about laura

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Bringing the body back into balance - through movement, energy and nervous system healing.

Hi, I’m Laura.

I live in Shetland with my two children, and I’m the founder of Sum Soma - a space for real, embodied healing.

My work blends energy healing and movement therapy to help people reconnect with their body’s wisdom, release stress, and find balance again - physically, emotionally, and energetically.

But this isn’t something I just learned. It’s something I lived.

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how I got here

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I was first drawn to healing when I was 21. After my first yoga class, I walked out feeling like a weight had lifted, and something in me shifted. I realised how powerful movement and presence could be.

Years later, I became a HIIT instructor and taught Fatburn Extreme classes, until lockdowns, an injury, and the collapse of my marriage forced me to stop.

I was in pain, physically and emotionally, and trying to hold it all together on my own. That’s when everything cracked open.

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the turning point

I’d already been exploring different healing systems - Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, neuroscience, Indian philosophy - but when I found Accunect, something clicked. It brought all of these threads together into one clear system that just made sense.

It helped me come out of deep depression and anxiety, and even cleared physical symptoms like headaches, hay fever, and shallow breathing.

Still, my body didn’t feel quite right. I had long-term hip imbalances that no amount of Pilates could fix. That’s when I found Clinical Somatics and learned how to release chronic tension through a technique called pandiculation. It changed everything. The shifts were not just physical, they were energetic, emotional, and internal.

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The bigger realisation

The imbalance in my hips mirrored the imbalance in my life.

My masculine and feminine energies were completely out of sync. I was constantly “doing” - pushing through, ignoring pain, over thinking, overriding my body’s signals. But I wasn’t being. I wasn’t listening. I’d been ignoring the part of me that knew how to soften, rest, and heal.

That’s what I had to learn to do. And now it’s what I help others do too.

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the work i do now

I work with people who feel disconnected from their bodies. Who are tired of surviving. Who want something deeper than talk therapy, but safer than reliving trauma.

Whether it’s through Accunect, somatic movement, Pilates, or a blend of all three, I offer a grounded, intuitive, body-led approach to healing that’s calm, effective, and real.

I don’t believe in fixing people.
I believe in helping them remember who they were before everything got too loud.

Sum Soma means

“To be in body.”

Because healing doesn’t start with fixing the mind.

It starts with coming back to your body, and trusting what it already knows.