PODCAST
Through a
Trauma-informed Lens
Soma, Psyche and Soul
MEET THE HOST
WELCOME, I’m Aneta,
I’m your host and the Founder of The Golden Mandala Somatic Coach Academy©, a Trauma-informed Somatic Coach, Trainer and Educator, Senior Yoga and Somatics Trainer, and Embodied Business Mandala™ Mentor and Coach.
I created this podcast for heart-centred practitioners who work or want to work with clients in a more trauma-informed and somatic way.
In this podcast we explore how we can connect with and support others from a more compassionate and embodied space, with focus on the wholeness of our and our client’s felt experience and including our soma, psyche and soul.
We will share somatic practices and tools. You will hear from me and other practitioners who are on a mission to create safer spaces and make a real positive impact within their communities and the world.
Listen to the latest Podcast Episodes

E70: Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Mental Health for Female Small Business Owners
Welcome to this special World Mental Health Day episode where we shift the focus to the unique mental health challenges faced by female small business owners. Running your own business is more than just striving for success - it's about managing your overall quality of life, balancing personal responsibilities, and maintaining mental well-being. Join me as we explore the pressures women face in entrepreneurship and how we can protect our mental health while building a business.

E69: Embodying Confidence: 3 Powerful Shifts for Personal and Professional Growth
In this episode, I dive deep into the connection between mindset and embodiment, sharing three powerful embodied mindset shifts that have been transformative for me on my journey as a trauma-informed somatic coach, trainer, and educator. I reflect on the personal growth I've experienced through somatic practices and my work with women, and how these shifts have helped me step into my power with more confidence and grounded presence. I also offer practical insights on how you can embody these shifts in your own life to enhance both personal and professional growth.

E68: Honoring the Embodied Journey: Reflections on Growth, Challenges, and New Milestones
In this podcast episode I’m taking a moment to reflect and celebrate the journey of growth and transformation. As I record this during our 2024 Virtual Summit, Through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Become an Empowered Changemaker, I’m filled with gratitude for the incredible practitioners and speakers I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with. I also want to share some personal reflections and celebrations from the past two years - from growing our training Institute and launching my 160-hour Trauma-Informed Somatic Teacher and Coach for Women certification to embracing new ways of caring for myself and living alcohol free life, slowing down, and living more intentionally.

E67: Introduction to The Soma-Psyche-Soul Coaching Method - Embracing Somatic, Psychological & Soulful Dimensions
In today's podcast episode I introduce you to the Coaching Method I train female practitioners in our 160-Hr Trauma-informed Somatic Teacher and Coach for Women Training Certification. It is my unique whole person approach that provides a map for a healing journey as well as manifesting your greatest life and purpose. I discuss how you can use this approach for yourself and with your clients.

E66: Navigating the August Transition: Reflection and Planning with Embodied Wisdom
August can be a strange month when one part of us wants to slow down and rest, spend time with family and enjoy the longer warmer days, and another part urges us to keep working and prepare for the busy Autumn. In today's episode I want to invite you to slow down, pause and reflect on your life and business and connect with what's most important to you. And then plan the rest of your year in alignment with your joy, heartfelt properties and values.

E65: Conversation with Rachel Blackman: Somatics and the role of creativity in our sense of agency.
In this podcast episode I had the pleasure of talking with Rachel Blackman. We chat about Rachel, how our somatic awareness, creativity and principle of play can help us nurture our sense of agency, the importance of relationships for co-regulation and trauma healing, and how visualisation and movement help us live richer and more connected lives.

E64: Masterclass: Journey to Embodied Feminine Wholeness
Today I'd like to invite you to watch my Masterclass: Journey to Embodied Feminine Wholeness - Integrating Somatic Practices with Belief and Identity Work

E63: Invitation to the Embodied Feminine Wisdom Retreat
Today I want to share with you my conversation with Isabelle Griffith about our upcoming 4-day in-person retreat called: Reconnect with Your Embodied Feminine Wisdom.
It’s an intimate retreat for women practitioners, where we will come together with a shared intention to forge deep connections, authentic relationships, to learn and explore in a co-creative and feminine way.
This retreat will take place from 25th to 28th November 2024, in Cotswolds countryside, UK.

E62: From Inconsistent to Committed - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 6
Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

E61: From Stuck to Inspired and Sacred - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 5
Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

E60: From Overwhelm to Sustainable Systems with Fabi Belgardt - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 4
Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

E59: From Struggling to Financial Freedom - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 3
Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

E58: From Self-doubt to Deep Trust - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 2
Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

E57: From Hustle to Calm Productivity - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 1
Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

E56: Student Success Spotlight: Fiona O’Farrell - 'Be One of The Voices' Mini-series
Welcome to 'Be One of the Voices' Mini-series where I have the pleasure to speak with participants of our Trauma-informed Somatic Teacher and Coach for Women training certification about their experience of the training, and its impact on their growth, healing and work.
In this episode I am speaking with Fiona O’Farrell, who is part of our Autumn Cohort training. Fiona is talking about why she signed up, the challenges she experienced in her life during the training and how this training helped her, changed her and the way she works.

E55: Student Success Spotlight: Sally Heart - 'Be One of The Voices' Mini-series
Welcome to 'Be One of the Voices' Mini-series where I have the pleasure to speak with participants of our Trauma-informed Somatic Teacher and Coach for Women training certification about their experience of the training, and its impact on their growth, healing and work.
In this episode I am speaking with Sally Heart, who is part of our Autumn Cohort training. Sally is talking about why she signed up, the challenges she experienced in her life during the training and how this training helped her, changed her and the way she works.

E54: Conversation with Erika Chalkley: How Women Can Reclaim Power in Today's Society
In this podcast episode I had the pleasure of talking with Erika Chalkley. We chat about Erika's personal and professional path, the struggles that ambitious and overextended women face in today's society, and the lack of systemic awareness in women's circles and the need for the divine feminine to be integrated into wider societal issues.
Erika is an embodiment educator, somatic coach and mindfulness/meditation teacher with over a decade’s experience in female empowerment. She is dedicated to helping women break free of ‘good girl syndrome’ and put themselves back at the centre of their lives. She supports women to step into their own authority, live according to their own desires and fully share their talents with the world.

E53: The Power of Creating Space for Women's Voices and Experiences
Welcome to this podcast episode, where I delve into the vital importance of creating and honoring spaces for women's voices and experiences. I explore how empowering women to speak their truths can lead to profound healing and growth, both individually and collectively.

E52: Conversation with Fiona Agombar
This podcast episode is a recording of my conversation with Fiona Agombar during our 2022 Virtual Summit: Through a Trauma-informed Lens: Yoga, Somatics and Business. We chat about Fiona's personal journey including her health challenges, her journey of supporting others, and her passion for working with clients with CFS/ME, burnout and long-Covid.

E51: Care of the Soul - Becoming Wholeheartedly Human
In this podcast episode, I explore the theme of soul care and embracing our full humanity. I discuss my struggle to articulate the importance of how to talk about nurturing the soul, and invite you to understand soma, psyche, and soul as a unified system. I explore the price we can pay when living without questioning our society's overemphasis on efficiency and productivity, and viewing our life as a project to be fixed and improved.