HOLDING
Embodied support for queer women and non-binary people carrying trauma or navigating deep transition.
We are wired for connection, all of us, yet for so many of us the world has been shaped by disconnection, urgency and systems built around power-over rather than care with. A world that asks some of us to be smaller, quieter, or more acceptable before we are allowed to be safe. Our bodies carry the imprint, learning to stay vigilant, silent, compliant, armoured, charming or disconnected in order to survive.
This shows up in the way your body braces - in the numbness. In the way you scan a room when you walk into it, so practised by now that you no longer notice you are doing it. In the patterns your nervous system built to keep you safe, patterns that are now keeping you stuck. In the exhaustion of holding it all together when something underneath feels like it is unravelling.
This work is for Queer women and non-binary people carrying the impact of trauma. It is also for those in profound life transitions where the ground has shifted beneath you and your body, mind and soul haven't caught up:
- Coming out, at any age.
- Transition
- Leaving a marriage, a faith, or a family that could not hold you.
- Learning about your body
- Chosen family, and the making of it.
- Midlife, the turning of the years.
- Parenthood.
- Spiritual awakening.
- Trauma support.
Your body need not be a battleground.
It holds wisdom. Capacity for joy.
It can be a sacred home.
Your body is already moving toward healing. Each time you experience safety instead of pressure, choice instead of collapse, attunement instead of violation, something begins to shift. Not just in your nervous system but in the deeper story your body has been carrying.
Beneath the survival patterns there is still a quiet instinct toward connection, aliveness and grace. In safe relationship, what was once organised around protection can slowly begin to reorganise around trust, choice and joy.
This work is not about fixing, reliving what happened or forcing disclosure. You are not broken. Healing and transformation often begins more quietly than we expect, through creating enough safety for the body to soften its protective patterns and slowly reconnect with presence, choice and aliveness.
Every session is part of the journey. There is a gentle quality of attention in the room, a deep, loving focus on you. I bring over fifteen years of embodied practice alongside a deep understanding of trauma, the nervous system and depth psychology. So the work moves on two levels at once. You come away with clarity, with models to understand yourself, and with things you can actually do. And underneath, something shifts in the body - a felt sense of change and ease.
We build slowly with spaciousness and safety.
Sessions may include talking, somatic resilience practices, nervous system support, relational attunement, mindfulness, body awareness, and, where appropriate and collaboratively chosen, gentle co-regulatory touch, somatic trauma release or trauma-informed massage therapy. There is never any expectation for touch, and consent remains central throughout the process.
What becomes possible.
⬥You are in the middle of something stressful, the kind that used to send you spinning, and you stay present. Not shut down. Actually calm. You can feel your feet on the floor and you connect to and respond from your inner wisdom.
⬥Someone at the table says the thing, in that voice, and the flare comes. But it moves through you instead of taking you under. You respond from now, not from then.
⬥Everything you built before stops making sense and instead of gripping harder you soften into it. You can hear your own deeper knowing underneath the noise. You follow it. Not recklessly but with trust - and following it takes you to places you never imagined!
⬥You feel your partner's hand on your skin and your body doesn't leave the room. You stay. Not performing. Not enduring. Here. Alive.
⬥Joy - pleasure - ease. You begin to craft your life according to the truest version of you. And in doing so, open up connection, laughter, & a lightness that you had forgotten was possible!
The Space.
A cathedral bell tent held in beautiful gardens and countryside near Corsham, Wiltshire. Warm, quiet, completely private. The land holds the work as much as I do.
The practicals.
12 sessions. 75 minutes each.
£1200 for the block, with monthly payment plans available.
Weekly or fortnightly. We find a regular time that becomes yours.
What people say about this journey:
Natalie is a rare person who just sees you on every level.
She is intuitive and deeply compassionate, she holds a magic that makes you feel like you have come home and she helps you to where you want to be, even if you don’t know it yourself!
- Alexi
Before starting to work with Natalie, my worth was entirely defined by my productivity, my outward success and my work. I did not rest, play or stop. My hypervigilance and perfectionism was exhausting. Through the work, Natalie has helped me see that my worth is not linked to what I can 'do' but to who I am, the very essence of me.
- Abi
Working with Natalie was such a beautiful experience. Our trust built over our time together, and I felt fully safe to be completely vulnerable. She offered me wonderful insights to help me understand myself better and we discovered really helpful tools for me to build my resilience and work through emotions that I have built into my everyday life and will be invaluable going forwards.
- Becky
My life has changed so much! Not only did you support me through a massive change in my life, but the tools that I have now have kept me on a path that has taken me places I never believed possible. I don’t recognise myself anymore - in the best way! Thank you. Thank you.
- Sophie
ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Natalie Oria. Somatic practitioner, embodiment therapist, massage therapist, energy healer, and priestess.
I work at the intersection of somatic healing, sacred practice and depth psychology. As a practitioner, circle keeper, ceremonialist and guide, I hold space for the kind of transformation that cannot be rushed but is fully inhabited.
I call this embodied spirituality.
This room runs on a feminine current which is my energy and my practice. Nobody has to qualify for it, or perform it, or present a certain way to be met inside it. Come exactly as you are.
I am a queer woman, non-monogamous, living outside of a lot of boxes. I will not know your particular life, but my lens is wide open.
At the heart of everything I do is the belief that when we connect to our knowing and our higher selves, in reverent connection with the earth, the world will naturally begin to heal.
You will be held in the fullest sense of that word. Professionally. Spiritually. With radical honesty and unconditional love.
This work is multi-layered, deeply intentional, and completely tailored to you.
