What if it all starts with original sound?
“May we honour our lives, our time, our bodies & our joy as sacred. Because only when you elevate it to the level of non-negotiable do our lives become truly magical.”
Why I do this work:
I’m Nicolette Reichl.
I’m a somatic vocal coach, sacred sexuality guide, mother & pilgrim.
This work is not simple theory or yogic platitudes for me.
It saved me. From a relationship that emptied me of my vitality and joy. It relieved me from a twenty year long autoimmune disease.
I once heard someone say: Live your life like your daughter is watching you, because she is. That truth was ultimately what stopped me in my tracks.
Would I wish this life on her? When that answer was a loud & clear: No, a whole new life started. Unbelievably larger, more sensual, more spiritual, & more alive.
Find God in your body.
Your body is the vessel where the divine resides, and the true connection to spirituality begins within.
And I believe this is where the real power lies—not in gurus or external authority figures, but in each person who dares to express their truth. I respect spiritual teachers and ancient lineages, but I also know that all of them are human—flawed, imperfect, and shaped by their own wounds. I will always, always be an advocate for bringing the power back to you. You are the mystic. You are the creator. You hold the key to your own healing and wisdom.
This power, this expression, is art. We are all artists. Every act of communication is an artistic expression—whether it's through words, movement, or the sacred act of making love. Sexual expression is sacred art. It’s one of the most potent ways we reconnect to our creative life force. The bedroom is a stage, a canvas, where we express our deepest desires, our truest selves, and our most raw, unfiltered emotions.
For me, the art of speaking, the art of writing, the art of dancing, the art of making love—all of it is a way to express what is most real and most sacred inside of us. When we embrace this, we return to ourselves, to the divine within, and to the world around us. We reclaim our voice, our body, and our sovereignty.
I believe deeply that we are all mystics with no hierarchy exist between you & I or God/ Spirit/ The Cosmos- & Your original sound will you bring you back to this inner harmony that you know & sometimes forget.
The path to true transformation doesn't come from someone else telling you how to live. It comes from reconnecting with what already exists inside of you—the wisdom that has always been there, waiting to be acknowledged.
When I speak or write about mysticism and reclaiming our sacred nature, it is not to instruct or preach, but to share my own poetry, my soul’s truth, and my lived experience. It’s an invitation to join in a shared spiritual practice, one where we recognize that speaking is an act of reconnection—not only with each other but with our own deep subconscious. The words I choose, the stories I tell, and the way I communicate are all rooted in this understanding: communication is a bridge back to ourselves, back to the divine that lives within us all.
My Story.
I was born in South Africa—held by the wild, by beauty, and by deep ancestral stories.
And I was also born at the height of Apartheid which left me a sense of guilt & confusion. I was 7 when Nelson Mandela was elected & I could witness at a very young age the damage colonisation, systemic racism & radical evangelism wrought on a society.
At 12 my family moved to Germany which was a massive culture shock. I didn’t speak the language & my mother & I both felt a profound sense of unbelonging. A wound I would later learn is so universal & it doesn’t take a cross continental move to feel it. Unbelonging can have its roots in abuse, in victims of bullying or very simply being born highly sensitive in a family of extroverts.
For me this pain set the stage for a nervous system too fragile to fight borreliosis, or lyme disease once a tick bit me when I turned 17.
As so many of us discover, it is autoimmune disease that become our most necessary teachers & I am (kicking and screaming I might add) incredibly grateful for the medicine that was that tick. Constant pain, extreme fatique & being told “it was all in your head” taught me resilience, it put me on the path of herbalism and flower essences & opened me to do the ancestral healing necessary for my mother, my grandma Nellie & the many women who had no choice but to live the lives foisted on them. Thank you mother nature!
At 18 I studied Arab politics at the American University in Cairo. I came alive in that city! It was here that I volunteered to help with a workshop for Sudanese Refugees & discovered the incredible power of Theatre as Therapy & Somatic Voice. I promptly changed majors to theatre & discovered Kristin Linklater who would become my mentor & muse.
I’d lived the quiet good-girl archetype all my life when at 23 I got deeply enmeshed in a narcisstic, manipulative relationship with a man 20 years older. It took me 15 years to extricate myself from it.
DESPITE being a teacher of somatic voice for actors. DESPITE all my training & all my family and friends desperately trying to warn me and intervene. I lost myself to motherhood & fatigue & bland acceptance. We kept moving: from Los Angeles to New York to Canada to France. Never dealing with the elephant in the room but always hoping a new city would distract us from the pain of our marriage.
I chose to whisper at home but encouraged expression in my work.
I felt so ashamed.
It was in the rubble of my seperation, in the constant fear of losing my children and sudden poverty & existential fear that the LIVING of the theory became urgent, no longer just a privilege. I could no longer just talk about somatic healing, I had to get so intimate with my body, with my fear, my shame, my deepest hatred, to heal from a lifetime of self-abandonment.
I finally understood what boundaries were. Deeply. Not an intellectual idea but a lived experience. I needed to get so intimate with boundaries that I could taste it.
I finally understood what accepting an unacceptable emotion felt like in my body, what it was to acknowledge that YES, I hate him. I hate him and it’s justified. I don’t have to atone. I do not have to spiritually bypass this because, as with grief or shame, pushing it down and attempting to “be high-vibe” would only make it fester. Yes I stabbed many an IKEA pillow & I am so much better for it!!
Being in the South of France I discovered the lore around Mary Madgalene & in her cave lived several mystical experiences that had a profound effect on my work & life.
I started leading pilgrimages & retreats here in the South of France.
Singing with women, untangling the knots of sexuality, power & creative freedom together. Other than motherhood, nothing in my life had ever felt this purposeful. It’s as if my bones, my heart, my soul have come alive.
And a happy by-product. Hours long orgasmic pleasure I had no idea my body was capable of.
A sense of sovereignty over my choices I never knew was possible for a woman & mother.
No self-help book or talk therapy could have given me this healing.
It had to happen in community, in somewhat crazy and surprising somatic experiences & safe guidance & love from extraordinary teachers who put the emphasis on my own power & never steered me towards any kind of guru-worship.
On my Teachers, Lineages & Modalities
Layla Martin
Tantra, Toaism, Sacred Sexuality & Orgasmic Bliss.
Kristin Linklater
Somatic Voice, Shakespeare & the fearless pursuit of emotional truth.
Kristin Linklater – My Spirit Animal
Kristin cracked me open.
A legendary vocal coach, she was known for her fierce devotion to truth and her refusal to let anyone hide behind performance or vocal habits.
She trained Judi Dench and Bill Murray, yes—but more than fame, Kristin was devoted to integrity. She was a beautiful, humble, hilarious & fierce teacher.
In one unforgettable session, she guided me through a monologue from Henry V.
I ended up on the floor, summoning voice from the earth.
My body shook so much my right leg started convulsing. Energy surged through me. It was exhilarating and terrifying!
I didn’t have the words then, but now I do: it was an energetic orgasm right there on stage. Who would have thought?
That moment changed my life.
It taught me that what vocal power felt like, surging and vibrating through my entire body. Voice is power. Voice is truth. Voice is sacred. My Henry the V rendition, summoning my tired army & my voice & message the only thing standing between us & victory, shook my audience & I saw them physically respond to power in my voice, their chests rising, their eyes large & surprised. was that sweet Nicolette commanding an army like she was born to do it? How could that same woman go home & be made so small by a husband?
I trained with her for ten years.
Kristn’s work is carried forth in my bones & I will do that till the day I die.
Layla Martin – Sacred Sexuality & Embodiment
Layla introduced me to the second lineage that changed everything:
Sacred sexuality, rooted in Taoist and Tantric traditions—specifically dual-path, left-handed Tantra, where nothing is left out. Not sex. Not shame. Not rage. I tradition, albeit somewhat flawed and also steeped in patriarchal overtones, offers a beautiful path to embodied living through the portal of sensual awake-ness.
Through over 1,000 hours of training, I entered a world where:
Pleasure is a sacred ritual, healing space & playroom.
Sexuality & partnership is elevated to a status of sacred.
Trauma is transmuted through embodiment
Kristin gave me voice.
Layla gave me body.
Together, they gave me a path that is electric, evocative, and extraordinary—and it’s the path I now walk with my clients.
My Spirituality Is Mine. Yours Should Be Too.
I don’t follow dogma. I follow Gnosis—
I believe that living without a spiritual path is empty & leads to malaise, but that organized religion is steeped in patriarchy gone sour. So we are left to find our own wisdom remembered from within.
I walk with Mary Magdalene. Honestly, if I didnt happen to move to the South of France I might never have resonated with the way Mary is portrayed by new age spiritualism.
So I get it when people are turned off by the bru-haha around her these days. I get the ones amongst you who were traumatized by the church. I find that Mary Magdalene is the perfect archetype for our times. Did you know that nowhere in the bible is it written that she was a prostitute? Did you know we have copies of several pages of her writing found in different places? That there was a Roman council that edited the bible, arguably the most influential document of the last 2000 years, to exclude any mention that women also baptised & had a legitimate seat of power at the time?
I see it as a crime that every little girl for the last 2000 years never heard a story told in church every Sunday, written by a woman. No wonder we believed our voices never mattered. That we are better off in the kitchen while the men made the decisions.
he moments I lived in her cave helped me remember some ancient feminine connection that was much bigger than my little rational mind could ever put into words. So I just live with that somatic souvenir in my body and leave it at that.
I honor my ancestors. I honor this land with all its gifts of abundance. I absolutely believe it’s our duty to protect her.
I live in devotion to what is sacred:
My time
My body
My voice
My children’s innocence
Your truth
When we treat our lives as sacred, we stop betraying ourselves for love, money, or belonging.
And just as we cannot desecrate our own altar, we cannot desecrate anyone else’s.
That is how we end war.
That is how we birth a new world.
I am cautiously optimistic that there is so much hope for us.
Flower Essences & Plant Medicine
After 20 years of living with autoimmune disease plants have become intimate allies. Sometimes I’ll make my own flower essences & play my sound bowls for them, go into plant medicine ceremonies with extraordinary facilitators who honor the lineages they transmit to us, & almost every solo session with clients involve a flower essence or plant remedy recommendation for what is going on in their lives & bodies. But I am by no means a trained herbalist. I’ve had extensive structured training through the BACH institute for flower essences but I urge you to seek out the right practitioners specialised in this. It was an essential part of my healing & I hope you find your medicine crew! I’ll give recommendations & starting points but we resonate with the healers & practitioners just right for us.
Who this work is for & who it is not for:
This Is Not for Everyone.
But if it’s for you—
You’ll know.
You’ll feel it in your womb,
in your chest,
in your throat,
in the part of you that’s tired of performing…
and so ready to live.
I’m here.
Not above you. Not ahead of you.
With you.
In devotion.
In power.
In truth.
Come.
Books
Courses
Pilgrimages, Retreats & Masterclasses
Your life is sacred.
Make Love to it.
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-Sara, Pilgrimage participant
