About Marielly

I accompany people and groups through thresholds of remembrance, reclamation and transformation.

From the outer landscape to the inner one

My name is Marielly Casanova. I was born in the United States and grew up in Venezuela, an experience that taught me from an early age about identity, belonging and the meaning of home.

For more than two decades, I worked with communities, governments, professionals and students in different parts of the world. I trained as an architect, urban designer and planner and completed a doctorate in Urban Systems, researching how organised communities in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador create, transform and give meaning to the places they inhabit.

Across my professional life, I paid particular attention to participation, women's lives and the conditions that allow people to feel safe, connected and part of something larger. Much of my work was about helping communities create places to which they could belong.

Over time, I understood that the most essential place of belonging is within ourselves.

My own return

While accompanying communities and teams in complex environments, I gradually lost connection with my own body. Years of responsibility, intensity and prolonged stress left a deep imprint. In 2024, my body could no longer continue at the same pace, and I entered a severe burnout.

That collapse became the beginning of another journey: the return to myself.

I began exploring somatic practice, nervous-system awareness, energetic work, emotional integration, shadow work, embodied spirituality, Tantra and shamanic traditions. These paths helped me rediscover the body's capacity to guide us and the wisdom that becomes available when we slow down enough to listen.

During this return, I also began reconnecting with feminine wisdom and with the presence of the Divine Mother in her different expressions. This spiritual relationship now moves quietly through my work as an orientation toward care, embodiment, sacred relationship and service to life.

The work I offer today

Today, I continue the work that has guided me for decades, but within another territory.

Before, I accompanied the transformation of communities, organisations and physical places. Now I also accompany the transformation of the inner landscape: the body, emotional world, protective patterns, relationships and the deeper sense of belonging from which we participate in life.

I work with women and men through individual Return to Self journeys, collective experiences, ritual and rites of passage. My approach weaves embodied and relational coaching, somatic shadow work, nervous-system awareness, Reiki, Tantra, shamanic journeying, breath, sound, movement and relationship with the Earth.

I am a weaver between the body, the soul and the Earth.

Training and professional foundation

Certified Tantra Practitioner · Shamanic Practitioner · Somatic and Embodied Leadership Coach

• Certified Tantra Practitioner — Embodied Awakening Academy
• Reiki Master Teacher
• Somatic Coach
• Shadow Work Circle Facilitator
• Member of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT)
• Doctorate in Urban Systems

My professional foundation also includes extensive experience as a strategic and participatory planner, conceptualising and facilitating workshops, community empowerment events, team building, organisational development training and mentorship.

My qualifications are important, but I understand them as maps that have supported my own recovery, integration and professional practice. The centre of the work remains presence, discernment, relationship and respect for the wisdom of the person in front of me.