Meet Rose,
Founder of
Hello, I’m Rose Velasco, Trained Professional, Self-Healer, and Somatic Guide
The Somatic Truth Method™
About Me
Welcome to my virtual home, my little corner of the world wide web. Here is a little bit about how I got here.
Everyone has a story. Every story is as unique as the hiking trails that snake through the landscape of this planet. Some are simple and safe. Some are detailed and risky.
Mine is definitely detailed and risky. Yearning to live life to its fullest comes with taking some risks without over thinking.
Here is a brief description of my story of risks.
Come along with me on this journey and see how it relates to my services in this life.
A Young Rebel
For nearly 54 years, my mom has been my hero. Hard working, wise, caring, loving and kind. I never wanted to upset or disappoint her, I often had a hard time talking to her without welling up with tears. I also knew that I was different from my 5 older siblings. I never really felt like I fit in with the rest of the family, being the furthest removed from the other 5, in years. I was a natural born rebel.
I felt like there was a yellow streak of wildness running through me and I wanted to defy anyone telling me what to do, how to act, dress, or who to be friends with. I know that this upset my mom on several occasions, but I couldn't help but to be a rebellious child.
I ran away 4 times, the first one (6th grade), I had enough of getting the short end of the stick as the youngest child. It lasted only a few hours in a makeshift home made out of a refrigerator box in a desert ditch behind my best friend's house.
The second (9th grade), I got pulled to the principal’s office for smoking weed in a car on school campus, with a run-away from California. It lasted several more hours than the previous but the cops had a school photo of me and found me late at night walking around Moon Valley. I got expelled from that school…
The third time (also 9th grade) I just didn’t come home from spending the night at a friend's house and instead proceeded to hitchhike to Lake Havasu, a town 3 hours away, with friend but got put in jail in Wickenburg. It lasted almost 24 hours before my dad had to come pick me up at 4 am.
And the fourth time (10th grade), I made it a whole 2 weeks before my parents found me and “kidnapped” me from a teen hangout spot in Phoenix. They tricked me into a long road trip, the following morning, to live on my uncle's farm in Utah and sent me to a psychologist. (This time I had written a run-away letter to my family, which I found in a box 38 years later)
I just knew there was something else to this life than following the rules and being a compliant child. I wanted freedom. I wanted to break out of my skin and be someone else, somewhere else.
Both of my parents worked — opposite shifts, I didn’t see much of either parent (gen-X way of life), they fought a lot, behind closed doors, then surprised me with a divorce. (My dad told me it was my fault).
My mom moved, but I chose to live with my dad because I didn’t want to upset her anymore with my rebellious nature, and I just couldn't bear following the rules that I, as a know-it-all-teen, thought were ridiculous as a latch-key child.
At the age of 16 (11th grade), I think my dad had had enough of me as he came home from work on his lunch hour and found me ditching school (again) with the munchies in the kitchen. I decided that I was moving out and he told me “good, don’t come back”. I was emancipated shortly after.
From 16 to 24 years of age I was able to survive by masking my true self, by being a person that others liked and wanted to be around, by suppressing my opinion, being agreeable, doing what others asked of me, whether it was legal or not, and taking risks of course.
On one hand it felt like freedom, on the other hand it felt like I didn’t know who I was or what I was meant to do with this thing called “life”. I was just following everyone else’s lead. Little did I know I had become a people-pleaser, but I had no name for it, I was just staying alive.
A Miracle Arrives
At 24, living halfway across the country, I was gifted with something that would change the trajectory of my life. A baby. The ultimate person to please, to nurture, to take care of, to raise. And I embraced it as a miracle that was saving my life. I felt like I had a purpose, a reason to make something of my life. So I took another risk and stepped into single parenthood.
I moved back to my hometown, got my GED, a job, and by the time my son was two I was in school to be a Harley Technician. It was either that or a hairstylist and the latter did not sound as exciting.
Fast forward 17 years…From chronic run-away, to cross country wanderer, to single mother raising a son while rocking a career as a Harley Davison technician (then an instructor).
I woke up one day, after 17 years of “proving myself worthy” in a male dominated industry and took another risk. I dropped a very healthy income along with the keys to another life experience on the Dean’s desk and set out to try and find the meaning of life again. Or was it to find me, the girl I stuffed away so many years prior? I had taken so many risks in life, what’s one more? So I went back to school.
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman
That was 12 years ago. I mastered fixing broken bikes, but I had no idea how to fix my ‘broken’ self. I thought, “why not get into an industry where I could heal this broken part of myself and help others heal themselves?”
You see, my whole life I felt broken, like I didn’t belong anywhere, I didn’t ’fit in’, like I was missing an important part of the puzzle of ME. But I had no idea what was missing or why.
Even though I knew I wanted to create a career for myself, and a life where I care for my aging body and mind, there was no set direction. Every class I took in school sounded like a great way to help others, so I kept changing my direction, some call it a “niche”. I still was unclear as to why. I was told over and over again “Your mess is your message.” But I didn’t know what the root of my mess was. And as a mechanic I knew that you have to get to the root of the issue before you can fix it.
A Step of Courage
Over the years, in my 4 years at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, and beyond, I was particularly attracted to a few modalities that I found super helpful for my mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Mainly Yoga+Yoga Nidra, with all the training and experience I had procured, then Sound Healing, Life Coaching (yes, I life-coach myself all the time), and Akashic Record reading. But I was still experiencing mental suffering.
I would find myself sabotaging relationships, unable to trust anyone, resenting people, feeling taken advantage of, exhausted from always putting other people first. Saying yes, when I really meant NO.
But Why??
The Veil
Universe revealed that to me this past year. While living in a quaint, little home that some friends provided to me in a small, quiet town in the high desert of Arizona, I was going through my unpacked boxes when I found a tub filled with childhood stuff.
In it was a manila envelope containing the runaway letter I wrote in 10th grade. I read it once and stuffed it into a bag of papers to burn…. then a few months later, while nearing a point of depression, feeling like a failure in my chosen career as an Alternative Healing Arts Specialist, I read it again.
That second time my eyes were opened to something I wrote that pointed me directly to my lifelong habit of people-pleasing, rooted in fear of rejection. (I had quoted my hero saying I was the child she never wanted)
At this moment I realized that I had been unconsciously blaming my parents for my suffering, for being the reject of my family. I had never taken responsibility for driving my parents to the point of wishing me gone. I had unconsciously created every experience in my life based on rejection.
I lay crying in my bed, awakened to every event in my life that was driven by this fear. Including becoming a Master Harley-Davidson Technician so that I would feel worthy of being my parents’ child. It was like a dark veil had lifted and clarity had come over me like a bright light.
I knew exactly where I needed to focus my healing… Releasing this fear by gaining self-worth, instead of trying so hard to get the approval and validation of others! I just needed the validation of my highest self! A new goal in life was created. I discovered the missing puzzle piece - self-worth, now to integrate back in! That was six months ago.
It’s been an interesting journey within, as I have recognized my triggers and my reactions to them and have consciously and mindfully created a sustainable practice for myself to follow, that uses several of my current offerings.
For nearly six months now, I have been practicing, on myself, the medicine that my clients have benefited from, adding in a deep sense of “feeling” my way through it. A SOMATIC practice! Now, I have found my voice, can feel, in my body, what my boundaries are and how to honor them. I have found my purpose, my “message” and my vision is to share this highly effective method with others who resonate with the same level of “suffering” as I have for so long!
I’m so glad you made it here!
Feel free to poke around my site, find something that resonates with you and learn how my services may be of help.
How I am serving today,
I am so passionate about my results from the combination of holistic methods that I have to share them with others that feel like they are suffering through this incarnation of life and seeking to create a more meaningful life of their choosing!
“A bird does not know the freedom that flight brings until it lets go of the branch.”
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1:1 coaching is tailored to meet your specific needs and address your unique challenges. Through the Akashic Records, I uncover the issues that are keeping you from living the life of your choosing, then work on changing the way you make choices in everyday life to stop perpetuating negative karma. Once you have started on the path of energy alignment and self-awareness, you are free to get creative with reinventing your future for a life of bliss.
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Through the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra, you drop out of thinking and doing and into a state of deep relaxation where you can simply release attachment to outcome and change your relationship to thoughts, actions, reactions, and habits that no longer serve you. Allowing you to recreate your experience of life.
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Learn the real meaning of Yoga and experience how transformative this ancient practice of unifying Body, Mind and Spirit can really be when you feel comfortable with your own unique practice. One price for up to 3 people.
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Bring Yoga to your next event and make it unforgettable! Whether it be Bachelorette, Birthday or Corporate Health Awareness event!
Choose from yoga movement classes, Yoga Nidra guided meditation or Sound Bath.Local Only. Call for location radius.
My Certifications
Alternative Healing Arts Specialist through Southwest Institute of Healing Arts
1000CYT/500RYT Master Yoga Teacher through Spirit of Yoga/SWIHA
Advanced I AM Yoga Nidra™ Facilitator through Amrit Yoga Institute
Transformational Life Coach through SWIHA
Sound Healing, Crystals & Chakra Healing, Sacred Ceremony Specialist through Life Changing Energy Institute
Transformational Retreat Leader through Wanderlust Entrepreneur
Soul Realignment® Practitioner through Soul Realignment® Andrrea Hess
Laughter Yoga Leader through Laughter Yoga International®
Through my myriad of experiences in life, I have learned that it takes the driving force of BIG disruption to create BIG change.
MY ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVENTURES
Symply S.O.U.L.
While attending the full year of holistic nutrition, I had aspirations to start my own dehydrated snack company.
That morphed into a nutrition coaching business, teaching people how to eat seasonal, organic, unprocessed, and local foods.
I named it Symply S.O.U.L.
I have food sensitivities and other people are always asking me about what foods to eat for certain issues, so I like to stay abreast of the latest nutrition-based discoveries and suggestions.
Blue Sky Green Mat Yoga
4 years of schooling at SWIHA flew by. I graduated as a Certified Holistic Healing Arts Specialist.
I focused on Yoga and meditation while working in studios and started a yoga business teaching classes outdoors.
I named that business Blue Sky Green Mat Yoga.
It also included teaching for 3 years in local studios and being teacher’s assistant in the Yoga teacher training program that I had attended years prior.
Women’s Empowered Health Solutions
Life Coaching was my primary offering with an al a carte menu of add-ons such as Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Akashic record reading, Holistic Nutrition etc. for personalized healing.
I was doing the opposite of ‘niching down’ even though I was only serving women. My message was a mess.
There is such a thing as taking too many marketing programs and trying to find the answers in other peoples words. The key…just trust yourself…the answers are inside of you!
These were all great experiences, I wouldn’t change a single one! They were all meant for me as a divine purpose, a part of my life path. Sometimes it may take time for the veil to lift. It wasn’t until I discovered my habit of people-pleasing, and it’s root in Fear of Rejection, that I realized what I came into this incarnation for and got on the right track to live my Divinity!