“Maya: Being trauma-informed is a journey and a practice.”

Maya is a Trauma Informed Coach and Facilitator who has been involved in community healing and support work since 2007. Passionately committed to her own healing journey and creativity, Maya created the Heart of Flow Method combining creative expression and movement to help others transform their struggles and reach desired goals while softly easing into connection with their bodies and emotional landscapes. Her unique approach helps build security in our ability to navigate the challenges of our lives while embodying self worth, emotional resiliency and well being. Her approach prioritizes resourcing people so they are able to learn lifelong tools while providing deeply nourishing support to restore a sense of joy. She believes in meeting people where they are at, bringing balance to holding deep space for others with a sense of humour and facilitation that is both gentle and playful.

The Heart of Flow method operates from a trauma informed body-centric focus, believing that we can access profound transformation when we work with the body as the home where we experience our internal and external reality. Her work helps regulate the nervous system and build new neural pathways to redefine our relationship with ourselves and others. This process based method meets others where they are at- she has worked before with others coming from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and lived realities, including non profits and agencies that work with survivors of trauma including sexual assault and gendered violence.

She cultivates joy in her life through painting, dancing, writing poetry, conversation and wild laughter.

A Note from Nadia

I met Maya Nadeem at an Art of Facilitation Training I was running in Toronto in 2017. I was immediately struck by her sparkling presence and self-possession. As I got to know her, I found her to be incredibly open hearted, generous and curious. Maya’s work with the Heart of Flow method inspires me to keep searching for breakthroughs and to push my own edges. I am in awe of her courageous and bold design work, the depth of her experience and most significantly her choice to create her own therapeutic method. Her focus on trauma-informed practices while exuberantly pushing creative edges reminds me that there is no compromise in creating accessible spaces. In fact, the accessibility focus itself is an asset to any group member. I’ve already learned so much from Maya in terms of creating safer spaces without sacrificing boldness and courage, and I expect to continue to learn from her for many years as her brilliant method develops.