I believe in the healing power of coming home to our bodies, and back to life, in every. single. way.
I spent years traveling the world, ultimately looking for ways to come home to my own body, the truth of my heart, and follow the whispers of my own Spirit’s wisdom. After leaving work in poverty reduction with the Canadian federal government, I spent a decade studying every energy therapy modality under the sun to enjoy this passion of mine, while being of greater service to all.
Then, I unexpectedly gave birth to a child that would need ongoing medical care for years. I was shocked! I slowly realized that as he grew, I would need to help him through his related traumas, so I began to study an extensive certification in Somatic Experiencing trauma integration therapy…
Teacher & Specialist
Somatic Teacher, Nervous System Specialist & Master Somatic Energy Therapist.Â
Years Experience
Guiding others through the healing, vitality and expansion process, including providing over 10,000 Somatic Energy Therapy sessions.
Published Author
“Who We Are When We Thrive: Remembering Happiness and Rediscovering Health” (View Here)
Professional Biography
Credentials & Training
Jaya Hollohan, MA, is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) with advanced training in trauma integration. She’s also an Advanced BodyTalk Systemâ„¢ Energy Therapist (40 courses completed plus 90 hours of anatomy), Certified Yoga Teacher, Mindfulness Life Coach, and Cranial Sacral & Reiki Practitioner. She’s studied shamanism in Ottawa and Peru, and supported plant medicine retreats with somatic therapy.
Advanced Trauma Training
Jaya trained directly with Somatic Experiencing® founder Dr. Peter Levine at the Omega Institute in New York. She completed his 10-day advanced master class “Eye of the Needle” (Parts 1 & 2), learning specialized techniques for integrating near-death experiences, post-surgical trauma, and altered states from anesthesia.
This training addresses frequent dissociation, global high-intensity activation, emotional polarities, gut issues, sleep problems, and other trauma-related symptoms.
She also studied collective trauma and spirituality with Dr. Thomas Hübl, and about addictions through Dr. Gabor Maté’s work.
She’s currently studying Internal Family Systems (IFS) to deepen her practice.
What She Specializes In
Jaya helps clients integrate three key areas:
- Mind-Body Patterns: How your mental and emotional patterns affect your physical health (and vice versa)
- Ancestral Healing: Intergenerational trauma and inherited patterns that impact your wellbeing
- Trauma as a Portal: Using acute, developmental, and complex trauma as a doorway to deeper self-awareness, spiritual connection, and more embodied living
Her Approach
Here’s what makes Jaya’s work different: she brings movement, joy, and spirit into the healing process. Because part of integration is the body’s remembering how to heal through connecting with flow, grace, and embodied play.
How my path leads to you...
How I Work
After years of studying and practicing alternative health, I can sense where energy flows in the body, the patterns behind how and where it gets stuck, and how to shift it toward healing. My background combines professional training with a deep gut, intuitive sense, so I understand both the mechanics of trauma and how spirit moves through us.
I Know The Winding Path Well
Life doesn’t always unfold the way we expect. Emotional overwhelm, physical pain, and feeling disconnected from yourself can be incredibly hard to navigate. The way back home to your body isn’t always obvious.
But it’s always there. ✨
That’s What I Help You Find
By slowly meeting your bodily sensations and experience, while embracing your gut’s and spirit’s inner knowing. By learning to feel safe enough to be present. By integrating what happened in the past, so you can fully show up for what’s here now and what’s about to arrive on your doorstep.
This work isn’t about fixing you. It’s about remembering what your body, nervous system and spirit already know, and clearing the path so that you can access it.
And by the way, my son is THRIVING now 💕 — happy to help you to do the same. Â
More about Jaya
Vision & Philosophies
What Drives This Work
I’m here to support you in feeling empowered and reconnected to your body throughout your healing process. Not just managing symptoms, but actually living a fuller, more vibrant life with less pain and more presence.
Every training, course, and retreat I offer is built on this foundation: your body has innate intelligence. It’s been trying to protect you, even when that protection feels like disconnection, numbness or overdrive. We’re just learning its language and helping it to reset again.
The Unknown Possibilities
Here’s what keeps me curious. After 17 years and over 10,000 sessions: there are innumerable possibilities within you that haven’t surfaced yet. Things your body knows but hasn’t had the safety or support to reveal.
That’s the space I hold. Not telling you what should happen, but creating the conditions where what needs to emerge through you, can.
Because reconnecting and integrating isn’t about pushing or forcing. It’s about allowing what’s already trying to rise within us, and welcoming it, and ourselves, home.
How we arrived here...
From Government Consultant to Master Somatic Therapist
For over 25 years, Jaya has been exploring consciousness, healing, and what it means to truly thrive. Her journey hasn’t been linear (whose is?), but it’s been authentically her own.
The Turning Point
While working as a federal government consultant on poverty reduction, Jaya took a sabbatical to India. On a rooftop Ashram overlooking the Ganges in Rishikesh, something shifted. Reading about non-duality with the Himalayas as her backdrop, she experienced everything as interconnected energy. One vibrating whole.
That moment changed everything. She returned to Canada, studied energy therapy, built her practice, and never looked back.
What She’s Done Since
Jaya now leads somatic trainings, international retreats across Mexico, Hawaii, Bali, and Canada, and has guided thousands through trauma integration. She wrote “Who We Are When We Thrive: Remembering Happiness & Rediscovering Health” to share what she’s learned about the body-mind-spirit connection.
Her education includes a BA in English Literature and Peace Studies from the University of Waterloo, plus an MA in Peace and Development Studies from UJI University in Spain. But her real education? That came from a lot of lived experience.
The Teachers and Teachings
Jaya has studied with renowned sages and teachers including Mooji, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ramesh Balsekar, Matt Kahn, Abraham Hicks, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Donna Eden, Greg Braden, Tony Robbins and many others. She’s trained in yoga with David Swenson and Ramanand Patel, and studied the BodyTalk Systemâ„¢ with founder Dr. John Veltheim. Her approach blends Somatic Experiencing®, energy work, and grounded spiritual practice because healing requires integration at different layers.
The Journey Continues
She’s walked the Camino de Santiago, trekked to Machu Picchu, visited temples across Asia, and explored over 35 countries. Why? Because these ancient sacred sites transmit wisdom, knowledge and energetic understanding that books don’t always do.Â
These days, when she’s not working with clients or teaching, you’ll find Jaya swimming in natural waters, dancing Zouk, making incredible, healthy food, or spending time with her son and friends.
What makes her different?
She recognizes the difference between spiritual bypassing, or other strategies, and embodied integration. Between floating outside of your body, feeling anxious or depressed, and living in it. Between overriding, feeling exhausted, in chronic pain, and listening to your gut, unconscious mind and letting go. Between seeking endless positivity or enlightened ways of being, and learning to be, and enjoy being, fully human.
Jaya’s services are available virtually and in-person, internationally — often between Canada and Bali.
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