About Monia
Monia has spent over fifteen years working as a clinician in behavioural health and education, supporting autistic and ADHD people, their families and their circles of support.
She grew up between cultures and languages, and has lived an international life shaped by adaptation, movement and a deep connection to nature. She is a mother, a freeform dancer, and a woman with her own lived experience of neurodivergence.
Embodied practices have been her way of coming home to herself — of finding ground within, across the many landscapes and chapters of her life.
A curiosity about people, a deep attentiveness to others, and a belief in the shared humanity that connects us — with each other, with nature and with the world around us — have been the threads running through her life, her work and the spaces she creates for others.
Monia is based in Camden, London.
The Roots Of This Work
Monia developed these embodied offerings because she needed them.
Women pour so much of themselves outward — into relationships, work, family, care, and the countless roles we move between. We learn to hold things together, to adapt, to keep going, often while our own bodies are moving through profound seasons of change.
From menarche to pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, loss, motherhood, separation, perimenopause and menopause, a woman's life is marked by thresholds — some celebrated, some barely spoken of, some endured quietly. The body carries these experiences, alongside everything we give, contain and hold for others.
And yet, where do we get to put it all down?
When Monia discovered the Wrapping In Rhythm ritual, something in her recognised it immediately: an answer to a need she hadn't been able to name. To be safely held and contained. Gathered back to and for herself.
The voice work came from a different place. Despite a lifelong practice of freeform dancing as movement meditation, Monia had often found mindfulness and breathwork difficult to access. Through improvisation singing in community, she found another way into presence — quieting the chatter of the mind and listening more deeply to her breath, her body, herself.
There is something magical that happens when women sing together. Voices meet and weave themselves into something that could not exist alone. Each circle creates its own soundscape, unique to the women gathered and to what they bring. Something ancient stirs.
As one woman said after a circle: “We were only a few, but it felt as though our ancestors were with us.”
Her clinical practice draws on language, observation and analysis. This embodied work draws on something ancestral, felt and intuitive. Together they form the full spectrum of what Monia offers.
