Your body can feel amazing and connected
Our values
Affirmation & inclusion
Feeling safe and understood in your healing work is crucial to your success. We are a queer-owned, trauma-informed healing practice in Oakland that welcomes all bodies and identities. Whether you're navigating gender exploration or transition, living with chronic pain or anxiety, coming from a marginalized community, or simply seeking care that honors your full humanity—you belong here.
We take a body-neutral approach and center respect, dignity, and care for every person who walks through our door. Our goal is not just to make people feel better, but to provide affirming healing experiences for people of all backgrounds.
Embodiment & empowerment
We believe it is possible to feel comfortable in your body in these times. Yet, our Western world was built on and continues to function through the theft of land and bodies. This painful history drives a collective and internal dissonance that created a culture of disembodiment and dissociation as a coping mechanism. We do what we do because we believe that change can only come if people reawaken to themselves: the more we can embody and tune into what’s happening inside, the more we can feel safe and empowered to make the external world into a kinder, more just place.
Community & connection
Healing is better together. At Soma Connection, we have an open community room with multiple tables to bring this value to life: inviting multiple people into a shared space and letting their nervous systems co-regulate together helps the body settle and allowing more easeful healing. You might even make a new friend on the table, which is a lifelong bonus!
Wholeness & self-expression
Your body is like a symphony—every experience you've had is like an instrument playing its part. When trauma or stress creates dissonance, your authentic expression gets muffled. Our work helps you find where the dissonance lives and gently retune those parts, bringing them back into harmony. The more integrated and whole you become, the brighter your unique music can play. When all of you is singing the same song, life feels more congruent, more alive, and more fully yours.
