“Somatic Movement Therapy” also known as “Conscious Embodiment”, combined with yoga therapy, allows you to access wisdom stored in the body by freeing the body from stress, trauma, constraints, and habitual tensions. These tensions are often created by adverse experiences, physical injuries, trauma, illness, grief, cultural and personal habits, and even developmental stages that you may have skipped as a baby.

Somatic movement therapy involves making intentional, gentle movements while focusing on the internal experience of the movement. This process unifies your body and mind and attunes you to your physical, emotional, and mental needs.

It is a chance to relieve habitual and long-held blockages and constrictions, creating clarity and helping you make better choices about your well-being.

You will experience being alive, aware, and present in your body. A way to think of it is… Embodiment is to the body what meditation is to the mind.

With conscious embodiment, we start where you are, and you set the pace.

Once you feel safe and grounded, we explore what brings you to the session.

That may be a specific physical ailment - chronic backache, pelvic floor issues, difficulty walking, or a heightened sensitivity or anxiety.

There are no formulas. Instead, like a detective, I match tools to the challenges you are facing.

No matter your reason, I bring to our sessions a deep knowledge of the body and extensive experience helping people feel better. I stay present, offer compassion and a healthy dose of humor!

Conscious embodiment sessions include gentle somatic movement, embodied meditation and targeted yoga therapy to help you free habits and constrictions in your movement and in your life.

I have a broad toolbox to help you unwind habits of movement and reactionary habits in your nervous system.

For example, we may experiment with imagery to generate an experience, practice it, and create new neural grooves.

These tools combine in a gentle, nourishing way so that you can inhabit your body, gain perspective, insight, and courage.

For both online and in-person conscious embodiment sessions, please wear comfortable clothing.

For conscious embodiment therapy online sessions, choose a room where you feel comfortable and safe, where you can talk freely and where you can sit or work on the floor. 

Ideally, you will have a computer positioned with a microphone and camera so that we can see each other during the session.

The number of conscious embodiment sessions varies depending on the individual.

I typically recommend 12 sessions with weekly or twice  a month meetings. For some, this plan provides what they have been looking for, Then, once they really experience the results of our work together, they require less frequent maintenance sessions.

Mostly, I  go where you need to go, and you guide the frequency according to the results we see.

I offer one on one, small groups and workshops in person in-person in Northampton, MA, with clients in Easthampton, Pioneer Valley, Amherst, South Hadley, Greenfield, Whately, Hatfield, Sunderland, Deerfield, Holyoke & Haydenville.

I also offer conscious embodiment online via zoom for clients nationwide.

You can choose whether to meet in-person or online depending on your needs, comfort, and location.

Yes! Conscious embodiment is very effective on Zoom!

I began working with individuals and groups over Zoom during the pandemic. I was quickly surprised by how powerful the result was. It turns out that I can observe and convey very clearly through the medium. Conscious embodiment online is ideal for those who prefer the comfort of their own home when doing personal work, feel a sense of support by having the screen mediate contact or are simply located too far to travel.

Many of my local clients have even used a hybrid system where they come in person at times and we meet over Zoom at other times.

We all have something - whether it is trauma, injuries, pain, emotional baggage, patterns and blockages that affect our ability to experience everything that life offers - so conscious embodiment and somatic movement is for everyone!