Transformation comes from the lived experience of our bodies.
I offer mindfulness-based care practices, always honoring the inherent wisdom every person carries within.
I’m Camila Diaz — born and raised in Colombia, rooted in New York City for over a decade, and moving between these two places I call home. I’m a mom, a community builder, and a trauma-conscious care facilitator.
While I am not a therapist, I bring many years of experience in mindfulness, trauma care work and body-based practices. My sessions are tailored to every person’s needs and are sensitive to every context I work in.
I believe our bodies have the wisdom to heal, and wisdom comes through when we create environments of care, kindness, curiosity and safety. I strive to hold spaces where people can be with the beauty and complexity of their humanity. Where they can soften, feel safe, be witnessed, and remember their inner wisdom.
Thank you for being here! Learn more about me and ways in which we can connect and work together.
Offerings
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Imagine life as a flowing river. When we have experiences that are too fast, feel too much or happen too soon and beyond our capacity to cope, it is very difficult for our center to hold. We lose connection with ourselves and with the world at large. The river overflows.
I hold space with kindness and care, offering resources and practices to help people return to their center — to that river of experience that feels more grounded, connected, and in flow. This is not about bypassing difficult realities. It is about bringing awareness and compassion to our experience — in our bodies and in the world at large.
Our individual experience is always held within something larger. The personal is shaped by the relational, the cultural, the systemic, and the ancestral. I work with each person or group as a system of wholeness — like a river with many watersheds that all find their way to the same ocean.
When we look at all the layers that have shaped who we are, and meet each one with love and compassion, we can begin to see the whole experience.
Working with our own history — in our bodies — can allows us to remember, repair, and return to that wholeness.
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I collaborate with individuals, groups, and organizations- sharing the experience and tools I've learned along my journey. Every process is crafted with care and becomes a gentle co-creation, honoring the unique needs, wisdom, and context of each person or group.
In every session, I weave in trauma sensitive mindfulness and body-based practices.
What are body-based (somatic) practices?
Somatic practices support us to connect with our bodies through physical sensations, feelings, moods, and lived experience. Our bodies communicate with us all the time — but when we disconnect from them because of pain or trauma, it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to hear what they need.
Mindfulness helps us notice our experience. Somatic practices allows us work with what we notice in the body — gently regulating our nervous system and returning us to our center, from a place of kindness, care, and curiosity.
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Some of the practices I share include:
Meditation · Breathwork · Mindful movement · Somatic practices · Rituals · Storytelling · Ancestral and lineage work
Some of the areas I can support:
Fertility journeys · Endometriosis · Trauma & pain · Anxiety & loss · Emotional regulation · Overall well-being
When we learn to listen to our bodies and our nervous system we can discover a powerful pathway to self-knowledge, safety, care, belonging and dignity.
I am not a therapist. This site is not intended to diagnose or treat any physical or mental health condition.
My Story
For many years, while I was finding my place in the world and planting my seed to make it a more just and brighter place, I was also living in survival mode. A kind of exile from myself.
My body learned very early on what conflict and loss feel like. Those experiences informed my nervous system long before I had words or tools to resource myself. Then it all kicked in: a long journey with chronic pain, endometriosis, anxiety, grief, panic attacks, and a long fertility journey.
Slowly—through therapy, meditation, body-based practices, trainings and community—I started to find my way back in, to come home to myself. I have learned that the body keeps all of our stories, and that healing happens slowly, gently, and in relationship. It is complex and nonlinear. And learning to meet what life brings us, with more internal capacity and presence, is important transformative work we can do.
My work is informed by the places I come from, the communities and teachers I’ve worked alongside, and the realities my body has lived through.
Fifteen years of practice across community work, mindfulness, and trauma-conscious care in Colombia and the U.S.
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To deepen my own practice, I’ve spent time in silence and in community at Plum Village, Blue Cliff Monastery, Omega Institute, and Garrison Institute, among other retreat centers. I try to go on retreat every year for my own well being.
My personal processes with Alejandra Montes from Maternar Ser and Natalia Chaparro have been a steady anchor.
The somatic work I have been doing with Corasoma and Silvestre in Barichara, Colombia has allowed me to engage in a profound exploration of my lineage and inner child with honesty and care.
My personal practice is woven into my everyday life and work.
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My academic path began in Political Science at Universidad de los Andes and led to a Master’s in Peace Education from Columbia University in New York City.
I’m trained and certified through organizations including Lineage Project, Mindful Schools, Breathe International, and Respira (Colombia), and have completed an eight-week MBSR program with Instituto EsMindfulness (Barcelona).
I’m a 200-hour certified yoga teacher and have trained in Somatic Experiencing, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (David Treleaven), and Cultural Somatics (Resmaa Menakem), and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy with Embody Lab.
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In Colombia, I served as a mindfulness teacher and Program Coordinator at Respira, one of the first mindfulness organizations in the country. I continue to offer online meditations with them.
In New York City, I worked as Director of Breathe International, sharing mindfulness as a peacebuilding tool with Latine undocumented women.
I spent six years as a Program Coordinator and Teacher at Lineage Project, bringing trauma-conscious practices to youth navigating complex systems, and taught for two years with Exalt Youth, supporting court-involved teens.
I’ve facilitated circles and spaces for women and completed a seven-month training in Women’s Medicine and Sexuality to deepen my understanding of the body and cyclical wisdom.
Today, I collaborate with organizations including Collective Care Lab, Robin, Life Story Club, Milestales, Berkeley Public Library and Keralty Compassionate Communities, and accompany individuals on their self-care journeys.
A gentle invitation
If you’re longing for a space to slow down, feel supported, and reconnect with yourself, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.