Reviews of the Somatic Mastery Field:
Taya taught me to breathe and live once more.
So grateful to have Taya as my mentor and somatic coach in my process of transformation, commitment and stepping into my universal strength and leadership.
Due to her profound life change in the mentorship with Taya, Caroline recorded this interview on her podcast sharing her experience and results with her audience in a beautiful conversation with Taya (see New Female Leader podcast below).
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Embracing the Inner Goddess | GOSS Magazine
My vision is to empower women to live authentically and powerfully. I believe that by helping women leaders embody their true essence, they can create a ripple effect, transforming not only their own lives but also those of others. My work is a testament to the power of embracing one’s unique gifts and living a life of deep, soul-aligned fulfillment.
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Taya’s Story
A journey through loss, awakening, and full-body remembrance. From collapse to embodied leadership — guided by breath, truth, and the body’s wisdom.
“This is not just about healing. It’s about remembering — and creating the life that comes after.”Read the full story
Taya’s Story
Long-form • Personal narrative
Childhood
I was born into a world of love, beauty, and movement — my childhood filled with travel, freedom, and the scent of salt on my skin. An open, anti-authoritarian mother who loved me unconditionally, a hippy father who moved to the Greek island Ithaca, and a patriarchal entrepreneurial stepfather who taught me early what power could look like. From the outside, my life was abundant. And yet, something broke when I was four — a fracture my body never forgot.
Loss & Reclaiming Life
At fourteen, my cousin — the only other girl in our family — died at sixteen. Without words, I decided I should have gone instead. By sixteen, I had starved myself down to 42 kilos. One night, I dreamt she came to take me with her. I woke up terrified — and alive. From that moment, I chose life again. But when my father took his own life a few years later, I fell back into the darkness — dancing the nights away became my way of staying alive.
The Collapse
In my twenties, I studied human consciousness, culture, and sociology, including a semester at UC Berkeley. I built a respected career as a photojournalist — it looked vibrant and free, but inside, I was empty. One day, my body collapsed; what I thought was a heart attack was my system refusing to live disconnected any longer. That moment became my turning point — the day I met myself for the first time since I was four.
Birth
My most profound opening came through giving birth to my son. A natural, raw, and pure experience that cracked me open to a level of primal feminine power I had never known. It was both the most transcendent and grounding experience — where I found my roots, strength, and a deep capacity to love a man fully for the first time.
Ibiza & Somatic Mastery
Finding Ibiza felt like finding home — a crystal island that mirrors my own frequency of depth and passion, always moving from darkness to light. Its energy birthed Somatic Mastery — not a technique, but a way of somatic self-leadership through the body where every contraction becomes a doorway to aliveness.
Today
Today, I live surrounded by nature in Ibiza with my husband Till and our son — breathing fully, creating from stillness, and mentoring leaders to embody their true power. Every collapse, loss, and resurrection became part of the medicine I now share. This is not just about healing — it’s about remembering, and building the life that comes after.
Testimonials
Claudia van den Pol
CEO & Owner, Royal Apollo Group; Board Member, Speaker – Netherlands/Global
Taya helped me in every aspect of my life. Forever grateful. I’m a strong believer in growing my business and my teams but in order to do that, to lead by giving the right example… By truly becoming my female, soft and playful self in this ever so fast changing male-dominated world! What a journey, I wouldn’t have anyone else guide me through this.
Helena Wasserman
Entrepreneur, Impact Investor, Speaker – NYC / Switzerland / Singapore
Working with Taya helped me discover and embody my true feminine power after my divorce. I’m now thriving in my own business, living in my favourite city, New York, and travelling the world whenever I want. I feel a profound sense of freedom, trust, and a new level of empowerment and joy in my relationships with men—both in friendships and dating. I am confident that I will choose the right partner when I decide to have a new partnership.
Cindy Koeman
Founder of The Flow, Co-founder, Mastermind Academy & Meditation Moments App – Spain/Netherlands
After working with Taya I felt deeply connected with myself and the world — in love with life again.
Kris Vancompernolle
Entrepreneur, Investor, Thought Leader – Netherlands/Dubai
In my somatic mentorship with Taya I accessed my true being and grew (up) on my own terms and conditions once more. Now, I found my real home and the hologram of my soul partnership we developed came to life in my new relationship. I have become the woman who truly lives her transformative power and manifests fully embodied what serves her best.
Bronwyn Connolly
Entrepreneur, Founder & Owner of @Wild Wellness – Ireland
Working with Taya through Somatic Mastery has been utterly life-changing. In just a few months, I’ve let go of patterns and emotions I’d held onto for years—patterns that quietly shaped my actions, kept me small, and fueled self-sabotage. I’ve moved from denial and disconnection into clarity, deep self-connection, and freedom. Not only in the connection with myself, but also in the way I run my business, relate to friends and view relationships. Taya helped open parts of me I didn’t even know existed. Now a new vision for my life is unfolding naturally.
Kelly Rapmund
Entrepreneur, Founder of Flow to Grow, Head of People – Netherlands
TAYA is the backbone for all female leaders! This is THE work. How can someone achieve something this magical? I’ve felt things I’ve never felt before. She helped me to get a clear vision for my business and she helped me to find back my sexual energy and flow. Just in these 3 months, I’ve had such a growth in my business, such an evolution in my love life and in every other relationship in my life. She helped me to go back to that free person that sees endless opportunities, she helped me to become the mom that I am, instead of the mom people expect me to be.
Sandra Breed
Entrepreneur, Co-Owner, Breed Interieur – Netherlands
Working with Taya as my somatic mentor has been truly life-changing, transforming so many areas of my life. By opening up to my deepest desires and embracing my true self, I’ve deepened and evolved my 20-year relationship with my partner in a completely new way. Our bond has become stronger, filled with newfound sensuality, vulnerability, and openness, allowing us to truly see and appreciate each other again. I’ve discovered a new level of self-responsibility in life, (self-)leadership in my business, and a vibrant aliveness in my body that I never thought possible.
Lilian Simonsson
Entrepreneur, Speaker & Facilitator – London, UK
Taya is the real deal. Her capacity to hold space, dive deep and walk alongside all at once, is phenomenal. Her skilled and empathic guidance to transform inner blocks into embodiment supported me tremendously before a public speaking event. Her sessions go straight where the real healing needs to happen. I am so grateful and can not recommend her highly enough!
Jay Freeman
CEO & Founder, Panda International / Intelligence – UK/Netherlands
Taya is probably one of the best coaches I’ve ever worked with. Our connection feels natural and real. One of the biggest shifts for me has been developing deep self-trust, which has allowed me to fully receive love and commit to my partner with a new full yes. Working with Taya has also given me clarity and a deeper, more authentic sense of embodied self-leadership—in my business, as a father, and in owning my story.
Rié Minoura
Director, Interior Design – Singapore
Working with Taya was truly incredible. Starting with anxiety and a cluttered mind, Taya turned that stress into positive energy. Her guidance provided clarity and confidence in my decisions. Taya’s dedication and passion for her work are evident in every session and between sessions, demonstrating a genuine commitment. I am grateful for Taya’s transformative impact on both my personal and professional life.
Lindsay Jay
Entrepreneur, International Wellness Presenter – UK/Spain
Taya is an angel who flew into my life at exactly the right moment to hold me through a period of change and expansion in my life. Her wisdom in Somatic Mastery has helped and inspired me both in my private and professional world and she has been a beautiful mirror to help me know myself more deeply.
Jo Hepworth
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Children of the Water – UK/Spain
Working with Taya shifted my life. I felt so empowered after transforming a time of stuckness and break up. In fact, I released all of that and found deep unshakable self-trust, took my children on an exciting trip and met my soul partner within 2 months. Together we created a loving relationship, a true home and a wonderful family. My holistic business got a boost and partner helped me to scale it successfully.
Marielle Griep
Entrepreneur, Silence Expert, Investor, Mother of 4 – Netherlands
Taya’s program opened a new deep level of (body) consciousness in my life. As I was navigating through a deep relationship crisis Taya helped me to feel, breathe and express myself in my authentic way. The whole process allowed me to reconnect with my partner (and myself) in a completely new way. Taya is loving, very clear, funny and she never gives up on you.
Steph L. Dickson
Entrepreneur, Speaker, Thought Leader, Consultant – Singapore/Australia
Working one on one with Taya healed more than any previous coaching, therapies or healers that I’ve worked with. The Somatic Mentorship helped me clear lifelong patterns and gave me the strength to deal with big life decisions to uncover my deep truth and needs. Not sure where I would have been without this somatic empowerment work and Taya’s guidance. She is a breath of absolute fresh air, loving, warm, understanding, and will make you shift exactly to what you need to grow into that moment. I’m deeply grateful for Taya and her support to get me to this new place with solid foundations.
Saskia Vischer
Business Strategist, Ex-CEO, Entrepreneur, Film Producer – Switzerland/Costa Rica
I have been working with Taya for more than 5 years in private consultations and group workshops. She is a magician. She has a powerful intuitive force to read our somatic bodies and reach deep into the source of blockages to aid the processes of release and healing. She also has a special vision to see our potential, and help co-create roadmaps for that true beauty to shine through. Plus she is just a super nice fun smart sexy mama. Highly recommended for real serious self-improvement and empowerment work. Your commitment needs to be 300%, to match the depth of her care and attention to your journey. Buckle up!
S. W.
Environmental activist, Philanthropist, Founder – UK
Taya is a force of nature. She is intuitive, intelligent, sensitive and able to articulate things which even I couldn’t. Taya helped guide me through and out of being stuck and unable to see what I had. On top of that Taya created a roadmap for an aspirational life. She is amazing!
Golshifteh Farahani
Actress, Artist, Activist, Public Figure – Global
