Who I Am
I’m Dani (they/them). Somatic coach and bodyworker, originally from Romania, now based in Brussels.
I work with people at thresholds. The moment when the way you’ve been moving through the world stops working and the next version of yourself hasn’t arrived yet. That in-between is uncomfortable, disorienting, and often where the most important work of a life happens.
My work is somatic. We don’t just talk about what’s happening. We work with where it lives in the body. The held breath before a difficult conversation. The shoulders that never fully drop. The yes that comes out when everything in you means no. These aren’t just habits. They are the shape of an older strategy, one that made sense once and now costs more than it gives.
I’m precise in how I work. I follow what’s actually present. People often say that sessions with me feel like being genuinely seen for the first time in a long time. Not because I’m gentle in a vague way, but because I notice things. I name what’s in the room. And I stay with what’s real rather than moving toward what’s comfortable.
Where I Come From
I’m queer, non-binary, white, able-bodied, Eastern European.
I spent years inside feminist, queer, and social justice movements. I know what it means to organise, to tend to the collective alongside your own becoming, to hold political clarity and personal pain at the same time. That experience taught me that bodies don’t exist outside of history. That a nervous system is also shaped by sexism, by queer/transphobia, by economic precarity, by the particular strain of living in a world built for someone else. Healing that ignores those forces isn’t healing. It’s adjustment.
The question of how to be fully present without disappearing in the process has followed me through all of it. My own therapy, my own body, my own reckoning with what it means to belong somewhere without shrinking to fit. It stopped being just a personal question and became the centre of my practice.
Since 2019 I’ve trained deeply in somatics, through the generative somatics lineage and later through certification as a somatic coach with the Strozzi Institute. What I bring into the room with you isn’t just a compilation of methodologies. It’s my presence, my skilled intuition, and my commitment to your freedom.
What I Believe About Change
We are all shaped by family, by systems and institutions, by social norms, by the land we grew up on, in ways we didn’t choose. We carry those shapes, and we continue to be activated by these pressures in new ways every day.
But underneath the shaping, underneath the strategies, the contractions, the ways we learned to make ourselves smaller or more palatable, there is something intact. An inherent dignity. A sense of belonging to yourself that never fully left, even when it became hard to feel.
This work isn’t about becoming someone different. It’s about removing what’s in the way of who you already are.
It starts with longing. With letting yourself feel what else is possible. Asking: how else, if not like this?
From there we build somatic awareness, noticing what’s actually happening in the body, what’s been stopping you, what you need in order to move. Then somatic practice, the actual work of doing things differently. Tolerable steps, done over and over, until a new way of being starts to feel like home. And somatic opening, working directly with the patterns held in the tissue, releasing what no longer serves, making room for something more alive. The old shape becomes a new shape. And that’s the journey in a nutshell.
And then, you may want more. Because we’re not static. We keep growing, keep longing, keep becoming. More love, more connection, more dignity, more of whatever makes you feel alive. The process begins again, from a new place.
I spend a lot of time outside. Nature is a part of how I think, rest, and stay sane. You’ll notice it in the work.
If I wasn’t doing this work I’d be making food for people or building things with my hands.
Favourite medicinal plant: nettles!
A book that changed my work: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
I spend many evenings lifting weights. Turns out I find pleasure in it.
I do my best to watch the moon more than I watch my phone.
Heart Projector. Libra sun, Cancer rising, Leo moon, if that means something to you.
If something here is landing and you want to know what working together could look like, reach out. I read every message myself.