Rekindle joy and aliveness

Holistic Creative Arts Therapy for chronic conditions, emotional healing, and spiritual transitions.

Living with a chronic condition or moving through emotional or spiritual struggle can feel exhausting and isolating. Your body may ache. Your heart may feel heavy. You may long to feel yourself again.

But what if these challenges are not only burdens — but invitations? Invitations to reconnect with your inner wisdom, to tend personal or ancestral wounds, and to learn to love and accept yourself fully.

When you open to this possibility, what feels heavy can become a doorway to growth, healing, and renewed aliveness. This is not about bypassing pain or difficulty - it is about learning to relate to it differently.

Reconnecting to Life is both an invitation and a wake-up call toward transformation. It is a creative, holistic, and compassionate therapeutic process that nurtures well-being and restores connection to the wisdom of your body, heart, soul, and the living world around you.

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THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

THIS IS FOR YOU IF...

  • You are moving through an emotional, physical or spiritual challenge or living with a chronic condition or persistent symptoms like anxiety, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, endometriosis, depression, chronic stress, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome… (the list is long, but if you have it often and it affects your life, then this is for you)

  • You are ready to participate in the wisdom and the process of healing and transformation that longs to unfold from within you. 

  • You feel the quiet knowing that it is time to tend to your emotional, mental, spiritual, ancestral and collective well-being.

  • You are open to exploring holistic, groundbreaking processes that blend creative arts therapy, Indigenous wisdom, and somatic and imaginal practices. These processes are informed by the effects of individual, collective, and ancestral trauma.

I am an enthusiastic student of Life and the soul’s journey. Originally from Mexico, I made New Zealand my home for 16 years. I recently moved to the Yarra Valley in Melbourne, Australia.

I've been on my own journey with chronic conditions. 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 reconnect 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 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 facilitator, educator, and Nutritionist. Through my work, I support people in their journeys of reconnection, self-love, transformation and healing.

In my path, I’ve been fortunate to learn from and be inspired by many wise teachers and spiritual traditions. You can read more about my training and studies here.

Hi, I’m Norma Hernandez

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 divine essence of life. 

You’ll be supported and accompanied on whatever spiritual or faith path you follow—whether you belong to a specific tradition or feel drawn to exploring depth and meaning in your own way.

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You’ll befriend and learn to understand how your nervous system works with chronic conditions and trauma. You will experience practices to help you integrate unprocessed personal, ancestral or collective wounds and patterns that once served to protect you. 

Kind words

  • “Through a beautiful combination of methods, Norma reminded me that I have value, I am not ‘broken’, I can love life with all its joy and sorrow and I can cope with everything.”

    -KL

  • “Norma’s warmth, compassion, observant insight and joyfulness as well as her deep commitment to inquiry evoke an openness and response in others that begins to enable transformation.”

    -VDL

  • “Norma’s way of holding the space was just wonderful. She was there for me 100%. I felt cared for, respected and listened to. Her way of pinpointing the, lets say “problem areas” was not far from amazing”

    -VL

  • “I asked Norma to help me with old painful suffering I’d not been able to let go of. I relaxed completely with Norma in her kind, wise insightful presence and trusted the process.  I found her to have an intuitive grasp of where to go and what was needed and was profoundly grateful to feel years of old recriminations fall away and ease take its place”

    -KG

  • “There is a paradox here; what Norma has helped me come to was there in me all along, (as it is in us all)  but strive as I did, I couldn’t reach it. And that is Norma’s skill, for which I will be grateful always.”

    - KL

  • “I had never witnessed/experienced the dismantling of a thought so quickly – she did it so easily – her compassion and empathy were the essential factors that allowed me to see with clarity and gave me the ability to continue forwards in my life”

    -AP

  • “Norma’s warmth, openness, authenticity and vibrant sense of humour contribute to her exceptional ability to create a safe space.”

    - KW

In a session, you engage with what Life is presenting to you. It’s not a fixed-session curriculum. It is a dynamic process that helps you understand the landscape of your autonomic nervous system and your emotional, mental, ancestral and collective fields through holistic, creative, intuitive, somatic and presence practices.

In this process, you reconnect with the force of Life and rediscover your sense of self beyond your chronic condition.

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Online and in-person sessions

In Yarra Junction, Vic, Australia

One-off Session

AU /NZ $160

Ten individual sessions

(60 minutes each)

AU/NZ$1,400

Can be paid in 3 monthly instalments

6-month Group online Sessions

FROM MARCH 2026

Book your space

Ten small group sessions over five months

90 minutes each group session.

Between 2 and 4 people in a group.

Working in a group is insightful & powerfully healing

AU/NZ$850

Can be paid in 3 monthly instalments

Do you need more information? Let's connect!

* If it’s your deep desire to start your journey of reconnection and you are struggling financially, please get in touch with me, and together we can find a way to make it happen. I offer sliding scale fees so that financial concerns don’t stand in the way.

Why reconnecting?

This logo transmits the essence of my work, and the understanding that we are deeply interconnected with other human hearts, plants, Earth, Sky, animals, Life, and Divinity. The nervous system in our bodies, the roots of the trees, and the fungus mycelium mirror how we relate, communicate and interweave within ourselves and with each other.

Reconnecting to Life (with a capital letter) means a reconnection to the full espectrum of your being. It is a process, a journey, designed to help you reconnect to yourself, others, nature, Life and Divinity through the wisdom of your body, heart and soul. 

It aims to strengthen your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being, providing insights into your chronic condition(s) while restoring a sense of safety, peace, awe, and aliveness.

Our bodies have a natural capacity for connection and empathy. Reconnecting to Life taps into this innate ability, helping you open your heart and access a deeper sense of aliveness, compassion, presence, and peace. From this place of open-heartedness, connection, and wholeness, you not only support your own healing—you also become a true force for healing and transformation in the world.

Take the next step.

Fill out this quick form and I’ll be in touch within 48 business hours. There’s no obligation or pressure on the other end - promise.

You can also email me to: norma(at)reconnectingtolife(dot)com