Velaia Spaces · Session 01 With Maria Palha, Psychoterapy & Movement
VELAIA SPACES — SESSION 01
Moving Through Motherhood
With Maria Palha
26 September · BeHome Cascais · In person + online
Nobody tells you about the disenchantment.
The love is real. The exhaustion is real. And somewhere between the two, you lost the thread back to yourself.
This session is about finding it again.
What this is
An evening in two parts.
First we sit down. Laura and Maria have an open, honest conversation about what actually happens to your identity, your body, and your sense of self through parenthood. Not the highlight reel. The real experience — the loss, the confusion, the unexpected grief, and what it takes to come back to yourself.
Then we stand up and move. For one hour.
Maria guides the group through BeYound — the somatic movement practice she created — using music, the body, and a set of movement techniques to help you explore and express what's been building up inside. One hour. No choreography. No experience needed. No shoes. Just an invitation to follow.
There's no right way to do it. That's the whole point.
Afterwards, there's time to eat, drink, talk, or not. You choose.
What you'll leave with
A clearer understanding of matrescence — the psychological and physical transformation of becoming and being a mother — and why what you're feeling is not a personal failing.
A somatic practice you can return to at home, alone, in the moments when you need it most.
The experience of being in a room — or a screen — where people actually get it.
What to bring
Comfortable clothes. Water. A pen.
About Maria Palha
Maria is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and founder of Be Human. For nearly two decades she has worked at the intersection of psychology, the body, and lived experience — in Syria, South Sudan, alongside Médecins Sans Frontières. She created BeYound from that depth of presence. It is not a dance class. It is a serious somatic practice built by someone who has sat with people in the hardest moments of their lives and knows what the body needs to move through them.
Author of An Emotional First Aid Box. TEDx speaker (TEDxOporto, TEDxVilaReal).
About Velaia
Velaia is a maternal mental health platform for the middle years of motherhood. The part after the newborn phase, when everyone assumes you're fine.
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