Massage & Bodywork
When you show up for your own healing,
you participate in the healing of our culture.
Welcome.
Just by being here, you are taking a step to tend to yourself.
This page has information on my approach to bodywork and somatics with the intention to help you decide if working with me might be the best next step for you.
As you read, I invite you to notice the sensations of your body, the rhythm of your breath, you in relationship to yourself and this text simultaneously.
I trust your embodied experience.
Your embodied life is yours alone, and you are the expert of your own being. At the same time, your experience is connected to all living beings, and so your fullness, wholeness, and aliveness are essential to that of the larger cultural and planetary body.
We can work together in the way that suits you best. I am here to support and witness your process and to hold space as you change and shift. Our sessions will be experiments in which we get to follow curiosity and adapt and adjust to what we find.
I am a facilitator, not a fixer. While I approach this work from a trauma-informed lens, I am also not a psychotherapist. Together, we will navigate the wordless wisdom of your body and seek to integrate it into the whole of your life.
Currently, I am offering sessions in Somatic Bodywork (clothed gentle movement), Traditional Massage (myofascial style), and Cupping. Scroll down to read more about each offering.
As a first step, please book a free Discovery Call so that we can discern if I am the best fit for you at this particular season in your life.
Discovery Call
Before we begin working together, let’s get to know one another and see what might be possible as we co-create healing space for your body.
Massage & Bodywork
I am inspired by lineages of Myofascial Work, Barefoot Bodywork, Shiatsu, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Five Elements, and more.
We will work to find which techniques are best for your body.
Cupping Therapy
Cupping Therapy comes from ancient methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other Asian Healing Systems. Cups are placed on key points and then filled with air to create suction. This technique can bring pain relief and increase range of motion as well as break up adhesions through lifting up layers of tissue with negative pressure. Stimulating the body’s natural healing responses, or movement of Qi, Cupping Therapy helps rehydrate congested areas.
Somatic Bodywork
The essence of change and transformation is located in the process of movement. As we adjust and adapt to huge shifts in our lives in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, our bodies will continue to communicate what needs attention and tending.
These are clothed sessions in which we can work with gentle subtle movement, optional consensual touch, and/or tracking sensation in your body for the sake of grounding, landing, opening possibilities, increasing energetic flow, orientation to positive resource, and greater ease.
I believe queerness is medicine.
Having experienced living outside the margins, the mainstream, the accepted, the comfortable, I have learned how to meet others in the disorientation, chaos and fluidity of the unknown. While queerness is sometimes about sexuality and identity, it is also so much more than that.
Queerness is medicine because it has the expansive capacity to hold nuance and difference while supporting the ongoing processes of change, transformation, and alchemy.
As a queer non-binary human, I believe it is important to serve my LGBTQIA+ community and ensure there is a place for those of us living on the margins—in any sense—to receive care.
As we work together to tend to your body, it is my intention to orient towards your self-empowerment and agency as you seek to live authentically and thrive, even while living under the conditions of systemic oppression.
photos of bodywork by Ben Hudson Saunders