Transformational Wellness Coaching:

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      My approach to coaching is found in "uncoaching": tapping clients in to their innate natural essences free from the pressures of society, family, or our own inner-critic. I utilize the many modalities and techniques I have learned in supporting myself through my personal healing journey, with empathy being a main tool. Together we will dismantle any shame you may hold, as shame (the feeling that one is simply wrong) is a positive-feedback cycle emotion. This means that feeling it only perpetuates the behaviors that we intend to end! Thus, moving into awareness and acceptance of all parts of ourselves and our paths is the medicine for moving beyond doubt and suffering and in to a samadhi embodied lifestyle.

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After discovering your intentions in working with me, I use my intuition to discern which techniques, applied when, will be the best for you! We will use somatic embodiment practices to energetically motion your e-motions through you and help you connect more to your and the earth's vital life-force energies that are potent for self-actualization. Additionally, adventure has been a powerful teacher on my path, and elements of this will come through as we work towards connecting you to a sense of play, celebration and passion!

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More on Bodywork & Psychosomatic Support:

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I find it extremely fascinating and miraculous that stress is the physical manifestation of our internal dialogues and struggles, as well of course the physical toll that our repetitive movements and daily habits take on our bodies. Our minds and the ways in which we think about ourselves influences our posture- how we carry and hold our bodies over time, along with possible joint adhesions -which likewise influence our mental health and the ways in which we think about ourselves. Additionally, injuries and surgeries over time create muscular compensations, scar tissue buildup and shifts in posture.  Mix in some environmental and recreational toxins and with all of these factors, tensions accumulate in the body and register as pain and discomfort. Cancer for example, can be thought of as mold of the body- not enough energy is cycling through. Energy enters the body and needs to be released. The food we eat, what we drink, any environmental/dietary/recreational toxins, the emotions we feel, the stress that accumulates, experiences with other people (as we are relational beings) are all forms of energy that we ingest and absorb. All of this must be motioned through the body and released so the body can maintain its youthfulness, its organic nature, its healthiest form and shape. Contemplation, experiencing, feeling and expressing our emotions moves them to prevent storing them as ailments, cancer and dis-ease!

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Amazingly, we have the ability to physically reduce or eliminate this pain and discomfort by manually removing the tensions from the body and creating a free-flow of energy. This then has the effect of eliminating the stress that we experience mentally and psychologically. 

Thus bodywork— massage, Wataflow, stretching, yoga, exercise, breathwork, etc. —helps us to relax our bodies and minds and return to a neutral state from where we can better integrate our experiences and conceive of healthy solutions. Deep bodywork (think Deep Tissue, Orgonomy, Backwalking, Lomi Lomi, Trigger Point Release and Active and Passive Stretching) can be a transcendental experience in-and-of-itself that incorporates embodiment work— focused breathwork, vocalizing, screaming, crying, movement, laughter, etc., to promote the release of tension, pain, grief, sadness, and anger that become trapped in the body if not moved. Moving these emotions makes space for joy and nourishment to again flow through the meridians, blood, cells and organs. Furthermore, relaxation techniques such as Swedish, Jin Shin Do, craniosacral, sound therapy and energy work support the “nervous” (calm) system and allow for a tranquil inner process to unfold. My integration of relaxing strokes and modalities alongside deep bodywork (think 5Rhythms dance journeys that take you from flowing to chaos to stillness) invites you on a unique and profound Hero’s Journey experience all taking place on the table. This is the somatic aspect of my work, which I recommend to implement first or simultaneously so that the psychological work can be received from a spacious and open slate. 

Next the work is with the mind. Going forward, how do we prevent the buildup of stress within the body? Knowing that stress is the leading cause of all ailments and conditions, how do we manage our stress? This is the psychological aspect of what I offer. Together here we can work with various techniques - emotional release, grounding, eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing, eye-gazing, reparenting and family constellations, sacred sexuality, gestalt and voice dialogue, mantra and meta-programming and many others- to connect with the psychological origins and implications of the stress. We can meet, work and play with your inner child, also thought of as the subconscious, to discover what early programming needs to be de-programmed for your wholeness and fulfillment. We can learn how to manage our stress to overcome our physical ailments. We can learn how to reprogram our thoughts to establish healthy habits. We can learn how to establish new habits that clear pathways of pain and trauma and turn off our unhealthy genes, and discover what possibilities we may have in terms of physical activity, nutrition, social- and self-connection, passion projects etc. We can make healthy lifestyle choices that liberate us from our ancestral and childhood traumas, our pains and ailments, and essentially empower us to embody our highest potentials as beings of light and truth on this earth. This is healing and preventative work. It is the synthesis of my life’s practices and lessons, and my personal rebirth experiences, woven into an offering personally designed for you.