Reverence Sessions
Somatic coaching & therapeutic movement for women in business whose bodies are interrupting their best laid plans.
You have a legacy to build and meaningful work to do.
But chronic pain, nervous system exhaustion, or a changing body are pulling your focus away. Stop fighting your physical limits and let your body's intelligence be your ultimate baseline for sustainable momentum and right action.
Reverence Sessions provide a therapeutic container blending master-level professional coaching with clinical yoga therapy and energy medicine. This is for the woman who is ready to decode chronic physical symptoms and return to not only energy, but the clarity you lost when your body turned life upside-down.
Hacks and fixes abound that might work in the short term, but before you head down that rabbit hole (again), I want you to consider: what if your body isn't working against you?
What if she is on your side — sending information upward, with extraordinary intelligence and fidelity, in the only language she has? What if the pain, the exhaustion, the resistance that feels like betrayal is actually a love letter about the sustainability of your vision?
Learning the language of your body doesn't mean slowing down forever. It is reverence for coming into agreement with the most powerful resource you have: your body.
Sister, take a beat and listen.
I know that you just want to feel better in your body so you can thrive. I want that for you, too. But, what feels like dysfunction is often wisdom. That place in your body that consistently hurts is working hard on your behalf — keeping you upright, keeping you moving, keeping you engaged in your life. The compensation pattern that might look like something has gone wrong is also the body's ingenious workaround. The symptom that scares the crap out of you is also a message, delivered in the only language the body has.
When your nervous system is in a perpetual “on” state, your capacity to do the work that only you can do is compromised. I know you want your body to cooperate, but we don't force your system into submission; we teach it to feel safe so the physical pain can soften and energy and focus return.Listen, bodies wear out. Systems break down. That is not failure - it’s life as a human being within a living system. But how we listen and respond to what is happening (including the story we tell about it) is where we get to choose how this story unfolds.
I believe your symptoms are intelligence.
Reverence Sessions are the way forward.
I don’t want you to collapse, nor do I want you to keep pushing until your body chooses surrender for you. Reverence Sessions offer a middle path: learning to work with your body so that the energy you've been spending in the battle against yourself becomes available to you and your life.
Reverence Sessions are different, in the most empowering ways. In coaching and therapy, you work with the mind, and mindset work alone cannot reach a mind held by a locked-down nervous system. Similarly, physical movement or stretching alone cannot untangle the mental or emotional stress that is amplifying the exhaustion and pain. Reverence Sessions bridge the gap by integrating the whole body, working with your body, your mind, and your spirit.
This is the holistic foundation we build together.
Listen to Denise’s Experience
"I brought a softening to myself. More compassion, more love. And that came from learning the patterns of movement in my body and what emotions those patterns were holding."
— Denise Hughes, coach, artist, and retired RN
EM shares, “Nona has walked me home to my body.”
“A decade ago, when I first worked with Nona, a lot was happening in my life and body - fertility issues, adoption challenges, finding my birth parents. More recently, I came back to working with Nona as I was dealing with post-concussion syndrome, shoulder injury, perimenopause, multiple moves, and breast cancer.
Compared to typical coaching, this embodied work gave me the ability to really slow everything down - to go slow enough to notice the subtle messages of my body and understand what my body was telling me. With Nona weaving movement, breath, and stillness into coaching, it helped me slow down in such a deep, sacred way, allowing pain to be seen and released and unhelpful patterns to unravel. Through this work I found bliss, connection, and healing in deep rest.
I learned that I was worth it - I could rest, I am allowed to rest.
The pain in my neck, lower back, and shoulders - those are all gone. In our sessions, I would notice where my limits were, and each body part would feel like it was being tended to like a warm hug. The pain would release - it was like taking an Advil, but in a more holistic, intentional way that I could take with me throughout the week.
This allowed me to be a calmer, more grounded practitioner when I wasn't distracted by pain.
Working with Nona allows me to feel safe and calm, to emote and really look at what's happening within me, and then know that I can be okay after our session - that means so much to me. You are such an exceptional human and so skilled at what you do.
Nona has walked me home to my body.
If you are in pain emotionally or physically, or facing a challenge in your life, work with Nona."
— EM, Coach & Therapist
Experience a Reverence Session
We begin with one session so you can feel this work in your body psyche, before you decide to continue (or not.)
Reverence Sessions provide a holistic, somatic coaching container to listen to the body. You will leave this session with a more regulated nervous system, less pain, more lightness of being, and a clear next step.
We honor your life and how it is etched in the tissues of your body, through compensations, strength, exhaustion, and yes, we may even discern the body’s true longing. We begin to unravel the mental, emotional, and physical tensions.
In a Reverence Session, something deeply generative happens: the nervous system settles. And it is not because we "hacked" our way to regulation, but because you experience your body learning to trust you and you, in turn, trust her.
A single session holds the fullness of you. At the end of this session, we'll talk about what you're sensing and needing. If the work feels like a hell yes for you, we will build a plan that is bespoke for you — whether that's another session, a series of sessions, or an ongoing rhythm of support. There is no wrong answer here, only what is right for you, in reverence for your body psyche.
Investment: $180.00
Hi I’m Nona
I have a master’s degree in psychology; I’m a certified yoga therapist, a master-certified coach, energy healing practitioner, and someone who has been transformed (often unwillingly) by my relationship with my body.
I've moved across the world and back again, relocating every two years through much of my adult life while my husband deployed for years at a time. I know what it is to build a life without a stable foundation beneath you. I know how it feels to keep showing up when things seem to be falling apart.
I also know what it is to have a body that surprises you. I've navigated mystery symptoms that ended in a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, chronic pain (now gone), and the particular grief of a body that changes despite doing everything right. What saved me was turning toward my own body and my own deep wisdom to support the vision I have for my one wild and precious life.
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