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Erika Tourell

Erika Tourell

Somatic trauma therapist, tantra yoga teacher, and healing coach with 40+ years of professional experience in trauma-informed and embodiment work.

Jun 18, 2026

15:54
Could you just say what exactly that is or what that means to you? What does that look like in your practice?
16:01
Yes.
16:02
I've healed my own childhood trauma through my own, um, like being attracted to different practices and systems of healing and different traditions, different lineages.
16:14
You know, over the last 40 years, I've collected a lot of different tools, and I've seen what's really helped me heal, you know, chronic illness, long bout of depression, you know, connected to this developmental trauma.
16:30
Like, my nervous system was stuck in functional freeze, what we call it, for a long time.
16:37
You know, using different things like family constellations was incredibly healing for me.
16:42
Just learning, I mean, the missing piece for me, even though I've been doing body work for 40 years and teaching yoga for 30 years, the missing piece of the puzzle was the trauma piece.

36 MINS LATER

52:48
Well, yeah, people are getting enraged because there is that, the values beneath that sacred calling of like, "Okay, it's time actually to come to action." And actually, I'm getting goosebumps even saying it, 'cause I can also feel how much fear there is in that, like for people to actually step out of what has probably been the most comfortable period in like human history of 80 years or so, and really have to step up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna step out of this beautiful, comfortable life that, you know, I have here in London to really show up for the things I believe in and the people who need me."

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