Somatic Bodywork

Shift emotional holding patterns for deeper alignment with yourself, community, and world.

We are shaped by our life experiences. Literally. Shoulders contract upward in fear and can become heavy with burden and despair. Urgency tugs us forward. A lack of support can be felt in the body as pulling away from connection. The hustle of life under capitalism can shape our eyes into tunnel vision. Somatic bodywork explores these types of embodied patterns at the muscular-emotional level, and invites you back into your body to live more fully in alignment with who you want to be.

“We look for the ways that emotions, beliefs, social conditions and social norms have constricted our bodies (with reverence for how that shaping has protected us) and we feel for a permission to invite aliveness to flow back through.”

-Staci Haines

Sessions are designed to meet you where you are… and to help you move towards what you long for.

What do you want to focus on?

  • EXPRESSION

    Open the channels of expression. Upper body focused.

    Face, voice, shoulders, arms, heart.

  • GROUNDING/ RELEASING

    Spend a lot of time up in your head? Come back down into your lower body.

    Legs, pelvis, psoas.

  • GETTING UNSTUCK

    Stuck in your ways? Narrow vision? Feeling stiff? Having a hard time opening to connection or change?

    Breath, eyes, full body.

  • PERSONALIZED SESSIONS

    Not sure what you need? You don’t have to choose a focus. All sessions are always about following the wisdom of your body towards what wants to come alive.

Somatic bodywork uses a combination of pressure points, breathwork, structural integration, movement, gesture, and conversation to support transformation at the level of the tissues.

I am trained in the lineage of Strozzi Institute and generative somatics, which has eclectic roots in Reichian therapy, Rolfing, Polarity, and Aikido.

Pricing

Bodywork Coaching Massage

$90/hr

sliding scale available by request

How often should I come in?

You are welcome to book a single session.

To transform embodied patterns in a way that sticks, ongoing sessions are ideal. I generally work with people weekly or every other week. Ongoing work includes bodywork as well as off-the-table somatic practices and personalized coaching to support you in your healing goals.

Somatic bodywork is very effective for working with unprocessed trauma. If you are interested in this kind of work, ongoing sessions are necessary.

Somatic bodywork is only available in person

What to expect:

We will begin with a conversation to discuss your goals for the session. Sessions look very different depending on what you want to get from it.

Bodywork happens on a massage table, but it is not massage. You will remain fully clothed and face up throughout the session.

Sessions are collaborative and conversational. Together we will follow the wisdom of your body as we support the process of opening, releasing, and completing unprocessed emotional tension.

Occasionally, we may get off the table to try out movements, expressions, or other explorations, especially when learning to embody new actions.

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Looking for massage?

I also offer 30 & 60 minute

massage & craniosacral sessions

Massage Therapy

I use a mix of modalities to address what is most impacting you. I am trained in Connective Tissue, Deep Tissue, Swedish relaxation massage, and various forms of somatic bodywork for nervous system regulation and emotional tension release.

Massage sessions can incorporate somatic bodywork or craniosacral by request.

Florida School of Massage graduate 2011

FL license number: MA 101116