Together, in small embodied steps.

Somatic Movement Education and Therapy (RSME, RSMT)

Learning to bear the uncomfortable, often destabilising sensations of being human is a difficult and even times terrifying journey. No human life is without some great struggle and very likely, many little/big ruptures along the way. And while we are resilient creatures with incredible capacity to carry on at all costs, the trouble is - there really are costs. Our relationships suffer, our work suffers, our bodies struggle to be well and our own minds can be a harrowing place to live. Talk therapy can help us find ways to make sense of what has happened to us and offer useful reframing, but it doesn’t often deal with the underlying physical memories that return us over and over to the same hurts and the same behaviours. We are feeling beings, and we heal and mature through feeling, movement and language in safe, connected relationships. We all have the innate intelligence to move toward wellbeing when we register a caring environment, where authentic connection is possible. In this kind of setting, with skilful guidance and a titrated approach (meaning a little at a time) and at our own time, we can begin to metabolise our experiences and update our nervous systems and sense of self to a reality in the here and now.

The work of Peter Levin - Somatic experiencing, Pat Ogden, PHD - sensorimotor psychotherapy, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of ‘The body keeps the score’, and many others in the field of trauma informed somatics, inform Somatic movement therapy.

My practice is also informed also by my study and practice of yoga and ‘embodied anatomy, physiology and developmental movement’.

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Zenthai Shiatsu 

Zenthai shiatsu is a deeply restorative blend of thai massage, zen shiatsu and osteopathy. Founded by Gwyn Williams, this style of practice has become incredibly popular in the passed decade with students flocking from around the globe to the Sunshine Coast of Australia to embark on this one of a kind therapist training. 

I studied with Gwyn under the gumtrees with the kangaroos and kookaburra in 2012. The practice of Zenthai shiatsu opened me to relaxation and connection in a way no other bodywork had. The practice is intimate and down to earth. As is traditional to Thai and shiatsu massage, zenthai shiatsu is a clothed massaged on a thin futon on the ground. The close proximity with the earth along with the various relaxed gestures of contact invite the client into co-regulation with the system of the therapist and the surrounding environment. Co-regulation / nervous system support, relaxation and the generation / redirection of chi (vital life energy) are the main premise in my practice. 

Perfect for burnout, fatigue, overwhelm, emotion regulation, anxiety, depression.

Therapeutic touch for woman

Internal pelvic education and touch for sexual health and childbirth care (pre and post). 

In my study to become a birthing partner (doula) I came upon two wildly passionate and seasoned midwives. Jenny Blyth and Fiona Hallinan. I learnt with these women, perhaps for the first time in my early womanhood, to listen to my body and honour her as a place of wonder, strength and wisdom. Jenny and Fiona were teaching internal pelvic touch to prepare for birth. As I ventured into the world of the pelvis, hearing and sharing stories with other women of tensions and memory stored within, of the harm and the disconnect, but also of the bliss and the sovereign guidance, I became more and more passionate about women’s pelvic and sexual and whole-being health in general. In 2016 I embarked on a training in Yoni mapping therapy. Yoni mapping therapy centred around sexuality and the yoni (Yoni is a Sanskrit term for the whole pelvic and reproductive region). Deeply inspired, I went on to combine the birth-work wisdom with the method of yoni mapping and later the added depth of somatic movement therapy (which filled the gaps around working with trauma). I also taught pleasure education for women, hosting workshops and courses on cultivating safety and building sensitivity.

This approach to sexual wellbeing and pelvic care is something I wish for all woman to receive. A sisterly, grounded experience of the body, without rush or expectation to show up in any way particular way for someone else. Knowing the beauty of our bodies beyond what they can do for another is crucial in knowing who we are and cultivating loyalty to our own ongoing wellbeing. Our sex is one of our primary seats of safety in the world. Sensitive and responsive, when we know safety and pleasure this root somatic level we are able to breathe and be in the naturalness of our own life energy more often for ourselves and, overflowing from self into our families, career and friendships. 

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