science backed research and methods. From here arouse the somato-energetic framework I use in clinic and teach students. A framework designed to help us work with clients through all dimension; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic.”
- Joana Peixoto Santelli ,IPHM, FST.
SOMATO-ENERGETICS
A SYSTEM FOR GUIDING AND FACILITATING SOMATO-EMOTIONAL RELEASE
Through the gentle yet transformative power of somato-energetics, fascial release, and soul-deep bodywork, we guide women on a journey of healing, renewal, and self-discovery far beyond the surface. Each session is more than skin care or bodywork—it’s a ritual of release and restoration through all dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic. Here, we embrace the philosophy that true beauty and vitality stem from nurturing the interconnected harmony of all our parts.
“Rooted in ancient wisdom. Proven by science. Designed to transform.”
our 4 pillar Method
Somato-Energetics is a holistic therapy that offers a distinctive approach to somato-emotional release using body work, trauma resolution, and ANS work, through the lens of polyvagal theory. It is designed with a neurophysiological framework that honours 4 pillars :
Fascia as Memory Medium: addressing and dissolving emotional + somatic memory patterns via breathwork and fascial unwinding.
Tracking Autonomic Nervous System Shifts: the art of therapeutic listening (follow , listen, allow).
Creating a Therapeutic Container: physical safety, internal state, resource building.
Somatic Memory Processing: emotional emergence, cognitive integration, timing, titration , scope , boundaries.
WHY SOMATO-ENERGETICS?
WORKING WITH THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN HARMONY WITH RESTORATIVE TOUCH THERAPY IS 10 X MORE EFFECTIVE
THIS THERAPY IMPORVES MIND-BODY COHERENCE, CIRCULATION, HEART HEALTH, NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION, DETOXIFICATION, HORMONE BALANCING, AND MIND-BODY WELLBEING.
SOMA MEANS; A LIVING ORGANISM IN IT’S WHOLENESS. THIS IS A THERAPY FOR MEETING AND ADDRESSING OUR WHOLENESS TO ACCESS MORE OF OUR PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL VITALITY THROUGH THE ART OF SOAMTICS, AND RITUAL.
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Central to this approach is the recognition of the hierarchical organization of the autonomic nervous system. In this training, practitioners understand that emotional processing can only occur effectively within the ‘ventral vagal state’-characterized by engagement, connection, and optimal regulatory capacity. Touch technique with this framework emphasizes following, rather than directing. We train practitioners to be attune to subtle cues presented by the tissues, supporting the natural unwinding process rather than imposing predetermined patterns or outcomes. The inherent intelligence of the body's self-healing capacity guides the somato-emotional release process.
In this training you will learn to become a skilled practitioner who creates optimal conditions and then follows the natural unfolding of the healing process. This method encompasses multiple dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic. Integration across these multiple dimensions creates lasting transformation rather than temporary catharsis or insight without embodiment.
A somato-energetics practitioners explicitly address each of these dimensions, ensuring that insights and releases at one level are incorporated across all aspects of the client's experience. While the method provides a clear framework and theoretical understanding, each session unfolds according to the unique needs and process of each individual client. As practitioners develop proficiency in guiding somato-emotional release and processing somatic memory patterns, they gain access to a powerful dimension of healing that addresses the root causes of many physical symptoms while supporting clients overall wellbeing and embodied presence.