Creative Soul Therapy
Clarity, insight, reconnection & new possibilities
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Alchemy
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Guidance * Alchemy * Wisdom *
Creative Soul Therapy
An exploration of the wisdom within and around us.
Creative Soul Therapy is a creative, embodied, relational, nature-connected, transpersonal therapeutic approach to exploring your life experiences, navigating challenges, deep questions and guidance.
At its heart are two guiding principles: that we all carry innate wisdom, creativity and resources, even when we cannot yet recognise or access them; and that we are part of a larger, living and interconnected world through which wisdom, meaning and new possibilities can emerge.
This wisdom may be encountered through the knowing of our body, heart, soul and spirit, as well as through our relationships with others, nature and the wider intelligence of Life.
Not all wisdom is accessible through rational thinking alone. There are many ways of knowing, listening, sensing and understanding ourselves and the world around us. Sometimes an image, a sensation, a symbol, or a creative encounter can reveal something we haven’t yet been able to understand or put into words.
Through creative expression, symbols, embodied awareness, creative inquiry, imaginal processes, presence and connection, Creative Soul Therapy offers opportunities to explore these different ways of knowing, discover inner and outer resources, and find new insights, perspectives and possibilities.
Rather than offering ready-made answers, my role is to create a compassionate, creative and supportive space where you can explore your own experiences, reconnect with your wisdom and knowing, and nurture a deeper relationship with yourself, others and 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’ve made New Zealand and Australia my home for the last 16 years.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
At CAYA art space, 153 Melville Rd, Brunswick West VIC 3055
and Healesville, Victoria
I believe financial circumstances shouldn't be a barrier to accessing support. A sliding scale is available, and you're welcome to get in touch to discuss a fee that feels manageable for you.
NDIS participants with self-managed or plan-managed funding are welcome.
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