I am grateful and honoured to be in service to your process in a relational, attuned healing space. My work is anchored in a fundamental love of people, continuously inspired by the resilience and innate goodness woven into the essence of everyone. My approach recognizes that personal pain does not exist in isolation—it’s often shaped by systemic injustice, inter-generational trauma, and the wounds of the collective. I am in service to both individual and collective healing, honouring how our inner restoration can ripple outward and contribute to a more compassionate, liberated world. Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that recognizes the deep connection between the body, mind, emotions and spirit. While talking through events, thoughts, stories or beliefs is valuable, somatic therapy invites an additional unique pathway to wholeness, by bringing awareness to physical sensations, breath, and movement to process unresolved experiences. It facilitates the release of stored tension, trauma, or emotional patterns that may be held in the nervous system or tissues. It gently supports you in coming home to your body with safety, presence, and compassion. It may be especially powerful for those seeking to heal from experiences of "stuckness" in self-limiting beliefs or behaviour patterns, trauma, or disconnection from inner wisdom.
As a Somatic Practitioner/Therapist, I'm passionate about serving the following:
-reclaiming, potentiating and liberating vocal expression (Email me at voiceasmedicine@gmail.com for more information about Voice as Medicine--an experiential retreat exploring sacred sound and song)
-transitions across the reproductive spectrum: pre-conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, parenthood, peri-menopause/menopause
-LGBTQIA2S communities
-plant medicine preparation and integration
-for those who are called, weaving principles/elements of animism into the healing space
-bringing/reclaiming ceremony and ritual to life
-psychospiritual mentorship for seekers, seers, feelers, dreamers and changemakers

I give thanks to many teachers, including Mariah Moser (Relational Somatic Therapy), Gabor Maté (Compassionate Inquiry), Kate Pinsonneault and others (Internal Family Systems), as well as Plantas Maestras & Maestras Ynes, Lila, Laura and Edelin Lopez-Sanchez, who have guided and shaped my study and practice.

As a Midwife, I approach pregnancy, birth and postpartum as pathways to healing. For over 25 years I've had the privilege of working with thousands of birthing families across diverse settings and cultural contexts, specializing in botanical medicine, the effects of trauma on the perinatal period, undisturbed birth, and embodied parenting. As a Community Herbalist and Midwife (holding Registered Midwife and Master Herbalist designations) I'm grateful for the opportunity to weave together ancient healing practices with evolving contemporary knowledge; rooted in relationship, reverence and respect for the Natural world. At present I offer a consultant practice, providing prenatal and postpartum botanical medicine consultations, acupuncture during labour and early postpartum, and somatic therapy to folks across the reproductive spectrum. For more information, visit the website for my practice, Rosa Divina Midwifery and Botanicals, here: https://www.rosadivinamidwifery.ca/

A Womb Wisdom Session is a deeply nurturing space for reconnecting with the wisdom, energy, and memory held in the womb and pelvic bowl. Through gentle energy work, guided somatic awareness, and intuitive practices, this session supports embodiment, emotional release, and energetic clearing. Each session is uniquely attuned and in service to your healing process, and may include (with permission) touch, breath work, sacred sound, and ancestral connection. If you are interested, botanical medicine may be offered, such as herbal teas, flower essences, or anointing oils. Clients are fully clothed during sessions. Womb Wisdom sessions are suitable for anyone who is curious about the Womb Space at any stage in their life, including those experiencing pregnancy, postpartum, peri-menopause or menopause. This is a space for deep remembrance, restoration, and reclamation.

Learning to listen to and speak the language of the body requires that we increase our inner literacy; that we slow down and invite curiosity. In doing so, we can begin to understand the workings of our autonomic nervous system and the messages held in our survival physiology.

Sessions with me are experiential, collaborative and invitational. Together we explore what is asking for attention through embodied mindfulness practices; sensing and feeling in the present moment. Combined with elements of traditional talk therapy,

Relational Somatic Inquiry works with the body as a resource to gather information. What emerges can take the form of words, images, sensations, emotions, movement, and memory.

Relational Somatic Inquiry acknowledges the wholeness of the individual, and the benefits that can come from integrating the complexity of our lived experiences. By integrating material held in the soma, clients can experience greater understanding, self compassion, nuance, possibility and choice.

This work is informed by current research on embodied mindfulness, attachment theory, trauma renegotiation work, the nervous system and neuroscience.

I currently work with adults looking to deepen their relationship to Self, and explore the barriers that stand in the way of accessing vitality and ease in their systems.

Life is full of unexpected changes and unforeseen circumstances. Even the shifts that we anticipate can leave us feeling untethered and disoriented, hopeless and alone.

Relational Somatic Inquiry offers an opportunity to explore the wisdom of your own body, so that it may inform, guide and ultimately liberate you from old and outdated ways of relating with yourself and the world.

Are you looking to grow your capacity to meet and hold life’s inevitable changes and challenges? Do you want to respond more and react less?

It may be that you find yourself in a familiar loop and want to feel into other possibilities. Perhaps you have a deep longing you want to bring into the light, or an old story you’d like to soften around? Maybe you’d like to become more proficient in feeling what you feel, or cultivating more space in your system to digest and integrate old wounds and traumas?

This is all possible.

I have worked over 15 years as a facilitator and educator. The majority of my experience is rooted in practices that support folks through the modalities of movement, mindfulness, contemplative practices and psychological inquiry.

Currently I am studying, integrating and weaving both IFS (Internal Family Systems) & Compassionate Inquiry into my Relational Somatic Work. I am also deeply informed by the psycho-spiritual teachings of the Enneagram.

My passion and curiosity for this human experience continues to guide me on my path.

I approach this work with deep reverence, grounded wonder, & a generous heart.