Show Notes
Use somatic prayer for the moments when your nervous system feels pushed to the edge. Ana Mael offers more than words—she offers a relational space with the Divine, where overwhelm, fear and anxiety softens and the body remembers safety.
This episode is not instructional or analytical—it is experiential. Ana Mael guides the listener through a deeply felt, somatic prayer invoking the Divine as a holding field—a co-regulatory presence where pain can be witnessed, grief released, and softening begins. It is a trauma-informed spiritual immersion.
“In the pregnant pause, you’ll start to feel. In relational space, relief will show up on your face.”
This poetic, minimalist episode—“The Day With Divine”—serves as a sacred pause, a gentle invocation to enter relational space with the Divine for grief and anxiety release, nervous system softening, and trauma-informed self-attunement.
When you’re overwhelmed, anxious, or triggered—this isn’t only about calming down. It’s about being witnessed.
Main Takeaway
Healing begins in the pause—not in the fixing, striving, or explaining.
It is in the "pregnant pause,” the felt relational moment, that softness, grief, and trust can begin to re-emerge.“Let that happen. Soften and lean into the holding with the divine.”
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What This Gentle Prayer Can Offer Your Nervous System
A co-regulatory somatic space for listeners with trauma, dissociation, or emotional overwhelm to lean into tenderness rather than collapse.
Spiritual safety for those harmed by religious or authoritarian spiritual environments, by offering the Divine not as judge, but as witness.
A felt sense of acceptance—not through words, but through presence.
For listeners with trauma histories—especially marginalized, exiled, or emotionally neglected individuals—this offers a rare space of non-demanding, embodied belonging.
How to Use Somatic Prayer
As a grounding practice during moments of overwhelm or disconnection
At the start or end of therapy sessions, particularly somatic or spiritual therapy
In spiritual trauma recovery, as an alternative image of Divine love: not patriarchal or moralistic, but co-regulatory and tender
In grief work or emotional release sessions, to help attune the nervous system to presence and safety
Repeatable Practice
This prayer is meant to be replayed—not just heard once. Its healing potential lies in repetition and nervous system re-patterning through gentle voice tone, rhythm, and poetic cadence.
You can:
Play it during morning or nighttime rituals
Use it to reconnect with their breath, heart, or tears
Build a consistent ritual of “being with”—rather than bypassing or fixing
Ana’s Unique Offering
This episode reveals Ana Mael's rare ability to blend somatic wisdom with poetic invocation, offering both the spiritual attunement and trauma-informed sensitivity needed for authentic healing.
It’s not theology.
It’s not performance.
It’s presence.Core Takeaways & Insights
1. Prayer Can Regulate the Body, Not Just the Mind
Somatic prayer grounds the listener in their felt sense, using tone, rhythm, and pauses to speak directly to the nervous system.
2. You’re Not Failing—You’re Overloaded
In trauma healing, breakdowns in presence or regulation are not moral failings. Ana normalizes dysregulation as a natural response to overwhelming environments.
3. Spiritual Connection Without Religious Dogma
The Divine in Ana’s work is a witness, not a judge. This makes spiritual tools accessible to people harmed by authoritarian faith traditions.
4. The Body Remembers What It’s Like to Feel Safe
"Where overwhelm, fear, and anxiety soften and the body remembers safety."
Somatic prayer helps restore a memory of internal and ancestral safety, even in moments of crisis.
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Meet Your Host: Ana Mael
Ana Mael is a genocide and war survivor, somatic therapist, and founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center. She has dedicated her work to helping survivors reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust.
She is the bestselling author of The Trauma We Don’t Talk About—a #1 book in over 10 categories, including Mental Health, Personal Testimonies, and Memoirs.Ana Mael’s insights are unflinching, trauma-informed, and radically honest. Her podcast Exiled and Rising merges the depth of somatic trauma healing with fierce social justice—centered around the lived realities of marginalized, displaced, and silenced bodies. With a voice that is both compassionate and defiant, Ana dismantles spiritual bypassing, confronts systemic harm, and offers a grounded, body-based path to healing rooted in dignity, truth, and personal sovereignty.
Ana lives in Toronto, Canada, where she works directly with clients and educates mental health professionals and counsellors on displacement, exile, and war trauma recovery. She leads training programs, provides trauma-informed therapy, and conducts research to bridge the gap between somatic therapy and global crisis trauma care.
