healing beyond the mat

From Stuck to Flow

Inner work for yoga teachers who need to heal trauma and break free from stuckness into genuine, lasting transformation

Yoga gives your life purpose and meaning. Does this reflect in all areas of life or does it feel stuck in certain places?

If you have a practice that you stick to but still feel that you outside that practice – in the messiness of everyday life – you are still stuck in patterns that no longer serve you, you are not alone.

It’s time to integrate your practice with your whole life, after all, to heal is to be whole. Through non-dual psychotherapy we can take that connection you feel on the mat to every context of life, even those that on the surface feel like the opposite of yoga.

In my work, we’ll explore trauma and nervous system regulation so you can find balance through your body, with a model that is inspired in the Upanishads and yogic philosophy, and that provides healing you can actually feel.

Mariano Martelletti

Therapist, yoga teacher

I’ve been there

I know what it’s like to see everyone else meditating quietly while my own mind is racing out of control. I know what it’s like to lose the ability to focus for weeks on end after a particularly triggering situation. I know what it feels like to go through life knowing the next panic attack is waiting just around the corner.

My own path began over 20 years ago and involved first and foremost healing myself, which led to the exploration of a vast amount of spiritual and not-so-spiritual practices, with all the resulting trial and error. It took longer than I had envisioned and hurt more than I could ever had imagined, and the result is not that I am finally “healed”… but it’s that I would choose this path again if I had the choice.

Today I choose to share what I learned to transform my pain into a gift for others who need similar healing.

Sound familiar?

Even after years of regular practice, we can stay stuck like we’re going round in circles. Here are some signs that it might be time to release blocked emotions:

While you’re in your practice, you feel connected and present, but when you return to everyday life, that connection disappears
You are secretly ashamed of certain “unevolved” feelings and behaviors you can’t get rid of
You settle for feeling freedom and peace occasionally when your practice allows it, but most of the time you experience tension
Your hope lies in the possibility that through more of the same, one day you’ll achieve what you seek
You can explain very eloquently why you are suffering, but that intellectual understanding doesn’t make. it go away

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My story

I had crippling panic attacks as a teenager. I saw many therapists who dismissed my symptoms or simply helped me go through life feeling anxious
I learned meditation and yoga but also experienced the spiritual bypassing that is rife in meditation circles
I came across more versions of gaslighting than I care to remember

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What to expect from an IFS session

This is what you’ll find in a 55-minute session with me:

You hold the power to your healing

One of the basic tenets of IFS is that every person has access to Self-Energy, which is the very essence of healing and happiness. The IFS practitioner simply guides you to access that energy through compassion and focus.

Radically non-pathologizing

We tend to consider mental illness as something that needs to be “fixed”. Mental health labels such as “depression” or “anxiety” imply that there is a fundamental difference in nature between normal behavior and mental disorders.
Internal Family Systems suggests that disfunctional behavior of any kind, and also suffering in general, are simply extreme instances of natural, healthy human qualities.

Self-compassion is the driving force

The key to the process is tapping into self-compassion in a safe and gradual way.
This is a skill that can be learned in therapy and can be continued by anyone and everyone to apply to all aspects of life.
In essence, Internal Family Systems is nothing short of a path for transforming one’s identity and tapping into the healing energy of who we truly are underneath our suffering and troubles.

Group workshops

Group workshops that address specific needs using IFS and a spiritual lens.

Who am I to teach?

For new yoga teachers that wish to connect with students and be seen, but have a strong inner critic that is preventing them from moving forward.

Reconnecting with my practice

For yoga teachers that have an established practice, more students that they know what to do with, but have burned out or have lost the spark when it comes to their own practice.

The spiritual depths

For yoga studio owners or advanced yoga teachers that wish to dive deep into the spiritual foundations of yoga.

What My Clients Say

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Mariano’s gentle, professional guidance in his practice allowed me to uncover deeply buried beliefs that I didn’t even know were there. Even with all my previous inner work, he held a mirror to parts of myself I’d long forgotten, creating space for a profound shift. If you’re ready to move beyond coping and truly thrive, I wholeheartedly recommend working with Mariano.

Artül Andopé

I appreciate your slow and careful pace in which I feel calm. You are great at holding a safe container which really allows all my parts to show up and feel seen.
Thanks to your work I connected with a young part of me that I had previously lost connection with. I fully witnessed the young one and their story. Very powerful

Anonymous Client, California

You capacity for holding space is immense.

Cathy Eu

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