Hi, I am Lise.

As a healer and space holder, I believe in centering the sacred. In my somatic healing work that means centering Sacred Aliveness; the aliveness that lives in our body and inner world and that so many of us have been taught to numb out or disconnect from. This Sacred Aliveness is our compass for navigating the world. It tells us what moves us, what lights us up, what is closest to our hearts, what matters most, what makes us *feel* alive, what allows us to soften. And losing connection to that part of us can leave us feeling disoriented in our own life; like we are missing the map. We end up making life choices on autopilot or navigating life based on other people’s opinions and expectations without listening to ourselves and our needs. Reconnecting with and tending to that Sacred Aliveness within us guides how I support my clients in finding their way back to deep alignment and authenticity and building capacity in their body and nervous system to navigate that journey with self-support and self-compassion.  

The way I hold space centers what I hold as sacred; gentleness, connection, and co-creating safety. I believe in the power of sharing and witnessing from non-judgement. And I believe in transparency and in the power of naming what is, in order to tend and build safety within us and around us. 

My healing work and mentoring is trauma-informed, and I believe that our individual healing is deeply connected with our collective healing and vice versa. I support my clients from a place of deep awareness of navigating and untangling from the oppressive systems that we live within. 

As a human, I am an introvert, highly sensitive (HSP), and a deeply creative and spiritual soul. I am a feminist with a witchy vibe. I care about integrity, trust, and real connection. I tend to move slowly through the world, and I feel most at home in intimate spaces and deep conversations.

I am a lover of circles and rituals and believe in the power of co-creation and community. Seasonal and embodied rituals feed my soul. One of my favourite embodied practices is walking with the moon, which I do as often as I can. 

My story

I did not grow up feeling safe in my body.

I grew up in a home shaped by dysfunction and narcissistic abuse. I learned to ignore what I felt and to doubt my own judgement — even when something did not feel right. I numbed myself out. Gaslighting and blame were part of daily life, and I learned early to stay small and quiet in order to stay safe.

Over time, I felt numb and became disconnected from my body and my feelings. I learned to overfunction — to keep going, keep achieving, keep caring for others — while quietly disconnecting from myself.

That pattern stayed with me for decades. I often looked fine on the outside, but inside I felt far away from myself.

I share this because it shaped me. And because I know how it feels to be overwhelmed in ways no one else can see — and what it takes to slowly find your way back to yourself.

My journey to body wisdom 

When I first came into contact with somatic healing I had settled for a life of ”this is as good as it gets”. I didn’t know that deeper healing or true transformation and change was possible. Not in the way that I know now. 

Learning about trauma healing and nervous system regulation has completely changed my relationship to myself and to the world as well as the way I support my clients. It has helped me reconnect with myself on a deep level and taught me to navigate complex emotions, relationships, and situations with much more clarity and embodied presence. 

When I went through a cancer scare around the time I turned 40, I got quiet. I turned inwards, I rooted into an inner calm that I hadn’t known before. Because I had no choice. Things were getting real. Thankfully it was only a scare, but moving through those months of uncertainty, an operation and the recovery taught me something that I needed to learn, around centering and deep listening; truly listening to my body, to what I needed, and to what was present for me. That ended up being a major threshold for me, and I leaned into healing in a much deeper way than before, from the body, which led me to somatics.  

Working somatically and trauma-informed has given me the tools to understand and put into words what was moving in my body and within me. I am deeply grateful for my somatic journey because it has given me clarity and tools to support myself as well as others in their healing journey in ways that I wish I had been supported, when I was younger. 

In my 20+ years of teaching dance and movement I often sensed what was moving within my students. As a movement teacher, trauma was often in the room when I was teaching, beneath the surface, in my students’ energy, resistance, held breath or words. I met what I now know was trauma gently then as I continue to do today, now with more tools.  

As I deepen my work and my path as a healer and mentor it is also becoming clearer to me that I am a Seer. A seer of deeper layers within others and a seer of what has not yet been created. I often say that words are not my first language. I truly feel that way. Energies, movement, layers, visions, those are often much clearer to me than words. The words come later. 

My healing work

My somatic healing work is slow and gentle. I describe my healing work as having a conversation with the body; slowing down, listening, feeling into, tracking, holding space for what arises, responding in supportive ways, practicing having the conversation, on an ongoing basis. 

Some of the tools in my healing and mentoring toolbox are somatic practices, somatic inner child healing, gentle guided movement, embodied creative strategies, a strong embodied intuition and gently holding space for what is present in the body and in the room, in a trauma-informed way.

My intention as a somatic healer and an embodiment mentor is to be of service to my clients, the best way I know how, to help them heal old inner wounds, create inner calm and shift unsupportive patterns in a gentle, trauma-informed way, so they can finally feel safe enough to begin to deepen their relationships to others and create a deeply meaningful life for themselves, in deep alignment with who they truly are. 

My background 

I am a certified Focalizing practitioner and a certified movement teacher. I have taught dance and movement since 1997 and embodiment since 2016. I have also worked as a choreographer, creating dance performances and dance films, and I have a BA in philosophy and religion.

I have lived in Berlin, Munich and London, and I will probably live abroad again someday. 

I am based in Vejle, Denmark. I work with people from all over the world online in my online circles and 1:1 sessions. 

Here is what I believe