A Somatic Path to Wholeness

Embodied healing, returning to

what was never lost

Blending Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Somatics and Intuition to alchemise the stories of your past

into wisdom - into sensation - into embodied truth

You’ve carried your past like armour. Therapy helped you understand it.

But knowing isn’t the same as feeling. Healing begins in your body — when we learn to understand and speak our bodies language. When you learn to stay with sensation instead of pushing it away.

This is the work: not escaping your story, but transforming it

Somatic Therapy is a journey of survival into self trust

We all have a deep need to understand what hurt us.

But before we can repair what’s wounded, we must first return to ourselves as a whole.

This work invites you to reconnect with your body as guide—

To learn the rhythm of your nervous system.

To listen to the quiet, inner language beneath the noise.

To exist beyond the story of your trauma — and into the truth of who you are now.

the path to inner safety and connection

This work is for you, if…..

  • You look calm on the outside—but inside, you feel numb, disconnected and a stranger to yourself

  • You’ve done the therapy, read the books, can name your trauma—but still feel stuck

  • You live mostly in your head, rarely in your body

  • You crave feeling more—joy, anger, longing—but don’t know how touch it safely

  • You override your needs daily, and can’t remember the last time you truly rested or put yourself first

  • You’re high-functioning, capable, praised for your strength—but exhausted by holding it all together

  • You feel like you’re sleepwalking through life—and you’re ready to wake up

  • You don’t just want healing—you want to live from your body, your truth, your sovereignty

What others say…..

  • My confidence has soared, I am comfortable being uncomfortable.

    I cannot stress how much this has helped me. Soraya has a way about her that is not judgemental, not rushed and is so intuitive. So far I have achieved losing weight and a healthy lifestyle, improved relationships. I cannot recommend Soraya and trauma sensitive yoga highly enough and not even for a traumatic event but when you don’t feel you have choices, power or control over your life.”

    PH, Coaching Psychologist”

  • You make me feel fully seen and embraced without imposing and often without saying a word. 

    I have already recommended you to everyone in my life. Your compassion, gentleness, wisdom and outstanding intuition have allowed me to feel truly safe and held. To know that in this space I don't need to have the answers but I can follow the process.

    Kirsty

  • It has been an inspirational journey, which has taught me so much and made me more aware of myself and my body

    Thank you so much

    H

  • I feel empowered to take care of myself deeply, empathetically and unapologetically.

    I got an opportunity to feel and connect deeply with myself….and rejoice in the process. Soraya was skilful, intuitive and worthy of trust, bringing experience and deep positive intention.

Your nervous system healing journey, starts here

There isn’t one right doorway. The path you choose depends on how you’re ready to begin

The Threshold 1:1 guidance

Sometimes what we need isn’t a course or a group. It’s a steady hand, a safe space, someone walking beside us as we learn to feel again.

The Threshold is my 1:1 offering: a trauma-informed space where we use trauma-sensitive yoga to support the slow, gentle unwinding of what your body has been holding.

This is not about fixing you or rushing your healing. It’s about meeting you where you are today — numb, guarded, restless, or raw — and helping you cross into deeper self-trust, one step at a time.

Each session is an invitation to:

  • Reconnect with your body as guide

  • Learn the rhythm of your nervous system

  • Stay with sensation instead of pushing it away

  • Discover what it means to feel safe enough to feel

Whether you’re navigating CPTSD, the threshold of menopause, or simply the quiet exhaustion of holding it all together — The Threshold offers a way through.

Alchemy of Sovereignty (6-Month Online Course)

Menopause — and other thresholds in life — can feel like collapse, like losing the self you once knew. But what if it’s not the end? What if it’s the portal?

Alchemy of Sovereignty is a 6-month rite of passage for those ready to move beyond surviving into fully living.

Through trauma-sensitive yoga, somatic practices, and elemental wisdom, you’ll be guided to thaw numbness, release what’s been carried too long, and rebuild trust in your body.

We journey through four pillars — Rooted Safety, Emotional Reconnection, Power of Choice, and Embodied Sovereignty — each woven with practices inspired by the elements: earth to ground, water to soften, fire to reclaim, air to expand.

This is not about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering what was never lost, and letting the body show you the way home.

being real n nature

Raw & Real Retreats

Wild Alchemy in Nature

These aren’t polished wellness getaways. They’re raw and real — intimate gatherings in wild corners of the UK and Europe, where we strip things back to what matters: nature, presence, truth.

Rooted in simplicity and community, these retreats open a threshold: a space to lay down the armour, step out of performance, and meet yourself as you are.

We weave somatic yoga, shadow work, sound, and elemental practices — with the land itself as guide. Mountain, river, fire, forest. Each reminds us how to soften, release, and return.

This isn’t about escape. It’s about remembering.

A remembering of your body, your voice, your belonging.

A remembering that happens not in isolation, but through being witnessed — raw, unpolished, and real.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Healing Complex Trauma through your Body

Trauma Sensitive Yoga has foundations in Trauma Theory, Attachment Theory, Neuroscience and Hatha Yoga practice. It is an adjunctive treatment for Complex Trauma (CPTSD) and treatment resistant Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). You don’t have to be flexible or have done yoga before.

Hi, I’m Soraya

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I am an intuitive guide,  healer and trauma survivor. Our stories may be different but from my own experience of reclaiming me, I know that our journeys towards healing and integrating trauma are unique. There is no one size fits all.

Having understood the threads - the Why, I needed to know how to switch off my responses - the How. This has been a 12yr journey so far, guided by my intuition. Taking my through the realms of somatic healing in different modalities;  Somatic Experiencing, to sound healing, chanting, homeopathy, osteopathy and  my mainstay embodied yoga.

I weave elements of Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Somatics, Soundhealing and other modalities of yoga and shadow work to create a space for you to untangle the strands of who you are and transform your unresolved trauma.

I have been practicing yoga for 35yrs+ and facilitating for 20yrs. Along the way I have participated in  a 1000+ hours of accredited trainings.

My role is to guide you to your own north star, so that you can begin to guide yourself and gain your own autonomy. You do not need fixing, you are not broken and never were, you are using protective mechanism’s that were fantastic as a child but not as an adult. This is what I have learnt about myself. My protective mechanisms were so polished, I lived through much of my life not realising I had trauma!

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@sorayayoga

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