coming home to myself, again & again

After my trainings I offered workshops & one to one sessions on the hormone cycle, womb yoga for women's health and guiding women's circles.  Another dark night of the soul followed  - I went into burnout.

A cascade of changes that year - the ending of my relationship, starting my business, moving often, my grandmother's passing and intense pressure on myself to "make it work", fueled by intense perfectionism - caught up with me.

Alongside burnout symptoms, I also had excruciating period pain. After years of learning about the womb and the womb energy - I knew straight away that there was a correlation.

Here I was - teaching women to live the feminine way, to not get burned out - and finding myself in exactly that place. For a long time I felt so much shame. What was going on with my body? Why was I in so much pain, and why couldn't I get better? I needed a break, and came to Australia.

In the past two years I've been on a journey learning about the nervous system, doing deep inner child work, healing chronic pain through finding out about the mind-body connection, and emerging from survival states that my body had silently lived in for years. I would not have learnt all of this in such depth, if I didn't go through all of this myself.

Now I am weaving cyclical wisdom, all I know about the womb and hormones together with all my recent learnings around burnout & the place of the nervous system in chronic pain and conditions.

Today I am honouring who I came here to be, rather than who I think I should be

 - using cyclical awareness, my womb

 and deep feminine wisdom as my guide forward & beyond.

What I offer

What I want to offer women today  is a safe space to come home to themselves
- to put themselves FIRST, knowing that MOTHERING themselves,
is the only way they can truly serve others too.

I want to stand beside the women who are in survival mode,
the women with burnout or anxiety,
the women who feel disconnected from their feminine energies,
the the women navigating hormonal and/or womb challenges,

women who are navigating the grief of (pregnancy) loss,
and women who are simply longing to finally COME HOME
to themselves and their incredibly wise feminine bodies and wombs.

I deeply believe everything we encounter in life is here to teach us and guide us.

Whether it be through coaching, massage, energy work or embodiment practice,
ALL parts of you are welcome in a session with me - I believe this is how we become Whole again.

THE BIRTH OF "INA'

INA started as a small idea, about 6 years ago, in the hills of South Portugal (see picture above!), and came to me with the initial name I had for it: SoulFlow - offering hands-on healing sessions to people to come into their own soul's flow through energy and bodywork.

Through the years, SoulFlow evolved into focusing on the feminine energy, incorporating womb-cycle awareness, womb yoga & bodywork: helping women come Home to their Inner Nature.

When I landed in Australia last year, the name INA came to me.

It felt as a beautiful abreviation for "Inner Nature", and I loved the sound of it.

I started researching for other meanings of "INA" around the world, and what I found was this:

"Mother"  - literal translation in Tagalog (Phillipines)

"Nurturing / Healing  / Feminine" - as a suffix in Old Germanic names

"Home / Moon Goddess / Feminine and womb energy"  - Polynesian & Pacific cultures

These beautiful meanings summarize
what I'd like to offer to women:

A safe, nurturing, feminine and motherly space, where they can come Home to themselves, to find healing and connection to their beautiful unique inner nature through honouring the cycles of life.