Learn to navigate between the worlds

Somatic and psychospiritual coaching guided by Body Wisdom

For years, when something emotional came up, thoughts would rush in immediately: What is wrong? What is this? Is this allowed? I'd analyze, distance, overexplain—until there was no energy left to actually feel what was happening in my body.

I went to talk therapy. Developed a meditation practice. Understood my patterns. But something was still missing. I was living with free-roaming anxiety, moving through life like it was happening to me.

Then my mentor asked a question that changed everything: "How do you know you're feeling anxiety?"

I paused. I had to actually feel to find the answer. That moment opened a door I didn't know existed.

I am Maria Janeff, I support people ready to reconnect with what they've been thinking about for years - to feel it, not just understand it. Emotions are the bridge to something ancient. Together we slowly rebuild that connection, learning to redirect attention from the stories in your head to the wisdom that's always been living in your body.

If you're tired of understanding your patterns but still feeling stuck in them, if you sense there's something your body knows that your mind can't quite reach—you're in the right place.

What Brings People to This Work

  • You’re living in your head, disconnected from your body.

  • You feel stuck in patterns that keep repeating

  • You're struggling with harsh self-criticism

  • You feel numb or shut down

  • You're managing everyone's feelings but your own

  • You're navigating a difficult transition

  • You're ready to relate to your body in a new way

  • You're looking for deeper meaning and purpose

  • You’re ready to work with the deeper forces that become guides on your path of power and purpose

What Becomes Possible

  • Develop a new relationship with your body – Building safety and groundedness one sensation at a time

  • Recognize when patterns are running you – Parts that felt like obstacles reveal themselves as allies

  • Come into relationship with all parts of yourself – Welcoming home what you've rejected to access your full power

  • Respond instead of react – Build capacity to stay present with what arises

  • Let go of what is false – Releasing performing and fawning as you learn to meet the parts who needed those strategies

  • Become the magician of your life – Develop liminal skills to work with what you've been through in service of something larger

What You’ll Learn

  • Develop witness consciousness – Learning to hold your experience without being consumed by it, meeting what arises with presence an inquiry

  • Track sensations and emotions in your body – Without needing to fix or change them

  • Include what you've been pushing away – Making space for the avoidance, the fear, the parts that retreat. What we can hold consciously becomes an ally in maturity and growth

  • Express yourself authentically – Not performing or managing, but speaking your truth

  • Develop potentials that may have been arrested – Reclaim and nurture what couldn't grow before

  • Learn how to know, not what to know – Trust your inner compass over external authority

  • Find play again – Move from competition to creation and collaboration

How We Work

This work is intuitive and relational, guided by what's alive in your system. We create conditions for transformation to unfold naturally rather than forcing outcomes.

  • Following the energy – Sessions are guided by what's alive in your system, not a prescribed agenda

  • Somatic practices – Tracking sensation, movement, breath, sound, and grounding techniques

  • Shadow and archetypal work – Meeting exiled parts and exploring the personal and universal energies in and around you

  • Symbols and metaphors – An invaluable, endless resource for understanding what wants to emerge

  • Relational attunement – I meet you where you are, honoring your pace and protective responses

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What I Value : Foudations of my Practice

  • The Way of the Heart

    A path of remembering — centering in Soma and cultivating loving awareness for all parts of yourself. Whether your heart feels guarded, hesitant, or distant, this path welcomes you as you are. Rather than living from disembodied thinking, we return to what is right here, right now. Here, the medicinal energy of the heart shines, radiates, and includes.

  • Relational presence

    I meet you with respect, care, and openness. I approach this work as an amateur—not in the sense of lacking skill, but in its original meaning: engaging for love of the exploration itself, not from a place of already knowing. This creates spaciousness for you to trust your own knowing rather than being told what to do. In this space, we gather not from hierarchy, but from shared presence and mutual respect. The relationship itself becomes sacred ground—a field where transformation unfolds organically. Together, we listen for what wants to emerge, guided by your body's timing—without forcing, fixing, or rushing the process.

  • Self compassion

    An ongoing practice of becoming a kind and understanding friend to yourself, especially when difficult feelings arise. Through somatic awareness, you learn to track where emotions live in your body and stay present with sensations rather than judging or analyzing them. This allows emotional energy to be felt, witnessed, and integrated rather than remaining frozen. Self-compassion creates space for deep healing, reminding us that our struggles are part of our shared human experience.