About me... Gloria ~ Vani
A journey from survival, to remembrance… to sacred embodiment.
For many years, I moved through life in survival mode—doing my best to make sense of what I felt inside.
I carried emotional imprints, inherited patterns, and deep sensitivities that I didn’t yet have words for.
There were moments of disconnection, physical challenges, and a quiet belief that maybe… I wasn’t quite enough.
But I now see these weren’t personal failings. They were the echoes of unspoken grief, unprocessed pain, and ancestral stories that had yet to be healed.
This path has been my teacher.
My path opened through the body—first as a massage therapist, then as a counselor, Reiki Master, birth and postpartum doula, abdominal therapist and teacher, energy healer, and somatic integration expert. I gathered tools, one by one, creating a deep well of wisdom to draw from.
Yet now, I no longer lead with the tools.
Now, I lead with my frequency.
Because I’ve learned that my presence—my voice, my energy, my being—is the real medicine.
The methodologies are there, yes. But they are in service to something greater: the vibration I carry, and the sacred space I hold.
My soul name, Vani, means voice and breath.
And that is what I offer now—the transmission of remembrance through presence.
From Survival to Thrive
Becoming a mother deepened this work in ways I never imagined.
Conceiving my daughter took twelve years and brought me through three soul-shaping losses. Each loss stripped me bare and initiated me into the mysteries of creation, death, and rebirth. I came to understand that fertility is never just physical—it is emotional, energetic, and ancestral. It asks us to become whole.
Motherhood continued this awakening.
My daughter became my teacher as much as I am hers.
As my nervous system healed, so did my channel. I began to receive messages—direct transmissions from guides, ancestors, and the Earth herself. I remembered that I am here not just to support healing—but to midwife the rebirth of Earth, one soul at a time.
Today, I walk with women and sensitive beings who are awakening.
Whether you're conceiving a child, a new self, or a new purpose…
Whether you're unraveling old patterns or rising into a fuller truth…
Know this:
You are not broken.
You are remembering.
And you are not alone.
I am here.
Your resonance is ready.
Let us return to it—together.
Here is my Full BIO
in case you wonder if I can hold you :)
Studies
Circle of Life Guides Training, Gabriel Emerging - from November 2024
Rapid Awakening, DreamPorting - December 2023
MMA, Jody Shield - July 2023
Compassion Key® practitioner - February 2023
Abdominal Therapy Collective Educator - from Oct. 2022
Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy Internship for Advanced teaching - from Apr. 2017
Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy Teacher Training with Diane MacDonald - Apr. 2016
Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy Certification Program with Dr. Rosita Arvigo - Feb. 2015
Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy Professional Care with Hilary Lewin - Nov. 2013
Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy Self Care with Louise Crockart - July 2013
Level one Doula Training - Childbirth Classes - DONA International - 2011
Doula DONA International - 21 hours Birth Doula Workshop - 2011
Counselor Olistico Trainer - SIAF - Società Armonizzatori Familiari (n. LO124T-CO)
Life Counseling - vote 30/30 (Albo FAIP e CNEL 960) - 2009
Shiatsu Namikoshi - 2005
Akademia Ayurveda - Ayurvedic Holistic Massage & Remedies - 2004
Maturità Scientifica - Istituto De Amicis - Cantù 1995/6
Further Qualifications
BARS facilitator (Access Consciousness) - Sacred Birth Mentor Program, lev 2 - Master Avatar - Reiki II Level and Karuna Reiki - Theta Healing DNA2.
Holistic Practitioner Experiences
From 2023
- Women's Journey Therapist, she takes care of women during various important stages of their life, to recreate a new balance, to explore their talents and to unfold the life they really want to achieve;
- Primal Counselor & Doula, for more than 3 years she has been following mothers to be and their families from the preconception period till some months after birth, she has also been a birth doula;
- She has been working with the Birth expert Bianca Buchal to promote the importance of a natural birth and a conscious parenthood, during conception, pregnancy, birth and beyond;
- Facilitator for inner research using various techniques such as: counseling, theta healing, creative visualization, relaxation, breathing, ayurvedic psychology and emotional massage;
- Massage therapist: Ayurvedic Massage (Tridosha, Vata, Pitta, Kapha, Shiro-dhara, Hot Stone Therapy, Stone Therapy) & Reiki.
Conferences & Workshops Given
- Professional Care Training Arvigo® Nederland - November 2018
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Belgium - Bruxelles November 2018
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Denmark - Copenhagen 6-8 April 2018
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Nederland - Purmerend 2-4 March 2018
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Poland - Warsaw 3-5 February 2018
- Professional Care Training Arvigo® UK - Sussex - November 2017
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Italy- Milano 3-5 November 2017
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Nederland - Purmerend 27-29 October 2017
- Professional Care Training Arvigo® USA - New Hampshire - October 2017
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Italy- Milano 30 June-2 July 2017
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Poland - Warsaw 12-14 May 2017
- Self Care Training Arvigo® France - Paris 29 April-1 May 2017
- Professional Care Training Arvigo® USA - New York - April 2017
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Nederland - Purmerend 10-12 February 2017
- Lost in Fertility - Russia- Moscow 28 Oct 2016 during the international midwifery conference Hands on Hands off (27/29 Oct)
- Hands on Health The Mayan Way Arvigo® Russia- Moscow 27 Oct 2016 during the international midwifery conference Hands on Hands off (27/29 Oct)
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Italy- Schio 30 Sep-2 Oct 2016
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Nederland - Purmerend 2-4 September 2016
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Italy- Parma 17-19 June 2016
- Self Care Training Arvigo® Nederland - Purmerend 27-29 May 2016
- The Womb Journey - Nederland - Purmerend 27 March 2016
- Primal Counseling workshop at ISPA (Milano) 10/2013
- Loving The Mother Greece with Giuditta Tornetta, Robin Lim & Nicola Goodall 20-27 Sept 2013
- Ayurvedic Massage for the Beauty Farm Segreto (Milano) Spring 2013
- Primal Counseling training for Counselors and Birth Pros (Milano) 2012
- EFT & Abundance training with Bruno Zanaboni (Milano) 2011
- Ayurvedic Massage training for Laurora Beauty Group (Desio) 2009/10
- Ayurvedic Massage training for Life Gate Holistic Clinic (Milano) 2004/6
Conference & Workshop Organization & Simultaneous Translation
13-19 November 2016
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Professional Care Training - Italy with Diane Mac Donald. 13-15 November 2015
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Self Care in Italy with Louise Crockart.
11-13 September 2015
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Self Care in The Netherlands with Amanda Porter. 6-8 March 2015
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Self Care first edition in The Netherlands with Louise Crockart. 9-15 November 2014
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Professional Care Training first italian edition with Hilary Lewin. 30 May - 2 June 2014
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Self Care italian edition with Louise Crockart. 5-6 October 2013 'Healing The Money' first italian edition with Giuditta Tornetta 1-4 Luglio 2013
'Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy' Self Care first italian edition with Louise Crockart & Hilary Lewin 27-29 Maggio 2012
'Spirit of Birth' conference, translation, with important spokespersons of the Natural Birth field, in Damanhur Community 31 Agosto 2012
'Doula Summer School' translation with Nicola Goodall 12 Novembre 20
'Epigenetics, an holistic approach to the global health of Birth' translation, with Michel Odent and other important spokespersons 11-12 Giugno 2011
'Pleasurable Birth' first italian edition with Debra Pascali-Bonaro 8 Giugno 2011
'Orgasmic Birth' with Debra Pascali-Bonaro 1-4 Dicembre 2011
'Birth Doula DONA International' workshop with Debra Pascali-Bonaro
Books and DVDs Translation in italian
- Book "Gentle Birth Companion" by Adela Stockton waiting for a publisher
- Book “Growing up in trust” by Justine Mol, Uno Editori Publisher
- DVD “Orgasmic Birth” by Debra Pascali-Bonaro Bambini Nuovi Publisher
- Book “Sacred Birth” by Stephanie Dawn Bambini Nuovi Publisher
Previous jobs:
1999 - 2004
Direction Secretary at Artsana SpA, Grandate (Como), Italy.
New Media and Advertising Department. 1998
Secretary at Sailing School Annje Bonnje in Como, Italy. During the weekend I was managing the classes in the Naval Base.