I’m glad you are here.
I'm Valeria.
I am a mother, a dancer, a mathematician, and a traveller of thresholds.
I have always been a seeker of truth — a woman who could never fit in a box, or be defined by one path.
For over a decade, I have accompanied women through the same deep journeys of healing and embodiment that once changed my own life.
My work is now rooted in my love of truth and my unshakable trust in the benevolence of Life.
Today I hold the vision for every woman to reclaim her innate spark, her trust in her body, and her own deep wisdom - so that she may love, live, and lead from it.
The Thresholds that shaped me
In my late twenties I left my corporate job and began soul searching.
I went to volunteer in Africa for two years. There, I let my old identity fall away. I learned that I didn't have to choose between my intellect and my wildness — that both could live in the same woman.
Life kept initiating me. Through motherhood. Through relationships ending.
Through new beginnings I didn't see coming.
Then came the threshold that changed everything.
A condition in my own body — relentless, all-consuming, and beyond what medicine could explain — became the doorway into what my body had been carrying all along. Trauma. A lifetime of suppressed feminine energy, held not only in my own cells but in the lineage of the women who came before me.
That was the beginning of my devotion to the feminine path.
I trained in many modalities and learned from wise women and gifted healers who taught me the art of holding space. For over a decade I have been accompanying women through these same deep journeys of healing and embodiment.
I am here to help you listen to your own whispers, and begin the slow, honest art of your own becoming.
Why I Created FeminineWise
For many years, I felt I didn’t have permission.
Permission to being fully me, to express the full range of my being as a woman.
Not only the soft, pleasing, acceptable parts, but all of it.
My grief.
My anger.
My sensuality.
My power.I had fragmented myself into what was allowed, and buried the rest.
My healing began when I encountered a different teaching of the Feminine: one vast enough to include tenderness and fire, softness and strength, grief and pleasure, rage and devotion.
That permission changed everything.
FeminineWise exists so other women do not have to search so long to find their way back to the wholeness that was always theirs.
What years of accompanying women has taught me
I have witnessed women who once rejected parts of their body begin to meet themselves with love, joy and compassion.
Women who struggled with intimacy trace their fears to places deeper than they expected, and emerge freer.
Women who never felt comfortable moving or dancing in a group begin to feel at home in their own skin.
Again and again, I have seen that it comes down to safety.
When a woman feels safe, seen, received and held, she no longer has to escape discomfort. Something softens. More space becomes available. Self-trust grows.
And in that space, something else returns too:
Pleasure.
Not as a luxury, but as a resource. A pathway back to aliveness, presence and the wisdom of the body.
A woman who feels alive is far less likely to abandon herself.
My Training & Lineage
I came to this work through two unlikely doorways — mathematics and dance.
Mathematics gave me rigour and a strange kind of safety. But also something unexpected — a glimpse of the spiritual. I could see it in the patterns and shapes of the natural world, the elegant intelligence moving through form.
Teaching mathematics in Waldorf schools deepened this — learning to meet each person exactly where they are, and make the invisible visible.
Dance was geometry in my body.
Where mathematics was precision, dance was devotion. Self-expression. Beauty. Freedom from form. Dance carries the ancestral pulse of an embodied wisdom that has connected humans to the earth since the beginning of time.
When I discovered belly dancing in my late twenties, I understood that dance is medicine — that certain movements are profoundly healing for the female body and soul in particular.
These two languages — the analytical and the embodied — are still the twin roots of everything I do.
My practice is informed by extensive training in embodiment, trauma-informed practice, breathwork, movement, process work and feminine spirituality. But my greatest teachers have been life itself, the thresholds I have crossed, and the women I have accompanied.
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Somatic & Trauma-Informed Practice
Relational Trauma Skills Certificate — Somatopia (2024)
Process Work Facilitator Skills — Findhorn, Scotland (2021)
Breathwork Facilitator Training — Sundoor, Scotland (2019)Feminine Embodiment & Movement
Trance Dance Presenter Certification — Apurva Mastinu, Italy (2025)
Dearmouring for Women — Gaia Method, Netherlands (2018)
Mystical Dance Teacher Training — Monika Nataraj, Thailand (2014)
Womb Healing — Miranda Gray, UK (2015)Foundations
Shamanic Practitioner Foundations — Edinburgh Shamanic Centre, UK (2011)
BA (Hons) Steiner Waldorf Education (2008)
MSc Mathematics, University of Perugia (2001)
An Invitation
If you find yourself standing at a threshold...
If something in you knows that life is asking for change...
If you are tired of carrying it all alone...
Know that you do not have to navigate it by yourself.
The wisdom is already within you.
Sometimes it simply needs the right conditions to emerge.
I would be honoured to walk alongside you.
