Rosa Calder
Founder · Somatic Lead
Twelve years in trauma-informed bodywork and polyvagal practice. Believes the breath is the first conversation.
Our story
A studio built around the idea that safety comes first
We started Lumen & Marrow because so much healing work asks people to be brave before it lets them be safe. We do it the other way around.
Why we exist
Lumen for the light, Marrow for the depth
The name holds our whole approach. Lumen is the warmth we bring into the room - the sense that you are welcome, unhurried, believed. Marrow is the depth we're willing to go to with you, into the oldest stored stress the body carries.
Founded in 2018, the studio grew out of years of clinical and somatic practice and a stubborn belief: that regulation, repair, and real-world access belong in the same conversation. The inner work and the paperwork. The tenderness and the practical.
What we hold to
Four commitments, kept quietly
01
Safety before depth
We regulate the nervous system before we ever ask it to revisit something hard. No flooding, no forcing.
02
Body and mind together
We blend somatic and cognitive methods because research is clear: combined, they work better than either alone.
03
Access is part of care
Confidence, documentation, advocacy - practical access matters as much as insight. We help with both.
04
Your pace is the pace
Progress is measured in calmer baselines and better sleep, not in how fast you "get over it."
The people
A small team, deeply trained
Six practitioners who share one rule: meet the person, not the symptom.
Idris Manuel
Inner-Child & IFS Practitioner
Trained in Internal Family Systems. Holds the gentlest room in the studio for the youngest parts of us.
Nadia Khoury
Access & Advocacy Guide
Walks clients through documentation, confidence, and the practical doors that disability and change can close.
Come and meet us first
No commitment, no intake forms. Just a short, warm conversation about what would help.