Somatic Healing: Return to the Wisdom of Your Body
Moon Somatics offers online Somatic Healing, Divination, Ritual support, Ancestral Lineage Healing, and nature-based spiritual care for folks in California and worldwide who are seeking deeper connection with the body, intuition, spirit, creativity, and the living world. You do not need to arrive certain. You only need a place to begin.
Moon Somatics is guided by Roya, a Somatic Practitioner and initiated Diviner.
Roya brings over two decades of study and practice in somatics, embodiment, bodywork, ritual, and healing arts. She received her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a Somatic Specialization from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and her background includes Ortho-Bionomy®, massage therapy, trauma-informed somatic practice, relational psychotherapy, ritual arts, and ancestral healing.
This work is held with care, humility, and respect for each person’s body, identity, lineage, lived experience, and pace. At Moon Somatics, healing is approached through deep listening, relationship, and the belief that change does not need to be forced.
Meet Roya, Somatic Practitioner
Somatic Healing for Trauma Patterns, Grief, Creativity, and Connection
Feeling more present and connected in your body
Understanding patterns rooted in trauma or survival
Building capacity for emotional regulation and self-compassion
Reconnecting with creativity, intuition, and pleasure
Deepening relationships with ancestry, land, and community
Cultivating adaptability and embodied support
A Grounded Space for Body-Based Healing and Spiritual Listening
Somatic Healing invites us to listen differently. Rather than trying to think our way through everything, we slow down and notice what the body, emotions, nervous system, intuition, memory, relationship, and spirit may be communicating.
In session, we may work with grounding, sensation, reflection, movement, creative process, divination, ritual, ancestral connection, or relational exploration. The work is guided, but never forced. You are invited to stay connected to your own pace, agency, and sense of what feels right.
You do not need a perfect story, a clear goal, or certainty about what you believe. We begin with what is present.
“We do not always allow ourselves to work through pain. More often than not, we think pain is a signal that we must stop, rather than find its source. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth. In this context, a body in pain is a soul in longing.”
Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Healing Arts
Healing does not happen in isolation. Our bodies, spirits, nervous systems, and sense of self are shaped by relationships, culture, ancestry, land, systems, and community.
Moon Somatics is rooted in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, anti-oppressive, and relational care. Sessions are guided with attention to consent, pacing, collaboration, and respect for your lived experience.
There is no expectation to perform healing, rush insight, or move faster than your body is ready for.
We begin where you are and listen for what is ready to emerge.
FAQs
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Somatic healing is a body-based healing arts approach that supports people in exploring stress, grief, emotional overwhelm, trauma patterns, creativity, identity, and disconnection from the self. Rather than only talking about what is happening, we gently listen to the body through sensation, movement, emotion, imagery, creativity, and nervous system awareness.
This work can support you in feeling more present, connected, resourced, and able to meet life with greater choice and self-trust.
Somatic healing is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, medical care, or crisis support.
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Somatic Healing at Moon Somatics is a healing arts offering. It focuses on body awareness, self-inquiry, creativity, intuition, life transitions, ritual support, and reconnecting with your own inner sense of guidance. It may be supportive if you are wanting to feel more present in your body, explore patterns with care, or build practices that help you move through life with more connection and choice.
Psychotherapy is a licensed mental health service. It can include assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, clinical documentation, and treatment for mental health concerns. Psychotherapy may be more appropriate when you are seeking clinical support for anxiety, trauma, depression, substance use, crisis, emotional distress, or relational patterns that need deeper therapeutic care.
Somatic Healing is not psychotherapy, medical care, diagnosis, crisis support, or treatment for mental health conditions. If something comes up that would be better supported through therapy, I will name that with care and can offer referrals or help you consider next steps.
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Stick divination is a spiritual and ritual practice for seeking guidance, clarity, and support. At Moon Somatics, sessions are Dagara-inspired and lineage-informed, drawing from stick divination practices from Burkina Faso, West Africa as shared through lineage-based teachers in the United States.
In session, we listen with the support of ritual, the stick, the ancestors, the Wedemé, elemental beings, and other helping presences. The session may offer insight into what is moving in your life and what kind of ritual care, action, or repair may be supportive.
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A stick divination session begins by opening a ritual space with gratitude to the spirits of the land, ancestors, guides, elemental forces, and helping presences. You bring questions, themes, dreams, grief, crossroads, or areas of life where you are seeking guidance.
As the session unfolds, the divination tools help reveal what is present and what kind of ritual support may be needed. Because this is a prescriptive form of divination, you may receive personalized rituals or practices to complete afterward.
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Yes. Package discounts are available for somatic coaching and divination, and sliding scale pricing is available based on need.
Psychotherapy fees and availability are listed on the psychotherapy page.
You are welcome to reach out if cost is a barrier or if you would like help choosing the best option.
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That is completely okay. You can begin with a free consultation, send a question by email, or spend time reading more about the offerings before deciding.
There is no pressure to know exactly what you need. Reaching out can simply be a first step toward exploring whether this work feels right for you.