Say hello to The Core Rising practitioners.

Maggie Hayes

Bio: Maggie is a trained somatic practitioner with a focus on nervous system healing and trauma recovery. She guides body-based practice including somatic movement, body work, breathwork and experiential meditation to cultivate a deeper relationship with the Self. She sequences these tools in a way that makes sense for your nervous system to receive and deconstruct conditioning and adaptive behaviors. Her intention is to hold the space for you to create the environment where you naturally evolve from being the person you learned you had to be, into the one you really are. 

Story: My “healing journey” really began in 2012 - when I was tired of feeling like a mess, and not in control of my life. Throughout the following 10+ years I would shift from a career in media + politics into yoga + somatic healing, unpack repressed memories of childhood trauma, commit deeply to my recovery, and completely change all aspects of my life.. multiple times! Every single step I have taken has brought me into closer, more intimate connection with the Truth, with My Truth, with a deeply rooted sense of safety within myself, with the capacity to fully express and embrace all that I am… and with a burning desire to share this work with the world.  

Training:
Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program: The Embody Lab
Mind Body Coaching Certificate Program: The Embody Lab
Integrative Somatic Parts Work: The Embody Lab
The Polyvagal Certificate Course: The Polyvagal Institute
The Vagus Nerve Program: Jessica Maguire 
Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing: Somatic Experiencing
200hr Yoga Teacher Training: Lighthouse Yoga School
50hr Meridian Yoga Training: Science of Self Yoga

**and more than anything, Maggie’s training comes from firsthand embodied experience. She has practiced what she teaches for more than 12 years and remains devoted to the ongoing process. 

Masha Pilipenko

Bio: Masha is a certified Somatic Coach and Breathwork Facilitator. Her sessions weave together various somatic modalities, parts work, inner child healing as well as energy healing and intuitive guidance, and provide space for transformative clarity, deepened self-attunement and an expanded sense of internal safety.

Story: I set out on the path of holistic healing and wellness as the result of facing a profound crisis of meaning a number of years ago. This point of rupture - which turned out to be a life-changing invitation to journey inwards - led me to leave behind a career in the non-profit (together with pretty much my entire life) and devote all my energy to the exploration of my own self through a variety of tools that I am now using to support others in their journeys.

My central belief is that deep down, we always know. We know what we need, what we want, who we are and who we aren’t, what’s aligned, what no longer is and why. Guiding first, myself, and then my clients towards this pure, deeper knowing has become my personal mission and the point of my practice. I believe whole-heartedly that there is no limit to what we can create of our lives and the ways in which we can experience our essence.

Training:
Somatic Attachment Therapy Program - The Embody Lab 
The Core Rising Teacher Training: The Core Rising
Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing - Somatic Experiencing
300hr Holosomatic Breath Therapy Training: Inner Camp
Functional Breathing Instructor Training: Oxygen Advantage
Jikiden Reiki: Meltem Oner, Jikiden Reiki Institute
Systemic Family Constellations: Solo School of Energy Healing

Lauren Dike

Bio: Lauren is a certified Somatic Coach and Performance Consultant. She blends neurological tools, bodywork, breathwork, and experiential meditation to help high-achieving, overfunctioning women reconnect with their authentic, self-healing Self.

As an organizational consultant, she partners with companies to embed nervous system science into culture — strengthening psychological safety, reducing burnout, and improving retention.

She specializes in supporting Black women, who experience the highest wear and tear of stress at the intersection of sexism, racism, and anti-Blackness. Lauren brings a trauma-informed Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion lens to all of her work, believing that we all make sense — and that trauma deserves to be normalized in a world moving far too fast.

Story: My anxiety began at age 7, when I lay awake in bed one summer night, consumed by thoughts of death. My body shook with sweats and stomach pains, and when I asked my family what happens when we die, they laughed and brushed me off. That was the first time I felt utterly alone in terror -- and that aloneness became the foundation of my trauma. 

From there, I learned to survive through suppression, perfectionism and overachieving. As both the only Black child in my classrooms and a daughter in a home where emotional safety wasn't modeled, I carried a cycle of anxiety, shame and collapse for decades. It showed up everywhere: nervous ticks, eating disorders, self-sabotage, toxic workplace and people pleasing. When I lost both of my parents within seven years, the weight of everything I had been carring finally broke me open. Talk therapy gave me words, but not relief; medication gave me side effects without healing. What changed my life was somatic work -- learning to listen to my body, unblend from protective patterns, and find safety within myself. This practice didn't just ease my symptoms, it gave me back me. Now, I help others do the same: return to their bodies, metabolize stress and trauma, and lead from their authentic, Self-led selves.

Training:

CBT Somatic Interventions Certification: The Embody Lab

Certified Neurofit Coach: NEUROFIT

Neuroscience-Based Mindfulness: Mastermind Neuroscience-Based Wellness 

The Core Rising Teacher Training: The Core Rising

Certified Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Professional: Cornell University

Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing: Somatic Experiencing International

Beginning I: Somatic Experiencing International

In Progress

Neuro-Nutrition Certification: National Academy of Neuro-Nutrition

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner: Somatic Experiencing International

Titta Pennanen

Bio: Titta is a certified Somatic Coach specializing in the female nervous system, an Intuitive Healing Practitioner, and Women’s Work facilitator. Her approach is holistic and intuitive, combining body-based tools with energy work.

She guides women in reclaiming their connection with their bodies, healing their relationship with their emotions and attuning to their unique nervous system needs, their cycle and natural rhythms.

She believes that we all have our unique somatic wisdom that lives in our cells, and her mission is to help you discover yours — so you can become the resourced, empowered woman you were always meant to be. 

Story: I have always been a sensitive woman. It has been my biggest challenge and greatest blessing in life. Growing up, I felt like too much — too intense, too emotional, too deep. For a long time, I believed it to be true. I spent years trying to fit into a box shaped by the expectations of others. Hiding my emotions, my intuition, my sensitivity. It all came at the cost of my authenticity. My life didn’t feel like mine anymore. Then I decided that it was time to start living on my own terms. 

I started pursuing my true interests. A new world opened up as I immersed myself in holistic living and mindfulness. I discovered somatic nervous system work, and that’s when profound healing started taking place. As my connection with my body deepened, I felt the call to embrace my womanhood and live in sync with the natural rhythms of my female body.

The journey back to my somatic wisdom has been profound. It hasn't always been easy, but I can say that I feel at home in my body today. I’ve learned to embrace all parts of me and felt my body soften and open as a result. I’ve started seeing my sensitivity as a gift, and now I use it to do what I am naturally good at: supporting others. But first and foremost, I feel resourced. There’s a sense of trust that lives in my body, a deep inner knowing that I will be fine no matter how life turns out—now I have the resources to hold myself through thick and thin. It’s a feeling I would really love more of us to share. Because in the end, our healing is not only for us—it’s to be shared with each other. It’s my mission to help the world see a community of resourced women in the future.

Training

Soma School: Waking Womb

The Core Rising Teacher Training: The Core Rising

15hr Womb Sciences Immersion: Womben Wellness

Energy Medicine & Trauma: Eden Energy Medicine

20hr Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Foundational Training: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Nederland

Energetic DNA Activation Facilitator Training: Chintamania

Energy Field Clearing Facilitator Training: Chintamania

Usui Reiki Master: Karunika Spiritual Center

10hr Yoga Nidra Immersion: Delight Yoga

60hr Yoga Nidra Teacher Training: TULA Yoga

200hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training: TULA Yoga