SERVICES
SOMATICS: Body-based Nervous System Regulation
Your body knows the way.
What if the missing piece in your wellness puzzle is about finding safety within your own body and your environment?
Are you tired of spending time and energy treating symptoms and know your body holding on to the effects of chronic stress and trauma? Want more capacity and a trusting relationship with your body so you can live your life on your terms? Using trauma-informed sequencing of body and breath-based practices and tools based in neuroscience, you will increase your ability to self-regulate. Through increasing connection to your body’s self-awareness, you will be empowered to meet your own needs.
Are you exhausted from managing any of these symptoms?
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Mental/emotional: Overthinking, hypervigilance, anxiety, perfectionism, avoidance, procrastination, brain fog, numbing behaviours
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Chronic personal/relationship issues: Repeating personal patterns despite years of therapy, poor self-esteem, challenging relationships, people pleasing, poor boundaries
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Physical/performance: Chronic pain, poor sleep and digestion, tension and stiffness, high highs and low lows, feeling ‘stuck’ or in ‘frozen’, burnout
If you answered yes to a few of these, your body may be stuck in protective patterns and need support guidance to explore, acknowledge and safely process on a body-based level.
What is Somatics?
“Soma” refers to sensing the body’s experience from within, also known as interoception. Somatic practices can help you perceive, understand, and process this inner experience. Using a trauma-informed sequence of body-based practices you can increase the accuracy of this inner connection, discover how to support your nervous system and gain a felt sense of integration and wholeness.
In my practice, I use:
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Evidence-based tools to find safety in your environment and your body, and repattern automatic reactions into conscious responses.
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Somatic movement to mobilize intuitively and gently release held tension and stress while increasing your interoception.
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Breathing Behaviour Analysis and Retraining to increase awareness, address dysfunctional habits and increase oxygenation and capacity.
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Somatic inquiry to carefully and compassionately observe sensations, shape change, and movements related to body memory and emotional material.
Are you ready for impactful change?
Attend to your needs by increasing the connection to your inner felt sense.
Step 1:
Discover
During the initial assessment session, we will review your medical history and discuss your needs and goals. Together, we will conduct a breathing behaviour analysis, assess your unique nervous system tendencies, and explore breath and body-based practices to help you regulate in the short term.
Step 2:
Refine
We will review progress and fine tune body and breath-based tools, provide more nervous system education, develop increasing awareness, and create a plan to move forward.
Step 3:
Learn & Grow
Personalized learning and support plans are offered to clients wanting meaningful, lasting change over time. This customized training to repattern your nervous system tendencies may include:
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Body-based tools, grounded in neuroscience
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Breathing Behaviour Retraining
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Somatic movement
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Somatic inquiry
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On-going nervous system literacy