Vanessa VerLee, Soul Oriented Coach

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Vanessa VerLee, Wellness Coach and Teacher, offers hands on resources for people to partner with their bodies and souls to create more energy filled, easeful and congruent lives. Using the tools of Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) and Soul Oriented Wellness Coaching, Vanessa offers on on one sessions and classes in person or over video conferencing from anywhere in the world. She also serves i

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12/12/2025

Still buzzing from the sweet, soulful holiday market at my dear sister ’s last night ✨
Highlights included having my mama beside me, sharing her art; my new mystical jeweler friend Alejandro .arte peddling his gorgeous wares across the way (and now another of his powerful pieces adorning my hands—thank you for the birthday gift, Stephanie!); sipping healing tea from my booth neighbors Erin & See; being graciously handed the mic by the evening bards for an impromptu share of “Listening to Robert Johnson” 🎶; and a serendipitous, heart-deep conversation with Sierra of about our shared spiraling journeys in the evangelical church—a rare point of connection for me in California.

This night was part of a long, beautiful swirl of embodied, soulful community gatherings I’ve been lucky to be woven into in Stephanie’s field. Always such a reminder that community magic is the strongest of all the SoMagic tricks. 💫

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12/06/2025

First holiday fair complete! ✨

Huge thanks to the wonderful folks at .magic for inviting us to share our .play.book SoMagic Tricks with the community.

If you’d like to give the gift of a less nervous system to your loved ones (and yourself!) this season, you can order your zines through the link in our bio. 💜 📚 🪄

12/02/2025

So grateful for this gorgeous reflection from about edition one of the .play.book …

“Keeping it with my journal has been so lovely… Even if I just read a bit, it helps my shoulders drop and sets the tone.”

We absolutely love hearing how people fold these little companions into their everyday rituals — journaling, mornings, commutes, grounding moments, and more.

Copies are now available at , , , and at the holiday fairs this month at .magic , , and .

You can also order from our online shop anytime (link in bio!).

Once you get your copy, tell us how the practices are bringing SoMagic into your life. ✨ 🪄

11/16/2025

Preschoolers are some of the most naturally somatic beings on the planet — few humans have such effortless access to their emotions, sensations, instincts, and full-bodied expression.

So it felt especially aligned to teach their parents a handful of SoMagic nervous-system practices last Monday night at — a room filled with tiny wooden tables, brightly colored chalk, and all the reminders of small-human wonder. We played with tools for regulating themselves while tending to their little somatic geniuses in all their glorious, sometimes overwhelming aliveness… and practices to help them remember their own full, embodied selves outside of the parenting role.

Hackysacks were tossed back and forth in a bilateral stimulation exercise, inner critic voices were shaken up and rewritten into kinder stories, and sensory practices offered ways to return to present-moment ease in the midst of chaos. There were rich, intimate questions and an abundance of delightful, goofy laughter — reminding us that our bodies have much needed wisdom for us.

Huge thank you to , Sunset Co-op’s director, for the invitation; to the badass humans and mamas .hoppes and for suggesting .verlee as a facilitator; and to all the wonderful neighbors/parents who showed up, shook their bodies, and played along for such a fun, resourcing evening.

If you’re connected to an organization, school, club, non-profit, business — or even a group of friends — that might benefit from a .play.book “work”shop or other body-based facilitation, reach out! We’d love to bring this offering to your community.

11/07/2025

Y’all have been asking — it’s finally here! 🤸‍♀️

After months of writing, drawing, folding, stapling, cutting, and stuffing… the .play.book shop is officially live!

Our first edition, Tricks for a Less Nervous System, is now available online while supplies last at somaticplaybook.com (link in bio).

Each zine is handmade with love by .verlee + in our home studios.

✨ $22 each + shipping
✨ Shipped straight from San Francisco within a few days (yes, I personally walk them to the post office)
✨ Perfect for holiday gifting or your own bedside self care manual

Bay Area friends can also snag copies in person at and 💜

Head to somaticplaybook.com (link in bio) to order yours!