Hi there ! I'm Laura, your eco-somatic coach
After two masters degrees, I took a one-way ticket flight to India. I got my yoga teacher training there. Since then, I never stopped listening to the inner call of awakening to what the eyes don't see.
Throughout my twenties, I’ve journeyed through burnout, depression, chronic anxiety, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders.
Later on, I found myself adrift again — disconnected from my own essence after heartbreaks and deep grief. Over time, I discovered something transformative: our darkness can be as powerful and illuminating as our light.
My commitment to my yoga practice is what helped me back to my body and back to health.
From my initial training as a teacher, I quickly oriented toward energetics (learning reiki, taichi, qigong), and understanding how our relationship with our body heals us deeply . In 2020 I complete my trauma-informed teacher training, which has tremendous effects on myself in understanding my own mechanisms.
One of my most cherished teachers, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering (BMC), taught me to embrace suffering as a doorway to deeper wisdom and presence — “do not waste suffering,” as she often says. This insight reshaped my healing journey.
Progressively, leaning toward discomfort to hear a deeper truth became a daily practice. Incoherence and misalignment with my inner knowing started to appear clearly in front of my eyes, confronting me to my life choices.
That's how in 2024 I chose differently. The coin had finally dropped : we are children of the Earth, and our bodies are inseparable from the living world around us. I understand I can't keep living in world that bypass that ecological truth. Healing begins when we awaken to this profound ecology within and around us — recognizing the body and Earth as one whole, vibrant system.
Since September 2025, I’ve been deepening this path through an accredited herbalist training, learning how plants carry the medicine of the Earth and serve as powerful allies on our embodied journey. Today, I marry my somatic training to the plant realm. Eco-somatic work has to do with ecosystems and recognizing ourselves as part of them (not the center of them !).
This work I share invites you to an intimate conversation with your body and the living Earth. These two, you'll see, are not so different.
It's the most effective remedy to anyone carrying the wound of not belonging - whoever feels out of place, existing on the Earth without being part of it. Wounds of unworthiness, hopelessness, loneliness, despair.
You've might have understood it by now : what we call here "wounds" is actually a doorway. There is nothing wrong with what you feel, instead your feeling holds a deeper truth. I help you finding the hidden voice behind to let it guide you toward your forgotten wholeness.
The work I share doesn't follow the textbook, instead it is informed by the living intelligence present in every bodies (whether they're human, vegetal, or elemental). What I share is a leaning into your body's organic intelligence and the green world beneath your feet. Together, we explore new pathways to balance, resilience, vitality, and joy.
Healing lives within us, in the parts we often ignore or suppress. At its core, healing for me is about connecting with a deeper, powerful dimension—the light of the soul itself. Plants and elements are messengers for that return home.
This path of healing becomes ecological, moving us from an ego-centered to an eco-centered consciousness.
Through somatic self-inquiry, I’ve come to see this as an ongoing, living path—more exciting and revealing that we'll ever know.
I hope you'll join the call with me. Not to walk in my steps, but to find yours, so that you can reveal more colors of this Earth and this life that is yours. Doing so, you'll inspire us so much in return.
My trainings list (non-exhaustive) :
- Fondational Herbalism Training, with Elisa Fusi, Alquimia Healing Arts, CMA accreditation (Sept. 2025 - present).
- The Organ System (36hr), module part of the Somatic Movement Educator of the School Body-Mind movement (Bogota, June 2025).
- Integrative Somatic Parts Work (16hr) with Fran D. Booth (2021)
- Qigong Immersion for Yoga Teachers (20hr) with Mimi Kuo-Deemer (2021)
- Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training (100hr) with Atira Tan & Gemini Adams (2020)
- Tai Chi for Longevity and Health (50hr) with Keith Good (2018)
- Usui Reiki Master and Teacher Certification with ShantiJi (2017)
- Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training (200hr) at Shiva Tattva Yoga School (2017)
Connecting with my work, you discover that it’s not about “fixing” anything; it’s about reconnecting with the parts of yourself you may have forgotten and rediscovering that your wholeness has always been within you. I’m here to guide you in this process, helping you shift how you see yourself and your life.
Feel free to reach out to me at movetohealinglimited@gmail.com or click here to go to my website.