Restoration Sessions
Embodied healing sessions that unravel patterns of pain and limitation to help you reclaim a foundational alignment with your true self.
Do you sense there's something deeper needed than just another strategy or mindset shift?
When pain and anxiety take hold of your body, they don't just visit—they settle over your being like a wet blanket and take over your entire life. The discomfort of wanting to feel better (now) leaves you exhausted, frustrated, and increasingly isolated. I know you’ve diligently tried every recommended approach: meditation, coaching, countless development programs, and therapy. You've invested in books, courses, and faithfully implemented strategies that promised relief. Yet here you are, wondering why your body seems to be working against you.
The anger and frustration are so valid. You've hit what feels like an impenetrable wall of exhaustion, chronic pain, or relentless anxiety. Perhaps this arrives after a devastating diagnosis or life-altering event that has left you raw, vulnerable, and disconnected from the life, from the Self, you once knew or had envisioned.
Your body isn't failing you—it's communicating with you.
The next step isn't forcing another strategy or informational course onto an already overwhelmed nervous system. The wisdom and healing you desperately seek already exists within your body—the very same body you may want to fix, ignore, or escape from.
Like a magical divining rod, your pain points directly to truths you can no longer afford to ignore. While you understandably long to return to how things were, your body is inviting you into a profound transformation—one that moves you beyond the limiting patterns causing your suffering, whether physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. When you honor this invitation and address these patterns holistically, everything shifts in ways you can't imagine.
Return to wholeness through embodied Restoration Sessions.
A Love Note on the Healing Power of Relationship
So many intuitive, sensitive women I work with find themselves trapped in a cycle of "I have to figure this out on my own." This isn't just stubborn independence—it's often an embedded trauma response from childhood experiences of having to be the strong one, the caretaker, or feeling fundamentally unsupported.
If this resonates, I want you to know I see you. You're the high achiever whose determination has carried you through so much, but now your body your body urgent messages through pain, exhaustion, or illness. Perhaps you've already experienced flare-ups, mysterious symptoms, or the crushing fatigue that comes when your nervous system can no longer maintain the vigilance required to "do it all yourself."
The body keeps telling you something is amiss, and yours is asking for a different approach.
Just as our nervous systems become dysregulated through relational wounds, they heal through safe, attuned connection. While your self-study and individual practices are incredibly supportive and valuable, transformation accelerates dramatically when you're witnessed and guided within a sacred container of trust.
Our work together creates a healing relational field where:
Your overwrought nervous system can co-regulate with mine, discovering patterns of ease that have felt elusive for too long.
Your physical symptoms are received as meaningful communications rather than inconvenient interruptions.
Your journey through chronic pain, illness, or life transitions is witnessed without judgment, allowing deeper release of what no longer serves.
Your body's wisdom is amplified through our shared attention, revealing insights that remain hidden in isolation.
Your authentic rhythms emerge as you're held in compassionate presence that honors both your strength and vulnerability.
When you feel truly seen in your wholeness—not just your symptoms or struggles—patterns that seemed fixed in your body and life become fluid again. Changes that once felt impossible unfold naturally, creating a cascade of healing that flows through every dimension of your being.
I'd be honored to support you on your journey.
The Body-Psyche Connection: A Restorative Approach
We often think of the body as separate from our emotions, thoughts, and spiritual essence—but this separation is an illusion. Your body reflects imprints of past experiences, creating protective patterns that once served you but now limit your expression and create pain.
Restoration Sessions honor your body's innate intelligence through:
The Power of Intention — This foundational process directs our sessions. By holding your intention and looking at your pain and your desires through the lens of the five energetic layers of the body, we identify where patterns originate and apply energy medicine, movement, inquiry, and breath in ways that address root causes, not just symptoms. This approach is tailored to you, dramatically accelerating your transformation.
Body Mapping & Pattern Recognition — Understanding your body's unique language gives you unprecedented insight into how your physical experience connects to your emotional patterns. This visual process helps you literally "see" these connections, creating powerful "aha" moments that shift your relationship with pain from something to fight against to wisdom you can work with.
Neuroplasticity & Narrative Rewiring — Our work together actively rewires your brain, creating new neural pathways that support the body's innate intelligence to heal. As we engage the body through awareness, movement, and breath, we simultaneously transform limiting mental patterns and stories that have kept you stuck. This integration allows you to (literally) move away from old patterns and embody new ways of being that previously felt impossible.
Energy Medicine & Metaphor — The most profound shifts often happen beyond logical understanding. These ancient practices bypass mental resistance, allowing transformation to occur at cellular and energetic levels. Drawing on wisdom from the more-than-human world creates new possibilities on all levels - mind, body, and soul.
Restorative Movement — Unlike prescriptive exercise routines, the movement invitations during and between sessions speak directly to your body's current needs. This approach balances the nervous system, creating safety signals that allow held patterns to unravel and release. As tension and old trauma imprints dissolve, your body naturally remembers its inherent alignment.
Co-Creative Mentorship — Healing accelerates dramatically in relationship. Having your experience witnessed with compassion creates the conditions necessary for deep transformation. Our conversations help integrate physical shifts with new understanding, ensuring insights become embodied wisdom that opens up endless possibilities.
These elements work synergistically, creating a comprehensive approach that honors your wholeness and addresses your healing at all levels: physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual.
This work is for you if you want to:
Reclaim freedom from physical pain patterns that have limited you—whether chronic back pain, persistent headaches, autoimmune conditions, or the unnamed tension of prolonged stress
Navigate significant life transitions with renewed confidence—through perimenopause, menopause, recovery from surgery, illness, or injury, or major life changes that have left you questioning your identity
Transform your relationship with chronic illness from one of battle to one of wisdom—learning to hear the messages your body has been sending and respond with self-compassion rather than resistance
Break free from anxiety's grip that manifests as sleep disturbances, rumination, digestive issues, and overwhelm—finding your nervous system's natural buoyancy once again
Create genuine balance that honors both impact and wellbeing—no longer sacrificing your health for hustle culture or people-pleasing
Integrate healing across all dimensions of your life—after years of fragmented approaches that addressed symptoms but missed the underlying patterns
My integrated approach weaves together therapeutic yoga, ancient wisdom, active imagination, coaching, and energy medicine to create lasting transformation where other approaches have fallen short.
I specialize in guiding spiritual, creative, and intuitive women who refuse to be reduced to just one dimension. My clients typically arrive feeling fragmented by their challenges, yet leave our work feeling whole again. Clients initially seek relief from physical symptoms, only to discover our work catalyzes profound change throughout their lives. The transformation is both gentle and powerful—as we restore connection to and trust in body, mind, and soul, new possibilities emerge that weren't visible before.
Your body doesn't compartmentalize—physical symptoms, emotional patterns, and life transitions are all expressions of the same underlying story seeking resolution.
The Cascade of Restoration
Experience tangible shifts that create a ripple of restoration throughout your life
From tension to release: The woman whose shoulders were constantly held in a pattern of bracing, who felt she had to carry the load for her family of origin as well as her chosen family, "The persistent knot in my shoulders that no massage could fix finally began to soften after our second session. I'm finding I'm not exhausted by pain anymore and feel clear-headed when asking for what I need."
From resistance to acceptance: The woman who found that overwork and people pleasing were fueling her pain, "After my diagnosis, I was angry at my body for betraying me. Through our sessions, I've developed a new relationship with my condition—one of understanding instead of frustration. This shift to honoring what my body needs has imrpoved my symptoms and my emotional well-being."
From scattered to centered: The woman in care-taking overdrive shifted the narrative as she learned to attune to her body’s wisdom, "Making decisions used to drain me completely. Now I can feel in my body what's a real 'yes' versus what I think I 'should' do—life feels more aligned and satisfying as a result."
From depletion to vitality: The woman who always avoided her anger, found ways to move the energy of anger through her body and also use her voice, "As I have felt the anger and had some challenging conversations with loved ones, I find I have energy again—not just to work, but to enjoy my life. The constant fog and exhaustion of perimenopause is lifting, and I'm remembering what it feels like to be engaged in life."
From fragmentation to wholeness: The woman whose childhood of emotional abandonment led to her subtly abandoning herself, but "The chronic pain had me feeling disconnected from parts of myself. Through our work together, I've reclaimed sensations and awareness in areas that felt numb or untouchable. I am far kinder to myself now, and I am working to be there for myself."
Restorative Sessions are supportive, affirming, and clarifying in exactly the ways you need.
Hi I’m Nona
As a certified yoga therapist, master coach, and applied psychologist with over 18 years of experience working with women, I bring a unique integration of somatic expertise, healing practices, and deep understanding of the mind-body connection to our work together.
My approach weaves together therapeutic yoga, psychology, energy medicine, and compassionate guidance—all anchored in the profound truth that your body holds the wisdom needed for your healing journey. Having navigated my own path through emotional trauma, a surprising diagnosis of M.S., and multiple planned and unplanned life-changing transitions, I understand both personally and professionally the path you're walking.
By engaging your innate embodied wisdom and the power of both coaching and active imagination, we don't just manage your symptoms—we unravel limiting patterns at their source. This opens doorways to a relationship with your body that transforms pain into wisdom, limitation into possibility, and fragmentation into wholeness.
Your body is an oracle and an ancient guide to your most authentic healing. Are you ready to listen deeply and reclaim your innate wholeness?
The Restoration Sessions Journey
A sacred container for your healing transformation
You can expect:
Three 60-minute Restoration Sessions each month tailored to your unique patterns and needs, combining therapeutic movement, guided imagery, and transformative mentorship to address both acute symptoms and underlying patterns.
Energy medicine and healing metaphor work woven throughout each session to facilitate deeper release, nervous system regulation, and renewed connection with your body's innate wisdom.
Customized between-session practices carefully selected to support integration, deepen your embodied awareness, and sustain momentum in your healing journey.
Support via Marco Polo or Voxer for questions, breakthroughs, and guidance whenever you need additional support between our formal sessions.
Visual body mapping and energetic assessment tools to track your progress, celebrate subtle shifts, and illuminate your evolving path toward wholeness.
Investment: $600 per month*
*After the first month, we will reassess how many sessions to proceed with each month, considering your healing needs we will determine the optimal number of sessions per month as we continue.
Note that I recommend a three-month commitment - while some clients experience significant shifts after just one session, a three-month commitment creates the continuity and safety needed for deeper patterns to unwind and new ways of being to take root. This timeframe allows us to work through layers of physical, emotional, and energetic patterns so you enjoy lasting, embodied change.
Begin Your Restoration Journey
The patterns that have shaped your relationship with your body, your sense of wellbeing, and your response to life's challenges didn't form overnight. They were created through years of experiences—some that you chose, and some that chose you. Together, we can transform these patterns into pathways of healing.
I invite you to a complimentary 20-minute consultation to explore whether Restoration Sessions are the missing piece in your healing journey. During our conversation, we'll:
Identify the persistent, painful physical and emotional patterns you are struggling with.
Explore the benefits of decreasing pain and healing these patterns in your life.
Determine whether my integrated healing approach resonates with your needs.
Answer any questions you have about Restoration Sessions and what to expect.
This conversation is an honest exploration of possibility—not a sales pitch.
I work with a limited number of individual clients to ensure each receives my full presence and attention. If you've been searching for a more holistic approach to addressing chronic pain or anxiety, navigating significant life transitions, or restoring wholeness after a prolonged illness, I encourage you to schedule a call.
What women say
“I signed up for Nona's embodied sessions not knowing exactly what to expect and yet also knowing it was going to be exactly what I wanted and needed. And of course, it exceeded my expectations.
Nona is magical and loving and I swear there is one thing that emerges from each session that literally changes my relationship with life (seriously, it's that good!). And the best part is that it is deepening my embodiment practices in such a gentle and profound way that I know that I will forever be using everything I have learned and practiced with her mastery of mind, body, spirit.
I had very specific physical pain going on in my body before we started, and the work together has helped to alleviate many of these areas while restoring my body to its natural state of being. I couldn't recommend this body-centered healing work enough!”
-Stacey Andon, Master Coach
“Working with Nona has been an awesome mind-body-shifter and healing experience for me. As a person with an autoimmune condition and resultant permanent joint damage, pain is often a companion. I am committed to a practice of yoga 5 times a week, and I was not sure what yoga therapy would offer.
Having worked with Nona before and experienced her coaching, breathwork, and sacred gifts, I did not hesitate to sign up, and the magic began. Seemingly small shifts in how I was moving, enhanced body awareness, how I was sensing within my body, have made a difference in how I feel and move and what I choose to do and what I can achieve.
The biggest shift is how I focus on my body and all the areas that are feeling good (vs where the pain is, as the pain had been louder before this shift). Now I am feeling the ongoing benefits, the gifts that keep giving, of Nona’s inspired support and genius. I highly, highly recommend working with Nona and experiencing the benefits of therapeutic yoga.
-Helen Samson Mullen, PhD.
“I am a huge YES to Nona Therapy! At 61, I wouldn’t have believed the movement and principles that Nona teaches would make such a big difference in how I move. It’s like I was given a secret code to understand my body.
As a newbie athlete, I feel incredibly lucky to have found this approach to improve my walking, hiking, and jogging. I have less pain, more ease, and increased joy with every movement of my body. Do yourself a favor and give this a try. It WILL make a positive difference.
Oh, and Nona rocks!”
-Lauren Monack, Certified Coach