SESSIONS



I currently offer in-person sessions in my office in Silverlake and remote sessions online. In this context, I work primarily with individuals and with intimate partners.

Remote sessions focus on stalwart emotional and energetic support, embodied relational and intimacy coaching, guidance in generative exploratory movement, skilled self-touch and/or partnered touch, and strategies for self-care, grounded awareness and somatic health. When appropriate and as called upon to do so, we may explicitly venture into intuitive ritual and energetic resourcing, non-ordinary perception, & collaboration with the world of spirit.

In person, I offer all of that in conjunction with hands-on table work and the great gift of getting to be in the room together, face to face. I draw on 27 years of continuous training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic modalities and thousands of hours working with an amazing variety of people, on and off the table.

Modalities

My practice exists at the intersection of structural and somatic work, and integrates a whole wild feast of modalities and lineage teachings that I’ve had the good fortune to study, receive in my own body and hands, and integrate over the years in order to better meet the needs of the people in my practice.

Some of what’s on that feast table, and foundational to my understanding:

The layered, precise contact of skilled structural alignment; the living framework and subtle techniques of qi manipulation from traditional Chinese/Taoist medicine; the exquisitely nuanced perception and listening touch taught by Hugh Milne as Visionary Craniosacral Work; the method of physiological assessment articulated by Dr. Vincent Medici as the Rule of Four, as well as his map and methodology for working with high-charge structures throughout the body; abdominal/visceral manipulation relevant to fertility, pregnancy and postnatal care as taught by Rosita Arvigo; the remediation of scar tissue and other obstructive fascial adhesion as taught by Ellen Heed, Kimberly Johnson, and many others; Holistic Pelvic Care™ as conceived and transmitted by Tami Lynn Kent; constitutional framing and holistic breast and chest care as received from DeAnna Batdorff and further developed alongside Mo Washburn and Willa Mamet; life-giving practices and techniques drawn from sexological bodywork and somatic sex education; the intuitive perception and off-body techniques I developed together with Elizabeth Guilliams as Crystalline Energetics; somatic-emotional-energetic awareness rooted in my broad study and ongoing exploration of somatic psychology, bodywork and movement across multiple contexts, as well as 35 years engaged with a panoply of meditative, contemplative and devotional practices and the miraculous people who have so generously taught me; and a lifetime of movement study and experimentation as a performing person and as an injured person delving deeply into healing my own body.

Where do we begin?

Sessions vary enormously, and, for the most part, unfold as a choose-your-own-adventure in response to the needs, desires, capacities and directives closest to the surface on that day. Which is fantastic.

However, it can be helpful to narrow our focus and define our starting point.

A few potential jump-offs:

  • Tracking, following, and playing with sensation, breath, sound, intrinsic movement, and energy;

  • Making contact with “problems” in the body: places that are over- or under-responsive, that are asymmetrical or otherwise out of balance, that feel wrong in some way, in order to listen and find the signal that invites dialogue and offers new possibility;

  • Creating a field of permission: holding, tending and deeply honoring the layers of cognition, meaning, sensation, and feeling; orienting attention and presence in the ways that are available and accessible in any given moment, and working actively with the tone of the neuroendocrine system as a whole;

  • Breast and chest work, for anyone who has breast/chest fed or is preparing to, who has or whose family has a history of cystic, fibrous or cancerous tissues, who is preparing for imaging or who has gotten a result they want to address, or who would like to form a more wonderful relationship with this part of their body;

  • Pelvic work, for literally anyone with a pelvis, because this part of all of us is such a locus of complexity and sensitivity, and is so often freighted with trauma and shame and expectation and overwhelm, and because our pelvises so deeply deserve to be met where they are and held with gentleness and respect;

  • Approaching somatic material that is felt, or is suspected to be hidden beneath a physical or behavioral pattern, at the pace of the body’s willingness and curiosity, and with enormous respect for the conscious and unconscious strategies we create to keep ourselves alive and functioning;

  • “Flossing” and freeing the spine;

  • Using ritual, meditation, spell-speech, prayer, symbolism, worship, and connection with the spirit world, as appropriate, in order to summon a field of resource to meet and offer remedy to the experience of isolation, deprivation or spirit injury, or simply to be in right relationship with our honeys in all dimensions;

  • Fertility support, both for the reproductive body and for the beautiful open heart that is approaching pregnancy, birth and parenthood as the profound lightning-strike of individual transformation and collective optimism that it is;

  • Holding the edges of grief and praise after a loss;

  • Supporting and freeing the jaw, mouth, throat, neck, and head as the seat of the voice;

  • Counseling and consideration of how best to “peel the onion” of a particular pattern, particularly when a situation has been complicated or ill-met by medicalization and frustrated by providers who do not have good answers or good questions;

  • Holding injuries that have transformed you and the way you exist in your body, such that you would benefit from attention to global structure, free movement, obstruction in the tissues, the restoration of circulation, lymphatic drainage and qi flow, and integration of the somatic/energetic matrix that formed and sustained the scar over time;

    And most anything else we can dream up. I’m here for it.

    What wants to happen? How can I help?

I require a quick, free 15 minute phone call in advance of a first session with anyone who is considering working with me, so that we can get a sense of each other and determine whether I’m the right person to support you.

You can schedule yourself for an introductory call here.

To find out more about my rates and other session logistics, please click here.

PLEASE NOTE:

I am stoked to work with humans of all sexes, gender identifications, orientations, and cultural backgrounds, and am explicitly and absolutely queer-, trans-, kink-, SW- and poly-friendly. Fuck yes.

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