SOMATICS
90 min sessions available in-person and online
INTEGRATIVE BODYWORK IS ABOUT TUNING IN DEEPLY TO PRESENT MOMENT EXPERIENCE
Integrative Bodywork is a somatic practice used to support recovery from disembodiment, chronic stress, burnout, chronic pain, and sensory overwhelm. Created to support healing through witnessing, loving presence, mindfulness, compassionate self-inquiry, and integration support. A tool for recovering from physical, spiritual, and emotional traumas. Helpful for stimulating the ventral branch of the vagus nerve down regulating the automatic fight/flight/freeze/fawn/flock responses that come with trauma and toxic stress. With facilitated awareness of breath, sensations, emotions, connections, and beliefs, Integrative Bodywork helps folks become more aware of their "body map"- the internal network of past ideas and experiences. When integrating parts-work we attend lovingly to parts of yourself past, present + future with a spirit of compassion, care, curiosity, acceptance, and non-judgment. This uncovers a unique inner-system perspective on pain and suffering. A shift that welcomes a profound sense of understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, and often a change in relationship to the suffering caused by trauma, loss, dissociation, pain, judgment, attachment, craving, and avoidance.
SESSION STRUCTURE
Coaching sessions are organized into four key parts...
Headingdsjfre
LISTEN
We begin by acknowledging your intention for the session while noticing what is present for you in the moment.
CLARIFY
Through introspection, inquiry, and active listening we discover what feels important, what is asking for attention, and what is feeling unresolved.
EXPLORE
We slow down and ground to notice: bodily sensations, impulses, tension, ease, emotions, images, or shifts in thought and attention. The body becomes a valuable source of information about present moment experiences as well as deeper patterns of clinging and avoidance. We sit with what is emerging to understand what the experience might mean in the context of your needs, values, relationships, patterns, and choices. We make connections with curiosity rather than assuming there is only one correct or clinical interpretation.
INTEGRATE
We bring this experience into everyday life by considering how what you've noticed and learned might inform the way you live. This could mean taking a small step, trying a different response, establishing a boundary, practicing something new, allowing time for an experience to settle, remaining curious, engaging in a ritual, focusing on an intention/goal, receiving the inspiration of an oracle card, or even deciding to wait to make a decision until you have more clarity or capacity.
YOUR SESSION IS CO-CREATED TO PRIORITIZE YOUR PRESENTING NEEDS AND INTENTIONS. YOUR SESSION MAY INCLUDE:
+ interoception- spending time with the internal sense that lets you feel and understand what is happening inside of your own body. guided visualizations and "imagery games" help to build greater relationship to intreroceptive awareness
+ neuroception- learning about the nervous system's automatic, subconscious process of scanning our bodies and surroundings for safety and danger. we use Polyvagal Theory to explore nervous system activation and resolution cycles. we learn how to build increased awareness of nervous systems states and needs
+ proprioception- our body's ability to sense its own position, movement, and force in space without needing to look at our limbs. we practice proprioceptive awareness to embody ourselves, and to strengthen our body's capacity for stability, balance, and movement
+ energy work - employing intuition, metaphor, music, movement, spoken and written word, and other attunement practices to invite relaxation, exploration, clarity, courage, lovingkindness, release, acceptance, forgiveness, grounding, and balancing
+ guided relaxation- tessa guides you from your brain's thinking and hypervigilant states of being to a deeper state of self-awareness and focused presence. sensory and breath prompts are offered and designed to regulate the internal systems of the body and promote overall relaxation, calm, and release
+ somatic parts-work- modality that offers an opportunity for mind-body integration of stressful past events. we bring focus and curiosity to burdened parts from the past. we show up to build familiarity, trust, respect, and eventually right-relationship between parts and Self. a "talk + track" modality using deep states of mindful awareness*
*pre-requisite: IFS Coaching with Tessa