RESTORATIVE

emotional

limpias

Rebalancing

TEARS AS MEDICINA

Learn to create safety and embrace your emotional pain and tears.

Crying is an ancient healing practice. Read that again. We’ve been disconnected from this practice for far too long. Your tears have the power to heal your body and transform you. Biologically, emotional tears carry the stress hormone out of your body, reducing the risk of living with chronic stress. Spiritually, shedding tears is a ritual to experience deep transformations, letting go, and passage for the new. Energetically, releasing tears creates space in your body for more peace and joy. Your tears are the medicine.

I know crying is not easy, it’s one of the most vulnerable experiences a human will inevitably have to go through, many times. But the act of crying makes people uncomfortable and brings up feelings of fear, embarrassment, and shame because of centuries of social and cultural conditioning that says, “crying is a weakness and unworthy of love.” This judgement, among others, has diminished our ancestral connection to safety around our tears. Safety, like any other healing practice, is essential when we need to shed some tears.

Desahogar

“Desahogar is one of my favorite words in Spanish. It translates to vent, but if you break down the literal translation it means to undrown. As if letting go of the burdens and secrets you are holding on to will be the thing to save you from drowning. What a beautiful image.” — Nia Ita @niaitathomas

Consider this emotional limpia a mental health check-in. It’s a safe place for you to have a heart-to-heart conversation about the things that weigh heavy on your body and spirit.

La Limpia

An emotional limpia is similar to a traditional limpia or barrida in that they’re both energetic cleansing rituals to rebalance energy in the body. However, an emotional limpia focuses on releasing energy through tears and other somatic expressions.

We’ll start with a platica (heart-to-heart conversation) to get clear on the intention of the limpia and restore safety around emotional pain and tears. I will then guide you through somatic processing skills to release and rebalance energy in the body. Finally, we’ll seal the limpia with a visualization. If needed, I will suggest further practices and teach you skills to continue balancing your energy.

Everyone has different needs, which means that everyone will have a different experience. This offering was created with those differences in mind. Although I will give suggestions to continue your healing journey, ultimately, you decide when and how often you want to engage in this limpia. My emotional limpias are a slow and sustainable way to help you move through emotions one burden at a time, at your own pace.   

  • Client Testimonials

    Working with Sonia over the last year has been life changing. Through her use of somatic practices I have had the ability to reconnect with my body after a lifetime of disconnecting and numbing. Through her gentle guidance and wisdom with somatic practices, healing I never thought possible has taken place within me. Through this process Sonia has been extremely gentle and patient with me. I am forever grateful for being able to connect with her and work with her on my healing journey.

    — Crystal

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    Sonia creates a safe container to slow down, go inward, and trust in your body's wisdom. Working with her has shifted my process from knowing to embodying, and has allowed for my healing to occur at the pace my body needs. Sonia has brought humor and joy to our sessions as she's guided me through pain and grief, and her energy has been such a grounding force.

    — N.S.

  • Client Testimonials

    I reached out to Sonia after losing my mother. I was dealing with complex grief and needed a space where my grief could be held and worked through in a holistic way. Working with Sonia, I learned to integrate my mind, body and spirit in a way that I had not learned before due to my own social conditioning. Sonia held space in such a caring way that allowed me to explore emotions that I had been avoiding. I am so grateful for the time I was able to work with Sonia. It’s so hard for me to explain my work with Sonia but I can say that we laughed, we cried, we felt deeply and all along I felt safe and held.

    — Jesus

  • Client Testimonials

    Sonia is an incredible therapist and healer, I’m so happy I found her. I’ve worked with different styles of therapists and she has been the best fit for me. Sonia’s approach is very trauma informed, she creates so much safety in her sessions, and sessions go beyond the surface or conscious level content most therapists provide. It’s my first time receiving such deep somatic therapy and since working with her, I’ve been able to process traumas and have been able to process and release energy that has been stored in my mind/body/soul. Sonia is a powerful healer and I’m so honored to have her on my self care team!

    — Raquel M.

  • Client Testimonials

    I began my therapeutic journey with Sonia in January 2021 and can say with the utmost confidence, zero hesitation, and pure admiration that she has been the catalyst for so much of the good to come from my mental and physical healing. It wasn’t until I met Sonia that I actually felt heard, supported, and empowered to even continue my healing outside of our sessions. I had never once done somatic body and nervous system check ins, but her guidance through them has allowed me to unpack the layers of trauma and pieces of me that I’ve suppressed in my body and soul. And somewhere along the way, I finally started to feel again. Sonia’s soulful connection to not only her deep rooted ancestral knowledge but her mastery of holistic therapeutic practices are genuinely felt and appreciated beyond measure.

    — Francesca

  • Client Testimonials

    Working with Sonia has been one of the greatest, most powerful gifts I’ve given myself while on this healing journey. We started having sessions during a very difficult time in my life, I was simultaneously hitting a kind of rock bottom and also going through growing pains of my own evolution. Sonia’s guidance and her capacity to allow myself to listen to my body and my own inner wisdom was like having the most loving energy gently walk me through letting go of my cocoon. The sessions we shared also greatly influenced my professional and creative endeavors, inspiring me to translate my metamorphosis through art and music, and truly launching me forward into my next big life chapter. Before starting with Sonia, I couldn’t have imagined how much I’d heal and grow. I’m forever thankful and I look forward to all of her offerings.

    — Mariza