HOLOSOMATIC BODYWORK • NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION • BODY-BASED SUPPORT

Heal yourselfthrough your body

Holosomatic Bodywork, breathwork and somatic support to reconnect with your body and nervous system.

Certified Somatic Bodywork Practitioner

If you are experiencing...

Anxiety

When your nervous system stays in a state of alertness, even after the situation has passed. You may notice racing thoughts, tightness, restlessness, or difficulty feeling fully settled.

Stress

When ongoing pressure starts to show up physically through tension, fatigue, control, or difficulty switching off. The body can keep carrying stress even when the mind tries to move on.

Emotional overwhelm

When emotions, sensations, or thoughts feel too intense to process at once. This can make it harder to think clearly, regulate your responses, or stay connected to what you need.

Shutdown or disconnection

When your system responds by going quiet, flat, numb, or disconnected. Instead of more activation, the body may protect itself by reducing feeling, energy, or presence.

Fight-or-flight responses

When your body reacts as if it needs to protect you: rushing, bracing, overthinking, reacting quickly, or struggling to relax. These are nervous system responses, not personal failures.

Food patterns

When stress, body image, control, and nourishment are linked. Food patterns can become a way the nervous system seeks regulation, comfort, structure, or safety.

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Pathways

How we can work together

Embodika offers three different but deeply connected pathways: body, nourishment, and somatic integration.

Somatic nutritional support conversation focused on nourishment and self-trust

Nutritional Support

Practical nutritional support for everyday eating, structure, self-trust and a more grounded relationship with food, without rigid control or perfectionism.

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Nutritional Coaching may include support with meal rhythm, shopping, hunger and fullness cues, emotional triggers, consistency, and realistic habits. The focus is not to control the body, but to create a steadier, more practical, and more possible way of nourishing yourself in real life.

  • Gentle structure around meals
  • Hunger and fullness cues
  • Sustainable habits
  • Practical support for daily life
  • No rigid diet mentality
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Somatic body-based practice focused on food, breath and emotional integration

Body and Food: Somatic Integration

A body-based pathway for emotional eating, body image, control and self-trust, combining somatic awareness, nervous system support and practical food integration.

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Body & Food Integration combines body-based work with practical reflection on nourishment. Rather than stopping at eating behaviour, we explore what the body may be trying to regulate, protect, avoid, or express through restriction, control, compulsive cravings, emotional eating, or disconnection. The work supports a slower return to body cues, emotional awareness, and a more compassionate relationship with nourishment and with your body.

  • Emotional eating and emotional coping patterns
  • Body image and self-trust
  • Restriction, control, or disconnection
  • Stress and nervous system dysregulation
  • Reconnection with hunger, fullness, and nourishment
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Certified in Precision Nutrition

Benefits

How this work can support you

Practical, body-based support for how you meet stress, emotions, boundaries, food, and yourself in everyday life.

Feeling more at home in your body

Notice sensations, tension, emotions and needs without leaving yourself.

Less tension and inner pressure

Soften patterns of holding, bracing, control and constant effort.

More calm in everyday life

Build simple tools to come back to yourself during stress or overwhelm.

Clearer boundaries and self-trust

Listen to your yes, your no, your rhythm, and what feels safe enough for you.

A more compassionate relationship with food and control

Explore food, body image, emotional eating and control as signals, not failures.

Nervous system regulation and emotional integration

Support your system to process and integrate what words alone may not reach.

Approach

Science-informed. Body-led. Deeply human.

The approach is body-led, consent-based and trauma-informed. We work slowly with breath, sensation, movement and awareness, following what your system can meet.

Nervous system regulation

Breath, grounding, movement, and somatic awareness can support your system to slow down, settle, and reconnect with safety.

Trauma-informed presence

Nothing is forced. The work follows consent, rhythm, choice, and the pace your body can actually meet.

Body, mind, and spirit

Holosomatic Bodywork does not separate the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual parts of you. It listens to the whole system.

Practical integration

The aim is not only to feel something during the session, but to bring more awareness, steadiness, and self-trust into daily life.

Certified in Authentic Relating Levels 1 & 2

Who I am

How I arrived at this work.

My work comes from both training and lived experience.

Before arriving here, I spent years inside a very functional life: structure, responsibility, performance. From the outside everything seemed to hold. Inside, though, the body was telling another story.

Over time I began to see emotional overload, tension, disconnection, and also the way we relate to food as meaningful expressions: signals of a nervous system trying to adapt, protect itself, and ask to be met differently.

Holosomatic Bodywork was a turning point for me because it offered me a way to slow down and listen from within, instead of forcing change from the outside.

Today I work in that same spirit: intimate yet grounded, gentle yet clear. Through Embodika by Malù, my work brings together Holosomatic Bodywork, breathwork, somatic awareness and Authentic Relating to create spaces where the body can be listened to with presence, consent and care. I hold a certification in Holosomatic Bodywork and training in nutritional coaching, and I offer sessions in Tenerife and online.

Testimonials

Stories from those who have experienced this work

IN ITALIAN

“It helped me reach a level of depth in the experience that I probably wouldn’t have reached otherwise.”

MARIELLA L.

IN ENGLISH

“She held the container very professionally. I could let go of tension stored in my body and really feel the difference afterwards”

LEO B.

Programs

Courses & Workshops

Live experiences, group journeys and online courses to explore the body, emotions, nourishment and self-trust.

Online Courses

Online course Enrolment open now

THE BODY BEHIND THE CRAVING

A 6-week body-based course to understand emotional eating, regulate cravings and rebuild self-trust with food.

For stress eating, emotional cravings and learning what your body may be trying to regulate through food.

Online · English · Starts September 22, 2026 · Max. 10 participants

Emotional fitness

Strengthen awareness, regulation and choice.

Nervous system regulation

Learn body-based tools for stress and cravings.

Simple nourishment

Build supportive food habits without rigid rules.

Group reflection

Explore patterns in a small, supportive group.

Manuela seated outdoors, gently embracing herself in a calm reflective gesture.

In-Person Workshops

Past Workshops

An archive of previous Embodika workshops and relational experiences.

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Saturday, 4 July 2026

The Release

A Holosomatic Bodywork Journey

Tenerife South · Mariposa Cultural Park

An immersive somatic experience to release accumulated stress, soften emotional tension and reconnect with the body in a deeper, more grounded way.

Breathwork Somatic movement Grounding Conscious touch Integration

7 May 2026

Authentic Connection

How often do you say yes, when something in you wants to say something else?

Florence · Studio Soham

Co-facilitated with Micol, this experiential evening was inspired by Authentic Relating practices and created to explore authenticity with ourselves and with others. Through body-based exercises, relational practices, communication games and circle sharing, we invited participants to slow down, notice what was present, and practice a more honest way of meeting.

Body awareness Relational practices Communication games Circle sharing Boundaries Authentic expression
Questions

Questions you may have

What happens in a Holosomatic Bodywork session?

A session begins with a short check-in to understand what is present for you physically, emotionally, and mentally. From there, we work with the body through somatic awareness, grounding, movement, breath, Conscious Connected Breathwork when appropriate, and conscious touch with prior consent. The pace follows your body, your boundaries, and your nervous system.

Is touch always included?

No. Touch is optional, consent-based, and always guided by clear communication. Some sessions include conscious touch and some do not. Before any touch-based part of the work, we clarify what feels appropriate, what does not, and what your body needs. You can say no, pause, adjust, or stop at any time.

What role does breathwork have in a session?

Breath can become a doorway into the body: a way to slow down, sense what is present, and support the nervous system with more awareness. When appropriate, I may also integrate Conscious Connected Breathwork practices.

It is not forced or the same for everyone: the breath is guided according to your rhythm, your boundaries, and your nervous system. It may be combined with grounding, movement, body awareness, and conscious touch with prior consent.

Do I need to know what to talk about?

No. You do not need to arrive with a clear story, explanation, or goal. We can begin from what is present in the body: tension, numbness, emotion, breath, restlessness, or simply the sense that something needs attention.

Is this therapy?

No. Holosomatic Bodywork is not psychotherapy and does not replace medical or psychological care. It is a body-based, trauma-informed space that can support self-awareness, regulation, emotional processing, and reconnection with the body.

Can I work with you online?

Yes. In-person sessions take place in Tenerife, and online sessions are available when appropriate. Body awareness, grounding, breathwork, integration, nutritional support, and body-food exploration can all be supported online. Touch-based bodywork sessions happen in person.

How do I choose between the three offers?

If you want to work mainly through the body, start with Holosomatic Bodywork 1:1. If you want practical support around food, rhythm, and nourishment, choose Nutritional Coaching. If food, body image, emotions, control, and self-trust feel deeply connected, Body & Food Integration may be the best place to begin.

What happens in the free call?

The free call is a simple first conversation. We speak about what you are moving through, what kind of support you are looking for, and whether this work feels right for you. You do not need to prepare anything.

Free introductory 30-minute call

Book a free call with Malù to ask questions, share what is bringing you here, and feel whether Holosomatic Bodywork or one of the Embodika pathways is the right support for you.

You do not need to prepare anything or have it all figured out before reaching out.

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Malù facilitating a body-based support conversation in a calm natural setting