Liza Hamilton Smith
Former senior corporate leader turned Reiki Master and nervous system expert. Based in Ras Al Khaimah, working across the UAE and internationally.
I started looking for answers when I was very young.
My mother died when I was two years and seven months old, on the dot. For a long time after that I felt completely lost. Not because of the sadness and the grief, which comes in waves and is its own thing, but because I was genuinely and desperately trying to make sense of something that made no sense at all. Why her? Why so young? She was only 24 and pregnant with my brother. He made it, by the way, and is happily married. But why any of it? I looked everywhere. I tried a lot of things. Nothing really landed until I found Reiki, or more accurately, Reiki found me.
I remember exactly when everything clicked, when I connected to that highest part of myself and something shifted that I cannot fully explain in words. I just understood, and I simply knew at a level deeper than thinking, that her death was her path. Her death was not fair or unfair, was not right or wrong, was not simple or complex. It just was, and it was just the way it had to be. That understanding did not take the grief away, but it took the weight of the question away, and that was the shift that changed everything.
After that, connecting to my higher self, that highest part of you that just knows, and to my guides became the thread running through my entire life. It helped me understand things about existence, about purpose, about my own path and soul, in ways that nothing else had come close to. I was a teenager, 16 to be precise, and I have been doing this work ever since.
The thirty years of formal practice in Reiki, followed by somatic healing, nervous system work, yoga, and energy healing came after that. So did twenty years inside senior corporate roles. But the real starting point was a young girl who had lost her mother and needed to understand why.
That is still what drives this work. And it is why I can sit with someone who is carrying something heavy and not flinch. So thank you for being here, and thank you for reading this. I am here to help the best way I can.
Training and certifications
My training spans close to thirty years and crosses continents, drawing from over 1,000 hours of formal yoga study across Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative traditions, with direct study under Paul Grilley, the founder of modern Yin Yoga, and Kathy Paez, and advanced work in fascia anatomy informed by Tom Myers and Carla Stecco.
Alongside that, my practice draws on Reiki at Master Teacher level, somatic alignment, myofascial release, Body De-Armouring, polyvagal-informed nervous system work, breathwork, vibroacoustic therapy and sound healing across the full instrument range, and tarot as a structured coaching tool.
I developed the Myo Method, a somatic system integrating myofascial release, long held fascial stretching, and nervous system dearmoring, to address the body, the connective tissue, and the threat response simultaneously. It came out of close to thirty years of watching what works and what does not, with real people carrying real things.
Before all of this, I spent twenty years in senior corporate leadership across multinational organisations, which is where I learned what the body looks like when it has been running on override for too long, and why most standard approaches to fixing it do not reach deep enough.
Work with me
If something on this site sounds like it describes where you are right now, the best next step is a conversation. I read every message personally.
