Veronica Lynn Clark is dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with themselves, heal past wounds, and build lives full of meaning, joy, and authenticity through a combination of yoga, meditation, somatic healing, and intimacy coaching. We interviewed Veronica to learn more about her before her “One Human” retreat, in collaboration with Wave Wellness, which starts on August 18.
Can you tell us about your personal transformation and journey to becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Intimacy Coach, and Transformational Speaker?
My journey into this work wasn’t a straight line — and it definitely wasn’t a plan. I didn’t set out to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner or an intimacy coach. I set out to try to find myself again after everything I thought I was supposed to be started falling apart. There was divorce. Loss. Layers of identity I had wrapped myself in — who I was as a partner, a woman, a mother — all unraveling. I had to rebuild not from the outside in, but from the inside out. And that meant learning how to feel again. Learning how to be with the pain, the confusion, the quiet. Learning how to reconnect with my body and ask it what it remembered, what it still carried, what it needed. I had to learn how to come home to myself. How to meet the parts of me that were hurting without judgment. How to reclaim my voice, my body, my worth, and my right to be fully alive. I didn’t find that in a book. I found it by crawling through the hard places — grief, shame, survival — and slowly learning how to stand back up with love and compassion for myself.
These questions led me to the path of intimacy — into me see, into myself see. And that’s where I began. Not with someone else seeing me. With me seeing myself. This is what I teach other people now. But more than teaching — it’s living it. Because it’s such an essential piece of our human experience: to learn how to be intimate with ourselves.
At some point, I realized: I have to be my own best friend. I had to stop outsourcing my worth and start showing up for myself in a way I never had. And again, you hear these things, but how do you do that? For me, the mirror was telling me this: you have to be your friend. Not in concept. In practice. In the hard moments.
Eventually, I found my way to Somatic Experiencing. It gave language and tools to what I had already begun healing intuitively. From there, I trained in intimacy work and began teaching what I had lived — how to regulate, how to relate, how to reconnect to your own truth. Becoming a speaker wasn’t a goal — it was a result of telling the truth out loud and realizing how much people needed to hear it. I’ve had to walk through that same journey that I walk other people through. And it’s not because I read it from a book, or because I went to school. It was because I had the hard knocks life of having to, like, crawl over broken glass and figure out how to stand up and keep on walking, even though it felt really hard, and how to do that in the most loving and kind and compassionate way to myself and for myself. And I believe that’s why I resonate with so many audiences.
How would you describe your teaching style?
My teaching style is highly embodied, experiential, and relational. I create spaces that are co-created in real time — where people are invited to bring their full selves and not just consume information, but actually feel it in their bodies, try it on through lived experience, and discover what it means for them personally.
I blend somatic practices, self-inquiry, group exercises, movement, and ritual in a way that helps people reconnect — not just with the material, but with themselves, and with each other. My work is about guiding people back to what’s already within them — truths they may have forgotten, parts of themselves they’ve disconnected from, and capacities that have been buried under survival, performance, or conditioning.
Presence, safety, and compassion are foundational. These spaces invite people to slow down, notice what’s happening in their bodies, and explore their inner world with curiosity instead of critique. The work goes beyond intellectual understanding, because real transformation happens in the body — not just in the mind.
Every class I offer is alive. I don’t show up with a rigid agenda. I show up with presence and a deep trust in the intelligence of the space. I see everyone as both teacher and learner — including myself. I’m not here to talk at people. I’m here to be in relationship with the room.
Tell us about your retreats and the upcoming “One Human,” hosted in partnership with Wave Wellness.
My retreats are immersive, transformational experiences designed to help people reconnect with themselves, heal old stories, and cultivate deep self-love and community. They’re spaces where nothing has to be performed or perfected — just felt, explored, and met with compassion.
The upcoming One Human retreat, hosted in partnership with Wave Wellness on August 18, is rooted in the principles of yoga, self-inquiry, and embodied practice. It invites participants to explore what it means to be one human — to move beyond the stories and roles we carry, and into a space of union, compassion, and presence.
The day includes yoga, breathwork, journaling, group exercises, and practices that foster connection, vulnerability, and self-acceptance. But more than anything, it’s about being in a space where everyone is welcome as they are — no masks, no pressure. The experience is shaped by who’s in the room — by the realness people bring, the willingness to show up, and the safety we create together.
As part of the Wave Wellness Residency, I’ll also be offering a special evening on August 21 to share reflections from my upcoming book, “To Be Aligned.” We’ll talk about what it means to live from a place of inner integrity — not as a concept, but as a felt experience; a Yin Yoga class on August 21, focused on nervous system regulation and slowing down enough to actually hear yourself; a Power Yoga class on August 22, rooted in breath and intentional movement — not force, but presence; and I’ll be offering private sessions throughout the week for community members who want to go deeper — whether it’s emotional repair, embodiment, or clarity around their own healing path.
Everything I do in these spaces comes back to this: we are human. We are wired for connection. And we all deserve places where we can be met as we are, without needing to be more or less of anything.
