Efu Niyaki was born and raised in Tanzania where she earned a bachelor of science degree, trained as a Science teacher, and later on, trained as a healer. Efu is a Faculty Member of Somatic Experiencing®, and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy with the  Hellinger Institute. In the last 27 years, Efu has been living in Brazil and facilitating training and therapy for trauma healing using Somatic Experiencing®. She has travelling to bring her work to other countries, including India, Egypt, South Korea, China, Bolivia, Peru, Spain and Uruguay. Due to the Pandemic, Efu has been taking her work online and become even more international. Efu is a co-founder of AFYA: a healing centre, run by women, which offers alternative forms of preventative health care and holistic healing to adult and adolescent women, their families and their communities in impoverished areas of northern Brazil. AFYA, meaning ‘health’ in Swahili, the language spoken in Tanzania and parts of East Africa.