THERE’S A SOFTER WAY.
Hi, I’m Monica.
I’m a New York based Self-Intimacy and Embodiment Coach, Somatic Guide, Restorative Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor, and Reiki Practitioner.
I’ve been personally exploring a variety of healing modalities, self-development and awareness tools, and transformational experiences for 20 years. As I used the tools, practices and experiences over the years to navigate depression, anxiety, healing of trauma, heartbreak and grief, a successful yet unfulfilling and stressful corporate career, and various chronic health conditions, I became passionate about holistic healing, wellness, and personal transformation.
I’ve learned that the gateway toward healing is about personal discovery of the holistic sweet spots that will address the origin of a condition or state of being. Peeling back the layers in an integrated way while identifying the root causes of mental, emotional, and physical dis-ease has not only optimized my well-being, but has allowed me to return to and remember the wholeness and sanctuary that is already within me.
This journey of remembering by way of tending to and weaving the connections of my mind, body, heart, and spirit - is what inspired me to pursue learning how to support others on their journey. I became a Registered Yoga Teacher in 2018, a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner in 2019, and became Reiki I and II attuned through completion of studies at The Harmony Lab’s Healership Program from 2020-2022. I am trauma-informed and am currently completing the VITA™ Coaching Certification in sex, love, and relationships.
My PHILOSOPHY.
My work is body-centered, restorative, and pleasure-driven; rooted in the belief that the body is Home and the sacred gateway through which we get fully experience life and our truth - physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. By prioritizing the well-being of our inner home environment - allowing it to feel as vibrant, loved, safe, free, open, and strong, as possible - we by default prioritize and optimize the quality of our life experience.
I lead group experiences and one-on-one sessions that include a combination of working with the breath, yoga, rest, somatic integration, meditation, sensuality and holistic nourishment; all of which create opportunities for spiritual connection and deep self-love, embodied nervous system care, and liberating the wisdom of the body-mind.
I believe that one of the keys to navigating life’s inevitable challenges and transitions is to build a strong inner foundation and making it our first point of reference. Taking radical self-responsibility - learning to observe and refine how we move and breathe; what we eat and consume (through all the senses, not just diet), what we think and perceive; and how we experience and allow for emotion and energy to express in our bodies. It’s a foundation that’s rooted in deep self-love and self-compassion.
My intuitive, grounded, soft, and non-judgmental approach invites others to intimately meet themselves exactly where they are. With gentle and compassionate guidance, I encourage my clients to lovingly explore and integrate their inner landscape so that they can experience deeper wholeness within themselves, access more peace and pleasure, and restore their body’s natural ability to heal and thrive. In other words, they get to uncover more of their true Self that has always been there.
“be softer with you.
you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
THE STUDIO.
A Home Within Co is an integrative healing arts and virtual wellness studio with bespoke in-person services that focuses on restoring and nourishing the whole being back to optimal health and aliveness.
We provide somatic coaching, holistic health counseling, restorative yoga, energy work, and wellness education that helps busy and burnt out humans - parents, professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs - find deeper physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual nourishment, restoration, and pleasure in their day-to-day lives.
Our mission is to reframe rest as productive, uproot externally focused living, and help end chronic busyness and the related burn-out it creates - from within.