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, from a young age Vanessa felt her purpose in life was to inspire and illuminate each person she encounters, so that they may feel the depth of their worth and width of their gifts. But, in her early twenties, when she discovered yoga, she began connecting to all the ways she learned to leave and shame her body, after early childhood illness, trauma and contorted conditioning. Quickly Vanessa realized that the body was not separate from her soul, but the very portal from which our soul speaks.
Shortly after this discovery, Vanessa began learning all she could about the wonders of the body and possibilities for healing, transcendence and growth. Since 2001, she has trained in and offered multiple healing modalities, including Gentle and Restorative Yoga, Thai Massage, Acupressure, Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) and many other somatic (body based) techniques.
In 2015 Vanessa launched "Soul Oriented," an approach to wellness that is rooted in the knowing that we are each whole and worthy just as we are, that every single part of us and experience has a wisdom to offer our lives, and that our bodies are the portals to our deepest knowing.
Through Soul Oriented sessions, retreats, workshops and online community, Vanessa curates spaces for people to move through the contorted patterns that come from conditioning, stress and trauma while offering real life skills for using the body as a portal to hear our soul's messages, to feel more alive and to more effortlessly give and receive the gifts we were uniquely created for.
Vanessa is also a writer, artist and a performing singer-songwriter. She has produced and recorded four albums and regularly organizes community music events around the San Francisco Bay Area where she's lived since 1999, surrounded by a stunning landscape and wrapped in a magical community of friends, all of which she is infinitely grateful for.
Steeped in a lineage of love and devotion, from a young age Vanessa felt her purpose in life was to inspire and illuminate each person she encounters, so that they may feel the depth of their worth and width of their gifts. But, in her early twenties, when she discovered yoga, she began connecting to all the ways she learned to leave and shame her body, after early childhood illness, trauma and contorted conditioning. Quickly Vanessa realized that the body was not separate from her soul, but the very portal from which our soul speaks.
Shortly after this discovery, Vanessa began learning all she could about the wonders of the body and possibilities for healing, transcendence and growth. Since 2001, she has trained in and offered multiple healing modalities, including Gentle and Restorative Yoga, Thai Massage, Acupressure, Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) and many other somatic (body based) techniques.
In 2015 Vanessa launched "Soul Oriented," an approach to wellness that is rooted in the knowing that we are each whole and worthy just as we are, that every single part of us and experience has a wisdom to offer our lives, and that our bodies are the portals to our deepest knowing.
Through Soul Oriented sessions, retreats, workshops and online community, Vanessa curates spaces for people to move through the contorted patterns that come from conditioning, stress and trauma while offering real life skills for using the body as a portal to hear our soul's messages, to feel more alive and to more effortlessly give and receive the gifts we were uniquely created for.
Vanessa is also a writer, artist and a performing singer-songwriter. She has produced and recorded four albums and regularly organizes community music events around the San Francisco Bay Area where she's lived since 1999, surrounded by a stunning landscape and wrapped in a magical community of friends, all of which she is infinitely grateful for.