About Us
The People Behind SOMA
A collective of healing practitioners based in Pai, Northern Thailand
We are a collective of healers, teachers, and space holders based in the mountains of Pai, Northern Thailand. Our work lives at the intersection of body, breath, emotions, energy, and expression, guiding people back into relationship with themselves.
Denise
Yoga Teacher, Breathwork Facilitator & Space Holder
Based in the mountains of Pai in Northern Thailand, my work lives at the intersection of body, breath, and expression. I guide people back into relationship with themselves, using the medicines of movement, breath, music, voice & plant wisdom.
With thousands of hours of training and teaching experience, I've worked worldwide as a senior yoga teacher and lead trainer for Yoga teacher trainings. I'm passionate about supporting students and teachers to move beyond rigid alignment and into a more intuitive, individualised understanding of the body.
Alongside yoga, I offer trauma-informed breathwork: a powerful pathway into emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deep inner work. My approach is rooted in safety, consent, and respect for each person's unique process.
Music and voice are central to my path. Through kirtan, singing circles, and Bhakti practices, I create spaces where people can open their voices, soften self-judgment, and experience the joy of collective sound.
I also facilitate plant medicine ceremonies, holding intentional, carefully guided spaces for transformation, healing, and reconnection. This work is approached with deep reverence, responsibility, and integration support, allowing each journey to unfold in a way that is both safe and meaningful.
Across all of my offerings, there is a common thread: creating spaces that feel grounded, held, and real. Spaces where you can slow down, feel more, and meet yourself honestly, exactly as you are.
Omer
Somatic & Emotional Healing Practitioner
Based in Pai, Thailand, offering somatic and emotional therapy work here and online at the intersection of body, emotions, energy, and consciousness. My work focuses on helping people reconnect with themselves through grounded, body-based healing practices that support emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deeper self-understanding.
For a long time, my life looked good from the outside.
I grew up in a family where, on paper, things seemed fine. But inside, it was a very different story. There was dysfunction, emotional disconnection, and a narcissistic parent whose patterns deeply affected the way I experienced myself and the world around me.
Over time, I lost touch with my own needs, emotions, boundaries, and sense of self. My soul felt shattered, and my sense of who I was had become very small.
I didn't have the language for any of this back then. I simply knew that something wasn't right.
In my late twenties, I began psychotherapy. It became the beginning of a much deeper journey into understanding myself, my emotional patterns, and the ways my past was still shaping my present.
At some point, I discovered somatic and emotional therapies, and something shifted.
I began to understand that healing wasn't only about talking, understanding, or changing the way I think. There was another part of me that needed to be felt: the body.
I've been exploring different approaches to healing and working with the body and the self, drawing from somatic therapy, Chi Nei Tsang (Taoist abdominal massage), Reiki, breathwork, emotional inquiry, and energy work.
My goal is to create spaces where people can safely explore what is held beneath stress, anxiety, chronic tension, emotional patterns, and physical symptoms.
My approach is grounded and experiential. We talk, but we don't stay only in the head. We bring attention into the body, notice sensations, explore emotions, question the beliefs underneath them, and create enough safety for something new to become possible.
My work is about helping people slow down, reconnect, process what has been carried for too long, and gradually build a different relationship with their body, emotions, and life.
Alongside my healing work, I come from a background in product management, technology, and entrepreneurship. I know what it means to live in a fast-moving, high-performance world where it is easy to stay productive while becoming increasingly disconnected from yourself.
My work is rooted in a simple belief: when we learn to truly listen to the body and emotions, they begin to guide us back toward authenticity, connection, and a more aligned way of living.
Across all of our offerings, there is a common thread: creating spaces that feel grounded, held, and real. Spaces where you can slow down, feel more, and meet yourself honestly, exactly as you are.
What We Offer
Yoga & Training
Senior yoga teacher and lead trainer with thousands of hours of experience, guiding students into an intuitive, individualised understanding of the body.
Breathwork
Trauma-informed breathwork facilitator offering pathways into emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deep inner work rooted in safety and consent.
Voice & Music
Kirtan, singing circles, and Bhakti practices that open the voice, soften self-judgment, and bring people into the joy of collective sound.
Chi Nei Tsang
A therapeutic abdominal massage rooted in Taoist healing traditions, focused on releasing physical and emotional tension held in the belly.
'Emotional Embodiment' Therapy
Somatic and emotional sessions that work with the body and mind, bringing attention into the body where the pattern actually sits.
Energy Healing
Reiki energy healing and Kundalini Awakening practices to restore flow and alignment.
Somatic & Energy Healing Trainings
Body and energy based emotional healing approaches that help people reconnect with their emotions, understand inner patterns, and release held stress.
Ceremonies
Carefully guided plant medicine ceremonies held with reverence, responsibility, and full integration support for transformation and healing.