I'm glad you found your way here
This page is an invitation to know me — not my credentials, not my method, but the woman behind the work. Because the most important thing I can tell you is this: everything I offer, I have lived first.
Welcome
I am Ilaria
I am a somatic and emotional coach, guiding women who've been holding it all together, but have reached a point where the way they've been functioning is no longer sustainable.
I work at the intersection of body, nervous system, and emotions. Not because it’s trendy, but because it’s where I found my way again, going through one of the hardest moments of my life.
One thing I’m certain of: your body never stops talking to you. Your emotions have never stopped trying to guide you. You simply never learned how to listen, and it’s not your fault. That’s what I’m here to change. To bring you back to your own authority.
And from there, everything becomes possible.
Embodiment coach, Mana Movement & Somatic Movement facilitator: working through the body, not just the mind
Transformational coach, trained in the Co-Active method
Over 10 years of corporate experience as a HR manager and change facilitator
Fluent in English, French and Italian
My journey
FROM THE SEA TO HERE
I was born in Italy, a sensitive child who grew up by the sea, deeply connected to nature, movement, and story. Yoga found me at 13 and never really left - it became the thread I returned to again and again through every season of life.
I moved abroad, built a family of three boys, and spent over a decade as an HR leader in corporate Switzerland, sitting in leadership meetings, navigating change, and quietly learning how organisations and human beings actually work under pressure.
And then 2021 arrived.
A profound personal transition, marked by loss, grief, and the kind of change you don't choose, brought me through what I can only describe as a dark night of the soul. It was the most painful and the most clarifying experience of my life. My body held it all before my mind could make sense of any of it.
What brought me through was not strategy or willpower. It was learning to listen: to my body, to my grief, to the anger I had been taught to smooth over. Through somatic movement, emotional alchemy, and the slow work of becoming my own anchor, I found my way back to myself.
That experience is the foundation of everything I teach.
Today I live with more ease, more truth, and more aliveness than I knew was available to me. And I am here to walk with you through yours.
what you can expect from me
An approach rooted in the body
I draw on somatic movement (including Mana Movement), emotional bodywork, and Co-Active coaching , and over time I've come to understand that transformation moves through three distinct thresholds.
The first is a return to yourself: a return to your body, your breath, your core truth. Then, learning to work with your emotions instead of avoiding them: letting grief and anger become points of reference rather than sources of fear. Finally, embodied choice and inner authority: making decisions, taking up space, and directing your life from a place that is truly your own.
These three thresholds form the structure of my main programme, Becoming You. But they also describe the natural movement of any real change, and they quietly underpin everything I do, in every container I hold.
Certified Somatic & Emotional Coach: modalities include Mana Movement, Embodied Dance, Emotional Alchemy (body-based emotional work), Hatha Yoga.
Transformational coach, trained within the Co-Active methodology
A career in HR: 15 years in international corporate environments, mostly financial services and sustainable finance, in the UK and Switzerland
Fluent in English, French and Italian.
