FAARIA MEGHJI
MSW, RSW
Somatic Therapist
Erotic Empowerment Guide
What becomes possible when more of you comes alive?
Somatic Therapist ✦ Erotic Empowerment Guide
Our bodies carry wisdom, including protective patterns shaped by shame, fear, and suppression that we may no longer need for survival.
My work weaves together somatic exploration, parts work, ancestral healing, and erotic awakening to gently unravel old patterns — freeing up energy for pleasure, love, creativity, and authentic expression.
My Approach
CONNECT
Tune your attention inward and reconnect with the wisdom of your body, heart, and soul.
ALCHEMIZE
Allow the pain you carry
- from childhood, your ancestors, and the world - to be met with love, felt, and transformed.
EXPAND
Open to more ease and pleasure in your body. Expand your capacity to live and feel life more fully.
When one tree becomes more alive, the whole forest responds.
Who I Work Best With
I especially enjoy working with people who are curious about themselves and want support exploring the deeper layers of their inner worlds.
People Exploring Sexuality, Pleasure & Gender
People of Colour Reclaiming Their Power
Men Making Space for Anger and Vulnerability
Practitioners Deepening Their Embodiment
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Practical Details
Session Fee
Limited sliding-scale spaces available upon inquiry.
Insurance
Sessions may be covered for residents of Alberta and Ontario by extended health benefits for services provided by a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW). Please confirm with your provider.
My Journey
First, it was about reconnecting with my body, emerging from nervous system shutdown, and learning to express grief and rage in ways that felt grounded and freeing. It was also about slowly opening to intimacy, loving touch, and the vulnerability of receiving.
Then, it was about meeting the younger parts of myself that were still living in the past, feeling ashamed, afraid, and forgotten. It was about helping them feel safe, wanted, and cared for.
This led me into the ancestral realms, where I began recognizing how generations of patriarchy, colonization, and racism had oppressed the life force of my ancestors, and in turn, influenced my own experiences of feeling small, disempowered, and disconnected from my aliveness. While honouring these burdens, I also began reconnecting with the gifts, wisdom, and blessings of my lineages.
These days, I’m on a journey of reclaiming my erotic power and enjoying this messy human experience. I am expanding my capacity for pleasure in my body and giving myself greater permission to explore my sexuality, gender, and creative expression in ways that feel true to me.
I am continually inspired by the courage of my clients to walk their unique paths, and I am honoured to witness their unfolding.
My path of growth has been largely guided by the parts of me that longed for a deeper sense of connection.
We are in this together. Let’s have some fun along the way!
To feel our grief. To honour our rage.
To acknowledge our needs. To voice our desires.
To open to pleasure, love, and the divine.
All of it is aliveness.
My Teachers
Professional Training
University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work
Hakomi Institute of Calgary
IFS (Internal Family Systems) Institute
Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and Sexological Bodywork (ISSSE)
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Sources of Wisdom
My own body — especially my heart and womb space
Trees, flowers, water, animals, and fungi
My Mom, my Dad, and my ancestors of blood, rooted in the lands now known as India and Pakistan
My ancestors of queer lineage, whose courage paved the way for my own exploration
Spiritual practices that deepen my relationship with the sacred
The Lands That Hold Me
I honour the Indigenous ancestors and living peoples of the lands that have held and shaped me - from Treaty 7 territory in Calgary, through the traditional territories of the Indigenous Nations of Toronto, to the unceded Coast Salish territories of Vancouver Island, where I now live.