Reanna Costa ~ Founder & Creator of The Boulter Method

Reanna Costa is the founder and creator of The Boulter Method, a trauma-informed somatic therapy and breathwork system designed to help people heal from relational wounds and childhood imprints. Synthesized from over two decades of embodied practice, therapeutic facilitation, and a private apprenticeship with the late Hal Boulter, this method integrates somatic therapy, conscious breathwork, energetic containment, parts work, reparenting, and spiritual integration into a powerful and accessible framework for deep transformation.

 

Reanna specializes in relational trauma and the healing of childhood wounds—guiding clients through the unconscious patterns that shape their relationships, nervous systems, and sense of self. The Boulter Method meets these tender places with precision and compassion, offering a map for those seeking to feel more, hold more, and become more whole.

Her approach honours the original lineage of Hal Boulter, a masterful somatic therapist whose teachings continue to inform the depth and rigour of this work. Before his passing in 2021, Hal entrusted Reanna with the continuation of his life’s work. Since then, she has expanded that lineage into a teachable, embodied, and evolving method designed to meet the complexity of modern trauma and the longing for lasting change.

 

Through retreats, breathwork, immersions, somatic therapy, breathwork training, and private mentorship, Reanna has supported hundreds of individuals from all walks of life. Her work emphasizes safety, energetic containment, and sustainable integration—allowing each person to reclaim the parts of themselves they once had to hide in order to survive.

The Boulter Method is not simply a modality—it is a living container for deep repair, emotional integration, and the reclamation of self.

 

My Personal Journey

I didn’t set out to create a method. Though as a child I was quite aware and alive in my body, even then I had a deeper knowing—even by the age of nine—that I wanted to support and help people heal. Of course, as it happens, I had to lean into my own healing first.

 

The high-achiever programming I carried from childhood drove me into university at a pace that was, in hindsight, deeply inhumane to my nervous system. I carried a full course load year-round, worked alongside it, and never gave myself rest. After three years of pushing toward a joint major in Psychology and Criminology, my system collapsed. I was exhausted, anxious, and profoundly disconnected from myself.

 

Instead of returning for a fourth year, I enrolled in a 500-hour yoga teacher training—and I never looked back.

Yoga became a foundation for me at the age of 20. I began teaching immediately—first classes, then workshops, and eventually full retreats. I had the privilege of studying with some of the most respected yoga masters, deepening in spiritual practice, breath, and anatomy, and eventually teaching at yoga conferences and training teachers. Yoga brought me back into my body and gave me the first real tools for healing. It laid the foundation for everything that followed—breathwork, somatic therapy, and the method I now teach.

 

There have been many powerful influences that shaped my path—trainings with Gabor Maté and Peter Levine among them—but the most pivotal moment came when I met Hal Boulter.

 

Hal didn’t just teach me how to support others. He reparented me in a way no one else ever had. His mentorship was the kind of slow, steady, unconditional presence that changes you from the inside out. He showed me how to hold space with love and precision, how to trust the body’s natural intelligence, and how to create containers strong enough to hold the grief, rage, and beauty of becoming.

 

While I was already heading in this direction, my time with Hal dramatically deepened and refined my life, my work, and the way I support others. His teachings didn’t just influence the method—they became the seed of it.

 

The Boulter Method was born out of that transformation. It continues to evolve with every person I work with, every ceremony I hold, and every breath I take in service of healing. This work is not about fixing what’s broken—it’s about remembering what was never lost.