Safety Is Our Birthright.
Our bodies tell our life story. We hold onto emotion, pain & trauma which shapes how we show up in the world. To live means to go through the joy & grief of what human existence brings. When we feel safe enough to truly feel our emotions, we create more space to fully participate in the beauty of life.
Welcome!
Why SoMama-Earth?
SoMama-Earth was birthed in order to help women, especially mothers, feel nurtured, find safety within their body & connect with their Feminine Wisdom. Soma is the greek word for body, Mama as the Mother, and Earth our Great Mother... SoMamaEarth.
When we come into somatic safety, our nervous system comes into a state of regulation & we feel safe enough to feel. We feel safe enough to experience the whole spectrum of human emotion that life offers.
We live in a world that thrives (literally profits) from the disconnect we have from our bodies. Societal norms, conditionings, & trauma impact the relationship we have with ourselves, & we unconsciously find ourselves living in a dys-regulated state most of the time.
Somatics is an inquiry into knowing ourselves & the world around us through descending into the body. It is a reclamation of the body's natural intelligence.
The Woman. The Mother.
Imagine a world where women lived in harmony with their cyclic nature. In connection with their bodies & the rites of passage that womanhood brings. The working 9-5 was built around a man's 24 hour hormonal cycle, rather than a woman's 27-35 day cycle. It's no wonder that so many women are depleted, stressed & anxious when expected to function in life this way. Resulting in the disconnected woman.
Women are also expected to perform as normal during pregnancy, a physically enduring & emotionally transformative time. And once postpartum arrives & life changes so drastically often mothers are left feeling isolated & without support during such a vulnerable time. It left me pondering where has Mother Culture & Community gone?
My experiences in pregnancy loss, pregnancy & postpartum have awakened so many parts of my being & propelled me further into my purpose here in this lifetime. I feel passionate that women are not given the right support they need & it is my wish to help women find safety within their bodies & support them in their pregnancy, postpartum & motherhood journey.
About Me.
My name is Mel & I'm a trauma informed somatic facilitator & yogi. Weaving somatics & sound healing I have used my life experience & initiation into the underworld that is Motherhood, to support women who have experienced pregnancy loss as well as those on their pregnancy journey. I offer 1-1 sessions, circles & workshops. I love facilitating healing circles where we combine guided meditation, somatics, sound journey & integration in order to connect to the heart space.
I hold trainings in:
200 hour YTT (Breath Body Earth Yoga School)
Somatic Educator for Women (Somatic Institute for Women).
Usui Reiki I & II (Reiki Evolution)
MotherCircle Facilitator (Kimberly Ann Johnson)
Level 1 Sound Healing Practitioner (Ocean Flow Sound Academy)
Work With Me.
Pregnancy & Baby Loss Sessions.
Like all other monumental life events, losing a pregnancy or baby is a rite of passage that in western culture is not tenderly held. The woman is forever changed but life to everyone else goes on as normal. She needs to be held, nurtured & cared for, allowed space to make sense of the grief.
I am sharing these sessions with loving tenderness as they are everything I had to search for when I went through my own experience of losing my baby… alone & searching for healing modalities to make sense of it all. Sessions are 90 minutes, involve cultivating safety within the body, light breathwork, meditation & a sound healing journey to help regulate the nervous system.
If you are Glasgow based I can travel to your home, or do them at my house in the Southside. The session is 90 minutes at an introductory cost of £50 over the next months. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Pregnancy Sessions.
Pregnancy is a deeply intuitive & transformative time. However, oftentimes the woman is left to navigate this rite of passage alone. I offer 1-1 sessions to delve deep into the dreamy state of traversing the portal into Motherhood. So much can arise during pregnancy, both fears & intuition. Using somatics & sound healing we work with your body to truly listen to it, connect with your baby, work through fears & tap into your intuition, regulate the nervous system by coming into states of relaxation & preparing for birth.
If you are Glasgow based I can travel to your home, or do them at my house in the Southside. The session is 90 minutes at an introductory cost of £50 over the next months. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Circles & Workshops.
There is pure magic that happens when people come together in circle. This is a long lost practice that is slowly coming back around, each person bringing their own wisdom & truth to the circle so that we all learn & grow. I facilitate circles with guided meditation, sound healing journey & integration activity with the intention of connecting to the heart space & remembering the essence of who we are & why we are here.
Circles are usually monthly & cost £20 so keep an eye on my Instagram page for updates.