The Conscious Soma™
About Claudia
I’m a yoga teacher, writer, sound practitioner, and integrative nutrition health coach.
My work is for women who have lived enough life to know that the old answers do not always fit anymore. It brings together yoga, rest, nourishment, reflection, and honest conversation—not to help you become someone else, but to help you hear yourself again.
Ancient wisdom. Modern science. Lived experience.
Author, Chemo911 * RYT-500 * Integrative Nutrition Health Coach * Certified Workplace MIndfulness Facilitator * Sound Practicioner
Life kept changing the questions.
My father died. I got cancer. COVID happened. I went back to college and finished my bachelor’s degree. In 2023, I published Chemo911, based on what I had learned while moving through cancer and trying to live inside a body I did not always recognize.
Then, after nearly three decades in business—and eventually becoming a vice president—I was laid off.
I had spent years being good at building a career, solving problems, leading people, and making things happen. Suddenly, the title and the structure around that identity were gone. I had to look at the life I had built and ask what still fit.
I used to think moments like these required reinvention. Now I think they require something more honest: attention. What do you do when the life you knew no longer fits? What parts of yourself disappeared while you were busy becoming very good at being who you thought you needed to be?
That question became more important to me than finding the next title.
You can change how you Carry it
You can't change what happened.
Coming back to myself.
I grew up Brazilian and German, so belonging was complicated pretty early. In Brazil, I was often the German kid. In Germany, I was very much the Brazilian. Then I moved to the United States and spent more than three decades adapting again.
Somewhere in all that adapting, I left pieces of myself behind.
I grew up around food, nature, folklore, religion, superstition, and spirituality. I was curious about all of it and never interested in fitting neatly into one category. That is probably why I can be fascinated by neuroscience and still leave plenty of room for the woo.
Growing up in Brazil also made me notice the messages women receive about femininity, sensuality, beauty, and freedom. I became curious about who gets to decide how a woman should look, behave, or belong—and how much of herself she edits along the way.
Coming back to myself means reclaiming the parts I had edited out: the surfer, the hippie, the student, the teacher, the nerd, the curious one, the woman who likes science and philosophy and food and nature—and has no interest in choosing between them.
This has been a long time in the making.
The Conscious Soma™ grew out of nearly two decades of paying close attention to my own body and asking better questions.
It began with unexplained physical symptoms and a long stretch of trying to understand what was happening. Food became part of that conversation, not as a set of rules or a solution to chase, but as one part of how I learned to pay attention.
I grew up in Brazil, where food was fresh, social, seasonal, and woven into ordinary life: markets, family meals, fruit, cooking, and being outside. After moving to the United States, I began to see how easily food can become disconnected from pleasure, culture, and care. That contrast still shapes how I think about nourishment.
Yoga became more than exercise. It gave me a way to move through grief, and later, a way to stay close to myself when life got very small and very real.
Over time, I became less interested in finding one explanation for everything and more interested in how the pieces affect one another: food, rest, stress, grief, movement, environment, attention, biology, and the way we live.
I am not here to tell anyone what to do with their body or promise a cure. I teach practices, ask good questions, and help people make sense of what supports them in real life.
What I bring to the room.
I have spent three decades working with people, pressure, change, and the occasional corporate absurdity. Along the way, I became a yoga teacher, mindfulness facilitator, sound practitioner, writer, and integrative nutrition health coach.
I am interested in what happens when those worlds stop pretending they have nothing to do with each other. Science matters to me. So does philosophy. So does the body. So does the fact that people are complicated, contradictory, and usually carrying far more than is visible on the surface.
I like good questions more than easy answers. I like taking something dense (neuroscience, stress, behavior, yoga, food, grief, attention, identity) and making it useful without pretending it’s simple.
I am not here to tell anyone who to become. I am more interested in what becomes possible when you get quiet enough to hear yourself think.
