Somatic Integrative Arts

A dynamic approach to leading an embodied,creative and purposeful life.

Do you long to…

Shift limiting patterns and reclaim access to choicefulness, joy and resilience?

Discover and take action toward your life’s vision and purpose? 

Rewire your nervous system to establish a sense of safety, presence and inner stability?

Find relief from chronic pain or health issues related to emotional or traumatic stress?

Somatic Integrative Arts

A powerful interweaving of Coaching, Relational Bodywork and Expressive Arts

My interactive and experiential approach is an innovative fusion that will help you:

-Connect with your innate wisdom,creativity and health

-Discover new ways of living and learning

-Cultivate an honest and inspiring relationship with yourself  

-Express and embrace your humanness – all of who you are

Somatic Coaching

Coaching is a collaborative relationship established through courageous and meaningful conversation that focuses on co-creating a pathway to realizing set goals. Somatic Coaching is a bottom-up (sensory/body oriented) approach to coaching based on the unification of your perceptions, sensations, emotions, and behaviors.

The structure and accountability of coaching support you to:

 -Bridge the gap between where you are and where you long to be

-Transform insights into new embodied action

-Live in alignment with your personal values 

-Get out of your own way and create sustainable change

During our coaching together you will learn to access your inner guidance, gain clarity and take action toward the expression and fulfillment of your full potential.  

Relational Bodywork

I offer attuned attention, a slow pace and caring therapeutic touch that work directly with the nervous system, tissues, fluids and structure of the body to support psychological, emotional, physical and relational well-being. 

During a session we focus on cultivating a felt sense of your innate health and resilience through gentle hands-on holding positions and somatic (mind/body) dialogue.

Together we co-create an intentional space to welcome unintegrated issues to the foreground to be transformed. This gentle and kind process supports you in accessing your vitality and wholeness.

Relational Bodywork helps you:

-Recognize and release unresolved patterns of emotional distress, discomfort, or pain held within your body

-Address challenges that can’t be resolved with talk therapy or bodywork alone by directly contacting the psychology that lives in your physiology 

Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts invites your innate wisdom to be heard, seen and to express itself through:

–Intuitive Art Making: drawing, painting, collaging + sculpting with clay

–Non-stylized Movement: freestyle, unchoreographed, mindful movement + dance

–Creative Writing: poetry, free form, reflective + narrative writing

–Voice/Sound: humming, singing, sounding + spoken word

–Improvisational Performance Ritual: authentic self-expression inspired by an intention and connected to your experience in the present moment.The ritual is witnessed and held in a sacred co-created container.

The arts help you give shape, meaning and expression to the depth of the stories, dreams and possibilities within you. Your body and imagination actively engage in exploring the compelling themes and questions of your lived experience without needing to achieve a result or fix a problem. The process of creating, in and of itself, becomes a mirror, companion and guide in navigating challenges and honoring celebrations in your life. 

During a session we will be in inquiry together, bringing mindful awareness to what emerges moment to moment. You will discover creative ways to grow your capacity to be with what is, rewire habitual patterns and embody your truth.

* No prior skill or experience in the arts necessary.

Sessions

Sessions are customized experiences that are co-created to meet your needs and intention. We may utilize one or all modalities (Somatic Coaching, Relational Bodywork + Expressive Arts) depending on what emerges. During a session, with curiosity and compassion, we listen to and allow for the natural arc of a healing process to unfold.

For new clients I recommend scheduling an initial discovery session followed by a package of  3 sessions to be completed within 4-8 weeks. Following these sessions we will decide together on a cadence that is right for you.

The 3 session packages are built to support the natural unfolding and retaining of embodied wholeness and health. The container of multiple sessions within a designated time period provides space for repatterning, integration and longer lasting results.

I will honor your unique journey
with reverence for the mystery and potential of your evolution.

Rates


Initial Discovery Session 90 minutes
$145

Package of Three 60 minute Sessions
$425

Individual 60 minute Session –
after initial discovery session
$160

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