“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 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 integrative somatics, and fascial release, I guide you 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.A.Soc, FST, IPHM, IST.
the lift method
“Rooted in ancient wisdom. Proven by science. Designed to transform.”
Integrative body work, FACE Scultping & Buccal MASTERY
The LIFT Method is a neuro-somatic therapy that treats the face as part of an interconnected network of body systems. The focus of this method is on the nervous system, fascial unwinding, and somatic integration. The LIFT Method addresses the whole person as a unified organism, and beauty as an expression of the harmony within that organism.
Return to embodied beauty through science backed techniques rooted in ancient healing arts.
Our signature approach blends science back fascial techniques and face sculpting methods with a holistic understanding of all body systems and their interconnected functions. We address the foundations of the face from a structural and neuro-somatic frame work that honours natural beauty and enhances it- from the inside out !
HOW IT WORKS
The Lift Method recognizes that stress, tension, and emotion are held in the face.
The face is part of an interconnected and interdependent whole.
The tension in our jaw, the lines on our face - they are stress responses and holding patterns.
These patterns are held in the nervous system which is deeply interwoven in our body via fascia, organs, and musculature.
How we feel , determines how we look.
So we address the face from the inside out and bottom up approach.
We look at the nervous system first via a neuro- somatic lens.
We then integrate the body, starting with the foundations - breath and posture and all its corresponding systems.
Lastly, we bring sacred ritual to this holistic model for beauty that is embodied 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 neuro-somatic therapy that address the relationship between the body, mind, nervous system, and face.
We address structure , not superficial muscles.
We address holding patterns ( physical and emotional) in order to bring embodied change.
This is a frame work that uses science backed methods the heal and transform from the inside out via fascial release , and integrative somatics.
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- Face Sculpting and Buccal Mastery
SOMATO-ENERGETIC Therapy MENTORSHIP
A SYSTEM FOR GUIDING SOMATO-EMOTIONAL RELEASE THROUGH TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
Learn a gentle yet transformative NEURO-SOMATIC 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
