Irina is a somatic coach, healer, and teacher based in Boulder, Colorado. Born in Uzbekistan and raised in Brooklyn, she spent over a decade traveling through Asia and Central America - studying with elders, training in yoga and somatic therapies, and collecting practices from traditions she was drawn to. She works with clients through core energetics, shadow work, among many other things - too many to do justice to in words.

We get into: practices of opening and closing a container, fire, the element of truth, buying a one-way ticket to Asia at 20, what it took to commit to a place after a decade of nomadism, jumping on a trampoline in downtown Boulder at 6am every morning, our fitness accountability group, how she uses future tools to analyze client sessions through a plethora of lenses (Enneagram, Human Design, Gene Keys, Astrology (both Western and Vedic), Matrix of Destiny), building a future version of yourself in AI and asking it for advice, as well as walking me through a live reframe from "I can't..." to "I get to..." and the treasure chest question...

Find Irina:

• On her website https://www.spiritsoma.com/
• Kanna Pathogenics | plant medicine supplement company
  

Find Tay:

• Nature Club | platform for nature-based activities (in development)

People & Concepts Mentioned:

• Osho — "The mind is the most dangerous master or the most beautiful servant"
• William Reich — first therapist to put the body on the map; character structures
• Lakota sun dance tradition — five-day prayer practice with no food or water
• Papatuanuku (Maori), Pachamama (Andean) — Earth Mother across cultures
• Core energetics — body-based therapeutic approach
• Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum) — South African plant medicine for mood and stress
• The Summer I Turned Pretty — show/movie by Jenny Han
• Lightning in a Bottle — transformational festival
• Nyepi — Balinese day of silence
• SuperWhisper — voice-to-text tool
• Tiruvannamalai — holy city in India with Ganesh temple