DEEP CONNECTIVE MASSAGE
Deeply slow, "melting" massage with organic cocoa butter, focused on unwinding neuromuscular patterns of tension in surface tissues and deep fascia layers. Soothes the nervous system a deep liminal state of processing connections, and grounding. This bodywork also incorporates trigger point therapy and deep presence, helping to increase embodied awareness and soften chronic patterns of tension. May include individualized stretching/exercise recommendations. Choose your length when booking.
RELAXATION FLOW MASSAGE
A lighter, lotion-based, flowing relaxation massage. Integrates elements of classic massage, trigger point therapy, and energy work. Increases circulation and release for soreness and more surface-level tension through activating the parasympathetic ("rest and digest") nervous system. Can be helpful for those who need support to let go into rest states, for those in burnout, and for accute periods of hightened stress. Variable session lengths available.
NEUROAFFECTIVE TOUCH
Nurturing, acceptance-based, slow-paced, somatic exploration of early-developmental traumas. Because our earliest safety-wounds -- including from emotional neglect, systemic oppression, or intergenerational trauma -- and their survival-adaptations are held pre-verbally and without explicit memories or stories, they can be very difficult to access through talk-approaches alone. NAT sessions involve exploring internal embodied 'dialogues', nurturing touch and self-directed touch, weighted pillows and blankets, and supported presence with different parts of self.
LIBERATION-ORIENTED SOMATICS
Space for exploring the effects of systemic conditioning in your body-heart-mind, and for the various personal, collective, ancestral, and ecological grieving that is needed in order to break generational cycles, to divest from systems of supremacy, and for accessing more grounded responsiveness within these times of poly-crisis and immense global grief. Work together may include inquiry-based slow dialoguing, guided awareness practices, self-directed touch, guided meditations, gentle movement exercises, on-table slow touch, and small rituals.
SOMATIC INTEGRATION SERIES
A weekly 10 Session Series of 75 minute sessions structured to provide the consistency and safety to explore, learn from, and grieve deep-seated patterns of somatic bracing, stress reactions, and embodied beliefs. This series is trauma-informed and systems-aware (systemic and intergenerational factors), and combines elements of Structural Integration, NeuroAffective Touch, grief tending, and my many years of experience with somatics. This work is explorative, fully individualized, collaborative, and strengths- and acceptance-based.
GRIEF CIRCLES & RITUALS
Generations of violence and resulting ruptures from embodiment, ritual, and grief leaves many unable to metabolize trauma and feeling hollow, in denial, numbed, or full of rective (misplaced) anger. Lack of grieving-with is part of what allows the dehumanization and domination of others and our earth to continue. I offer spaces for coming together, listening, feeling, and being moved by our own and each other's aching hearts. There is so so much to grieve. Let us allow it to keep moving and transforming us, so that we can also keep feeling the joys and beauties of the world, and dreaming towards a more connected, safe, and liberated world for all.
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WHAT IS LIBERATION-ORIENTED SOMATICS ?Somatics is the work of exploring and reconnecting mind and body. It is about unlearning the Dualistic fragmentations and hierarchies of mind over body, human over nature, and individual over collective that we have been conditioned into. Traumas, as well as privileged entitlement, add more layers of disconnection through shut down, numbing, othering, or chronic fight, flight or fawning extended survival strategies -- which often we come to identify with as part of who we are.
Becuause Dualism originates and is embedded in Western society's history of colonization and mass enslavement, it's not actually fully possible to separate the individual journey of embodiment and healing from these intergenerational and ongoing systemic traumas. Bodies are inherently politically-coded in systems that are inherently oppressive and violent towards certain bodies or ways of being. So many of the stresses, tensions, traumas, limiting beliefs, and reactive survival patterns that cause suffering are symptoms of centuries of systems that do not serve life. Liberation-oriented means recognizing rather than bypasses these "bigger than individual me" parts of healing, including that the work of divesting from systems of supremacy is absolutely necessary for sustainable wellbeing and collective survival. |
THE VALUES I BRING TO MY WORK
Liberation-oriented
We get free together, or we don't. We can't actually be fully free without feeling the ways history has mapped trauma, tension, violence, disconnection and privilege into our own body-minds, and addressing these injustices collectively.
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Abolition
We can't all get free if we keep the structures and systems that were built for exploitation, enslavement, domination, enforcement of white and patriarchal supremacy, extraction (from people and the earth), and genocide.
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Anti-colonial, anti-zionist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist
These ideologies all threaten life, and true wellbeing. Our conditioning into them is early and deep -- especially for bodies that hold the most privilege -- so it takes continual, embodied, lifelong work to unlearn the paradigms of these systems.
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Queer, trans* & neurodivergent affirming
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"Regulated" doesn't mean always calm
With exploration and support, it's possible to release many outdated survival strategies and become less reactive. But being always calm, or always "nice" are not liberatory goals -- that is a trauma state that passively upholds systems of injustice. I aim to help people expand possibilities of responsiveness.
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Embodiment and grief are necessary
If we are going to interrupt the cycles of harm of generations of white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist, colonial violence, we must befriend embodied grief. This is especially true for white folks who hold the primary accountability to disrupt the harm of our ancestors and white supremacist culture, which continues through our bodies until we do.
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Our bodies & the land hold deep wisdom
Listening to the wisdom that is already within and beyond us takes practice and time because of disembodiment, past violent ruptures from land, and the intergenerational traumas carried through us.
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Land Back
From Turtle Island to Palestine, freedom and sovereignty for all occupied peoples is part of liberation for all of us. Land Back is also an invitation for immigrant-settlers to learn from and follow Indigenous voices in the work towards collective liberation and to rediscover greater relationality and belonging with each other and the land.
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EMBODIED ON UNCEDED LAND, WEST COAST, TURTLE ISLAND
All genders, races, body types, national origins, & neurodivergencies warmly welcome.
Definitely LGBTQI+ friendly. Refugees and immigrants warmly welcome. Fascists are not.
