Our story

Our story began in 2020, when I started offering chair yoga at the Nafsiyat Women Group to their wonderful ladies, who were navigating emotional challenges with the support of intercultural psychotherapy and were already on a path of recovery. What I offered was a gentle invitation to reconnect with themselves through movement, breath, and presence.

From the very beginning, the response was deeply moving—these sessions quickly became a space where women connected within their community, felt seen, supported, and safe enough to further soften into their own healing.

As the need grew, I invited other practitioners to join me. I coordinated sessions, recruited volunteers, and did everything I could to ensure continuity. The generosity of those who gave their time was incredible, but it soon became clear that without fair compensation, sustaining this kind of support long-term wouldn’t be possible.

The question kept returning: how do we ensure consistent access to holistic services, while also guaranteeing fair pay for the people delivering them?

That’s when the idea for Lifting Souls CIC began to take shape. I realised we needed a way to honour the value of our practitioners, provide consistent support to those we serve, and collaborate with organisations—like Nafsiyat—that work with vulnerable women on a path of recovery. Through these partnerships, Lifting Souls offers holistic practices that complement other forms of support—gently enhancing self-healing and helping people feel more connected, empowered, and whole.

Lifting Souls was created to do just that: to make holistic wellness more accessible, more consistent, and more rooted in care—while also ensuring that the practitioners, whose work is so deeply appreciated by the communities we serve, are fairly compensated.

This is more than a project.
It’s a vision for a more compassionate society, where healing is something we all have access to..

Alessia Malinverni
Founder, Lifting Souls CIC

Access to holistic wellness services should be a right, not a privilege.

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Get in Touch

Are you a London-based organisation supporting vulnerable adults? Or a practitioner with a passion for healing? Contact us to explore how we can collaborate to bring wellness where it’s needed most.

The support to the community and everything we do is made possible by the generous support of our public and private sponsors.

We are proud to collaborate with a range of charities and organisations dedicated to supporting vulnerable and underrepresented individuals. Through these partnerships, we are able to reach and assist those who benefit the most from holistic wellness treatments, offering a growing range of wellness-focused initiatives tailored to the evolving needs of the communities we serve.