Awaken to Your Body’s Innate Wisdom

A holistic, body-centred approach to trauma healing and awakening.

Welcome to Soma Wisdom

Soma Wisdom is a space for deep healing and awakening through the innate intelligence of the body. Through somatic inquiry and embodied practices, we work together to release trauma, transform limiting beliefs, and cultivate safety, resilience, and inner freedom. My aim is to support your well-being by providing tools and a safe container for deep processing, so you can reconnect with your body’s wisdom and experience a more balanced, harmonious, and empowered life.

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Hi I’m Renata! I am a therapist, teacher, and guide for those on a journey toward healing, awakening, and freedom. My work centers on deepening your connection to the body and supporting you in developing trust in its innate intelligence and finding a sense of home within yourself.

Offerings

  • Body-Centred Therapy

    Body-Centred Therapy

    Hakomi-based somatic psychotherapy

    A trauma-informed, experiential therapy that uses mindfulness and somatic awareness to uncover and transform unconscious patterns. Grounded in the Hakomi method, these sessions support healing, regulation, and emotional integration through the body’s innate intelligence.

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  • Somatic Inquiry

    Somatic Inquiry

    A path of awakening through the body

    A contemplative and spiritual approach to embodied self-discovery. These sessions guide you to attune to your felt experience with presence and curiosity—supporting you to deepen in authenticity, inner authority, and alignment with your true nature.

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  • Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®)

    Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®)

    A simple, powerful tool for nervous system regulation

    A gentle yet powerful practice that helps release chronic stress and trauma held in the body. By activating the body’s natural tremoring mechanism, TRE supports nervous system regulation, resilience, and a return to grounded ease.

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  • Insight Meditation

    Insight Meditation

    Insight Meditation Teachings and Events

    A space dedicated to awakening through the practice of Insight Meditation. Rooted in the Buddha’s teachings on clear seeing (Vipassana), we offer retreats, courses, and talks to support the deepening of presence, wisdom, and freedom.

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Upcoming events

  • Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®) Workshop

    Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®) Workshop

    Sat 20th Sept 2025, 10:00 am AEST, Mona Vale, NSW

    The TRE® Workshops are a great opportunity for you to learn and experience the TRE® method within safe environment. 

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  • Awakening the Heart - One day Meditation Retreat

    Awakening the Heart - One day Meditation Retreat

    Sun 21st Sept 2025, 10:00am-4:30pm AEST, North Narrabeen, NSW

    This one-day silent retreat is an opportunity for you to deepen your connection with the boundless qualities of the heart – kindness, joy, compassion, and equanimity – as a foundation for developing insight and freedom.

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  • Meditation and Dharma Talk

    Meditation and Dharma Talk

    Tue 23rd Sept 2025, 7:00 pm AEST, Online

    Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Sky Sangha on Tuesday 23rd September. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.

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  • Meditation and Dharma Talk

    Meditation and Dharma Talk

    Thu 23rd Oct 2025, 6:00 pm AEST, Lennox Heads, NSW

    Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Lennox Meditation on Thursday 23rd October. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.

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  • “ Renata is an absolutely incredible therapist. I couldn’t recommend her highly enough! She has the gift to make you feel so welcome, seen and heard the moment you meet her. She creates an incredibly safe space for you to drop in, go deep, and fully surrender to the process. I have had incredible insights and experienced a deep transformation during our sessions. “

    Sophie S.

  • “I'm so grateful for the guidance Renata has given me. For a long time I was looking for someone to help me move beyond the state of anxiety and shutdown that I was in. It wasn't until I worked with Renata guiding me, that I was able to tap into what was driving my nervous system dysregulation and constant reactiveness. I feel so much more grounded and peaceful since the somatic healing with Renata. I'd recommend her to anyone struggling with emotional overwhelm or who wants to grow and heal.”

    Schecani

  • “I felt so grateful for the TRE practice yesterday. I feel I take something new and fresh away into my sitting practice from it.

    Renata is a very good teacher, enriched I feel, by her commitment to her own personal work.“

    Kate I.

  • “TRE was such a unique experience from which I am sure I will continue to benefit as I practice regularly. I certainly feel the best I have for quite a while and am so grateful for the way Renata led this simple but profound technique.”

    Maryanne

  • “Renata is a gifted teacher and I like very much the way she tunes in to an individual's response and honour that, whilst giving back what might be a good offering for them as well.

    I can see that Renata has studied the dharma extensively and it is fab to be the recipient of this specialised knowledge. I love the space and authenticity in her teachings as well as inclusion of relevance to trauma and the unconscious as related to processing deep feelings. I also really enjoyed the class on The Inner Critic!

    It seems to me that she lives what she teaches. It is so wonderful to experience that. “

    Deborah B.

  • “I felt that I covered more in five sessions with Renata than I had with any other psychologist or CBT specialist or NLP practitioner in the past.”

      Juni R.

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