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Desiree is a holistic wellness practitioner and certified coach with almost 10 years of experience helping clients face love, life, and relationship challenges. A self-described life-long learner, Desiree holds many titles and certifications, of which the most relevant ones are a Master's Degree in Aruban law (1997), Crystal Healing Professional Practitioner (2005), Reiki Level I Practitioner (2015), Relatie (Relationship) Coach (2016), Certified Professional Coach, Life Coach, Spiritual Coach, and Bereavement Coach (2018), Professional Counselling, Professional PTSD Counselling, Professional Relationship Counselling, Professional Grief and Bereavement Counselling (2018), Certified Master Sexpert and Tantra Sex Teacher (2019). Certified Loveologist & Love Coach (2021), Holistic Health & Wellness Coach (2023), Sound Healing and Sound Therapy Practitioner (2023), Chakra Healing and Color Healing (2023), Anxiety and Stress Management Coach (2025), Yoga Nidra Teacher (2026), Breathwork and Pranayama Teacher (2026), Biomagnetic Therapy Practitioner (ongoing, December 2026).
Sound Therapy, also known as sound healing, is a deeply relaxing method that uses soothing tones from instruments such as gongs, crystal and metal singing bowls, drums, chimes, rattles, and tuning forks to support your overall wellness.
Rather than focusing on doing, this experience invites you to simply rest. As the sounds gently surround you, your body begins to unwind, your breathing slows, and your mind becomes quieter.
This natural shift helps release built-up tension, calm the nervous system, and create a sense of ease throughout the body.
During a sound bath (another name for a sound therapy session), you lie back comfortably while the tones wash over you, guiding you into a state of deep relaxation where stress can soften and your system can reset.
There is nothing you need to do. Simply receiving the sounds allows your body and mind to return to a more balanced, calm, and restored state.
It depends on the condition you have. Clients are asked to complete a confidential questionnaire detailing their medical history to ensure a safe and personalized healing experience. It is crucial to be open and honest when disclosing any health conditions, as certain medical issues may be contraindications for Sound Therapy or other modalities. These include epilepsy, particularly if triggered by music or rhythmic patterns; severe mental health conditions such as unmanaged bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or psychosis; the presence of pacemakers or other electronic or metal implants that could be affected by sound frequencies; and a first-trimester / high-risk pregnancy, as sound healing practice may be too intense for the developing fetus. By sharing information, our practitioner can tailor sessions appropriately or advise alternative approaches, ensuring both safety and therapeutic effectiveness.
Gemstone therapy, also known as crystal healing, is a holistic wellness practice that uses natural gemstones and crystals to promote emotional balance, mental clarity, relaxation, and spiritual well-being by aligning the body’s energy fields with the unique vibrational properties traditionally associated with each stone. When you come in for Gemstone Resonance Therapy, specific crystals will be placed on and around your body to support your personal journey and healing requirements. We have adapted the classic principles of crystal healing into our own modern approach by combining gemstone energy concepts with our special gemstone-conducted tuning forks to offer an immersive wellness experience designed for today’s audiences.
Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation practice often described as “yogic sleep,” where the body rests deeply while the mind remains gently aware. Typically done lying down, it leads you through stages such as breath awareness, body scanning, visualization, and intention-setting to help shift the nervous system out of stress mode and into deep relaxation. Unlike ordinary sleep, the goal is to maintain a thread of consciousness while entering a state between waking and sleeping, which many people use to reduce anxiety, improve sleep quality, support emotional balance, and enhance focus. This session combines guided Yoga Nidra meditation with sound elements designed to support deep rest and relaxation. But even all by itself, Yoga Nidra leaves people feeling unusually rested and mentally clear.
Sonic breathwork is a guided wellness practice that combines intentional breathing techniques with sound produced by the voice and by instruments, to support relaxation, focus, and emotional balance. By pairing rhythmic breathing with sound and vibration, the practice aims to help regulate the nervous system and create a calming, meditative experience. People often use sonic breathwork to reduce stress, improve mindfulness, release tension, and reconnect with their bodies and emotions.
The Energy Alignment & Spiritual Hygiene Session is an integrative life coaching and consultancy session that helps you develop greater awareness of your energetic well-being and learn practical tools to maintain balance and resilience. In our daily lives, we are constantly influenced by people, environments, and experiences that can affect us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Over time, this can lead to feelings of exhaustion, overwhelm, or disconnection.Through holistic guidance and effective techniques, you'll explore how to recognize sources of energy depletion and overwhelm, establish healthy energetic and emotional boundaries, ground and center yourself during challenging situations, clear stagnant or heavy energy, strengthen your connection to intuition and inner guidance, and create simple daily practices that support ongoing energetic well-being.Keep in mind that emotions are energy. In that light, this session may include conversations about your relationships, work environment, family, friends, and anyone or anything that might be affecting your energy, and how to engage safely and effectively without losing yourself - and your precious energy - in the process. You are in charge of the conversation, which gives you the power to determine what needs your attention at all times.This session is especially beneficial for highly sensitive individuals, empaths, caregivers, helping professionals, and anyone seeking to feel more grounded, empowered, and aligned in everyday life.You'll leave with practical tools and personalized insights to help you protect your energy, maintain inner balance, and navigate life with greater clarity and confidence.
Yes, I do. The Energy Alignment & Spiritual Hygiene Session is an integrative life coaching and consultancy session designed to help you develop greater awareness of your life and energetic well-being and establish practices that support balance, vitality, and inner alignment. Drawing from transpersonal and holistic approaches, this session provides practical tools for managing your energy consciously and sustainably.During the session, we will work on: identifying sources of energetic depletion and emotional overload, becoming aware of how environments, relationships, and life circumstances affect your energy, developing healthy energetic and emotional boundaries, implementing grounding and centering techniques to increase stability and presence, introducing practices for clearing accumulated stress, tension, and stagnant energy, strengthening your connection to intuition and inner guidance, cultivating daily spiritual hygiene routines that support ongoing balance and well-being and building greater resilience and maintaining alignment during periods of change, challenge, or heightened sensitivity.By the end of the session, you will have a personalized set of practices and insights to help you maintain a clearer, more grounded, and empowered energetic presence while navigating everyday life.
Yes, I offer private and public group sound baths. Private group sound baths can be booked on the services page of the website, while public group baths, special group events, and workshops are announced on our Instagram page @sonicaura_wellness and Facebook page Sonic Aura Wellness Studio. Be sure to follow us to stay informed.
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