
UpyaEssence World
Empowering Women Through Their Sacred Bodies
Maybe you've run yourself thin. Maybe your nervous system needs a reset. Maybe you're at a crossroads and need to come back to yourself first.
UpyaEsence is your space for embodied somatic practices to feel your way back to yourself . Reconnect with ease, resilience and freedom from within.
Upya means "renewal" in Swahili. The essence of Renewal is where yours begins
MEET DUNYA
I am a multidimensional being — Educator, Practitioner, and Creator of the Somapresence Method. A mother and a woman shaped by my Congolese roots, my upbringing in France, and London, my home for the past two decades.
My journey has been one of crossing cultures, navigating transitions, and moving through thresholds of self-discovery. It taught me early that no single map could guide a woman's unfolding — that each of us carries a truth too layered, too alive, to fit a borrowed mould.
This is the ground from which my work grows. A deep trust in the sovereignty of every woman's story, body, and rhythm. A reverence for the intelligence that lives within cycles, in the quiet signals the body never stops sending. And a belief that real change is not thought into being — it is felt, moved through, and woven into the texture of everyday life.
Here, there is no model to follow. Only an invitation to come back to yourself.


EMBODIED MOVEMENT




EMBODIED TREATMENTS

SOMAPRESENCE TOUCH THERAPY
AVAILABLE ON-SITE AT DOWN-TO-EARTH STUDIO - TUFNELL PARK
This is a 90min treatment to awaken the creative energy your body already holds to restore, rebalance, and harmonise itself. This is a transformative treatment that moves through the three phases of the Somapresence method to gently guide you back to embodied wholeness.

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SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES

At the heart of Upya Essence is a commitment to supporting women, groups, and communities through teaching and offering body-based practices that nurture wellbeing and self-empowerment.
Organisations We Work With Year-Round
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MamaSuze
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Minority matters
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Holloway Neighbourhood Group
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The Stress Project
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Bere Architecture