PRAISE FOR SPEAKING, TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

Sofia De Assunçao

Participant,

Human Intelligence Leadership Program Online

Through this program, I feel like I have grown in awareness about how trauma impacts us, individually and collectively. Today, I can recognize more easily, the expressions of trauma in myself and others ,and the way it impacts them, especially on a relational level. Over the 3 months of this program, I developed new lenses, that make me see the world differently: more conscious, compassionate and loving. This program also inspired me to work on myself to embody the peaceful presence I want to be and see in the world. As this work is a process, I left this program more committed to this process than ever before. I recommend this program to anyone who desires to be a healing presence in the world, who wants to contribute to a world of peace and love.

Amber Lee

Participant,

Human Intelligence
Leadership Program

Choosing to embark on this journey has truly been transformational, it has shifted the way I relate with myself and others for good. It's a lifelong journey, but feeling myself coming alive again from within and stepping into this internal space of peace & power is so liberating. Thank you for embodying how this work can be a gentle flow, with space, expansion, and allowance for dots to connect on no specific timeline. I am left so inspired, fueled and nourished! Thank you

Coen Tan

Participant,

Human Intelligence
Leadership Program

Natalia Rachel's Human Intelligence Leadership Program is one of the safest, non-intrusive, personal transformation program I have attended.

Since attending Module 1 in March 2023, I have noticed that I have been more compassionate, contained, and less intrusive in my approach as a facilitator. I have also been able to navigate through a challenging 2023 with more calm and composure that I would previously had.

After attending Module 2 in September 2023, I feel so empowered with a larger capacity for Emotional Regulation, and practicing Healthy Boundaries. I feel a lot more sense of security when faced with challenging conversations in business and at work. I notice myself reacting with less anxiety and with more peace and calm, and being able to protect my boundaries without feeling triggered or upset.

Through my journey with Human Intelligence Leadership Program, and also the TTT for Module 1, I feel more ready than ever to provide the Safe Space for Exploration and Healing for my clients.

Thank you Natalia Rachel for being my compassionately neutral and safe guide on this journey.

Dianne Hummal

Participant,

Human Intelligence
Leadership Program

This course is for those who are ready to go within, to look deeper and observe what and why has been holding us back both in our personal and professional lives. It's a discovery journey that helps us befriend ourselves just as we are, including the darker side.

The course helped me acknowledge that we will mess up but as long as keep showing up, we will be able to heal our past hurts with love and compassion and live a fuller and more purpose-filled life. At the end of the day, "we're born to be real, not perfect!"

Here's to making this world a better place, one safe interaction at a time!

Sha-En Yeo

Participant,

Human Intelligence
Leadership Program

The Human Intelligence leadership course led by Natalia Rachel was highly experiential and intellectually stimulating. The learning and practices she led us through, combined with the safe space created allowed me to make sense of my experiences and knowledge. It provided a platform for me to explore some of the trauma in my life, in the comfort of a like-minded community. I hope to be able to continue the journey of healing, both for myself and for the people I can impact through my work.

Jolene

Director, Chapter Zero

Chapter Zero organised two workshops with Natalia for our network of facilitators, coaches and community guides - a half-day introductory workshop on understanding trauma informed care, and a customised two-day workshop on implementing trauma-informed care and relational safety within the way we support our parents and community at large.

The workshops were thoughtfully structured and paced with intention. Natalia considered how to best facilitate it in a way that met our collective needs. There was room for some somatic exercises, vulnerable sharing and discussion, practical advice and tips, resulting in a rich embodied learning experience for all. I would highly recommend Natalia / Illuma Health for any practitioner wishing to integrate trauma-informed care within their work and practice.

Sofia Mavros

Mental Health Employee Resource Group Leader, Leading International Streaming Service

Natalia led a powerful session titled Resilience, Empowerment and Empathy during Uncertain Times for employees at my company. She has a unique ability of being able to distil the science into tangible easy to access concepts. She left a remarkable impact on employees with the actionable takeaways she shared. These felt fresh and highly appropriate given the current climate. Natalia is a confident speaker with a compassionate tone. She invites her audience in which can lead to powerful conversations that move the needle. I highly recommend Natalia as a lead speaker for mental health related sessions.

Batya Shulman

St James Wealth

I have attended Natalia’s talks both in person and over a webinar and Natalia is incredibly skilled at connecting with her audience. Natalia has a captivating way of engaging her audience in a passionate and authentic way. Natalia delivers thought provoking and informative sessions, filled with relevant information that educates, informs and inspires.

Participant for Trauma-informed Fundamentals Workshop

(21 July 2021)

Thank you for facilitating the online Trauma-informed Fundamentals Workshop. I deeply admire how collected your thoughts are, and how you were able to process our questions on the spot and give such insightful and sensitive responses. As you said, there is so much to uncover with trauma and impossible to touch in one workshop. I appreciate you and Illuma Health for making this available and for the resources that were shared after.

I see many people around me who I feel will benefit from learning more about their bodies, its signals and healing the wounds they carry everyday…At times, it can be so hard to have compassion or to hold space with acceptance of someone as they are, especially when emotions and triggers are involved.

Stephanie Dickson

Founder & Editor in Chief,
Green is the New Black

Natalia conducted a workshop at our Virtual Conscious Festival on The Neurophysiology of Connection and took our audience on a really eye-opening journey. Her calm presence coupled with her depth of knowledge was very apparent and helped to bring a deep understanding of connection to our event. It has always been important to us to bring a focus to our minds and deep introspection to our events, and it is made possible with the experts like Natalia.

PRAISE FROM 1 - 1 CLIENTS

Executive Client

I worked with Natalia over the good part of 1.5 years and have found her to be the only therapist that could really connect with me. Her own journey places her in a unique position of truly understanding each aspect of mine, while still visiting my own experience as authentic and valid. The various sub-persons in my fragmented mind tended to manipulate my own self and those around me, but Natalia is effortlessly able to stand above that and set clear boundaries when needed. She taught me to call myself out and bring the various aspects of my mind together, therewith slowly healing my fragmentation. The quality of my life has significantly improved during this journey, as I am able to face my own insecurities and be open and vulnerable to others. This journey is not over but I am deeply grateful for the work that Natalia has done with me.

K

Her language speaks to the insides of my body. To my core.

H

It feels like you peeled off all my rotten layers. I can breathe again. I didn’t know I could feel this good. You’ve changed my life. Thank you.

Lisa

Natalia and her somatic therapy approach is next-level. Past trauma might have been dealt with cognitively, but even so, is still wreaking havoc in your nervous system (which controls everything, including hormones!) and is stored somewhere in your body. Healing through touch helps listen to your body, connect, unlock stored trauma, and ultimately heal. ❤️❤️❤️

H

It was like some beautiful exorcism. I never knew my body was holding on to so much. It was incredible.

Delphine

Natalia has helped me so much on a personal basis in the past few years to understand how trauma was and can be stored in my physical body

KV

For the past four years, I've suffered chronic migraine headaches. Despite taking preventative medication and others to treat more acute attacks, I was still in pain more often than not, and it was having a huge affect on my day to day life as a mother and at work. I decided I needed to take a new approach and look at alternative ways to improve my condition. I began meditating and, as is often the case when we open ourselves up to new possibilities, a friend happened to recommend Natalia Padgen to me.

I immediately felt at ease and heard by Natalia. I appreciated that she too had suffered chronic pain in the past so could empathise with how debilitating it could be. In our first session I could feel the physical sensations of my nervous system turning down through cranialsacral touch. We've combined that work with talk therapy so that I could begin to identify triggers and learn tools to use at home or work to turn down my nervous system when it begins to vamp up. I find myself relaxed and well after our sessions, and Natalia offers support between sessions by being available by email. Natalia also recommended me to Mark Chern, acupuncturist within Soma Clinic, and that proved to be another important part to the improvements I've experiences as he in turn recommended a naturopath who identified my need for more magnesium among other supplements.

All of these practices combined have eased my headaches greatly and I'm now almost two months free of taking my medication for acute migraines. I highly recommend Natalia to anyone who is suffering chronic pain or is exploring alternative therapies to heal, reset and restore. 

Kate

I have been having regular bi-monthly sessions with Natalia since May 2019 primarily to assist me in traversing a life-threatening illness. Dealing with the trauma of diagnosis, treatment and recovery and also looking more deeply at my emotional patterns, their origins and more healthy ways of regulating these.

Over the years, independently of illness, my interest in the area and holistic wellness has lead me to work with a wide variety of practitioners in a range of modalities, across many countries. Natalia has the rare gift of being able to combine several elements of healing together in a way which is intuitive, yet deeply rooted in research, experience and a quiet wisdom. 

I immediately felt at ease with Natalia. 

She has the ability to listen deeply, beyond the words, and extract the essence of what is truly going on. She is then able to help you to identify and understand your thoughts and emotions and then translate that into the hands-on component of her work. 

She has magic hands!. Natalia’s intuition as to what is required for your physical healing is very astute. No two sessions are the same as she combines her collective training/tools to your situation on any given day.

It is rare to leave the room without having experienced a full range of emotions (So you need to be ready to work!) though you always walk away feeling lighter, more connected, in a place of greater inner peace and with plenty to take away to keep working on.

Natalia takes a genuine broad interest in her clients with useful extra resources, suggestions and check-in emails. 

Thank you so much for your amazing work Natalia. You are now an integral part of my healing team. 

Eugenia Gajardo

As a clinician, Counselor & Psychotherapist, and someone on the path of personal growth and development for 30 years, it is very challenging to find someone to personally work with.

I met Natalia Padgen through one of her clients in April, and have been working with her ever since.

Natalia is a multi-disciplinary craniosacral therapist who understands deeply the psyche and the human condition. She works through issues at the mind and body levels, with unconditional positive regard, non-judgement and deep empathy, she empowers and supports her clients in the rocky path of liberation.

I highly recommend her, especially for complex and traumatic issues.

Jane Knight

Natalia was recommended to me due to the nature of my health problems, where traditional medicine was dealing with the symptoms and not addressing the initial problems. From day 1 I’ve felt at ease and safe with Natalie trusting her process and expertise implicitly. She is gentle, kind and listens without judgement. I’ve been able to share deeply personal information through talking therapy followed by a somatic gentle hands on experience which has enabled my body to process in its own way. My physical ailments have no obvious diagnosis, so seeing Natalia has enabled me to process deep emotional experiences in my life in a safe and holistic environment.

 

I feel this is the right therapy for me due to my history as a dancer. Natalia’s somatic hands on therapy, which is gentle and sensitive to my needs, unlocks tension and charges within my body that need to be released. Natalia is a skilled facilitator, witness and experienced bodyworker who intuitively knows how to guide through touch and voice enabling my body to self heal. Following the sessions I take time to allow my body and mind to process the session and follow any practical exercises Natalia has shared with me.

I would recommend Natalia to anyone who finds deep rooted issues are still impacting their current life and would like a gentle, somatic therapy to help the body release in its own time and in its own unique way. 

Katy

Natalia is an amazing Trauma therapist. I always felt that during the many sessions I had with her. Recently I have recommended a few people to her and everyone loves her way of approaching whatever the cause is of the unease. She is gentle, has a very comforting voice, and puts you completely at ease.

I recently realized that what makes her so good at what she does is that she has totally no fear of the fear or pain or total unease that someone feels. And therefore she is able to make you comfortable with whatever there is and can healing and release happen. Loving You Natalia

Anita Kapoor

Thank you, for making the work you do possible and accessible. I feel this is the missing link. We can go easily from trauma to spirituality. But this is the in between where we can witness ourselves in safety.

PRAISE FROM SOMATIC THERAPY STUDENTS

Lester Jones

Physiotherapist/Educator

There is a real push for healthcare to be trauma-informed and so I was seeking my own development in this, as a health professional and an educator. I have now attended a couple of different trainings with Natalia and, apart from having a lot of experience and wisdom, she also curates her learning experiences to support a structured progression with clear direction for how learnings can be applied. And this is always done within a context of safety. In the TIRS modules, I really welcomed being challenged and stretched to find new ways of understanding clinical practice, and as part of that, exploring my own relational journey.

Stephanie Leong

Somatic Therapist

I deeply appreciated learning from Natalia through TIRS 1, 2 and the mentorship, as well as assisting. Natalia holds safe, gentle space that welcomes curiosity. She breaks down the teachings so that they are digestible. I enjoyed the interactive learning as well as the theory of approaching care for trauma. With the training, I felt more confident and resourced to work with various individuals to process their trauma stories. 100% recommend TIRS for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding and relationship to themselves, or to extend care to others with this gentle somatic approach.

Vivian C.

Psychotherapist

In my practice as a psychotherapist, I recognized that talk therapy has a limit in terms of the healing of emotions and trauma. Learning TIRS modules 1 and 2 with Natalia has been groundbreaking not only for my practice but also in my exploration of my journey. I appreciate the somatic and relational approach of TIRS which is both gentle and powerful. Along with the learning of theory and techniques, Natalia also curates the learning experiences to support a structured progression and direction of how the learnings can be applied for everyone. Through the course, she has held a safe space that welcomes curiosity, authenticity, and expression. I’d not only built my resources as a therapist but also deepened my understanding and relationship with myself. I deeply appreciate the learnings and her space holding for everyone, and recommend TIRS to any therapists, caregivers, or individuals who wish to build their care kit and relationship with others and themselves.