Hannah Valaiah,

Registered Somatic Movement Therapist

SomaSoul® Somatic Therapist

Her Journey

Hannah's path into somatic therapy has been shaped by a deeply personal journey with intimacy beyond self-abandonment, through cultivating a secure relationship with her core self. For many years, early attachment wounding brought questions of safety in connection, which formed the undercurrent of her lived experience. What began as a search for belonging gradually unfolded into a rich understanding of both body and broader being-ness, fueling her passion for supporting others through somatic exploration.

A lifelong truth-seeker, Hannah's curiosity came with early spiritual inquiry where she has spent close to two decades in personal study and practice of energy healing and bio-spiritual artistry. This work deepened her appreciation for the subtleties of human experience through the developing higher sensory perception (HSP) faculties, while also illuminating the necessity for discernment, sovereignty and embodiment. Through her own unfolding, she came to realize that somatic integration, inner child healing and shadow work are essential companions to meaningful and sustainable spiritual development.

Values

With embodiment at the heart of her values, Hannah's passion has increasingly centered in women's work, particularly the reclamation of sensuality through the soma. She is interested in how we come to inhabit our bodies more fully, restore trust in our own internal signals, and reclaim our innate agency and aliveness that can become obscured through conditioning, trauma and relational wounding.

She sees the remembrance of the erotic as both sacred and intelligent as a central pathway toward greater freedom, expression and connection. It has been her experience that the true spirit of aliveness comes through landing within a body fully felt. Her work gently supports the unfolding of embodied sensuality through a return to erotic innocence — the natural capacity to feel, respond, and inhabit oneself from the heart and through the soma.

Process

Hannah's work is based in SomaSoul® and integrates somatic attachment therapy interventions. She is informed by her long-time practice in bodywork & bio-energetic healing and inspired by an ongoing study of sensuality and the shadow through Maanee Chrystal's work in The Somatic Institute for Women.

Sessions with Hannah can be tailored toward somatic transformational coaching or therapeutic application, depending on each client's needs and intentions. Her approach is relational, compassionate and curious, creating space for clients to discover at their own pace. Together, the work honors individual agency, the wisdom of the present moment and the body's capacity for emergence and change.

What to expect: SomaSoul Somatic Therapy

Each session spans 60 min on video call and begins with a brief guided awareness practice so you can settle and notice what is asking for attention and support.

From there we'll move into:

• Gentle conversation and inquiry that respects your agency throughout the process.

• Mindful tracking of sensations, emotions, and nervous system responses.

• Expressive arts processes and somatic experiments as appropriate, which may include movement, gesture, sound, breathwork, imagery, drawing and resourcing.

• Integration; a cycle for completion that brings us back into awareness of your body and its signals.

• An offering will be given for a self-care practice until we next meet.

Coaching application: Somatic Transformational

• Here we focus more in embodiment of erotic arts practices and sensuality. Sessions may invite more exploration around co-creating life visions, claiming true desires, shadow work, intimacy & relating with the female body.

Certificates & Trainings

SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy is a trauma-informed approach based in Polyvagal Theory that integrates mindfulness, embodiment, expressive arts, and spirituality. It holds lineage roots in HFI's body-centered psychotherapy and offers a compassionate framework for understanding how our nervous system responds to stress, challenge, and connection. SomaSoul® processes bring support to parts that did not previously receive it, while affirming self in presence.

• Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT), International Somatic Movement Therapy & Education Association

• SomaSoul® Somatic Therapist and Shake Your Soul® Yoga-Dance Facilitator, Leven Institute

• Certificate in Somatic Attachment Therapy, Embody Lab

• Certified Transformational Coach, Authentic Education™

• Certified Yoga Facilitator, Yandara Institute

• Bodywork & bio-energetic healing practitioner of 16 years

Next Step

Send a message to connect and begin with a complimentary whatsapp call to determine if we're a good fit for each other.

Sessions are offered ongoingly on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis at an agreed upon day and time, payment is made the day of. Coaching & therapy packages available in 3 & 6 month containers with option for longer (90min) calls.

Based in Ontario, Canada (EST), sessions are offered internationally by distance.

In person also available in Richmond Hill, ON.

Learn more about Hannah Valaiah through her creative offerings here: https://soundcloud.com/valaiah