Speak With Vanessa Cook—Wellness Speaker in
Reedsburg, WI
Credentials & Experience
- Founder, Starlight & Sage Wellness
- Certified Holistic Health Practitioner
- Certified Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator
- Certified Teen Life Coach
- Birth Doula
- Tantric Healing & Sexuality Teacher
- Featured Speaker: WHEN Stories
- Featured Speaker: The Whole Truth Summit
- I am Woman Who Summit
- Yo Quiero Dinero
- Warrior Unchained Women's Conference
- Hyerland PT: From Recovery to Release
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Meet Vanessa Cook
Vanessa Cook is a keynote speaker, holistic healing practitioner, and founder of Starlight & Sage Wellness. She is known for helping people rethink the way they understand stress, burnout, and healing by blending evidence-informed education with powerful storytelling and practical, embodied experiences.
Drawing from years of professional experience in holistic health, trauma-informed care, breathwork, nervous system regulation, and somatic practices, Vanessa has guided hundreds of individuals toward lasting change. Her work has been featured through conferences, summits, community organizations, retreats, and corporate wellness programs, where she is recognized for creating presentations that leave audiences feeling both inspired and equipped with tools they can immediately put into practice.
What makes Vanessa different isn't just what she teaches. It's how she teaches it.
She has a gift for taking complex topics like chronic stress, emotional resilience, and the mind-body connection and making them relatable, engaging, and deeply human. Rather than simply delivering information, she creates experiences that invite audiences to reconnect with themselves, challenge long-held beliefs, and walk away with a renewed sense of possibility.
Whether she's speaking to healthcare professionals, leadership teams, educators, women's organizations, or community groups, Vanessa's message remains the same:
Your body was never the enemy. It has been communicating with you all along.
Through every keynote, workshop, and wellness experience, her mission is to help people stop surviving and start living with greater awareness, resilience, and intention.
About Vanessa Cook
Vanessa Cook is the founder of Starlight & Sage, a certified breathwork facilitator, trauma-informed holistic health coach, and somatic healing practitioner.
Her work integrates multiple healing modalities to create a deeply supportive and transformative experience.
All of her work is grounded in both modern science and ancient wisdom.
After walking through her own 8 year healing journey while raising a family, rebuilding her health, and creating a multidimensional wellness practice. Vanessa now helps others move out of survival mode and into a life of grounded, sustainable transformation.
Her sessions are emotionally intelligent, experiential, and deeply human.
- Expect moments of stillness
- Expect laughter
- Expect honesty
- Most of all, expect your audience to feel something real
- Expect moments of stillness
- Expect laughter
- Expect honesty
- Most of all, expect your audience to feel something real
Speaking Topics
Vanessa offers a variety of impactful topics that can be customized for your audience or event.
Women's
Empowerment
Reclaiming voice, body, boundaries, and personal power.
Rising From
the Ashes
Transforming adversity into embodied strength and resilience.
Managing Anxiety
and Stress
Practical nervous system tools for everyday life.
Being Your
Authentic Self
Releasing conditioning and reconnecting with your true identity.
Wellness and
Self-Care
Sustainable, whole-body wellness practices for real life.
Breathwork
and Meditation
Interactive experiences for grounding, clarity, and emotional release.
From Survival
to
Regulation
Understanding trauma patterns and creating safety within the body.
The Body Keeps
the Wisdom
Why mindset alone is not enough and how somatic healing creates change.
SACRED SENSUALITY AND CONNECTION
Exploring intimacy, embodiment, and relational awareness through a trauma-informed lens.
Custom talks and experiential workshops are available.
What Makes These Sessions Different
This is not passive listening.
Vanessa creates immersive experiences where audiences actively participate and connect with the material in a meaningful way.
Your Audience Will:
✨ Experience guided breathwork
✨ Learn practical nervous system regulation tools
✨ Engage in gentle somatic movement
✨ Receive real-world integration practices
✨ Leave feeling grounded, connected, and empowered
Ideal for Events and Gatherings
Vanessa’s work is adaptable to a wide range of spaces and audiences.
Perfect for:
- Conferences and wellness events
- Women’s retreats
- Corporate wellness programs
- Yoga studios and healing centers
- Schools and community organizations
- Motherhood circles
- Trauma-informed spaces
- Spiritual and holistic gatherings
Both keynote presentations and interactive workshops are available, offered in-person or virtually.
Book Vanessa Cook for Your Next Event
Healing doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Growth doesn’t have to happen alone.
Your audience already holds the wisdom within their bodies, this experience simply helps them reconnect to them.
If you’re looking to create a meaningful, engaging, and transformative experience for your event, Vanessa Cook is here to guide the way.
Call (608) 495-3562 today to inquire about availability and bring a powerful healing experience to your audience.
