Somatic Healing and Transformation

Unlearn and unwind the embodied beliefs that keep you stuck in your ways.

Release restrictions in your fascia to open up new ways of thinking and being.

Embody new possibilities.

Our patterns are often invisible to us because they happen under the level of conscious awareness. Whether it’s clenching a muscle as we walk, holding ourselves back through self-limiting beliefs, or over-extending ourselves to the point of burnout, these tension patterns can have a profound effect on our bodies, our spirits, and our relationships.

In so many different ways, we learn to tamp down our aliveness, our expression, and our longings for connection in order to adapt to social conditions, or because of trauma or repression.

Unfortunately we cannot always think our way back to freedom.

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Somatics, as I practice it, is about introducing more awareness, more choice, more resilience, and more possibility into our bodies and lives.

Sessions include bodywork and breathwork, as well as off the table practices using movement, gesture, and expression to support you to embody the fullness of who you are.

This form of bodywork is participatory. My role is to support you to unwind, release, open, and feel- but not to do it to you or for you.

Great for…

• increased bodily awareness

• understanding how stuck emotions and limiting beliefs show up in your body and your habits

• transform stuck patterns into new embodied possibilities

• working through physical, emotional, and/or creative blocks

• trauma integration

• regenerating an embodied sense of safety

What is a session like?

Sessions include a combination of embodiment practices, bodywork, breathwork, and coaching to help you build resilience, deepen awareness, and release out-dated stories that live in the muscles, nerves, and tissues.

Sessions are designed differently for each person, depending on what you want to get from it. We’ll begin with an intake and go from there.

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How often do I need to come in?

Somatic transformation is a process. Like any form of therapy or new embodiment practice this work is most effective the deeper we can go and the more resource

Single Bodywork Session:

I offer single sessions for those who have prior experience with somatic work.

Shorter term option:

3 sessions can be great to increase body awareness, regulate the nervous system, or work through a specific pressing issue.

Longer term option:

If you are interested in deeper healing and transformative work, ongoing sessions are necessary. To heal and transform long-held patterns requires time, consistency, practice, and building resource in the body. At least 6-8 sessions are necessary to get the process started.

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*My training is mostly through Strozzi/generative Somatics, which is influenced by various techniques including structural integration, Reichian therapy, Polarity therapy, Hakomi Method, craniosacral, and Bioenergetics.

Many of these techniques can be traced back to indigenous body-based healing practices, specifically of the Shawnee and Cherokee peoples. I hold this work with a reverence for the various lineages that came before me and a grief for the impacts of colonization.