Sometimes our experience complicates the stories we have come to accept about ourselves.
I am curious about what a woman desires and how that desire finds expression in the life she is living. Motherhood can bring these questions into view with extraordinary force, as can an intimate relationship or a longing we cannot quite account for.These are the conversations I want to have with women. Through Anima Maía, I offer private mentoring where we can explore what matters to you, with attention to your bodily experience as well as what you can put into words, and consider what that understanding might mean for how you live.Life as
architecture, hypothesis,
and myth.
I think about the extraordinary architecture of a life. How much has gone into its making, how much of it we can recognise and how much remains mysterious.We live by ideas about who we are and what is possible. Some were given to us long before we could question them. I am interested in what happens when we begin to test those ideas, and in the stories we make through the way we live.
Inhabit Her
You can love the life you’ve made
and still be hungry for more.
I’m Iysha.
Anima Maía brings together my training in psychotherapy, bodywork, postpartum support, and more, along with the questions I keep returning to about women’s lives.
I am interested in what becomes possible when we feel deeply seen by another person. In our work, there is room for the symbolic and the spiritual, for bodily experience and for the things you have yet to find words for.
I am based in France and work privately with women online.
The Writing.Blood &
Marrow
An ongoing enquiry into the lives we inhabit.
My writing is another way into this work. I write about womanhood and motherhood, the body, our relationships and what we are becoming.You can find the essays on Substack.