“Re-connecting you to your medicine through somatics”
Through integrative somatic practices, breathwork, movement and bodywork, we work together to release held patterns, regulate the nervous system, and facilitate powerful change that goes far beyond conventional approaches. I use a unified approach to trauma-informed care; including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing.
i’m joana.
My journey in holistic health and somatics started 16 years ago with Ayurveda and Yoga. Since then, my passion for holistic health and beauty practices, led me to study naturopathy, fascial therapy, skincare, sound therapy, and integrative somatic therapy. Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy is the living synthesis of all the disciplines I have studied. It combines sixteen years of education and training into a multilayered therapeutic modality that supports healing through the body-mind and it’s full spectrum.
I believe our body is our vehicle for experiencing life. It holds all our stories, and our medicine. Through the gentle yet transformative power of somatics, fascial release, and soul-deep bodywork, I guide women on a journey of healing, renewal, and self-discovery far beyond the surface.
“Every human being is a self organizing system with the innate intelligence and capacity for healing. My role as a therapist is to support this process in the unique ways it unfolds for each client.”
Joana Peixoto Santelli, B. Arts.Soc, FST, IPHM, ISTT.
SOMATO-ENERGETIC Therapy
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 a ritual of release and restoration through all dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic.
“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 trauma and deep emotional work. 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, mindfulness
Tracking Autonomic Nervous System Shifts: the art of therapeutic listening (follow , listen, allow).
Creating a Therapeutic Container: physical safety, internal state, resource building, accessing, prompting, orientation, titration, and pace.
Somatic Memory Processing: using various methods for emotional and cognitive integration and transformation.
WHY SOMATO-ENERGETICS?
Working with the Nervous system in harmony with the restorative touch therapy is 10x more effective.
Improve mind-body wholeness, coherence and overall quality of life, vitality, and longevity.
Soma means a living organism in its wholeness. This is a therapy is for meeting and addressing our wholeness (all our parts) and regaining physical and emotional vitality through the art of somatics and sacred ritual.
Through a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing, we help clients :
Transform stuck parts into inner resources of strength, love, and freedom.
Remove the barriers in relationships, and gain a deeper understanding of self and others.
Build internal resilience and self regulation through embodied presence and practices.
Enhance fundamental ability to adapt and navigate life with ease and agency.
Enhance capacity to identify internal responses to stressors, and mobilize that energy towards restoration and ease.
who is this for ?
MASSAGE AND FASCIAL THERAPISTS
REIKI PRACTITIONERS
ANYONE WANTING TO WORK ON THE SUBTLE ENERGY BODY + THE STRUCTURAL BODY AS ONE
more on SOMATO-ENERGETICS
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.
Over 80 online lessons of continued education in somatic healing , body and energy systems, trauma informed practice, energetics, breath, and much more.
3 month mentorship with Joana (biweekly calls 90mins )
complete online video demonstrations
Certification in the SOMATO-ENERGETICS
