Wild Body

A 12-Week Somatic Immersion

A 12-week, 1:1 somatic coaching container. Hybrid: in person or virtual.

This is homing, the old, animal pull back toward where you actually belong. This is wildering, the slow return to instinct, to appetite, to your own untamed rhythm.

“Our bodies know that they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. Guided by longing, belonging is the wisdom of rhythm. When we are in rhythm with our own nature, things flow and balance naturally."​ - John O'Donohue

Is this you?

Have you already put in the years of talk therapy, and still feel like something in your body hasn’t caught up?

Are you tired of moving through your own life instead of actually living inside it?

Do you feel like you disappeared a little at a time? Not all at once, more like a slow leak you got so used to that you stopped noticing.

Is there a hum of anxiety so constant you’ve mistaken it for just how you are, until it’s 2am and your mind won’t stop?

Have you spent so long carrying everyone else’s needs that you’ve lost track of what you actually want, or feel, or need?

Some of that disconnection isn’t only personal. It’s the quiet cost of a life spent indoors, on screens, far from soil and salt water and sky: a body that forgot it was ever part of something larger than a calendar.

Your body already knows how to belong. It’s the noise in your mind that’s convinced you otherwise.

This is for women who are truly ready to change the course of how they are showing up and relating with themselves, and life. If that’s you (ready to trust that rhythm again, ready to come home to your body and wake back up inside it), this is where we begin.

Why an immersion, not a single session

One session can feel good in the moment, and by Wednesday, it’s already fading. Your nervous system doesn’t rewire in an hour. It rewires with repetition, with someone tracking what’s shifting in you week over week. Bodies change the way land does: season by season, tide by tide, not all at once.

That’s the difference twelve weeks makes. Between sessions, I’m holding what came up for you, and I come back with something shaped around it, not a script everyone gets. The work doesn’t reset each time we sit down. It keeps building, so your body actually has time to learn something new, instead of just visiting a calmer state and slipping back into the old one by the time you’re home making dinner.

“I feel like I did four sessions of talk therapy in one session.”

— client M, after her first session with me

Talk therapy isn’t wrong. It’s just working with one part of you. This work adds the part that talk alone can’t reach: the body, holding what the mind has already understood but hasn’t yet let go of.

Imagine

Your feet hit the floor before the anxiety does, for once. A full day passes and the exhaustion isn’t sitting on your chest the way it usually does.

There’s a half-second before you snap, and this time, there’s a choice in it that wasn’t there before.

Pleasure that isn’t small, or careful, or explained away afterward. Laughter that catches you off guard, loud enough that you notice it yourself. Dancing in the kitchen because the song came on, not because anyone’s watching, not because you decided to.

The wind actually registering on your skin instead of just being weather. Salt water reminding your body it’s made of the same water.

This is what coming alive again actually feels like: awake in your own body, and finally home in it.

What’s included

Weekly 75-minute sessions: motivational listening, guided somatic practices, meditation, breathwork, and sound healing woven in as it’s needed, not on a script

Space to arrive and settle before we begin, and time after to integrate: this isn’t rushed in or rushed out

Unlimited Voxer access between sessions: so you’re not carrying something alone for a week waiting for our next call

12 weeks, hybrid delivery: in person or virtual

Not every practitioner…

Blends clinical training with body-based work. I’m completing my MSW under the supervision of an LCSW, so the trauma-informed language isn’t borrowed. It’s studied.

Has trained specifically in BIPOC-competent care, or lived it. I have both.

Offers truly holistic support: moving between the body, the spirit, Ayurveda, and community, because healing rarely happens through just one lens.

Also holds Internal Family Systems and attachment theory alongside somatic work: the parts of you that took over to protect you, and the patterns that formed before you had words for any of it.

Has actually been on the other side of this work. I’m a survivor myself. I’ve done the trembling, the unraveling, the slow rebuilding. I’m not guiding you through something I only read about.

Carries ancestral, land-rooted lineage into modern trauma work. I’m Taíno, and that relationship between body and earth isn’t something I studied into existence. It’s inherited.

Stays with you for what gets stirred up between sessions: offering real support as the practices we build together keep moving through your week, not just during our hour.

About me

Marisa Youngblood

I’ve spent ten years working as a trauma-informed practitioner: first through yoga, then yoga therapy, then sound healing, each one teaching me a different way of listening to a nervous system. I hold a BA in Psychology from Azusa Pacific University, and I’m finishing my MSW at Hawaii Pacific University, currently completing supervised clinical hours under an LCSW. My yoga therapy certification is the full 800-hour path through Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, one of the first IAYT-accredited programs in the country.

Alongside that, I’ve studied Internal Family Systems and attachment theory, because trauma doesn’t only live in the body. It lives in the parts of us that had to adapt, and in patterns that formed before we had language for any of it. My training is holistic by design: it moves between the physical, the spiritual, the Ayurvedic, and the communal, because no single lens tells the whole story of a person.

My work also moves through the subtle body: the layer beneath muscle and tissue, where breath, energy, and the elements live. Trauma doesn’t only sit in what you can see or stretch; it sits in patterns of breath, in constriction you can’t quite name, in the quieter architecture underneath the physical. Working at that level is often where the real shift happens, not because it’s mystical, but because it reaches what purely physical or purely cognitive work can’t.

I also can’t separate this work from land. I’m Taíno, an ancestral relationship to body and earth that didn’t start with me and isn’t something I studied into existence. I carry that into how I practice now, here on the Big Island, where the ocean, the wind, and the elements aren’t a backdrop. They’re part of the container. Returning to your body and returning to the earth underneath it aren’t two separate things.

I’m a survivor myself. I know what it’s like to need this work, not just study it, and that’s part of why I show up to it the way I do.

Investment

$4,800 for the full 12-week container

Pay in full

$4,800

Payment plan

3 × $1,600

Due at the start of each month of the immersion

The support and structure are the same either way.

A note on safety

This is trauma-informed space. I’m not yet a licensed clinician, and this isn’t a replacement for licensed mental health treatment. We move at the pace of your nervous system. You’ll never be asked to share more than feels safe to share.

Come home to your body.