About Milu Za
I am a Somatic Coach & Workshop Facilitator working with Embodied Self-Regulation & Inner Authority.
I live in Berlin, but I was born in Romania and raised in the south of Germany, in Bavaria.
My work focuses on the relationship between body, emotions, and mind, and how these aspects are interconnected in lived experience.
From an early age, I was drawn to the body as a form of expression. I trained in ballet and contemporary dance, explored martial arts such as Kung Fu, and later studied physical theatre. Movement and emotional expression became my first language.
Over time, I experienced periods of emotional overwhelm that I could not yet fully process. This led to a sense of disconnection and the beginning of an extensive exploration into regulation, safety, and integration.
Two questions have guided my work since then:
How can I stay present with difficult experiences without becoming overwhelmed by them?
How can I move through experience in a way that creates clarity instead of fragmentation?
My work integrates Body-Based Awareness, Emotional Processing, and Relational Patterns to support deeper clarity and stability.
I support people in reconnecting with inner alignment and developing a grounded, self-directed presence.
In my experience, lasting change happens when body, emotions, and mind are included in one process, rather than treated separately.
I came to understand that change does not come from analysing or fixing oneself, but from staying present with what is happening in the moment — including sensations, emotions, and thoughts.
The body became central in this understanding. It is not separate from emotional or mental processes, but part of how experience is organised and processed.
Trust in my own bodily perception became an important foundation in my work.
Today, my work supports people in developing greater awareness of their body, emotions, and response patterns, and in building more capacity to stay present with their experience.
Components of My Training and Practice
My work is grounded in Academic Study, Somatic Training, and Embodied Practice, integrating relational, psychological, and body-based perspectives.
I hold degrees in Social Work and Adult Education (Humboldt University, Berlin), which inform my understanding of Learning, Development, and Relational Dynamics. My somatic foundation was developed through training in Energetic Body Psychotherapy at the Institute for Relationship Dynamics in Berlin, where I later deepened my practice through an additional year of Assistant Work within the Training Process.
I further completed a Somatic Training in Fluent Body with Florencia Lamarca, as well as a Tantra Yoga Teacher Training at Durgas Tiger School in Ecuador, both of which inform my embodied approach to Awareness, Presence, and Regulation.
My work is also shaped by Theatre, Movement, and Contemporary Dance, as well as Embodied Methodologies that refine Perception, Expression, and Relational Awareness.
Education
March 2025 - September 2025
Fluent Body Teacher Training by Florencia Lamarca
March 2024 - November 2024
Assisted in the Training Process of the Energetic Body Psychotherapy by the Institute for Relationship Dynamics in Berlin
Sept. 2023 - Mai 2023
Tantric year training at the Institute for Relationship Dynamics including modules on body psychotherapy and expression work, Resoncetherapy, Tantric rituals and tantric bodywork, element of sexual bodywork, sensual bodywork, process-oriented work with personal topics, dynamic and still meditations, Creative work
Jan. 2023 - Feb. 2023
Certification as a Yoga teacher with 200 hours of Yoga at Durgas Tiger School for Tantra Yoga and Shamanism
Sept 2022
Participation in Modul 1 Armour lifting Bodywork: Chakra wisdom, energetic massage in the energy field, the 3 minutes game from Dr. Betty Martin, the Gyan Chakra Meditation, wheel of consent
Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2021
Basic shamanic seminar with alternative practitioner Sian Lang: Basics of shamanic work, grounding, cleaning, creation of sacred spaces, shamanic travel, basics of the medicine wheel and sweat lodge, basics of ritual work
Degree: Certificate
Oct. 2018 - Jan. 2019
Institute Christoph Mahr
Main focus: Preparatory course to review psychotherapy according to the Heilpraktikergesetz;
Degree: Certificate
Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2018
Compact education in energetic body psychotherapy at the Institute for Relationship Dynamics (couple, sexual, and body psychotherapy) in cooperation with Soma Essence UG
Degree: Certificate
Jan. 2017 - Dez. 2017
Women's School by Yolande Alice Jaguar Carrell: Sacred Rose, training in alternative, female healing work; Training to lead seminars in women's circles;
Degree: Certificate
Sept. 2015 - Feb. 2016
Biographical theater at the Social Pedagogical Institute Berlin Direction and dramaturgy in a theater-pedagogical context; Focus: Biographical-documentary theater
Degree: Certificate
June 2014 - Sept. 2015
Social Pedagogical Institute Berlin
Main focus: basic theater-pedagogical training for play management in accordance with the framework guidelines of the Bundesverband für Theaterpädagogik e.V. (BuT);
Degree: Certificate
Oct. 2008 – June 2010
Physical theater studio; International school for
Movement drama Berlin, Acting training
Degree: stage maturity
Oct. 2006 – July 2008
Humboldt University of Berlin, Philosophical Faculty IV
Master's degree in adult education
Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2008
Dance Intensive dance program
Intensive training in the subjects: modern dance, contemporary, ballet, jazz dance, contact improvisation, Latin fusion, body-mind centering, yoga and Pilates.
Degree: Certificate
July 2001 - Oct. 2005
Social work Studies at the University for Social Sciences, University for Applied Science Esslingen and at the Catholic University of Social Sciences Berlin
Degree: Diploma
Career
Since 2023 Yoga Teacher (freelance)
Since 2016 Somatic Coach and Workshop Facilitator of The Body-Mind Soul-Method
Single sessions in Somatic Coaching
Women circles - female healing work
Facilitator of different Seminars and Workshops
Since 2020 Social Consultant for Pregnant Women and Women with infants under 6 months at IBEF e.V., in the district Mitte of Berlin, financed by the so-called Early Help Program of the Berlin Senate.
Okt. 2017 - Dez. 2017
Assistant director for the production "So kheren Amenca" produced by Amaro Drom e.V. and performed at Gorki Theatre Studio R
Aug. 2015 - Feb. 2017
Freelance lecturer at Forum Berufsbildung; Lessons for future educators in the development and reception history of human forms of expression, creativity and aesthetics, visual, plastic and spatial design, design with auditory, visual, audiovisual and digital media, experimental work
Further Education & Inspiration
“Il Cuerpo presente”, dance and movement workshop with Alexander Carillo (Nov. 2021)
Weigtlessness workshops-dance and movement workshop with Almog Lowen (Sept.2021)
Training event with the topic: Part I: Attachment-Separation-Attachment Disorder-Attachment-Pedagogical Interventions / Part II "Attachment Pedagogical Dealing with Difficult and Aggressive Children and Adolescents" (Oct. 2015)
Training event: De-escalation training - basic and advanced seminar (Dec. 2012)
The World of Clowns-Clown and theatre workshop with Finbarr Ryan (Jan. 2012)
2 years of - individual lessons in voice training and jazz singing in the Music school in Kreuzberg; Berlin