Rekindle aliveness and reconnection
Creative Arts & Soul Therapy for Clarity, Insight & New Possibilities
Perhaps...
Perhaps you've been navigating experiences that have changed your relationship with yourself, your body, or with life itself.
Perhaps life has become more about coping than truly living.
Perhaps you've lost touch with what brings you joy, meaning, creativity, or a sense of aliveness.
Perhaps you're longing to feel more connected, to yourself, your body, your relationships, nature, or to something deeper that is difficult to name.
Perhaps there is something you want to bring to life, a project, a new idea, or simply a different way of living, but you're not quite sure what comes next.
Perhaps, despite everything you've tried, something within you senses that another way is possible…
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There is an intelligence woven through life, one that exists beyond what we can analyse, predict, or fully understand.
We witness it in seeds that know how to become towering trees, in the changing seasons that move through cycles of birth, growth, death, and renewal, in birds that instinctively know when to wait before taking flight, and within your own body, where millions of intricate processes are unfolding every moment—breathing, repairing, adapting, protecting, and transforming—all without your conscious effort.
Life is continually creating, transforming, adapting, and finding new ways forward.
What if this same intelligence is also present in your own life?
What if the challenges you are living with are not only asking for relief, but also inviting you into a deeper relationship with yourself, your body, your creativity, others, nature, and the unfolding of your own life?
Reconnecting to Life is an invitation to rediscover connection, creativity, meaning, and aliveness alongside life's challenges.
It is a compassionate, creative, playful, and holistic therapeutic journey that invites you to reconnect with yourself, your uniqueness and inherent worth, uncover new perspectives and possibilities, and cultivate inner and outer resources that support a meaningful and connected life.
I support you in finding clarity, new perspectives, and possibilities as you move through life’s challenges and changes, creating space to listen to the guidance, alchemy, and wisdom that live within you and around you.
I am a passionate student of Life and the human journey. Originally from Mexico, I made New Zealand my home for 16 years. I recently moved to Melbourne, Australia.
I've been on my own journey with chronic conditions and existential turmoil. After facing limited treatment options and feeling intense frustration at being unable to work and function properly, I made a heartfelt intention: To trust my body, listen to Life and explore the depth and layers of healing.
This made me unveil and question my limiting thoughts, underlying beliefs and personal and ancestral patterns that were creating suffering and stress. I reconnected with my body, nature, ancestral wisdom, intuition, and creativity.
What started as a wish to feel better, ‘heal’, and return to my ‘normal life’ turned into a profoundly transformative path, where confusion, sadness, anger, chronic pain, and exhaustion shifted into clarity, peace, presence, and gratitude for Life. I understood that challenges can become opportunities and that healing goes far beyond the ‘removal’ or improvement of symptoms.
I am a registered Creative Arts Therapist (ANZACATA) and an Inner-Work facilitator with 15 years of experience as a wellbeing facilitator, educator, and Nutritionist. Through my work, I support children, teenagers and adults in their journeys of reconnection, self-love, transformation and holistic wellbeing.
In my path, I’ve been fortunate to learn from inspiring teachers and wisdom traditions. You can read more about my training and studies here.
Hi, Welcome! I’m Norma (Layo)
Life is always speaking. Do you want to listen to its guidance and wisdom?
Reconnecting to life brings together:
🌻 Somatic Practices and Nervous System Support
Developing greater awareness of your body and learning its language. Exploring ways to support regulation, grounding, and connection.
🌻 Mindfulness and mindfulness-based inquiry Practices
Cultivating present-moment awareness, curiosity, and a compassionate relationship with our inner experience. Mindfulness-based inquiry supports us in unveiling and questioning thoughts, beliefs and patterns that create limitation, stress and suffering.
🌻 Creative Arts Therapy
Creative Arts Therapy uses expressive processes such as art, creative writing, movement, storytelling, sculpting, sound, nature, symbol work, and imaginative play to facilitate the exploration and expression of inner experiences, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts, while supporting holistic wellbeing.
Creative Arts Therapy can reintroduce experiences of play, curiosity, creativity, and aliveness.
You don't need to have artistic abilities or experience. The focus is on expression, exploration, and self-discovery rather than on creating "art" in a traditional sense.
🌻 Nature-Based Approaches
Connecting with the natural world as a source of reflection, perspective, nourishment, connection, and wonder.
🌻 Imaginal Exploration
Entering the liminal realm of images, symbols, metaphors and archetypes as potential sources of insight, guidance, meaning, and wellbeing.
🌻 Indigenous and relational wisdom
Drawing respectfully on Indigenous perspectives that understand wellbeing through relationship and interconnectedness with ourselves, each other, nature, community, ancestors, Spirit and the living world.
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Ways we can work together
The Inner Oracle
1:1 Sessions (online or in-person)
A playful and creative inquiry to reconnect with your inner guidance and the wisdom that lives within you and around you.
Rekindling Aliveness
Group or 1:1 sessions
Creative Arts Therapy for people living with chronic conditions and sensitive nervous systems.
Ancestral connection
1:1 Sessions (online or in-person)
Integrating individual and ancestral resources and wisdom. Exploring intergenerational patterns and healing.
Reconnecting to Life is not about fixing yourself or becoming someone different. It is about rediscovering the connection, creativity, meaning, and aliveness that have always been possible within you and within life itself…
When we work together....
When we work together....
You’ll be safely and compassionately guided to tap into your own innate wisdom. Together, we’ll explore new possibilities and perspectives in your life, helping you find your way to healing and wholeness.
You’ll rekindle your curiosity, creativity, inspiration, and playfulness, because yes!, you can embrace these qualities even while facing difficult challenges.
You’ll learn to reconnect with your precious, unique self. You’ll rediscover your connection to nature, your breath, the present moment, the imaginal realm and the intelligence of life.
You will engage in practices to help you integrate unprocessed personal, ancestral, or collective wounds and patterns that once served to protect you.
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Online and in-person sessions
In Brunswick and Yarra Junction, Melbourne
Individual sessions
$150
I believe financial circumstances shouldn't be a barrier to accessing support. A sliding scale is available. Please get in touch to discuss
NDIS participants with self-managed or plan-managed funding are welcome.
Group Sessions in Brunswick
Rekindling Aliveness
August 20th - September 17th, 2026
Five weekly small group sessions
11:00 am -12:30 pm
5 people maximum in a group.
Working in a group is insightful & powerfully healing
AU$350
Together, we create a space to become curious about your experience not simply as something to fix or overcome, but as something that may hold insight, invite transformation, and deepen your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
Take the next step.
Fill out this quick form, and I’ll be in touch within 36 business hours.
You can also email me to: norma(at)reconnectingtolife(dot)com