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Jestem Olga
I’m a certified trauma-trained nervous system somatic coach, practitioner, and Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) facilitator.
My work supports women and femme-bodied people who are tired of surviving, shape-shifting, over-functioning, and abandoning themselves in order to feel safe, loved, worthy, or in control.
Through integrative somatic coaching, nervous system education, embodied practices, relational attunement, and body-led exploration, I help people reconnect with their bodies, unwind protective survival patterns, and move toward lives that feel more grounded, authentic, alive, and self-led.
My approach is trauma-informed, relational, body-first, and integrative by nature. I do not work from rigid protocols or one-size-fits-all formulas. We follow the SOMA — the living bodymind — and work with what is actually present in real time.
I believe healing and embodied transforamtion happens through relationship:
relationship with the body,
with the nervous system,
with emotions,
with unmet needs,
with protective parts,
with truth,
with choice,
and with the deeper self who knows underneath it all.
my story is my purpose
Przez większość życia zmagałam się z problemami psychicznymi i fizycznymi, nosząc w sobie poczucie, że coś jest ze mną głęboko nie tak.
I was a highly sensitive child growing up in communist Poland with very young parents who carried their own unresolved trauma from post-war poverty and instability. Much of that pain was never named, yet it lived in our bodies and relationships.
Trauma, I’ve learned, isn’t only a single catastrophic event. It can be chronic, relational, systemic, intergenerational. It can look like emotional neglect, not being seen or heard, oppression, migration, and living without safety or voice.
mój układ nerwowy się adaptował
Nauczyłam się być „dobrą”, trzymać w sobie wszystko, ignorować własne potrzeby, przekładać wrażliwość na złość lub podporządkowanie, żeby przynależeć. Te adaptacje były inteligentne. Utrzymywały mnie przy życiu. Z czasem stały się też schematem odłączenia, uzależnień, samookaleczeń i szkodliwych relacji.
After immigrating to New York at age five, frequent school changes, bullying, and cultural displacement deepened that sense of not belonging. Emotions weren’t spoken about in my home, so my body carried what had nowhere else to go.
By my teens and early twenties, I was living in survival mode without knowing it. My life became a cycle of intensity, numbness, chaos, longing, and escape. At 23, I hit rock bottom and became homeless.
To, co nastąpiło potem, nie było linią prostą, lecz spiralą uzdrawiania.
I spent years in recovery spaces, therapy, and addiction treatment, doing profound cognitive and emotional work. It helped me understand myself, but it didn’t yet help my body feel safe.
When I relapsed years later, it was my body that ultimately led me home.
Yoga, breath, movement, and somatic awareness slowly reintroduced me to sensation, presence, and choice. For the first time, I began to feel grounded and alive.
Potem zdiagnozowano u mnie raka tarczycy.
That diagnosis cracked something open.
It forced me to slow down, listen more deeply, and tend to my body with care rather than force.
I began meditating, changed my relationship to food and rest, set boundaries, ended toxic relationships, and recommitted to sobriety.
I learned that many of the parts of me I had judged or tried to eliminate were actually protectors shaped by survival.
This was when I truly understood that I was never broken but that my body was protecting me.
Healing, I discovered, is not linear. It moves in spirals, layers, and seasons. When my body finally felt safe enough, I experienced a profound sense of belonging, self-acceptance, and connection to something larger than myself.
When I was declared in remission, I knew my life’s work would live at the intersection of healing, embodiment, spirituality, and nervous system wisdom.
I completed my first yoga teacher training in 2018. For a time, I practiced and taught Ashtanga, until I recognized that I was repeating the same patterns I’d learned in trauma: force, self-punishment, perfectionism.
During the pandemic, I began receiving care that wasn’t only focused on the mind and past trauma, but on the body where trauma actually lives.
Everything started to click.
Trauma was not a flaw. It was adaptation. Protection. Intelligence.
I left environments that reinforced harm and began cultivating a gentler, more compassionate, body-led approach.
In 2023, I became a Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) and a certified somatic coach.
Today, my work is devoted to creating safe enough, relational spaces — particularly for women and femme-bodied people — to reconnect with their bodies, reclaim agency, and remember their intrinsic wisdom.
I know from lived experience, and from the nervous systems I have been honoured to guide, that no matter how stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed we feel, transformation and healing is possible.
At our own pace.
Outside of my professional work, embodiment continues to be my practice.
Pole dancing has been a powerful part of shedding internalized misogyny and toxic shame, and reclaiming my birthright of body trust, sensuality, and aliveness in the present moment.
I am deeply nourished by nature, creative expression, travel, and community care. I am an artist, a forest walker, a beach lover, and a long-time volunteer with animal shelters.
Ta praca to nie jest coś, co robię.
It is something I live.
all of
you is welcome here
w jaki sposób pracuję
My approach is integrative by nature.
I do not work from a single fixed method, because the nervous system does not live in silos.
Instead, my work is informed by multiple somatic, psychological, relational, and contemplative fields of understanding.
These are not techniques I apply mechanically. They are languages of perception that shape how I listen, track, and respond in real time.
Depending on what is present, this work may draw from:
• Somatic Parts Work (IFS-informed) & shadow work
• Polyvagal Theory & nervous system science
• Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Inner Relationship Focusing, and Sensorimotor-informed approaches
• Trauma-sensitive yoga and attachment-informed approaches
• Body-Mind Centering & somatic stress release
• Authentic movement, dance-based somatic practices, and expressive embodiment
• mind body coaching techniques
• expression through voice, writing, imagery, and movemnt
• Contemporary neurobiology of stress and trauma research and somatic psychology
You do not need to know or understand any of these modalities.
They simply inform how I perceive, attune, pace, and support your system in the moment.
This is not a protocol-based approach.
It is an attunement-led, body-first practice that follows the intelligence of the Soma as it unfolds.
training, certifications, & professional education
My work is grounded in integrative somatic education, trauma-informed practice, nervous system science, embodied movement, contemplative traditions, and lived experience.
Alongside my personal healing journey, I’ve completed professional training in somatic coaching, trauma-sensitive embodiment, nervous system education, parts work, stress physiology, and body-based approaches to trauma integration.
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F)
Center for Trauma and Embodiment
300-hour certification
Training with Dave Emerson & Jenn Turner
Integrative Somatic Coaching Certification
The Embody Lab
120 hours
Training with Dr. Scott Lyons, Kai Cheng Thom, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Staci Haines, Dr. Rae Johnson, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Licia Sky, Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy
The Embody Lab
60 hours
Training with Dr. Scott Lyons, Nkem Ndefo, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Deb Dana, Kai Cheng Thom, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Staci Haines, Gabor Maté
Somatic Stress Release Practitioner Training
The Embody Lab
100 hours
Training with Dr. Scott Lyons
Applied Polyvagal Theory & The Neurobiology of Trauma
Polyvagal Institute
Training with Deb Dana & Dr. Stephen Porges
Somatic Parts Work (IFS-Informed)
The Embody Lab
Training with Fran D. Booth
Healing Trauma & Addiction: A Holistic Approach to Recovery
The Embody Lab
Training with Gabor Maté
Mindful Trauma-Informed Yoga
Yoga Medicine
20 hours
500RYT Yoga Teacher Training
Registered Yoga Teacher
Heart Coherence Training
HeartMath Institute
Inner Relationship Focusing
Embodied Activism
The Embody Lab
25 hours
Training with Nkem Ndefo, Farzana Khan, Dr. Rae Johnson
teachers, mentors, and lineages
My work has been shaped by many streams of learning across somatics, trauma healing, nervous system science, embodiment, contemplative practice, movement, and depth psychology.
Some of the teachers, researchers, and practitioners who have deeply influenced my understanding include Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Pat Ogden, Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Dick Schwartz, Carl Jung, Eugene Gendlin, Staci Haines, Nkem Ndefo, Kai Cheng Thom, Scott Lyons, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Rae Johnson, Arielle Schwartz, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Alan Watts, Gabrielle Roth, and Wilhelm Reich.
Alongside professional education, lived experience, ongoing practice, creativity, spirituality, movement, and relationship continue to shape how I listen, learn, and work.
Gdybyś była moją najlepszą przyjaciółką, wiedziałabyś:
Outside of my professional work, embodiment continues to be my practice, not just my profession.
I’m an artist, a forest walker, a beach lover, a deep feeler, a long-time animal shelter volunteer, and someone who still believes movement, creativity, ritual, laughter, music, nature, and community are medicine.
Pole dancing became part of my own journey of reclaiming sensuality, body trust, pleasure, and self-expression after years of shame and disconnection.
I love yoga, authentic movement, dancing, creating art, singing in the car, writing, weird humor, dogs, pizza, kombucha, and spending long stretches of time alone in contemplation, nature, and imagination.
I’m Polish-American and often think in two languages at once.
And yes, all of you is welcome here.
my somatic manifesto
Nie wierzę, że jesteś „zepsuta”.
Wierzę, że Twoje ciało jest inteligentne, adaptacyjne i ma wrodzoną zdolność do reorganizacji, wzrostu, transformacji i uzdrawiania.
Wierzę, że wielu z nas żyje w warunkach, do których nasze ciała nie były stworzone. Szybkie, nadmiernie stymulujące środowiska, napędzane produktywnością, które nagradzają odłączenie od siebie i nazywają to sukcesem. Kultura, która uczy nas ignorować sygnały ciała, optymalizować, „regulować”, biohackować i forsować się zamiast słuchać. Wpływ środowisk, struktur i systemów, które kształtują nas na poziomie ciała, umysłu, serca i układu nerwowego, jest głęboki i często niezauważany.
To, co często patologizujemy jako lęk, wypalenie, odrętwienie, nadreaktywność czy „za dużo”, to w rzeczywistości układ nerwowy robiący dokładnie to, do czego został zaprojektowany: adaptuje się i przetrwa.
Stress is meant to move through the body. Activation is meant to rise and then resolve. We are built to flow between activation and restoration. But in modern life, activation often stays on. The cycle does not complete. And over time, unfinished stress becomes the baseline.
Many therapeutic, healing, and coaching models focus on symptom reduction or performance enhancement. Fewer ask whether your reactions actually make sense in the context you are living in or what your body has lived through.
Somatic work begins from a different premise:
your sensations, symptoms, and subconscious patterns are not the enemy.
They are communication.
The body speaks through sensation, tension, impulse, emotion, breath, movement, rhythm.
This is our first language.
You cannot think your way out of patterns that live in the nervous system alone. Insight matters, but transformation happens through lived embodied experience.
This work is not about being calm all the time.
It is about capacity.
The capacity to feel without collapsing.
To mobilize without burning out.
To rest without guilt.
To stay connected to yourself in moments of intensity.
To have more choice.
I also believe that safety and belonging are not distributed equally. Oppression, discrimination, trauma, and lack of access to resources create ongoing nervous system stress for many people and communities. Naming that matters.
At the same time, I believe embodied healing should not be gatekept. We all have bodies. We all carry innate wisdom, adaptation, and the possibility of reconnection.
Before modern therapy and optimization culture, humans gathered. We moved together. We breathed together. We used rhythm, sound, movement, ritual, touch, storytelling, and community to regulate and reconnect.
This work is not new.
It is remembering.
Healing is not about becoming a better machine.
It is about becoming more fully human in a world that often asks us to abandon ourselves.
xoxo
Olga
Polski 
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