Vanessa VerLee — wellness educator, somatic guide, ritual officiant & musician, working from the belief that the body is the portal to what we most need to know.
Vanessa VerLee is a wellness educator who, for the last two decades, has facilitated countless people in connecting to themselves in more peaceful, nurturing and energized ways. Steeped in a lineage of love and devotion, she felt from a young age that her purpose was to inspire and illuminate each person she encounters — so they may feel the depth of their worth and the width of their gifts.
In her early twenties, discovering yoga, she began unwinding the ways she'd learned to leave and shame her body after early childhood illness, trauma and contorted conditioning. She quickly realized the body was not separate from the soul, but the very portal from which our soul speaks. Since 2001 she has trained in and offered multiple healing modalities — Gentle and Restorative Yoga, Thai Massage, Acupressure, Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI), and other somatic techniques.
In 2015 she launched Soul Oriented — an approach rooted in the knowing that we are each whole and worthy just as we are, that every part of us has wisdom to offer, and that the body is the portal to our deepest knowing. Through sessions, retreats, workshops and online community, she curates spaces for people to move through the patterns of conditioning, stress and trauma, and to more effortlessly give and receive the gifts they were uniquely created for.
Every offering circles the same root idea — that the body, met with curiosity instead of correction, will tell you what it knows. Where you enter depends on what season you're in.
Embodied conversations, remote by Zoom or phone, blending reflective coaching with somatic practice. No wrong place to start — every part of you is welcome here.
Play Shops bring somatic intelligence into rooms it's rarely invited — corporate teams, school staff, conferences — through SoMagic Tricks that make nervous-system science feel genuinely fun.
Non-denominationally ordained, Vanessa officiates life's pivotal thresholds — writing, designing and holding sacred space with lightness, humor and depth.
Singer-songwriter turned variety-show ringleader — a stage where performers stretch past their comfort zones and something electric happens.
"I've never been part of a group of people where everyone was in complete synergy with everyone else." Shannon Bolt, San Francisco — Soul Oriented Living Retreat
Since 1997, Vanessa has toured over 30 states and played Bay Area rooms like Cafe Du Nord, Amnesia, The Make-Out Room, The Starry Plough and Hotel Utah. These days her creative energy runs mostly through the Variety Show — but you'll still catch her at private parties, or jamming around the fire in her backyard.
Founded in 2011, the V.V.V.S. invites performers to try something slightly — or wildly — outside their lane: singer-songwriters doing stand-up, drummers on guitar, lifelong audience members finally taking the stage. Every show is different; every show somehow weaves together.
Four albums, one voice, twenty-seven years apart. Pick an album, press play, and let it run like a station — no ads, no algorithm, just the songs.