About
I don't fix
I walk you back.
Eleven years in the interrupted places. 400+ women held in embodiment. This is the body that became the work — and the work that became the body.
Lalena Rose · Practitioner
The descent
The story
was airtight.
The body was screaming.
Eleven years ago, I was a high-functioning mother who could narrate her trauma beautifully and feel very little of it. I had words for what had happened. Feeling what I needed, wanted or longed for was harder.
A somatic practitioner looked beyond the story and asked what I could feel in my chest. That question changed where I placed my attention. I began to listen to the body I had become so practised at explaining.
What followed was a gradual descent into my own experience: through the heart, the belly, the pelvis and the root. I began to recognise where I held myself, how much I could carry, and how unfamiliar receiving could feel. Desire, boundaries and pleasure became things to discover in my body and live in my relationships.
I trained in Sacred Sexual Awakening & Healing, Primal Therapeutic Experiential Astrology and trauma release work. Over time, these threads came together within the wider perspective of eco-somatics. My body belonged to a living world. The relationships, places and conditions that had shaped me were part of the conversation.
Today, my practice brings together eco-somatics, Embodied Touch Therapy and Embodied Astrology. My training gives the work structure and depth. My lived experience keeps it close to the complexity of being human.
I bring a fierce attention to this work, alongside warmth, directness and humour. I respect your boundaries and take your desire seriously. There is room for uncertainty, for changing your mind, and for discovering something you do not yet have words for.
What matters to me is that more of you becomes available to you: your instinct, your pleasure, your authority, your own nature.
"Lalena Rose is a true Priestess who embodies integral codes of wisdom, presence, safety, depth, and insight. From the moment we met, I felt an immense sense of safety and being held."
The descent — training
The work
that became
the body.
Four phases of training — each one deepening the descent, until the work and the body became the same thing.
Sacred Sexual Awakening & Healing
Certification in Amrita Grace's approach to reconnecting with the body, sexuality and pleasure — laying a foundation for embodied self-trust.
Primal Experiential Therapeutic Astrology
Advanced certification in Daniel Sowelu's approach to exploring astrology through the body — bringing sensation, emotion and unconscious patterns into relationship through symbol and archetype.
Trauma Release & Embodiment
Deep work in somatic trauma release, titration, pendulation, and the body-led completion of interrupted survival responses.
Eco-Somatics
The integration — womb cosmology, the five-layer nervous system map, the somatic sequence, and the descent from crown to root. The work that emerged from all the others.
What I stand on
Four values
I hold.
Not techniques — the ground the work stands on. The way I hold you, and the room.
The body is a place of knowing.
Sensation, breath and impulse carry their own intelligence. I trust what you feel and notice — even when it is uncertain, quiet or still taking shape. We listen to it alongside the mind, not against it.
A natural part of being.
Sexual energy is a source of pleasure, creativity and connection — not a performance to perfect, nor a reward for being good. Through breath, presence and gentle body awareness, there is space to meet shame, holding back and quiet with curiosity and care, and to inhabit your body on your own terms.
The earth is kin.
You are not on the earth; you are of it. Eco-somatic work is the slow remembering — nervous system to nervous system with the more-than-human world, finding ground, rhythm and belonging.
The symbolic is felt.
Astrology lives in the body as symbol and felt sense, not fixed prediction. We bring the symbolic language of your birth chart into felt experience — through sensation, movement, emotion and imagery — letting the body become a place of listening, where more of who you are can take shape.
A wider lens
We are not
at the
centre.
Eco-somatics is the thread that holds the others. It begins from a wider view: that human beings are participants in a living ecology, not separate from it.
Many approaches to healing describe important aspects of being human — trauma, attachment, embodiment, psychology, spirituality, physiology, the nervous system. Each offers something real. Yet seen in isolation, they can make the individual the centre of the story. Eco-somatics widens the lens. Your personal story still matters; your relationships still matter; your healing still matters. They simply become part of a much larger picture.
We have been taught to identify with the newest layers of who we are — our thoughts, beliefs, memories, identities, personal experiences. These represent only a small part of our inheritance. Our bodies, brains and nervous systems are built upon billions of years of life. Long before human beings existed, life was learning how to move, adapt, relate, sense, respond and survive. The body carries this history within it.
Rather than viewing ourselves as separate from nature, eco-somatics recognises us as expressions of the same living processes that shaped forests, rivers, mammals and birds — every form of life on earth. The wider the lens becomes, the more complete the picture becomes.
If something
in you is nodding —
that's enough.
Explore working together →I learned to belong
almost anywhere.
Feeling at home in myself took longer.
I was born in South Africa in the early eighties. My birth parents were people I would never meet, known to me through fragments in adoption papers. At ten months old, I was adopted into an upper-class South African family, joining my already adopted brother.
From the outside, my beginnings looked secure. There was structure, expectation and a clear idea of how life should be lived. I had arrived in a world with a script.
By nine, I had lived in three countries before returning to South Africa. I became very good at arriving somewhere new, reading the room and finding a version of myself that fitted. A useful skill. Also quite an exhausting way to become a person.
Some of the people who stayed with me most deeply were those who worked in our home and lived nearby: the women who cared for the house, the gardeners, the people whose daily lives crossed ours. I remember warmth, vitality and moments of connection that reached me. I was also beginning to sense the divisions around us, and the uneasy feeling that I did not quite belong on either side.
I carried that question with me: where was home, and who could I be when I got there?
Life did not wait for an answer.
South Africa · With my brother
Early ground
Learning to read the room
The career years · Convincing from the outside
My mother died when I was sixteen. I moved to the UK to live with my father. Our relationship broke down, and at seventeen I left home.
Over the years that followed, I built a life: relationships, a successful career in the creative industries, plenty that looked convincing from the outside. I knew how to make things work. I had been practising since childhood.
Underneath, I was still searching.
Eventually, the life I had built began to unravel. Relationships ended. My sense of direction went. I found myself in the grip of drug addiction, facing parts of myself I had spent years trying to avoid.
"I hold that part of my life with tenderness now. It was painful, and it belongs in my story."
At twenty-eight, I gave birth to my first son. Two years later, I became pregnant with naturally conceived quadruplets.
Four. At once.
Even now, that sentence needs a little space around it.
Motherhood stretched me beyond anything I had known. Love, responsibility, exhaustion — there was so much to hold, and increasingly little room to keep myself at a distance.
My body had something to say.
Illness and exhaustion became part of my life. The ways I had learned to cope — adapting, pushing through, attending to everyone else — were becoming impossible to sustain.
Slowly, I began to pay attention. To sensation. To my limits. To what happened when I worked with my body, and what happened when I overrode it.
I began to recognise connections between my physical health, my emotional life and patterns I had carried for decades. There was a great deal I had never given myself time to feel.
With my firstborn son · The opening of motherhood
Four at once
In 2016, I was told that cancerous cells had been found in my womb and that a hysterectomy was recommended.
I left that appointment with questions that would stay with me. I wanted a deeper relationship with this body I lived in. I wanted to understand more of my own experience.
What followed took years. I explored embodiment, feminine spirituality, sexual healing, astrology, nervous system work and ecology. I trained in Sacred Sexual Awakening, Primal Therapeutic Experiential Astrology and, later, Eco-Somatics.
Alongside the learning came the slower, less tidy business of living differently. There was, disappointingly, no certificate for that part.
I began to make room for a nature of my own.
I started noticing how quickly I adapted, how readily I performed, how often I looked outside myself to know what was right. Those habits softened gradually. I found more room for my own desires, boundaries and rhythms. More room to feel pleasure, to be uncertain, to change my mind.
My relationship with the earth deepened too. The living world became part of how I understood myself and my place here. Belonging began to feel possible through relationship: with my body, with others, with the life around me.
Today I live in Wales with my children. Rivers, forests and the turning seasons are part of everyday life, alongside the ordinary demands of a family.
I still know the old longing to belong. These days, I can meet it with more kindness. I have a growing sense of ground beneath me, and more freedom to move from what I feel and know. The work I offer grows from here: lived experience, training and years of inquiry into being human.
I bring that experience with me when I sit beside another woman. I know how much it can take to hear yourself beneath everything you have learned to be. And I am interested in her — her desires, her boundaries, her curiosity, her particular way of being alive.
Wales · With my five sons