Somatic Bodywork

Somatic bodywork addresses habits of movement and posture that destabilize the body’s capacities for self-balancing, create discomfort or pain, and limit easeful, integrated movement. These physical strictures often produce an increased sense of agitation or exhaustion, diminishing one’s vital gifts for joy and fluid, generous engagement. 

Somatic bodywork guides attention to internal bodily sensations. Using gentle movements and touch, I help clients trace the connections between symptom and source and to explore new movement options that are rooted in the body’s own multi-layer templates of whole-body alignment. Neither I nor the client impose a mechanical external control as in physical therapy or athletic training. Clients stay fully clothed and we work together sitting on chairs, standing or on a table, as in massage or reiki.