SWANA Invocation

We Carry Lioness Fire
Primal Breath Pulsing Beneath The Skin
Wild Whispers In The Dark Forest Quiet
Our Sacred Desires Root & Rise Within

Hello & Salaam, beloveds

Welcome. I am Setareh Azar Jinn (she/her) — a queer Iranian-American trans woman, & mystic of the body, licensed as an LMFT (CA #104844) and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) under my legal name, Nima Saalabi. My work is rooted in the wisdom of the body, the earth, and the ancestral threads I carry from the SWANA region — a lineage of poets, healers, lovers, ritualists, liminal dancers, and trans-visionaries whose resilience and devotion forms the flesh of my being-in-the-world.

If you’ve found your way here, chances are you’ve walked through a world that hasn’t always known how to love all of who you are. Maybe you’ve had to armor or hide parts of yourself — your queerness, your transness, your neurodivergence, your cultural roots, your tenderness, your desires — just to survive. Maybe your body feels like it’s carrying more than its share of the weight.

I get it. And I want you to know — it’s not your body that’s the problem.

My work is about coming home to yourself.
I call it decolonial body therapy — a remembering of the body as a sacred, ancestral, and creative home. Here, we tend the places shaped by systemic harm, oppression, displacement, and trauma — not as wounds that make you broken, but as portals to your deepest vitality, creativity, pleasure, and connection.

For me, decolonizing the body also means reclaiming eros — your right to inhabit desire, intimacy, and sensuality without shame. It means honoring polyamory, kink, and other liberated ways of loving and relating as valid, creative, and deeply human expressions that resist colonial control over bodies, genders, and relationships.

Through slow, attuned, embodied presence, we can unwind the impact of colonial, cultural, and developmental trauma — while growing safety, power, joy, gender euphoria, and agency in your body. We weave nervous system healing, earth connection, erotic aliveness, and ancestral wisdom so you can live unapologetically in your fullness.

I have been a student of embodiment over 20 years, and on this specific path as a somatic therapist for over 12 years, working with trauma from many roots, including:

• systemic oppression

• gendered violence

• war, exile, diaspora, displacement, & political violence & persecution

• accidents, injuries, & medical trauma

• chronic illness & pain

• sexual, physical, emotional abuse

• ancestral & intergenerational wounds

• spiritual injury & emergency, high control groups, religious oppression

• ecological violence

The folks who find me are often queer, trans, neurodiverse, BIPOC, poly/ENM, kinky, creative, subculture healers, artists, deep-feelers, and change-makers — people committed to weaving a freer, more embodied future.

If your soul is whispering yes to this kind of work, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

I offer in-person therapy in Sebastopol, CA, and teletherapy throughout California. I also offer embodied, decolonial consultation and education for folx around the world.
My fee is $185 for a 50-minute weekly session.