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YOU ARE WELCOME AS YOU ARE !
All genders, races, body types, national origins, & neurodivergencies warmly welcome. Definitely LGBTQI+ friendly. I offer safe space for exploring trauma-informed, ancestral, system- and collapse-aware, liberation-oriented somatics. |
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COVID-19: I am fully vaccinated/boosted (7x), and mask during face-proximity. Let me know if you want 100% in office masking. PRICESMy sessions are self-pay and use an ACCESSIBILITY SCALE, based on your discernement. When considering how much to offer, balance your financial situation with allowing yourself to feel a sense of generosity in exchange for my energy and skills. The scale is designed to help this work remain accessible to more people, while still meeting my financial needs.
The middle "SUSTAINABLE RATE" is sustainable for me, and means you are currently in a situation that's more or less sustainable for you. The "ALLY RATE" means you can share the abundance if you're doing well financially, so that I can continue to offer lower rates to those who need it. The "ACCESSIBLE RATE" is intended for unemployed folks, students, those in low-paid and socially-undervalued jobs, and those for whom systemic factors* have made it difficult to reach higher paying jobs or economic stability, etc... *NTAFLOF: If you are in need an unable to access any bodywork, and you are Indigenous to these lands, Black, trans, Palestinian, or have been personally affected by ICE-inflicted terror, please email me to arrange a session. Please be honest and generous, and pay what you are capable of within the range of this scale. RATES (ACCESSIBLE / SUSTAINABLE / ALLY SCALES) 45 Minute Massage - $40 / 75 / 125 60 Minute Massage - $50 / 100 / 150 75 Minute Massage - $75 / 125 / 175 90 Minute Massage - $100 / 150 / 200 120 Minute Massage - $150 / 200 / 275 NeuroAffective Touch - $75 / 130 / 180 Somatic Integration (1x "10 Session" Appt) - $100 / 160 /225 Political Somatics and Collective Grief - $50 / 125 / 225 Connective Deep Unwinding Bodywork (3hr) - $225 / 300 / 375 We will begin and end sessions by sitting together for a few minutes. Ideally leave yourself time for rest and integration after the session. 
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MODALITIES Somatic Exploration
Explore the ways stress, past personal experiences, personal beliefs, systemic conditioning, and intergenerational traumas shape your body, and practice listening to your body speaking about these things. Embodiment, especially when newly explored in non-judgmental space, challenges so many of the Western dichotomies between mind-body, personal-systemic, individual- intergenerational/ancestral, individual-collective, etc... Feel into the possibilities of wholeness and the deeper wisdoms the body remembers through verbal inquiry, guided listening, acceptance-based witnessing, guided awareness, touch-supported presence. Somatic exploration is part of Somatic Integration sessions, NAT sessions, and Liberation-Oriented Somatics/Politicized Grief sessions. Deep Connective Massage Deep, slow, "melting" bodywork focusing on releasing and balancing the deep neuromuscular and fascial patterns of tension. Soothes the nervous system into a deep state of reset. Incorporates trigger point therapy and deep presence, and helps to increase embodied awareness. I use organic cocoa butter for these sessions. Relaxation Flow Massage Lotion-based, flowing relaxation massage. Integrates elements of classic massage, trigger point therapy, and energy work. Supports circulation and rejuvenation, activates the parasympathetic ("rest and digest") nervous system, and helps reconnect to easeful, restorative breathing. Liberation-Oriented Somatics and Politicized Grief Sessions Supported witnessing, grieving and explorations into the ways that embodiment is inherently a political challenge to the dominant systems. And the ways bodies are inherently politically coded within supremacy, colonial power systems. This is space for feeling into the various personal, collective, ancestral, and ecological grieving that is needed to not get stuck in burnout or trauma, and which is also needed for embodied divestment from systems of supremacy and perpetuating traumas. Exploring what it means to be living as specific bodies-identities in late-stage capitalism and accelerating collapse, and the immense collective grief of the last years that has been (largely) denied. Supported somatic and liberation-oriented exploration into the ways those systems live through our bodies, keeping us fragmented (internally and externally) and perpetuating harm. These sessions may include inquiry-based slow dialoguing, coaching, guided awareness explorations, self-directed touch, guided meditations, gentle movement exercises, on-table slow touch or holding, and small rituals. The sessions are 75-90 minutes and can be booked stand-alone, but best if we have already worked together to establish trust, or as a series of 5+ sessions. NeuroAffective Touch A somatic exploration to bring awareness and healing nurturing to relational wounds, including those that come from very early developmental traumas (which are held in the body in pre-verbal and without explicit memories or stories to express themselves). Sessions are acceptance- and nurturing-oriented, and can involve exploring dialogues between body and mind and heart, slow touch and self-directed touch, holding of body parts or points, sometimes slow massage in an area, supported curiosity, weighted pillows or blankets, directed awareness, and exploring ways of creating more safety and nurturing for the different parts of self. The sessions are 75 minutes and can be done fully clothed, and can involve seated and on-the-table work, depending on what is needed for individuals and in the moment. Somatic Integration - A 10 Sessions Series A series of 10 weekly or bi-monthly sessions structured to provide the consistency and safe space to explore deep-seated patterns of somatic bracing, stress reactions, and feelings of space, ease, and empowerment. This Somatic Integration Series is trauma-informed and systems-aware (i.e. that trauma also comes from systemic and intergenerational factors), and combines elements of Structural Integration (I'm a certified practitioner), NeuroAffective Touch (which brings nurturing exploration to early-developmental trauma), and my many years of experience with explorative- and awareness-based approaches to bodywork. This work is explorative, grounded in your strengths and acceptance-based. In contrast to Structural Integration and Rolfing series, there is no pre-set schema I follow for this series, as it is fully individualized and collaborative to support your specific needs and experiences, overall, but also session-by-session. We'll work as a team to explore slowly through your individual patterns of tension, reactivities, and embodied beliefs, to bring increased awareness to mind-heart-body connections, and to create increased capacity to return to a balanced and responsive nervous system state. The series of 10 sessions creates space and time to allow us to build safety and bring curiosity to the deeper layers. Individualized Stretching/Exercise/Somatic Practice Recommendations May be included in all sessions. Pre- & Postnatal massage I'm trained and experienced working with people to support relaxation and pain relief during pregnancy (2nd & 3rd trimesters) and post birth. (If you have any complicating factors in your pregnancy please talk to your doctor about if massage is right for you before scheduling.) |
Embodied ON Unceded Land, WEST COAST, Turtle Island
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