~ Regenerative Healing Experience ~
About Us
Meet Vanja & Juliana
Nervous System Specialists at Lake Atitlán
East West Center Atitlán is a boutique nervous system healing practice dedicated to one essential truth:
lasting change happens when the body feels safe enough to release.
We are two practitioners who have devoted our work to understanding how therapeutic touch, somatic awareness, and subtle energy work create real neurological and emotional transformation.
Our approach is trauma-informed, deeply personalized, and grounded in decades of combined experience.
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But more importantly — we’ve both lived this work.
We know what it’s like to be the person who has “tried everything” and still feels stuck in stress, tension, or vigilance.
Our Approach
Small by Design.
Deep by Nature.
We intentionally work with one client or one pair at a time.
Not because we can’t do more — but because nervous system healing requires presence, precision, and time.
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Every session begins with careful observation and assessment. From there, we build custom therapeutic protocols that evolve as your system responds. No routines. No templates. No rushed care.
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What makes our practice different:
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One booking at a time: our full attention is always on you
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Trauma-informed depth: we understand complex stress and protective patterns
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Two practitioners, one unified vision: collaborative care when needed
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Integrated modalities: somatic bodywork, craniosacral therapy, neuromuscular techniques, Chi Nei Tsang, EFT, flower essences, breathwork, and subtle energy healing
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Lake Atitlán is not incidental to our work.This landscape offers a level of quiet, coherence, and natural regulation that allows the nervous system to soften more quickly and integrate more deeply.
Why Our Core Team Matters
East West Center Atitlán is guided by Vanja and Juliana, the founders and primary practitioners who hold the vision, continuity, and nervous system integrity of every experience. Your care is always anchored in their presence, assessment, and therapeutic guidance.
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When a client’s process calls for additional layers of support, we may thoughtfully invite trusted collaborators, whose work complements and deepens the healing journey. These collaborations are intentional, not automatic, and always integrated within the therapeutic container Vanja and Juliana oversee.
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For Retreats and paired experiences, we work simultaneously or sequentially, allowing each person to receive individualized attention while the other integrates in the healing space. This flexibility ensures that every nervous system is supported in the way — and at the moment — it needs most.
Meet the Team
Why We Do This Work?
We are not interested in accumulating techniques. We are interested in the moment when the body finally lets go.
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When breath deepens.
When vigilance softens.
When someone realizes their anxiety or tension is not a personal failure — but a pattern that can be changed with the right support.
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This is why we keep our practice small.
Because real healing cannot be rushed.