BODYWORK MODALITIES
I draw from these modalities to create a session specific to your needs. I consider it a privilege to be present with you and facilitate your process toward health, healing, and well-being.
TRANSFORMING TOUCH®
Transforming Touch is an attachment-focused modality utilizing hands-on treatment of Developmental Trauma. It focuses on understanding the effects that Developmental Trauma has on the child, as well as the developing adult. This opens the door to working in the milieu of early, nonverbal trauma. By understanding the neurochemistry of early trauma, and rebuilding developmental platforms through regulation, clients begin to move from a high-cost-of-doing-business system to a smoother and less stress-oriented system and begin to live with greater ease and choice in life.
TOUCH-BASED SOMATIC EXPERIENCING®
Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.
The Somatic Experiencing approach offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by titration; slowly and gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.
ESALEN MASSAGE®
Esalen Massage applies principles of mindfulness to bodywork, offering up a holistic body-mind-spirit experience on the massage table. Through massage lotion application with light to medium pressure and slow rhythmic strokes, the practitioner evokes awareness, a sensory “coming home.” The practitioner follows rather than leads, and adds deeper detail work to untangle stressed muscles, integrating each release into the surrounding tissue and the whole body. Assisted movement or stretches can be applied to free up old holding patterns, and frequent pauses give time for assimilation, energetic re-balance, and a sense of well-being. All Esalen Massage sessions strive to empower you to regain a sense of harmony and to awaken inner resources for healing.