Lara Lwin Treadaway is a healing practitioner, somatic coach, group facilitator, and nature-based guide with more than two decades of experience supporting people through therapeutic, restorative, and transformative processes. Her approach is emotionally focused, trauma-informed, somatic-based, and relational, helping clients reconnect with their innate capacity for healing, cultivate wisdom and compassion, and greater resilience in their lives and relationships. 

 

At the heart of Lara's work are universal principles: honoring our interdependence with all beings, trusting in the benevolence of the living world, and turning to the wisdom of nature as a guide for healing and wholeness. She works with individuals, couples, and families, in-person, online, or on the land, integrating deep listening, somatic awareness, and relational presence. She holds space with clarity, compassion, and respect for each person’s unique path, and offers support for all of life's challenges including trauma, grief, conflict transformation, and the desire for greater alignment with our lives.

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Lara is also the founder of a therapeutic farm and sanctuary on the Central Oregon Coast, which is home to a small herd of rescued wild horses, wild burros, and goats. The sanctuary extends her practice into nature-based and community experiences, where land, animals, and people come together in reciprocity. Whether meeting with clients in-person, online, or immersed in the sanctuary landscape, her work is guided by a vision of healing that restores connection - within ourselves, with each other, and with the natural world.

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Lara Lwin Treadaway is a somatic healing practitioner, workshop facilitator, and nature-based guide guide devoted to supporting healing and transformative experiences within a deep ecology of care. With more than two decades of training, study, and practice, her work is emotionally focused, trauma-informed, somatic-based, and relational; centered on liberation, and grounded in natural wisdom.

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In 2012, Lara left the UK for the Pacific Northwest, embracing a life of voluntary simplicity in response to the ecological crisis. Several years later, she founded Wild Peace Sanctuary on the Central Oregon Coast, a therapeutic farm and sanctuary providing home to a small herd of rescued wild horses and burros. Wild Peace Sanctuary is a place of restoration, rooted in regenerative practices such as native habitat renewal, food security cultivation, and therapeutic farming. When not with clients, Lara can mostly be found outdoors in all weathers - tending the land, caring for animals, and living the healing through natural reciprocity that she teaches.

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Lara's approach is shaped by and rooted in the universal principles of honoring our interdependence with all life, trusting in the benevolence of the universe, respecting our innate capacity to heal, and following the laws of nature as the highest guide for living.

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Complex Trauma Specialist
Somatic & Nervous System Healing

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Hi, I’m Amy, an energy, health and life coach who’s here to help you fuel your life, move with purpose, and restore your connection to who you truly are. My work isn’t about surface-level shifts—it’s about embodying the dreams you hold in your heart.  It’s about deep transformation, evolution, and expansion in this lifetime. It’s about stepping fully into the life your Soul came here to live.

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I’m here for those ready to shed what no longer fits, awaken their true energy, and step boldly into what’s next.Whether through private coaching, immersive retreats, or The Integration Mastermind, I guide you through the real work of integrating what would otherwise be fleeting sparks of insight—because transformation isn’t just a moment, it’s a way of living.

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I’ve walked this path myself. I’ve shed the layers, navigated the storms, and built a life aligned with my deepest truths. Now, I help others do the same. 

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From the outside my family looked..., but it was clouded by dysfunction and generational trauma. The natural world was a welcome refuge from the pain and fear I lived with every day. I have vivid memories of climbing onto the roof of my house at night and lying watching the stars. At 15 I was sleeping in parks. I moved out at a young age..... In my early forties I ran away again, leaving an abusive marriage and relocating to Oregon with the love of my life, my husband.... I began speaking up about the troubling childhood experiences I’d had and was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). I began learning about trauma and how we heal from it.

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The impacts of trauma on my life were so intense and when I took in a rescued horse who had a similar history of being starved and abused. Our journey together healing from trauma permanently changed the course of my life. I am drawn to trauma-informed methodologies and believe that my own adverse childhood experiences.

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I’m the granddaughter of a Burmese immigrant, and of British and Irish and Scandinavian. I found somatics after a decade of activism and work in the community health sector, and felt called to train in this work so I could fill the need for practitioners who understand collective and intergenerational trauma as inseparable from all the other work we do towards healing and liberation. I also experienced the profound impacts of somatic healing in my own life, and wanted to bring this work to my communities. In Trauma & Recovery, Judith Herman states that through shaming and silencing, victims of trauma are often re-traumatized when they dare to tell their stories. On the other hand, chronic suppression of terror can cause dissociation, freezing of the full personality, disconnection, constant low-grade depression, or more profound depression.

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Herman learned that recovery from trauma could happen - but with one condition: The traumatized individual must be able to enter a recovery zone. Many are so flattened by shock; they end their lives. Others endure severe physical complications that stall recovery. Another essential condition is remembrance and mourning. Telling the trauma to someone who cares, believes the speaker, and understands that the blood-red threads of grief take time to weave into the tartan of a revised life. Concealing trauma keeps it alive and fermenting within, a psychosis waiting to be triggered. When ready, each survivor tells in a preferred way, some by writing, others through activism, song, or art. The third imperative to recovery is that traumatized individuals connect with like-minded others for comfort and encouragement. Human beings naturally recoil from pain of any kind and cautiously emphasizes the importance of community in healing traumatic grief.

 

My approach is rooted in a deep trust that with the right conditions, our bodies will innately move towards connection, wholeness, and liberation. All of my work is guided by a commitment to dignity for all bodies. No-one owns the concept of somatics; this work has wide and diverse origins and stems from a belief that the wisdom of our bodies is our birthright. Connection to our ancestral practices can be a powerful resource to guide us in this work. We all come from people who at one time, belonged to life affirming, animistic, embodied cultures and communities

 

I hold practice spaces, courses, and workshops. This space is anchored by The wildbody Circle - a membership based community of practice that you can learn more about here. In this space you’ll find offerings that integrate trauma-informed embodiment practices lead by me and guest teachers that include movement, experiential anatomy, and somatic awareness. Practices are shaped by collective care, mutual liberation, and centered accountability and are informed by neuroscience, embryology, somatic psychology and ancestral wisdom.

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Disability justice.

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Storm - how hard it was for her to trust humans. She was abused and neglected for the first twelve years of her life. Time to approach her, building trust, attunement, consent, embodiment and right-use-of-power

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I practice mutual aid through sliding scale offerings and donating to groups that are local, with whom I have relationships, and can offer recurring or consistent funds. I strive to offer a wide range of ways to engage through my offerings and fee structures.

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I don't adhere to a single discipline or methodology; I practice an integrative approach to embodiment. My practice integrates studies in: generative somatics, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Focusing & NeuroAffective Touch.

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Prior to colonization, all of our ancestors had ways of connecting with their bodies that were embedded in daily life. Within our current conditions many of us have lost touch with our bodies and find that somatics offers a much needed pathway to reconnection. Contemporary somatics has stripped much of the cultural and spiritual aspects of embodiment, emphasizes clinical applications, and in many cases - fails to acknowledge the origins of these practices in BIPOC cultural + spiritual traditions. I am committed to ongoing learning, accountability and repair around the colonization of embodied wisdom traditions. As we work to heal the divide of mind/body we must also acknowledge the systems that created such a divide, including how they manifest in healing and embodiment practices today. Embodiment and disembodiment are always inherently cultural and political.

 

I am also deeply influenced by time spent with the forest and ocean, and my 15+ years in racial and healing justice movements. (https://wildbody.ca/lineages)

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this is time when I get to sit with you and listen for the histories that are showing up in your life, the places where deeply held beliefs that are older than insight are getting in your way, and support you to be right there, smack dab in the middle of your own life.

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My community activism includes being a member of Transition Town Brixton, a community-led initiative within the Transition Town Network, teaching Nonviolent Communication and co-facilitating inter-faith community dialogs to search for common ground between people of different backgrounds and beliefs. I have worked as a prison volunteer, and facilitated trainings and workshops with a diversity of groups including youth on probation, native youth, veterans, eco-villages, and the homeless community. I have worked as a mediator for families, intentional communities, and activist groups. In 2011 I adopted a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity. For the last five years I have been traveling through Oregon and California facilitating gatherings to support and nurture connection, inspire creativity, and foster resilience in these troubled times.  through my lifestyle project The Green Road. My long-standing study and practice of the Dharma includes multiple Buddhist retreats and completing the two-year advanced Dharma Practitioners’ Programme at Gaia House, UK in 2010-2011. 

 

While I have explored many paths to healing, I consider my greatest source of knowledge for alchemizing pain and grief, and cultivating true resilience, to have come from navigating many difficult initiatory experiences in my own life including; chronic childhood illness, near death experience, childhood trauma, teenage homelessness, self-harm and eating disorders, complex PTSD, fibromyalgia and chronic pain/fatigue, suicidal ideation, multiple addictions, divorce, and multiple bereavement. I have come to trust that we can find a way to embrace the raw truth of our lives, including all our experiences of grief and loss, by committing to a wholehearted path of deep surrender and radical compassion, and in doing so we will discover many unexpected blessings and gifts. For me this has included reconnecting with the wisdom and guidance of my ancestors, restoring a deep intimacy with the sacred animate world, and reclaiming a sense of the innate wholeness and deep belonging that is our ancestral birthright.

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Drawing on training in multiple healing modalities and spiritual traditions

As modern western culture does not support being with grief in healthy ways, I was inspired to support people to be well resourced and not feel so isolated or stigmatized in their grief

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My "personal" journey has been way more valuable in helping others than any training or education I have received. As a youth, I fell off a 150 ft cliff and lived, turned my minister father in for sexual abuse, and spent my teen years in foster care before emancipating myself at 17. This catapulted me into resilience and hunger so deep for emotional intelligence and what it takes to recover one's true nature. I had difficulty finding that in 1.5-hour sessions in psychology offices or in a culture that did not teach me how to grieve.

I began to travel the world and have deep interfaces with hundreds of cultures, indigenous and modern. I have facilitated hundreds of women in various settings to honor and evoke their magnificence. For many years, I have sat on my knees all night long in sacred ceremonies on native lands and ritualized with native people for over 35 years.

I have guided Mt Shasta as a solo female mountaineering guide before birthing three magnificent children, one of whom I buried after three years of loving him. I was married for 20 years, experienced divorce, stood solo as my own council, and gained sole custody of my children. That experience resulted in me owning my own home and a highly successful business. I have homeschooled, and I homesteaded.

Throughout all of these life experiences, I have held a few belief systems in place that have assisted me beyond measure. One of them I will share is that we all have an intrinsic ability to walk through life’s most challenging times. We know how to grieve, feel pain, be profoundly human, and live life on life’s terms. Yet, sometimes we get stuck and need help—guidance, mentorship, direction.

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“It is one thing to process memories of trauma, but it is an entirely different matter to confront the inner void—the holes in the soul that result from not having been wanted, not having been seen, and not having been allowed to speak the truth.”

– Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

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