embodied imagination somatics

We need and deserve a world in which every being feels safe, sovereign, and at home in their bodies, connected to their place and their communities, in alignment with their dignity, passions, boundaries, identity, and values.

I am a somatic and therapeutic touch practitioner with a background in education and youth violence prevention. I am also a visual artist and musician. My work includes conversational, imaginal, and touch-based nervous system regulation support. I am committed to working with you to find the right container, rhythm, and pacing that will support your body in accessing its own wisdom, restoration, and life force. My training includes:

I integrate this training into each of my sessions, looking for the best combination of work to support my client’s wellbeing. I track closely for opportunities to integrate and digest incomplete survival energy (fight/flight/freeze). I am equally, if not more, committed to supporting the physiological experience of states of safety. Sensations often arise in sessions of “feeling at home” in your body and in the world. It is these neural platforms, these states of being, that support resilience, earned secure attachment, and support the embodied and alive experience of being the unique being you are, with full access to doing what you are alive on this planet to do.

In addition to my somatic practice, I am a life-long advocate and student of social justice. Systems of oppression (trauma) express through, and take tolls on our bodies. In my practice I seek to align with a liberated human spirit in service of a world in which we can thrive, have healthy connections, and make change. I strive to have a practice informed by anti-racism, feminism, disability justice, queer liberation and sex positivity. In the ever-unfolding crises of late-stage capitalism, we need all of us as well and integrated as we can be. We need our creativity, our imagination, and our care to be on board. I believe healing on an individual level requires awareness, integration, and right relationship to the larger social and ecological systems in which we live. I believe healing is political and part of the movement.

My practice is collaborative. I collaborate with you, with our shared environment, with our respective intuitions, intelligences, and lineages. I collaborate with your existing wisdom and the resilience that has enabled you to survive and thrive up to this moment. You are not broken. You have everything you need to grow and to integrate intensity. And I know you have already been doing so many things to care for your life up to now.

Please call or email to set up a free consultation with me

queer + trans community welcome

I look forward to hearing from you

embodiedimaginationsomatics@gmail.com

928-266-3263

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