This is a juicy conversation with somatic educator Aimee Takaya to explore Hanna Somatics, a neuromuscular reeducation method for releasing unconscious muscle tension stored from life experiences. Aimee shares her journey from chronic pain as a Bikram yoga teacher to discovering a radically gentler approach to healing, and why she believes somatic modalities are meant to work together like ingredients in a recipe, rather than one-size-fits-all. We dig into the danger of dogma in healing spaces, and why integrating multiple somatic modalities leads to deeper transformation.

In this episode, we explore why authentic healing requires embracing the full spectrum of human experience, the messy, the ugly, and the uncomfortable, rather than bypassing it.

Learn more about Aimee and her upcoming retreats:

Aimee Takaya is a Certified Hanna Somatic Educator, Somatic Yoga Teacher, Podcaster and Transformation Facilitator. 

She has been professionally teaching movement and working with a wide range of bodies and challenges for over 14 years. 

She loves to help you connect your body and ALL its messages in new and empowering ways.

Aimee knows from personal experience the power of compassionate somatic practice to heal from chronic pain and adverse life experiences. She works with clients in person, in the Western New York area, as well as internationally through zoom. She also creates somatic, bodywork-based retreats where you can deepen your self-trust & connection to truly let go of what binds you.

Learn more at www.freeyoursoma.com

June Retreat in Hesperia 

https://www.freeyoursoma.com/fysadvanced

October Retreat in Joshua Tree

https://www.freeyoursoma.com/flowjt26

Follow Aimee on Instagram: @aimeetakaya

Listen to the Free Your Soma Podcast: https://www.freeyoursoma.com/podcast

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A POWERFUL conversation with an even more powerful woman, Nat Bullen, who shines a light on the programming that many of us unconsciously live with: that your productivity equals your worth.

If you are someone who feels anxious about resting or you are always thinking of your to-do list, this episode will be the biggest permission slip for you to finally get off the hamster wheel of DOING.

We talk sustainable wealth, childhood programming and cultural conditioning around productivity, and self-care being a ruthless act of self-love.

Connect with Nat:

https://unapologeticwealth.com

https://www.facebook.com/Ladylyricist06

https://www.instagram.com/unapologeticwealth

Check out the work of Octavia Raheem that Nat highlighted toward the end of the episode:

https://www.octaviaraheem.com/rest-is-sacred

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

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Have you ever asked a client, "where do you feel that in your body" and they just stared at you like you have 3 heads?

Here's why asking this question isn't enough to facilitate deep somatic healing.

If you want to become a practitioner who leads from somatic intelligence, embodiment, and attunement, join us for the Embodied Practitioner Challenge starting May 18th!

The Embodied Practitioner 21-day Challenge

Want more free trainings on embodiment, leadership, and creating a career where you get to change lives while being all of who you are? Join our free community, The Embodied Leader Paradigm.

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Free Facebook Community for creatives, helpers, and healers who want to lead from embodiment and wholeness: https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedleaderparadigm

Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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If you've ever felt like you're mentally exhausted after a session because you were trying to do deeper work with your client, this episode is for you. In it, I cover:

• Why you don't need to work so mentally hard to facilitate breakthroughs, and what you need to do instead.
• How to bridge the gap between your own personal embodiment and being able to LEAD your work from embodiment.
• Creating co-regulation and safety for your clients so they can organically have deeper breakthroughs.

Join us in Intro to Somatic Facilitation (starting 4/21) if you want to transform the way you show up as a facilitator and therefore the results your clients experience.

Otherwise, I'll see you inside: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/somatic-facilitation

Want to join us in New York in September for a Somatic Healing retreat?

Learn more here: www.healingembodied.com/retreat

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Free Facebook Community for creatives, helpers, and healers who want to lead from embodiment and wholeness: https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedleaderparadigm

Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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So many helpers, coaches, therapists, and space-holders were trained to ask:

• What’s the right thing to say?
• What intervention do I use next?
• How do I do this correctly?
• What if I mess it up?

Which means they end up in their heads instead of in relationship. But effective somatic facilitation asks something different of us.

It asks us to:

• trust ourselves
• stay grounded in our bodies
• attune deeply
• use what’s happening in the moment
• co-create with the person in front of us

That’s why Sarah and I created Intro to Somatic Facilitation: a 5-week course designed to help you build the foundational skills of embodied, attuned, creative facilitation.

Inside, we’ll explore:

• somatic attunement
• observing and working with the body
• staying grounded in your own body during session
• using somatic intelligence in real time
• allowing sessions to unfold skillfully, rather than forcing them

Join Intro to Somatic Facilitation HERE.

Want to learn more about our approach to the body/mind connection and somatic healing? Join the Embodied Leader Paradigm Facebook group to be part of the free masterclass on 4/9 called, Somatic Healing: How to create change that actually sticks.

Join us here: www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedleaderparadigm

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

Free Resource Library for Therapists, Healers, and Creatives: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/library-signup

Free Facebook Community for creatives, helpers, and healers who want to lead from embodiment and wholeness: https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedleaderparadigm

Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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Today, I'm vulnerably sharing something that I've kept close to my chest for years. I'm boldly claiming what I want to create next with Healing Embodied.

If you have found yourself holding back on being SEEN going after what you want out of fear of failure or fear of judgment, this episode is for you.

Join our free community for helpers, healers, and creatives who are leading from embodiment and wholeness: The Embodied Leader Paradigm

Join us in The Embodied Leader Paradigm for a free Masterclass on April 9th at 10am PT called Somatic Healing: How to create change that actually sticks

If you want to join the Intro to Somatic Facilitation course, register here: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/somatic-facilitation

First class begins 4/21/26.

To learn more about our year-long, accredited somatic and embodiment certification, check it out here: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Free Facebook Community for creatives, helpers, and healers who want to lead from embodiment and wholeness: https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedleaderparadigm

Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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Today I am joined by Sigrid Tasies, an Embodiment Teacher, Trauma-Informed Somatic Facilitator, Medicine Woman and Author devoted to the path of remembrance. For over a decade, she has guided thousands of people across the world through private mentorship, group programs, retreats and ceremonial spaces, bridging ancient earth and body wisdom with the needs of modern humanity.

An initiated Medicine Woman, Fire Keeper and Moon Dancer, her work weaves shamanic and somatic healing, nervous system repatterning, ritual and embodied leadership. She is deeply committed to supporting mission-driven leaders and devoted women in living, loving and leading from embodied alignment.

Key Takeaways from our conversation:

• Why high-achieving women in the healing professions are conditioned to push, force, and hustle — and why it's not a personal failing but a collective inheritance
• The difference between surface-level "feminine" rebranding and the deep nervous system rewiring that actually creates lasting change in how you lead and create
• How your primary wounds are likely driving your hustle and what it really takes to heal the belief that you must earn your place
• Why embodied wisdom is the one thing AI can never replicate and why this makes your lived experience your most powerful business asset
• The difference between circumstantial power (dependent on income, followers, and approval) and true personal power that is limitless and sourced from within
• How Sigrid went from six figures a year with enormous effort to six figures in under an hour simply by shifting the energy from which she was operating
• The role of nature, the elements, and somatic practices in helping healers and coaches reconnect with their bodies and lead from authentic essence
• Why you can't take a client somewhere you haven't been yourself and what it means to truly be a practitioner of your own medicine
• A simple daily practice to begin rebuilding the relationship with your body, even if you have no other tools available right now

Connect with Sigrid's work:

FREE 7 Day Somatic Remembrance Activation:

www.sigridtasies.com/letlife

ALTAR Program:

www.sigridtasies.com/altar

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/sigridtasies

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Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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An extra SPICY episode today with some HARSH TRUTHS that will rip open your third eye! For mental health professionals who want to LOVE what they do and who they are when they do it, you GOTTA join Unf*ck Your Therapy Dogma!

Join us HERE!

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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I watched "Come See Me in The Good Light" and it destroyed me in the best way. This documentary focuses on the life of poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, Megan Falley, as they navigate Andrea's incurable cancer diagnosis. I felt so compelled to share my contemplations, because I don't think we talk about death, grief, and loss enough in our society. What if facing death allowed us to live more fully? What if welcoming grief allowed us to love more deeply?

I hope this episode expands your capacity to hold the duality of the human experience.

And I HIGHLY recommend watching "Come See Me in The Good Light." It's available on Apple TV and YouTube. Make sure you have an entire tissue box nearby.

If you want to embrace the wholeness of the human experience so you can hold the duality of life with gratitude, join us in Wholly Human: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Free Facebook Community for creatives, helpers, and healers who want to lead from embodiment and wholeness: https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedleaderparadigm

Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

Our Relationship Anxiety Resource Shop (mediations, masterclasses, courses): https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/shop

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This is a beautiful and powerful conversation with fellow dance/movement therapist Melanie Smithson about the deep healing that occurs when we go beyond the mind and tap into the wisdom of the body. We talk about moving with the energy in the body, dis-identifying from thoughts, and the liberation that comes when you integrate creative movement into your daily life. Melanie is an award-winning author of Stress Free in 30 Seconds and has just released her new book Shake Yourself Free, which provides accessible ways to start connecting to your body to move with emotions.

Learn more about Melanie's work and connect with her here:

Melanie Smithson, LPC, BC-DMT, CHt 

http://www.smithsonclinic.com

http://www.facebook.com/melaniebethsmithson

Her new book, Shake Yourself Free, aims to make accessing the body's wisdom, in both the therapy process and in daily living, readily available to all.

Get Shake Yourself Free

Additional Resources for Therapists, Healers, Coaches, and Creative Entrepreneurs:

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Learn more and/or apply for our year-long, internationally accredited somatic certification program and purpose-led career mentorship: www.healingembodied.com/get-certified

Learn more about our flagship group program for leaders, healers, and creatives who want to make a positive impact through the work they do: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/embodied-leader-mastermind

Learn more about our 6-month community experience for somatic healing: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/wholly-human

Additional Resources for those who want to embody more love, trust, and wholeness in their lives and relationships:

Want to be a client of Healing Embodied? Book a free 30 minute Clarity Call with a member of our team, and learn how we can support you in creating more trust, love, and joy in your life: https://healingembodied.kartra.com/page/apply

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