Somatic Relational mentorship for thoughtful humans cultivating deeper presence, agency, and creative expression in their lives.

In service of a more inclusive, compassionate, happier world.

Somatic ​Experiencing® / Authentic Relating / Care of the Soul

I believe that our struggles make sense and carry their own wisdom.

What may now feel like a limitation was once a very necessary survival response. When we learn to feel into it, these same patterns can help us uncover what we’re really longing for, what we've lost, and help guide the direction of our healing.

Rather than suppressing the uncomfortable parts of ourselves, we can honor them with curiosity and compassion; integrating them as our path to wholeness, nuance, and depth.

You don’t need to keep living in the same patterns that are depleting you.

Let’s support you in kindling the steadiness within you, tend to the life that is asking to be lived through you, and feel the feelings asking to be felt.

I have a gift for whispering into the harmonic resonance of the heart, so if you’re here to reawaken the care of your own soul and live a life that feels more embodied, sacred, and alive, I’ve got you.

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    Somatic

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    Relational

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    Integrative

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    Trauma-Informed

About Natasha

I’m passionate about your return to your own body, breath, and inner knowing. Through somatic, relational, and trauma-informed care, I work with individuals rebuilding lives of meaning and coherence after trauma.

I’ve led groups and healing spaces within wellness, clinical, and grassroots settings, including my work within non-profit organizations, as a facilitator and apprentice in a women's recovery house, as a yoga therapy teacher for 15+ years, and during my years living in an ashram as part of the core staff.

I'm especially attuned to working with the highly sensitive, the socially anxious, the empaths, or those still learning to inhabit their bodies and emotions.

I also have a particular affinity for working with those recovering from the impact of emotional neglect, narcissistic abuse, chronic stress, illness, and/or different forms of disability and chronic pain.

My work is integrative, bridging Somatic Experiencing®, Authentic Relating, Care of the Soul, and Yoga Therapy. It’s grounded in 15+ years of multidisciplinary training, lived experience and facilitation; and more recently in my work as the program manager at Sage Integrative Health, a role I’m honored to hold for 5 years and counting 💚

Experience

    • 15+ years teaching yoga, therapeutic movement, and embodiment (various locations across San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Portland OR)

    • Somatic Experiencing® (currently pursuing 3 year certification)

    • Authentic Relating (various trainings and groups)

    • Women's recovery work (Facilitation and Apprenticeship over several years, ShaktiRising.org)

    • Clinical collaboration, Care Coordination, & Clinic Management (Sage Integrative Health, 5+yrs)

    • Nonprofit, Community Building, & Intentional Community work (various organizations in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland OR)

    • Yoga Therapy modalities including Meridian Yoga Therapy, The Thinking Body-Feeling Mind, Restorative, Anusara Yoga, Siddha Yoga.

    • Mindfulness, Self-Cultivation, Spiritual Practice

    • Herbalism & Ecology (Ongoing)

    • Group facilitation & Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Facilitation

    • Facilitating Retreats & Teacher Trainings (multiple locations)

    • immigration and belonging

    • living between cultures

    • recovery from acute and complex trauma

    • chronic illness and medical gaslighting

    • life-changing injury, hospitalization, disability

    • burnout

    • complex grief

    • coercive intimate relationship & complex power dynamics

    • rebuilding community

    • finding one's way back after losing oneself

  • My work is informed by formal training intersected with complex life experiences and an ongoing commitment to my own healing and contemplative practice. I continue to study, receive mentorship, spend time in nature, deepen my understanding of the nervous system, and practice the relational skills I invite my clients into.

  • Over the past fifteen years my work has taken many forms. As a yoga therapist, facilitator, mentor, coach, program manager within an integrative mental health clinic, and student of the nervous system. The thread running through it has remained the same: creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, with one another, and with lives that feel meaningful.

    Having lived across cultures, navigated profound relational and spiritual trauma, periods of chronic illness and life-threatening injury, and the nonlinear work of rebuilding trust, community, and belonging, I know that healing rarely follows a straight line. I also know that our greatest transformations often emerge not through force, but through relationships that are steady and loving enough to allow a new self to unfold.

    My life experiences allow me to meet many forms of suffering with less urgency to fix, but rather a genuine curiosity, deep love, and great respect for each person's capacity to recover their power.

Scheduling

A collaborative space to slow down, listen deeply, and tend to the world within you. Through somatic experiencing, relational tending, and careful inquiry, we support the threads that want to come back into connection, expression, liberation, and belonging.

1:1 Somatic Relational Mentorship

Group offerings are an opportunity to practice presence, self-honesty, new boundaries or vulnerabilities, and stretch your capacity for connection alongside other humans walking a similar path as yours.

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Groups & Community Offerings

  • Dearest Natasha, you've given me access to so much strength, wisdom and love over the past 5 years.  My entire world thanks you

    —J.C

  • Natasha’s ability to create a sacred, safe, and transformative environment are very natural.

    — Maral Salerno

  • You made me want to keep coming back and get better in a way I never had before, and you made it enjoyable. Your attention to detail and the way you so obviously care make you the best teacher I’ve ever been to.I was lucky to find you. 

    — CS

  • Natasha is playful AND technical. She’s helped me work through a tough back injury and is sensitive to each person’s limitations but does not allow them to necessarily limit themselves.

    — L.P.

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Lets work together.

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