Befriend your body. Rewrite the story of your life.
Hello –
I’m Sonja Semyonova, and I’m a somatic intimacy coach who helps people who are fed up with modern love regain their ability to trust again.
Letters to my Lovers: A Memoir of Love, & Loss
This book is for anyone who wants to believe in love again. But not love the way it’s being sold. This is not about fairy tales and Hollywood romances, but trusting the true nature of love, one that is as glorious as it is brutal. Part confessional memoir, part erotica, part tutorial on how to turn heartbreak into fuel, this book will redefine how you see love and manage the inevitable loss that comes with it. In 25 intensely personal love letters and an essay that offers an alternative to modern romance, you’ll learn what it means to risk everything for love and live to tell the tale. More than just secrets from the bedroom, this book is a guide to creating real intimacy in an increasingly closed-off world.
My Work…
In Your Words
“It is so refreshing and humbling to receive healing from someone who walks you home to your own medicine within your heart. That’s all we could ever ask for. To walk each other home to the truth within.”
-MM
I’m Sonja.
I’m a writer, somatic intimacy coach, and intuitive healer.
I’ve been a writer since I could hold a pen and a healer for many lifetimes. Far more than a profession, these are my callings. I’ve used both to transform my life and my relationship with my body, and I’m honored to support others who are looking to do the same.
I built BodyStory based on 30 years of studying a diverse range of healing modalities, including trauma healing, intuitive energy healing, witchcraft, erotic arts, somatic sex education, yoga, Ayurveda, herbal medicine, and so much more. (If I’m not studying something, I’m probably dead.)
Yet even though I’m a seeker, I’m also a skeptic. I have spent decades digesting what I’ve learned, sorting through the surface-level spirituality and fluffy techniques that limits our ability to truly heal.
What I have come to over and over is an awareness of how to build resiliance and passion for life by working directly at the intersection of pain and pleasure in our bodies.
My work offers something deeper to those who are ready to become the main character of their lives.
Shall we write some magic words together?
In Your Words
“With you I can be who I am and say the things I want without feeling like I’ll get fingers pointed at me.”
-Neri
Work with me
1:1 - Inner Narrative Alchemy
Deeply personal 1:1 support
The Art of Worship
Experience the power of surrender
The Heartbreak Cure
A 1:1 program on turning pain into power
Awaken your body. Come into your power.
The world is waking up. More and more of us are asking ourselves what we want and we are willing to give up in order to get there.
There is no blanket answer to these questions, only a direction: toward your embodied wisdom, your intuition.
Awake is a monthly workshop devoted to gently rousing your embodied intuition and welcoming it into the light of day…
In Your Words
“I am a changed person because of Sonja and so are my relationships.”
"I was surprised by how well Sonja really listened to me, and not just my words. She is present, and thus can find the deeper expression among all the rambling and 'I don’t knows.'"
"Sonja is a wise, authentic guide teaching deep and mind-blowing truths using a fun, light-hearted approach.
After each session, I feel more in touch with my intuition and filled with optimism."
The Journal
How to Be Lonely
How to be lonely in a world of 8 billion people. Don’t text back. Don’t text first. Wonder why no one ever calls. Never call anyone. Be too busy with work. Have a roster. Hold out for perfect. Be open for everyone who comes along. Fuck them on the first date and...
How to Protect Your Heart
We are at war with love. War…with love. At a glance, this seems like a contradiction. The concept of battle does not match the dreamy gaze of the poets. But. The horror stories are adding up. The level of deceit, lies, and heartbreak that exists in the dating world...
One Day You Will Not Be Heartbroken
Though you may have the bitter habit of denying all words of comfort right now, you must hear me on one thing: one day you will not be heartbroken. On that day, whether tomorrow or a thousand tomorrows from now, you will open your eyes and realize they no longer...
“On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.”
The Bhagavad Gita 2:40