
Feminine Embodiment
Claim Your Sensual & Wild Agency
Let the body be the door to healing
What if all your survival patterns have served you to BE exactly where you are right now.
You are the vessel that contains a blueprint of your ESSENCE and a pathway to your RADIANCE and ALIVENESS.
Let's UNFOLD together.
Somatic Coaching
I hold the space for YOU to rewire and alchemize your inherent patterns to create fertile soils of abundant aliveness.
Your conscious FEELINGS (anger, fear, sadness, and joy) are the fuel to shift from surviving to thriving. Each of these FEELINGS resonates with tissues in your physical body: Anger in your bones, Fear in your Nervous System, Sadness in your soft tissues, Joy in all your cells.
In a spacious container explore your body symptoms and ailments as doorways to expressing your feelings and healing.
I offer 1:1 Feelings-Informaed Coaching, Shadow Work, 1:1 Rage Work
3 - month Deepening Journeys
- Body Ailments/Symptoms
- Conscious Pregnancy & Parenting
- Sexuality and Intimacy
- Shadow Work (e.g. pressure, inner fight, inflammation, resentment)
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Somatic Body Work
Your Body is made to express itself fully with all its SENSES, FEELINGS, and EMOTIONS.
The massages are an opportunity for you to fully let go and let your SENSES be awakened. The massage offers a way to REGULATE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM.
At the beginning of each session we talk about your intention and then gradually I work with my intuition, my feelings and the energetic body to hold a safe container for you to journey where you need to during the session.
You might be feeling numb in parts of your body and/or your genitals, you might have tension stored in body parts after birth or sexual trauma from the past, you might want to re-awaken your eros, you have a desire to be more connected to your vagina, you might be preparing for birth, you might simply be curious about this offer.
Discovery/Connection Space
To connect over a hot drink and to explore questions you may have. To get a sense of the space you want to explore.
30-45min
Sensual Massage
This massage offers the possibility to awaken your senses and land deeper in your physical body. It is for you if you wish to connect more with your body from within. This massage does not involve genitals.
It includes a 15min space to land and ground for the massage and set your intentions and boundaries. All touch is offered with your consent.
90min (longer on request)
Currently offered in Motueka and Takaka.
Yoni Massage
This massage begins with a sensual massage to awaken the senses in your body and may involve massage and touch of your genitals.
It is for you if you wish to receive, let go and connect deeper with your sexual energy from within, are working with physical pain or numbness, and/or if you want to experience a new way to be with your body.
It can include Yoni Mapping.
It includes a 20min space to land and ground for the massage and set your intentions and boundaries. All touch is offered with your consent.
120min
Currently offered in Motueka and Takaka.
TESTIMONIALS
I have been struggling with an eczema for about a month or two. It's been bothering me a lot. I reached out to Annika yesterday, and she held a space for me as a Feelings Practitioner. Her loving presence, voice, and skills were what I needed as a support to discover that I needed to spend more time with myself to create little gaps of nothingness for just being and feeling myself. By the time the session was almost over I felt my eczema less. It was not as red, and this morning, it was 50 percent better than the day before. I would highly recommend her to anyone with any physical symptoms.
Miroslava, February 2025 :: Feelings-Informed Somatic Guidance
My journey to receiving the massage came from a succession of injuries and poor physical health following the birth of my son. For three years, I had been sitting in a state of disembodiment and disconnection. I knew it was time for me self-care, self-accept, and self-love.
The lived experience of Annika’s space holding was heart centred, welcoming, accepting, non-judgemental, and really magical. It was as if time stopped, I was invited to receive deeply. The words that come to mind are blissful, euphoric, intense, emotional, soft, tender, and deeply healing.
Annika was able to guide me through the massage with excellent communication skills and she really encouraged me to let go and be with the process and the feelings that arose. It didn't take long for me to fully drop into the space. Trust was built ease-fully and I felt Annika's presence which helped me stay relaxed and cared for. Her touch was skilled and sincere. I felt safe and confident to let her know if something didn't feel right.
My life has become more engaged, expansive, and loving since receiving this massage. My romantic relationship has been noticeably more joyful and sensual.
Yoni Massage - August 2024
The sensual massage was a revelation and new discovery of my body: in full nakedness giving my body to Annika‘s touch, stay present and perceive my physical body at the same, and to sense myself deeper and wider. Annika gave me the gift of BEING in my body in complete peace. With her delicate massage she created a timeless space; one in which I could experience a new and deeper body connection. All of it without DOING, my connection to my left side of my body came back - previously to which I had lost my emotional and energetic access.I’m scared to use the big word oneness yet since the massage I’m experiencing a deeply embodied oneness with myself. Thank you.
Sensual Massage - July 2024
Receiving a massage from Annika was a big step on my healing journey. The body I knew does not exist anymore, being massively changed through an amputation, skin transplantations and large areas with scar tissue. The trust I set into Annika was rewarded in many ways. I appreciate her clear, compassionate and sensitive spaceholding that welcomed emotional expression without pushing. The attentiveness in her touch as well as her depth and light-heartedness worked great for me: I felt a true sister present with me in every moment of the session. We were together in a space of celebrating womanhood. The goddess showed up, dancing, as a part of my energetic body reunited with my physical body. Thank you, Annika!
Yoni and Sensual Body Massage - July 2024
What I discovered most in my Sensual/Yoni Massage session with Annika was how to relax into my own pleasure and that it can just be for me, for my aliveness, for my life at deeper layers than what I had discovered at this stage in my life.
I am very grateful that as a post menopausal woman I already feel more sexually alive and 'juicy' than I have in many years so it's not difficult to connect to my erotic life-force energy.
However receiving sensual touch from a woman in an intentional space like this, meant I could sense and feel the threads of old patterning that still existed in my system that said "If I feel pleasure I need to give back." or "It's not ok that this can be all for me."
I felt safe to speak these stories and express the emotions that came with them so that they could dissolve further and I could allow more aliveness and pleasure in as fuel for my life.
Annika held a strong space for this unfolding and worked with what was moving through my body without bringing a preconceived agenda into the space. This was sacred for me to experience.
Thank you.
Yoni Massage - June 2024
Coaching with Annika felt very empowering.
I enjoyed a lot her inner calmness and non-judgmental attitude with an open heart and open ears. It helped me to address and speak about what is happening within me.
During one of the coaching sessions she guided me slowly, smoothly, step by step through a past situation when I had felt fear as an emotion and had reacted with an automatic freeze response. I experienced transitioning from an automatic freeze response to feeling the fear and receiving the important information of it. While experiencing this I felt very well held by her.
Annikas calm, clear, centred, friendly and non-judgmental presence was very healing. The communication regarding logistics was transparent, easy and very reliable.
Zozan, February 2023 :: 1:1 Coaching
I participated in 4 coaching calls with Annika that were centred around conscious anger. The process was hugely transformative for me. I made a lot oI participated in 4 coaching calls with Annika that were centred around conscious anger. The process was hugely transformative for me. I made a lot of inner progress in a short amount of time. Each session was rich with clarity and gold and I was able to discover a broad range of new distinctions. I loved Annika’s spaceholding. The space she created was filled with razor sharp clarity, love, playfulness and transformation. Annika seemed to really care about my processes and evolution. I felt deeply seen, supported and encouraged. I highly recommend Annika as a coach.
Laura, November 2022 :: 1:1 Rage Sessions
I had no idea just how much my life was going to shift into a new gear from taking part in Annika's Rage Club, and I had an incredible (and totally unexpected) sense of embodied wholeness emerge as a result. That was after just one session! Since then, I have been walking the world feeling at peace with my perceived flaws and the flaws of others; feeling grounded, energized and extremely content with what I have learned about myself.
Michelle, August 2022 :: Women's Rage Club
Women I collaborate with!
Sybille Biedert
Embodied Movement Magician, Possibility Coach
https://www.embodiedfreedom.co.nz/
Julia Neumann
Transformational Coach, Gameworld Consultant, and Edgecaster.
https://www.julia-neumann.com/
Stacia Beazley
Counselling, Coaching, Psychotherapy, Trainings
https://www.theartofrelating.com.au/
Hannah Abouzahrah & Evelyn
Coaching, Conscious Birth & Parenting
https://hannahabouzahrah.wixsite.com
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