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This work is for people who have already engaged with inner work — therapy, coaching, self-development — but still notice something held in the body that hasn’t quite moved. People who can name their patterns intellectually but can’t yet feel them shift.

It also serves people navigating high stress, emotional shutdown, disconnection from the body, or the long-held survival responses that don’t respond to understanding alone.

If you’ve explored your story and still feel stuck in your body, this is the work that meets the part of you that words haven’t reached.

Somatic work engages the body, the nervous system, and the emotions — the places where stress responses, emotional patterns, and identity actually live. Rather than working through what happened, it works with what’s currently held: holding patterns, disconnections, the bracing the body never released.

Breathwork is one direct doorway in. The breath is the most accessible point of contact with the nervous system — slowing the exhale, expanding the diaphragm, breathing in particular ways can shift the body’s state in minutes. Conscious Connected Breathwork — the core practice in UIB sessions — opens deeper layers of emotion and sensation the body has been carrying.

Together, somatic and breath-based practice support the nervous system to settle, the body to feel held, and what’s been carried to slowly move.

Therapy typically works with story, meaning-making, and understanding through language. It’s powerful for processing experience, naming patterns, and creating stability.

This work is oriented differently. It works with what the body is holding right now — the felt experience underneath the story. Rather than understanding the pattern, we build the capacity to feel it shift.

This work isn’t a replacement for therapy. Many of the people I work with have therapists they continue to see — the two complement each other. If you’re in acute crisis or managing a mental health condition, having therapeutic support in place is important. This work is for people ready to engage with what their body is holding, alongside whatever other support already serves them.

I’m Yaku — practitioner and founder of Upasana Somatic. The work is grounded in three core trainings:

Breathe to Freedom — 150-Hour School of Breathwork Facilitation (Thailand, 2023). Embodied Resilience Mastery Program — six-month somatic therapy, trauma recovery, and nervous system regulation training (2023). Sacred Sons — over three years of relational psychosomatic facilitation, menswork, and trauma-informed practice.

The lineage draws from established teachers in the somatic field — Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk. The fuller story is on the about page.

There are three ways into the work, designed for different depths of engagement.

UIB Breathwork — small group, in-person. A two-hour Conscious Connected Breathwork session, trauma-informed and structured. Best for first-time exploration, or as ongoing practice.

Psychosomatic Coaching Session — one-to-one, seventy-five minutes. Focused attention on what’s currently held. Used as a one-off, periodically, or as the unit of ongoing one-to-one work.

The Upasana Integration Journey — the flagship programme. Twelve weeks, one-to-one with two group breathwork sessions. Ten coaching sessions, two UIB sessions, and a WhatsApp container. For people ready to move through the four phases — safety, awareness, expression, integration — at the pace their system can sustain.

The full overview lives on Work with Yaku.

A first session — UIB Breathwork or one-to-one — is its own container. Many people start there.

The twelve-week journey is the longer path. Twelve weeks is what the structure asks for — enough time for the nervous system to begin learning safety as a felt state, not just a concept. Some people complete it and continue with monthly one-to-one work. Some don’t continue and return later, when something else asks to move.

This is slow work by design. The body needs time to release what it’s been holding, often for years. The pace is set by what your system can integrate, not by what’s possible to push through.

Specific pricing for each offering is shared in the discovery call so it can be matched to your situation. Group UIB Breathwork sessions sit at an accessible single-session rate. One-to-one sessions reflect their depth and the years of training behind them. The twelve-week journey is a more substantial commitment, with payment plans available.

Investment is a real conversation — held in the discovery call alongside the question of fit.