LORELLA RICCI
As a Somatic Meditator and Somatic Psychotherapist (Certified Hakomi Therapist), I guide highly sensitive feelers to radically change their relationship to the feeling body through Tantric understanding and practice. I offer individual sessions and deep immersions, I integrate guided practices with the nuanced maps of Buddhism — taught somatically — to help people navigate experience with profound subtlety. In doing so, they gain direct insight into the foundational realm of feelings, themselves, others, and their world.
A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH HEALING
I spent most of my adult life immersed in meditation retreats, somatic psychotherapy, and anything that promised healing. Yet by my early forties, despite all the work, in the depths, I still felt broken, unworthy, beyond repair. The intensity of my inner world only reinforced that belief.
I lost faith. In healing, in meditation, in everything that had once given my life meaning. Letting go of what I thought I should do, I began trying to listen to the nearly inaudible impulses of my own being.
A RADICAL SHIFT IN AWARENESS
Psychedelic medicines brought spiritual teachings to life beyond theory. Deep dives into sexuality unraveled shame and taboo was invisibly suffocating my being, and could reveal unconscious beliefs that years of therapy had barely touched. I studied Sexological Bodywork and Somatic Sex Education and taught intimacy practices as a fast track to profound awareness.
I stumbled across Somatic Tibetan Tantric Meditation —a radical departure from the Buddhist traditions I had followed for 18 years. These practices welcomed what had long been denied, training me to soften rather than pierce awareness into my feelings. For the first time, my hyper-sensitive body could breathe.
BEYOND TRAUMA AND CONDITIONING
Over time, the title Psychotherapist no longer fit. I no longer saw experience as merely trauma or conditioning. Beneath it all are the feelings we are all taught to fear. I saw how our minds, desperate to control sensation, exile the very currents of life itself.
This fear is silently woven through our spiritual and therapeutic traditions, a reflection of how deeply we are tilted toward the masculine aspect of consciousness — pathologising and fearing the sacred vibrations of existence.
MY WORK TODAY
My work is to support you deeper into yourself. When you meet experience directly, without mediation, beneath the mind, insight is illuminated in the body — imbued with compassion and love.