“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 led me to study naturopathy, fascial therapy, holistic skincare, sound therapy, and integrative 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 see our body as the vehicle for experiencing life, how we care for this vehicle determines our human experience. Our body holds all our stories, and our medicine. Through the gentle yet transformative power of integrative somatics, and fascial release, I guide you on a journey of healing, renewal, and self-discovery.
“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.A.Soc, FST, IPHM, IST.
the lift method
Joana is the founder behind THE LIFT METHOD, a holistic approach to natural beauty and inner transformation that's become a trusted practice for 100’s of women. The Lift Method goes far beyond aesthetics, it is a science-based, neuro-somatic method that releases fascia, regulates the nervous system, and facilitates deep emotional release.
Joana has worked on hundred’s of faces, offering a powerful rejuvenation method that enriches the whole body and its interconnected systems. Her work blends her extensive education and clinical training in anatomy, functional movement, holistic medicine, fascial therapy, and energetics. Her Method offers visible lifting, postural change, and deep emotional release. Clients describe embodied vitality, clarity, and lightness after a single session.
“Without addressing the whole system results will be superficial and short lived.”
THE LIFT METHOD
Treat the source - Transform from the inside out!
The LIFT Method is a neuro-somatic therapy that views the face as part of a connected system within the body. It focuses on the root causes of facial aging and appearance. This method works with the nervous system, fascial restrictions, and deeper layers of the body to support full integration. It treats the whole person as one system, where beauty and youth reflect internal balance.
Return to embodied beauty through science-backed techniques rooted in ancient healing practices.
Our signature approach blends science-backed fascial techniques with face sculpting methods. We pair this with a comprehensive view of the body and how its systems work together. We focus on the foundation of the face through a structural and neuro-somatic framework. This approach supports and enhances your natural features from within.
Rooted in ancient wisdom , proven by science , designed to transform!
RE-WIRE THE NERVOUS SYSTEM- REJUVINATE THE FACE
The LIFT Method doesn’t chase wrinkles , it addresses why they form.
HOW IT WORKS
The LIFT Method recognizes that stress, tension, and emotion are often held in the face. The face is part of a connected system within the body.
Tension in the jaw and lines in the face reflect patterns of stress. These patterns live in the nervous system and show up in the body through fascia, organs, and muscles.
How you feel shapes how you look.
We work through a neuro-somatic lens, which means we look at the connection between the nervous system and the physical body. This helps us understand how stress and emotions affect the face, and how physical tension affects how you feel.
We begin with the nervous system. From there, we support the body by focusing on key foundations like breath and posture, along with the systems linked to them.
Finally, we bring in intentional ritual to support a model of beauty that is expressed from within.
what you will learn
To address and treat the whole body via a neuro-somatic fascial release protocol
To address and treat the foundations of face.
To address and treat oxygen and energy flow.
To address and re-train postural alignment and mobility.
To address and treat TMJ beyond muscle tension.
To address the scalp and cranial system and tissues.
To address and release fascia and muscle for upper body.
To master therapeutic touch , proprioception, and the art of RITUAL.
To address the nervous system with a neuro-somatic framework that transforms how clients feel and live in their body- not just how they look.
How is this different than most face & buccal massage courses?
This is a full-body approach. It looks at the connection between the body, mind, nervous system, and face.
We focus on structure, not only surface muscles.
We work with patterns of tension in the body, both physical and emotional, to support real change.
This method uses science-backed techniques to support healing and change from within, including fascial release and integrative somatic
RE-WIRE THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
REJUVINATE THE FACE
A calm and regulated system reflects as softness, radiance, and vitality.
The LIFT Method doesn’t chase wrinkles — it addresses why they form
• Works through deep fascial lines and whole-body connections that shape the face
• Releases structural tension patterns that pull, compress, and distort facial features
• Reorganizes posture → creating natural lift, symmetry, and support from within
• Results aren’t temporary fixes — they’re structural shifts that evolve over time
• Targets the nervous system — the hidden driver of facial tension and aging.
• Releases stored stress patterns (jaw clenching, brow tension, facial holding).
• Moves the body out of survival mode , and into repair and regeneration.
• Supports optimal cellular function, circulation, and tissue renewal.
• Goes beyond external treatments — results are felt as much as seen.
• Teaches the body new patterns of ease, softness, and support.
• Reduces chronic tension loops that age the face over time.
• Enhances natural beauty without force, strain, or artificial intervention.
• Builds long-term change through integration, not quick fixes.
Embodied beauty starts here!
WHO IS THIS FOR?
THIS IS FOR A PERSON WANTING TO BECOME THE EMBODIED PRACTIONER THEY WISH THEY HAD.
THIS IS FOR THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO BRING DEPTH AND FULLFILMENT INTO THEIR WORK, AND TRULY MEET CLIENTS WITH PRESENCE, CARE, AND SKILL .
THIS IS FOR THOSE WITH A PASSION FOR HOLISTIC AND SUSTAINABLE BEAUTY AND HEALTH PRACTICES, WHO ARE LIVING IN ALIGNMENT WITH THAT.
WHAT YOU GET
In-depth education on the holistic model for rejuvenation
Expert led training that sets you apart.
30 hours of audio lessons of continuing education in holistic health and beauty.
A complete fascial release protocol for the upper body, face, and head.
Training in proper diaphragmatic breathing.
Somatic integration and nervous system reset protocols.
Bonus lesson on using sound as therapy and ear seeding to enhance your client treatment and experience.
Training on practitioner embodiment.
20 Master protocols for TMJ
Training on creating ritual, to elevate the client experience and your business model
Guided marketing tools to help you stand out with your offer and business.
Bonus offer - The Embodied Practitioner audio course and workbook.
3 HOURS OF Videos on Buccal, Face Sculpting, and Upper Body Techniques.
Unlimited support and access to Joana via whatssapp.
Certificate in THE LIFT METHOD
the lift method founder
“ I’ve been working with mobility, fascia, somatics, and breath since 2010. My training in yoga and ayurveda has significantly shaped the work I do today. After teaching yoga for 10 years, fascial therapy and natural medicine felt like the next step. I became interested in aging naturally and sustainable beauty practices in my late 30’s after become a mother. Now at 43, with two daughters, leaving a beauty model that honours women over changing them has become even more important to me. Over time, I trained in several natural rejuvenation modalities and combined them with fascial therapy and somatic work.
In my clinical practice, I quickly realized that most people are not looking for another facial or quick fix. They want to feel seen and valued. They want a space where they feel safe to be themselves, no standards or demands. They want to feel supported and actually land in their body. That is the real shift that changes how we look , and most of all, how we live in our body.
The lift method is about creating a full experience that supports your senses and calms your nervous system. It brings you back to your breath, your body, and your sense of self, and inherent authentic beauty. And , as a massive bonus, it supports the health of your skin, muscles, and fascia.
So I brought all of my tools together, along with my care for women and their unique journeys, and created The LIFT Method - A grounded, honest, and sustainable approach to beauty.”
SOMATO-ENERGETIC Therapy MENTORSHIP
LEVEL 1 & 2
A SYSTEM FOR GUIDING SOMATO-EMOTIONAL RELEASE THROUGH TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
Learn a gentle yet transformative NEURO-SOMATIC Fascial therapy that guides client’s on a journey of deep healing, renewal, and self-discovery. Each session is a ritual of release, integration, and restoration through all dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic.
“Rooted in ancient wisdom. Proven by science. Designed to transform.”
The world is yearning for your healing touch !
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, fascial unwinding, and 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.
You will learn to facilitate the release of stored trauma through gentle yet profound NEURO-SOAMTIC work.
WHY SOMATO-ENERGETICS?
Working with the Nervous system in harmony with the restorative touch therapy is 10x more effective.
Improve mind-body wholeness and overall quality of life, and longevity.
Integrate energetic awareness into body based practice
Expand your clinical toolkit and support clients working with pain, trauma, emotional patterns, and nervous system dysregulation.
Become the embodied practitioner you’d want to work with.
Deepen your capacity to meet clients with attunement, clarity and presence.
Are you ready to …
Alleviate your doubt in the ability to support someone’s deep healing journey.
Work more intuitively with deep presence and confidence.
Offer the full potential of your work and capacity.
In this program you will confidently embody a supportive role even with complex issues 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.
You will have practical frameworks to expand your capacity and skillset as a facilitator for the healing process.
You will integrate new skills into who you already are , rather then becoming someone else.
You will develop a felt sense of listening that honours the whole experience and the whole person.
You will help client’s transform stuck parts into inner resources of strength, love, and freedom.
You will support them in witnessing and changing the barriers and limiting beliefs.
You will help clients build internal resilience and self regulation through embodied practices.
You will enhance client’s fundamental ability to adapt and navigate life with ease and agency.
who is this for ?
MASSAGE THERAPISTS , FASCIAL THERAPISTS, REIKI PRACTITIONERS, AND ALL BODY WORKS .
ANYONE WANTING TO WORK ON THE SUBTLE ENERGY BODY + THE STRUCTURAL BODY AS ONE.
ANYONE WANTING TO LEARN A THERAPEUTIC HEALING MODALITY THAT SUPPORTS THE SOMA; PHYSICAL , EMOTIONAL AND ENERGETIC BODY-MIND.
more on SOMATO-ENERGETICS
This program will invite you to meet your own patterns with curiosity and compassion. We work from a lens of building greater capacity to hold ourselves and others , rather than ‘the fixer’ lens. Here we move from performance to embodied love and support so we can meet clients with presence and integrity.
In this program, practitioners learn a pathway for authentic trauma release, and integration work through trauma informed somatic practices, fascial unwinding, breath, subtle body awareness , and relational presence.
This method encompasses multiple dimensions; somatic, emotional, cognitive, relational, and energetic. Every practitioner, will become skilled at making sure shifts are integrated across these multiple dimensions. This creates lasting transformation rather than temporary catharsis without embodiment.
A somato-energetics practitioners is an embodied practitioner. As they move through the program it will become less about ‘the doing’ and more about the ‘being’; being the safe container, the compassion, the fluid movement and breath. Practitioners will feel more ease with every session.
This program invites your to meet your own patterns with curiosity and compassion through our growth work modules. This is not to ‘fix’ yourself but to build internal capacity to hold others by learning it first hand. We can only take clients where we’ve gone, we can only offer the compassion we’ve cultivated with honesty. Our growth work component helps practitioners move beyond performance into authentic embodiment.
As practitioners complete this in-depth offering, they gain access to a powerful dimension of healing that addresses the root causes of many physical symptoms while supporting clients with deep attunement, empathy, clarity, skill, and embodied presence.
WHAT YOU GET
Over 60 online lessons of continued education in somatic healing , body and energy systems, trauma informed practice, energetics, breath, and embodied body work.
3 month mentorship with Joana (biweekly calls 2hrs)
Complete online video demonstrations.
All lesson in written and audio form.
Certification in the SOMATO-ENERGETICS
