UpyaEssence is for women who hold everyone else.
You care for everyone else. Here, you're held. Through the Somapresence Method and Longo Healing Dance—practices you won't find anywhere else—you reconnect with the strength, creativity, and vitality already alive in your body.
This isn't another wellness task. This is coming back to life through movement and touch designed for receiving, not achieving.
Upya means 'renewal' in Swahili—and that's exactly what becomes possible when you stop doing and start being held.
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MEET DUNYA
Founder of Upya Essence and creator of the Somapresence Method
I am an Embodiment Practitioner, a mother, and a woman shaped by my Congolese roots, my upbringing in France, and London—my home for the past two decades. My journey has been one of crossing cultures, navigating transitions, and moving through thresholds of self-discovery.
I’m here to walk with you in this work of remembering, reclaiming, and renewing.
Your inner wisdom is waiting. Let’s listen—together.
