About
Aleecia Mata, RYT-200 — Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor & Peer Support Coach and founder of Art of Liminality.
The Teacher
Aleecia Mata
Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor · Peer Support Coach
Aleecia Mata is a certified trauma-informed yoga instructor with over a decade of experience in healthcare. Her teaching approach emphasizes personal agency, allowing clients to feel empowered and make choices in their practice. Aleecia integrates trust, collaboration, inclusivity, and empowerment to create a supportive space for healing.
Specializing in trauma recovery, she helps individuals address the physical, emotional, social, and mental effects of trauma through mindful posture, breathwork, and self-regulation strategies. Her classes align with the Four Pillars of Trauma Recovery: psychological strength, physical well-being, connectedness, and a sense of purpose.
Aleecia holds a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification, a specialized certification in Trauma-Informed Yoga, and integrates somatic EMDR training into her practice. She is a certified Peer Support Coach and is trained in Culturally Competent Practice with Military and Veteran Clients.
- 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (RYT-200) — Yoga Alliance
- Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor
- Somatic EMDR-Informed Practice
- Certified Peer Support Coach
- Culturally Competent Practice with Military and Veteran Clients
The Name
Why Liminality
Liminality is the threshold — the doorway between what was and what will be. Anthropologists use the word for the middle stage of a rite of passage: the disorienting, unstructured, deeply alive interval when the old identity has been set down and the new one has not yet been picked up.
Our culture treats that interval as a problem to be solved quickly. This practice treats it as the place where everything real happens.
In the space between, we honor. We heal. We become.
What Guides the Work
Brand Values
Honoring the In-Between
The threshold is not a delay before real life. It is real life, and it deserves to be witnessed rather than rushed.
Trauma-Informed Care
Safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, and empowerment are not add-ons. They are the architecture of every session.
Somatic Awareness
The body keeps its own record and speaks its own language. Learning to listen changes what is possible.
Compassion & Safety
Nothing meaningful happens in a body that is bracing. Kindness is not softness — it is the precondition.
Growth Through Transition
Change is not the interruption of the story. It is where the story turns.
Integration & Wholeness
The work is not complete on the mat. It completes itself in how you live once you step off it.
Let's See If This Is a Fit
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It is simply a chance to be heard and to ask questions.