Everyone deserves spaces of healing and care. Here -
trauma-sensitive practices -
that center agency, non-coercion, and the body
are offered as community-driven support within reach.
MISSION
Healing has become expensive AF. If you don’t have money for therapy, retreats, or memberships, you’re often left with scrolling online at 2 am for self-care tools, journaling, downloading trauma workbooks, and Nervous System hacks from the internet.
Helpful, YES (helped me a lot) — but they can’t do the one thing that healing needs: CONNECT WITH YOU.
They can’t witness you.
They can’t attune to your nervous system.
They can’t co-regulate with you in real time.
That human connection — the being with and being seen— is at the heart of recovery, especially when the original wound was in a relationship. My mission is to make that connection and support accessible.
I offer TCTSY- Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and other Yogic Practices on a donation basis, so your bank balance doesn’t block support.
TCTSY is an evidence-based adjunct therapy for Complex and Developmental trauma as well as PTSD & C-PTSD. Developed by the Center for Trauma and Embodiment, it is backed by over 20 years of research and implemented in clinical as well as community spaces.
This is small right now, just me and the yoga, but the vision is bigger: a growing network of professionals offering affordable, community-based care.
Because affording support shouldn’t be the hardest part of healing.
Because we need to move from commodified care to relational care.
Because healing shouldn’t be yet another thing you have to earn.
Everyone has the right to heal.
about me
“At the heart of it, what I hope to share is that yoga is not about fixing ourselves, but about remembering our wholeness and knowing that we are already enough as we are.”
I’m Anna Helena Malmi. I was born in Finland, half Italian, and have spent most of my life abroad. These days, I’m based in Berlin with my family: my match, my dog and my cat.
With more than 15 years of personal practice, I bring both lived experience and formal training to my teaching. I have completed over 700 hours of professional study in yoga — and continue to train — including certifications in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (300h), Hatha/Vinyasa (200h), Shakta Yoga (100h), and Restorative & Therapeutic Yoga (100h).
Before stepping into this work, I spent years in NGOs and community projects, holding a bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and a master’s degree in Social Policy and another one in Gender Studies.
I’ve worked with partners like IOM, Fútbol Más México, UNICEF, Prison Yoga Project in México, supporting marginalized communities such as displaced youth, survivors of violence, and people inside prisons.
What I bring through years of practicing and studying yoga is the understanding that the path is different for everyone, and the tools of yoga can hold different meanings at different moments in life.
Practicing with diverse teachers and teaching in varied settings has shown me both what kind of facilitation resonates and what kind of space I want to create. It’s a space where the facilitator steps down from the pedestal of expertise and instead honors each person’s unique experience — inviting exploration, sensing, trying out shapes, and letting go of assumptions of “what I think I know of myself”.
At the heart of it, what I hope to share is that yoga is not about fixing ourselves, but about remembering our wholeness and knowing that we are already enough as we are.
What I bring into my yoga work is a mix of these experiences: strong program coordination skills, grounding my practice in the theory of trauma and care, and a commitment to evidence-based practice honored by the philosophical roots of yoga. I don’t see these as mutually exclusive.
Alongside this, I hold a deep respect for people’s lived realities, mutual learning, and cultural humility.
My hope: to create spaces of connection and care, especially for those too often left out due to systemic inequalities — knowing that the same oppressive structures that restrict access are also those that cause and compound trauma.
I collect Buddha boxes and never say no to a good Bloody Mary!
Contact
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