redesign your life and relationships - mind body awareness

Hello! 

I'm Maria Venusa.

My journey towards facilitating others to remove the blocks that stop them from reaching  their highest potential and their heart strength started with my own journey doing exactly the same.

When I was a kid, I felt lost in a world where people seemed removed from their own feelings, and I felt alone when my sensitivity and vulnerability didn't match that of those around me. 

I remember when at the age of nine we lost our home. I walked into an empty home, whilst numerous people were standing around, removing our belongings, one by one. 

That afternoon, we ended up sat on a church wall with all of our stuff. 

After sitting with what felt like an unbearable pain, I decided to embrace resilience and change how I viewed the world around me. I knew the power to feel was a catalyst for change. 

This very journey started from a place of desolation, loss and early attachment rupture which looked like an insatiable need to find the One. 

Only to find out that the One had been me all along. With courage, I stepped into a journey of self-discovery, self-compassion and inner reliance. This was the journey to finding my voice, that ultimately led to redesigning my own life and my relationships.

Learning about what I didn't want, opened up the path to finding what I did want. 

Learning about and training on energetics, inner child work and reparenting, sound healing, clinical reflexology, neuro-linguistic programming therapy, mind-body (somatic) coaching,  trauma and somatic experiencing informed work all led me exactly here, to this very point.

With all the tools gathered throughout the years, I now guide teams and leaders to create healthier, more connected workplaces—using somatic coaching, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and sound healing as tools for nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and relationship transformation.

And yes, I also enjoy pleasure moments, the "doing nothing" that often is the most meaningful part of our life on this Earth. 

So, with that in heart, body and mind, I also enjoy singing and playing the ukulele, connecting with and playing my singing bowls, tongue drum and gong, I enjoy connecting with and looking after my body, meditating, being in nature, feeling the presence of trees around me, placing my bare feet on the sand, listening to the ocean, laughing, reading and learning new things, spending meaningful time with my partner, my family and friends and probably many other things that involve good flavours, good company and expansive conversations. 

Having studied with such great mentors in the field of Mind-Body (Somatic) awareness such as Dr Scott Lyons (Founder and director of the Embody Lab), Dr Arielle Schwartz (Psychologist and author), Dr Peter Levine Phd (founder of Somatic Experiencing), has brought such a depth and expansive awareness both personally and professionally from such pioneers in these modalities. I also had the pleasure of being mentored by Dr Rae Johnson, somatic movement therapist, Kai Cheng Thom who is a somatic coach and author, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, who is a Somatic psychotherapist and embodied Dharma teacher, Dr Richard Strozzi (teacher and founder of Strozzi Institute), Staci K. Haines (author and leader in the field of Somatics) and finally Dr Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy .

In the field of Neuro - Linguistic Programming (NLP), I have furthered my awareness and understanding of subconscious programming that runs our lives from one of the leading mentors in the field Robbie Steinhouse who is a Master NLP practitioner, ICF accredited coach, speaker and author. 

I am also part of the Resource team for the ICF accredited course 'NLP with Advanced Coaching with Processes for Personal and Professional Transformation' with the NLP School, run by Robbie Steinhouse. 

If you're interested in learning more about it, please find further details here:

Clinical Reflexology Level 5 - Gaia school of Natural health

Integrative Somatic Trauma Awareness - The Embody Lab

Mind-Body Coaching - The Embody lab

Sound Healing Practitioner Diploma - Holistic training Hub

NLP Practitioner with Advanced Coaching - NLP School ICF accredited

Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Peter Levine PhD and Efu Nyaki - The Embody Lab

Awakening Aliveness: Somatic Approaches to Healing Attachment Trauma with Peter A. Levine PhD & Dr. Diane Poole Heller - Trauma Solutions Dr. Diane Poole Heller 

Somatic Attachment Therapy - The Embody Lab 

ANLP Professional Member accredited 

AOR (Association of Reflexologists)  accredited and insured

EMCC Global (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)

EMCC UK accredited 

PolicyBee insurance and public liability - documents can be shared upon request 

DBS checked - documents can be shared upon request