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For some people, personal transformation means physical change. For others, it’s inner healing. For Rilee Astraea Brennan, it’s the integration of both.

A somatic poet and holistic coach, Rilee works at the intersection of psychology, movement, and creative expression. She creates nervous system experiences that reshape how you think, move, and feel — blending somatics, strength, and story into practical tools for personal transformation. Known publicly as Mystic in the Matrix, her work bridges science and soul through expressive practices that awaken the body’s intelligence.

Her path wasn’t born in a studio. It emerged from lived experience. Rilee spent her early adulthood excelling in environments that rewarded performance and masking. Undiagnosed autistic at the time, she pushed herself through corporate consulting and competitive athletics, mistaking discipline for identity. The pressure eventually fractured her inner world, leading to a spiritual crisis that forced her to confront trauma, shadow, and selfhood at their roots.

What looked like collapse became rebirth. The creative instincts she abandoned as a child — poetry, music, movement — returned as her primary way of healing. They later became her signature method for helping others reconnect to their inner authority and embodied truth.

Today she leads House of Astraea, a transformation studio built around nervous system regulation, somatic strength, and expressive practice. Her offerings center on accessible, embodied change through experiences that speak directly to the subconscious and the body. This includes her Somatic Spells, electronic, lyrical tracks designed to work with rhythm, breath, and neural patterning, as well as her training sessions, movement coaching, and short-form transformational books.

She builds this vision alongside her husband and co-founder, Tim Brennan, whose recovery and men’s coaching work complements her own. Their partnership began on 11/11, the night they realized their lives didn’t need to be rebuilt — they could be rewritten.

Through her method, The Art of Anastasis, Rilee helps people reconnect with their inner rhythm, rewrite patterns living in the nervous system, and reclaim a way of being that feels like truth. Whether she’s creating art, teaching movement, recording a spell, or guiding a client, her work carries one through-line:

You are the story — and you can always write a new one.