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The field of somatics is an area of exploration that recognises that our life experiences are held within the body, and can be healed by embodied approaches that offer experiences of expression, completion, reclamation and safety. In many cultures outside western industrial systems, traditions exist which give voice to the body. Decolonial bodywork includes the practise of evolving towards liberation from systems of suppression and oppression and furthers our capacity to flow in authenticity. As spiritual beings living an embodied experience, being truly present in the body and more conscious of the way that experiences, beliefs and systems somatise into the body, we can become more responsive to our own needs, more empathic to the needs of others and more connected to the world and our place in it. We also become freer and contribute to the freedom of others. 

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As women and birthing people, moving from a deep connection with the sacredness of the wombspace, brings an expression of a life in alignment with one's deep purpose and sense of self. Western culture in particular has precluded, prohibited and demonised this connection and surplanted it with a dualistic definition of the feminine with greater predisposition to minimisation of our innate power.

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'Your body is your medicine'

 

Healing from this perspective can occur through reflective practices like meditation and somatic awareness, through massage and energy healing, through embodied movement, yoga and dance, through plant medicines and through ceremony and symbolic practices. I offer these to the women I am honoured to work with, uniquely and intuitively tailored to each person's needs. It is a truly transformative way to bring about wholeness on the journeys we undertake in the bodies we inhabit.

 

My journey with somatics began  as a response to experiences of trauma in childhood and the use of dance as a form of self-expression and healing and by spending time in nature observing the rhythms and responses of the natural world. My discovery of yoga and engagement with different forms of energy medicine deepened my somatic literacy and began to inform my therapeutic relationship with clients. During a ceremonial exploration of embodied presence and breathwork, I had a profound 'meeting' with ancestral members of my female lineage and a strong connection to and reverence for my genetic legacy where dance as a mode of healing is fully integrated into life. This has formed the basis of my exploration of movement and touch as a method of deep healing both for myself and the people I work with.

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Our bodies hold onto emotional trauma and painful, unconscious and inter-generational patterns. They also hold within them the hierarchies and impressions of societal control. When we come into right relationship with our embodied experience -and each other - these patterns can be dissolved and released. It is my belief that much of the illness, sadness and numbness experienced in a western cultural context would benefit from a rediscovery of the intuitive embodied approaches which once belonged to all cultures, but has been largely erased in the west. Its absence is part of the psychological, social, ecological and spiritual crisis that many of us perceive in modern culture and which forms the basis of our deep yearning to return to meaning and sacredness. 

It is deeply fullfilling to work with intuitive embodied presence, somatic awareness, sacred bodywork and natural medicine as tools to help us connect with innate knowledge and self-healing including - but not exclusively - during the pregnancy and parenthood journey. I offer online explorations, in-person sessions and ongoing group work.

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