HOLLY LASKO | SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
Healing happens through the body, not by thinking your way out of it.
An approach to overcoming stress, trauma, anxiety, and chronic physical symptoms that conventional therapies often fail to resolve.
Bali → London → Tunis
individuals | groups | in-person | online
TRAUMA-INFORMED SOMATIC HEALING
body work | breath work | energy work
On the other side of trauma is post-traumatic growth; the transformation of pain to wisdom, of loss to purpose; joy; an underlying feeling of peace in the world.
You’re not broken. Illness doesn't have to define your life, and nothing about you needs to be 'fixed.'What you went through at the time was too much to process.It left a imprint in your nervous system - an unresolved loop of chronic stress, perhaps unconscious, that continues to drain your physical health, connection with yourself and vitality.When we give your body the space and safety it needs to release the stress it's been holding, remarkable things happen.The energy you've been spending trying to hold yourself together transforms into more ease, connection and joy.I say this with confidence, because this work took me from a place of despair, and gave me my life back.
There's nothing superficial about this work. It's a deep, integrative process that reconnects you with your core essence and restores your agency.
Benefits include:
- Somatic & emotional release: Releasing stored trauma, chronic physical tension, and emotional weight held in the body.- Nervous system resilience: Relief from chronic stress, hypervigilance, or shutdown, restoring a felt sense of safety.- Subconscious clarity: Greater understanding of ingrained protective patterns and the emotional freedom to choose differently.- Empowerment & agency: Reclaiming your personal power and building the internal capacity to navigate life's challenges.- Reconnection to wholeness: Moving out of dissociation and mental exhaustion into vitality, presence, peace, and love.- Sustainable daily change: Practical grounding so the shifts experienced in session integrate into your relationships, career, and daily choices.
HOLLY LASKO | SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
Where are you based?
In-person Immersions in Tunisia
Would you prefer to heal privately or as part of a group?
Private Immersions in Tunis
private 1:1 somatic immersions at Moya Studio in La Marsa.
Group Immersions in Tunis
intimate group somatic immersions at Moya Studio in La Marsa:
We don't have to meet in person. In fact, there are real benefits to meeting online.
These include:
- you get to tune in from your safe space, in your comfiest clothes.- you get to mute your microphone, so you don't hear other people, and they don't hear you.- no-one apart from me sees you, and you don't see anyone else.- you don't have to travel home or communicate with anyone after the immersion, while feeling a bit sensitive or drowsy.- you get to remain in the healing energy after the session has ended, and give yourself space and time to reflect, journal or walk in nature if you have access to it.
My immersions follow the safe, grounded framework that supported my own healing journey - almost all of which took place online from my home in London, held by practitioners across the world.
Would you prefer to heal privately or as part of a group?
note that a closed group could be your own private group. An opportunity for you to split the cost of the container (recommended for families and friends).
Individual Immersions
private 1:1 somatic immersions tailored to your nervous system, from the comfort of your own home.
Private Group Immersions
private group somatic immersions that meet each nervous system where it is, from the comfort of your bedroom. Designed for families or friends who want to split the price of the container.
Open Group Immersions
open group somatic immersions that meet your nervous system where it is, from the comfort of your home.
HOLLY LASKO | SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
Why safety comes first - always.
"I'm Holly, and my entry to this work came out of personal crisis.
In 2021, a long build-up of trauma caught up with me, ending in a breakdown that left me in panic state.I had done what we're told to do and taken a course of "trauma-focused" talk therapy.Little did I know, being told to talk about and mentally "relive" memories while in survival state would push my nervous system over the edge.For months, I could barely breathe.The only answers doctors had were more talking or pills.
"I didn't want to talk about the trauma. I just wanted to feel safe in my body. I wanted to feel like myself again.
Eventually, I stopped talking and taking pills and turned to meditation, tapping, breath work and life coaching.Thanks to these practices, I was able to start life again.Yet every few months, the symptoms would resurface and knock me off my feet.The crushing anxiety. Flashbacks. Nightmares. Isolation. Disconnection. Intense fatigue.I'd become unable to cope with the most basic things.I had a box full of nervous system tools.But none of it was penetrating deep enough - to the stories that my nervous system was repeating.The shame. The guilt. The fear.I was trying to out-think a survival response that was locked in my body.After having bad experiences with doctors and "trauma-focused" therapy, I didn't know who to turn to.
"The first time I experienced somatic healing, everything shifted.
Eventually, I discovered a somatic practitioner I knew I could trust.She was based in Bali, so I was sceptical about how effective it would be online.As someone who struggled with social anxiety, I was afraid to attend as part of a group.But my scepticism and fear disappeared as soon as I lay down, in my safe space at home, with my laptop camera facing me.As soon as the immersion began, I felt years of heaviness begin to physically lift from my body.I didn’t have to talk about what had happened, dissect my past, or relive a single memory.My body was held in enough safety to finish the stress responses it had been carrying.I walked out feeling light for the first time in as long as I could remember.And I didn't relapse again.Not because I was trying harder. But because my body had caught up with my mind.My nervous system had understood the emergency was over.Over the next couple of years, I attended somatic immersions regularly.It didn't just help me overcome trauma and all chronic symptoms.It brought me back home to myself like never before.And now, having trained as a somatic practitioner, I get to live my purpose by holding space for my communities in Tunis, London and beyond.
HOLLY LASKO | SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
"Your body's not working against you. It's been trying to protect you.
Your body is remarkably intelligent and has a natural, instinctive wisdom to not only heal you, but also protect you.Just as your skin repairs itself after a cut, your nervous system is wired to return to balance.But when overwhelming things happen that you can't fully process in the moment, the associated energy doesn't just disappear.It gets locked in the body as tight muscles, restricted breathing, chronic fatigue or gut tension.Modern science calls this stagnant energy autonomic stress.Ancient science calls it blocked Prana, Qi or life force energy.When left unresolved, autonomic stress becomes chronic stress - preventing the body from returning to balance.Locked in high alert, the nervous system constantly scans the environment for threats, diverting vital energy away from digestion, repair, and rest.In trying to keep you safe, your body is exhausting itself.This is when chronic physical symptoms tend to arise.
"We don't force you open. We create the right conditions for your body to heal.
Most of us have been taught to look outside ourselves for a cure - to believe that healing is something done to us.The truth is more empowering.Therapies and medicines can create the right conditions for healing. But the only thing that can truly heal you is the innate intelligence of your body.Given safety, space, and the right energetic frequency, your system knows exactly what to do, without you needing to talk about it, rationalize it, or even be conscious of it.The gateway to the natural healing response is your nervous system.It acts as the bridge between your inner world - your mind, consciousness, and spirit, and your biology - your tissues, cells, and organs.What moves across this bridge is your vital life force energy - the very current that becomes stagnant when you are caught in chronic stress or trauma.By guiding your nervous system out of defense and into safety, and by speaking to your body with a healing frequency that your biology innately understands, we clear the energetic blockages and give your body space to do what it was designed to do: heal itself.
"We meet your nervous system where it is, and honour your unique pace:
- No reliving the past: You don't have to talk through painful memories, rationalize things or explain yourself. We work with what your body is carrying in the moment.- Safety comes first: We never push for big emotional releases. We create safety so the intelligence of your body leads the way and lets go of what it's ready to in the moment.- Returning home to yourself: As old survival patterns unwind, you remember what ease feels like. The chronic tension softens, your energy returns, and you get to feel at home in yourself and the world again.