ABOUT SOUL SPA ALCHEMY

Soul Spa Alchemy is a private, home based somatic practice in East London focused on nervous system regulation and long term recovery from chronic stress and burnout.

The work supports people who function well on the surface yet feel depleted, tense, or disconnected within their own body. Sessions are designed to help the nervous system settle out of prolonged alert and restore internal coherence over time.

All work is offered by appointment only, in a calm and discreet setting.

MY APPROACH

My approach is body led, integrative, and grounded in both lived experience and contemporary science.

I work with the nervous system as an organising force that shapes physiology, emotion, and behaviour. Chronic stress does not only affect mood or mindset. It alters breathing patterns, muscle tone, hormonal signalling, immune response, and the way the body allocates energy. Over time, these adaptations become patterns held in the body itself.

In sessions, I pay close attention to non verbal signals such as breath, tissue response, posture, rhythm, and nervous system pacing. Touch, sound, breath, and sensory input are used intentionally to support regulation and recalibration at a biological level. 

I do not push for emotional expression or dramatic release. Instead, I create conditions that allow the system to reorganise in a way that is sustainable, supporting resilience, emotional balance, and vitality over time.

WHY THIS WORK IS PERSONAL

My sensitivity to the body developed early in life.

Growing up without consistent safety or space for expression, I learned first hand how much the body carries when words are not available. Before I understood stress intellectually, I experienced it somatically.

Movement became my earliest form of regulation. Dance, rhythm, and repetition offered grounding and orientation when other forms of support were not accessible. This taught me something fundamental that still guides my work today: the body often finds stability before the mind does.

This lived understanding shapes how I work with others. I know that meaningful change begins when the nervous system feels safe enough to soften, not when it is pushed to perform or explain itself.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS 

I have over 13 years of experience in holistic bodywork and somatic care, with formal training in massage and bodywork since 2012. I am a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists and fully insured with Hiscox.

My work is informed by an ongoing path of study in somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and embodied practice. This includes training in body listening and introductory body psychotherapy, reiki, zyto bio communication scanning, and therapeutic aromatherapy through doTERRA. I have completed full training within the Rose Lineage, including initiation and training as a Rose Priestess through the Rose Chapel in Glastonbury under Annabel du Boulay. This training is rooted in Jungian and transpersonal psychology and has informed my ability to recognise symbolic, emotional, and archetypal patterns as they express through the body.

Movement has been central to my work since the early 2010s. My background in belly dance and embodied movement is rooted in self expression, rhythm, emotional release, and reconnection to vitality and joy.

My work is informed by contemporary thinkers and researchers in trauma,  neuroscience and embodiment, including Gabor Maté, Stephen Porges, Joe Dispenza, Mantak Chia, and Robert J. Gilbert.

 THE SPACE

Sessions take place in Alina’s calm, light filled home studio in East London. The environment is intentionally quiet and personal, chosen to support nervous system ease and a sense of safety. All work is by appointment only.

Our Philosophy

Healing, as I understand it, is a return to wholeness.

Body, mind, and emotional life move together. When stress, unresolved experience, or prolonged pressure disrupt that system, the body often speaks first. Tension, fatigue, pain, and nervous system imbalance are not random. They are signals.

Traditional systems such as Chinese Medicine, Taoist practice, and somatic lineages have recognised this for centuries. Contemporary research in neuroscience, psychoneuroimmunology, and neuroendocrinology now reflects the same understanding: long-term stress patterns shape physiology at every level.

My work sits at this meeting point. I do not force the body. I offer conditions for regulation, integration, and repair, allowing the system to reorganise in its own time.

Beyond the Body

The body holds the record of what you have lived.

Much of what shapes the nervous system happens outside conscious awareness.

Before language, the body learns through sensation, rhythm, proximity, and interruption. It learns when to stay alert, when to withdraw, when to hold itself together. These adaptations are not chosen; they are learned responses to environment.

Research in trauma, psychosis awareness, and neurodevelopment shows that when the nervous system is repeatedly exposed to uncertainty, threat, or lack of attuned support, it organises itself around vigilance and containment. Over time, these patterns become embedded in breathing, muscle tone, posture, and the way attention moves through the body.

What later appears as fatigue, agitation, numbness, or collapse is often not pathology, but a system doing exactly what it learned to do to survive.

For this reason, my work begins with safety as a biological condition, not a concept. When the nervous system senses sufficient steadiness and containment, it no longer has to defend its position so rigidly. Organisation begins to shift from within, without force or suggestion.

The changes that follow are often subtle at first. People describe a different relationship to effort, to internal pressure, to their own signals. What once required constant management begins to take less energy. The body feels less like something to monitor and more like something that can be inhabited.

Over time, this alters how stress is metabolised, how attention settles, and how energy is distributed across the system. Life begins to feel less dominated by coping and more available for movement, curiosity, and response.

This is transformation as I understand it: a gradual reorganisation toward coherence, shaped by repeated experiences of safety in the body.