Integrative Bodywork

Restore Balance Naturally

Would you like your body to feel better when you move?  To live more freely, with reduced  pain, and increased pleasure? 

My practice offers "body-centered therapy with your whole being in mind."   Integrative -- connecting differentiated elements into a whole -- Bodywork is for better health, for life.   

A California state certified massage practitioner, I incorporate manual therapy, movement education, and body awareness to facilitate your well-being.  Physiology-based trauma healing work, Somatic Experiencing helps restore a natural calm, counters anxiety and depression, and helps manage stress-related disorders such as fibromyalgia, migraine, gastric reflux, IBS --- even PTSD. 

Hammocks and Cathedrals: How Do You Experience Support?

It's a new workshop! 

I want to share the fun of my practice in a group setting.  Co-leading is my friend Cynthia, an executive coach and mentor! 

We'll be exploring together through our senses :  the physical support available in your body, how it feels when you're supported. Throw in some creative art-making, playful movement, and you have the picture.

On a Saturday morning in March, at a lovely home in Claremont......... 

        ..........I'd love to tell you more, but Cynthia and I are still working out the details. 

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Five Days of Holiday Stress Relief

Counter inertia with a tool.

Could be a paddle, to push away water.  A shovel in the garden.  Spoons, for cooking or making music.  Or just feet, to get the hell out of Dodge.

Eight Days of Holiday Stress Relief

Oops!

Plans not well-laid -- well, not even made!

Today:  Playing it by ear.  Playing by faith.  Playing. Hoping these notes lead to the next notes, turning from single dropped notes to rippling lines of notes.

Listening for tomorrow's melody.

Nine Days of Holiday Stress Relief

Discovery:  I have stuck my neck out!  Accountable for 8 more days!  To write about relieving stress, I start right here:  Anxiety.  

Anxiety makes me want to go in circles.  Accountability makes me feel tied down. 

Can I just hang out, in-between? 

In-between,the circles become like waves; the ties, more elastic.  Anchoring. Supporting. Forgiving.

Writing.

10 Days of Holiday Stress Relief

What's next? 

Anticipating.   In one long-drawn in-breath of incessant drumbeats the internal pressure increases making my head hurt till finally -- no more space to expand -- the wave crests, ahhh, sailing, exhaling, freely surveying as I look 'round from the other side. 

Preparing for holidays I naturally notice anticipation building.  But while busying about, I can change up the rhythm by breathing OUT first and then later, breathing in.  So that's "Out ...pause...'N In." 

Prepare ye.  Look 'round.