The work I do
- Somatic Coaching
- Somatic Bodywork
All are welcome here! I work with humans of all sizes, shapes, ages, races, abilities, gender identities, religions, and sexual orientations.
I do trauma focused healing ~ grief, injury, surgery, loss, anxiety, chronic pain, overwhelm.
I am currently not billing for insurance massage but can provide you with a superbill for Somatic Bodywork that you can submit to your insurance.
I am also offering a sliding scale fee, please email me and we can set a rate that works for you. I am committed to sharing this work and making it accessible to everyone~
Somatic Coaching
$150 per session ~ 1 hour in person or virtual
Series of 10 $1400
Somatic Coaching: 60 minute sessions in a conversational style-setting where we explore a deeper understanding of your physical, mental and overall well-being over 10 sessions.
- Bring Somatic awareness into your body to recognize truths and patterns that are a part of your experience.
- Uncover some of your deepest longings and what is at the heart of all of this? Your body knows.
- Learn mindfulness, movement practices and breathing techniques to facilitate embodied transformation.
- Leave each session with new awakenings, skills and practices to last you a lifetime of learning.
- Build focused and ongoing support in your transformation.
First session is 90 minutes.
This work is done over a 10 session arc and can also be effective in the shorter range if that feels more aligned with you after we chat. I am excited to partner with you in this work!
Free Intro to Somatics conversation, is this the work for you?
Book a free Somatics chat with Katy
Somatic Bodywork
$195 per session ~ 90 min in person
Series of 10 $1900
- Gain deeper awareness of how adaptive strategies, reactions and patterns are getting in the way of you living as your best self.
- Unwind from the trauma and overwhelm that live in your body to truly let go of these patterns, to find deep and lasting healing.
- Build a powerful connection to your inner resilience.
- Discover the next powerful steps on your healing journey, moving towards more aliveness, excitement and alignment with your true self.
- Learn new embodied skills to cultivate awareness, deepen connections and foster listening and compassion, practice clear boundaries and a new depth of presence in your life and relationships.
Each 90 minute session offers up to 60 minutes on the table bringing awareness into your body as we go with conversation, a blend of bodywork techniques, meditation, movement and breath work.
Free Intro to Somatics conversation, is this the work for you?
Book a free Somatics chat with Katy
Wellness Massage
Deep tissue wellness or injury treatment massage!
What is Somatics?
Somatics is a discipline that recognizes that our physical experiences and postures are intimately linked to our inner experience.
Our SOMA is the entirety of self, this vivid inner world that is outwardly expressed through our living bodies, shaped by all of the sensations, emotions, the narratives dwelling within us. The soma includes the survival strategies, adaptive behavioral and thought patterns we have collected over a lifetime.
From the soma, we move through the world: from childhood, through life transitions, trauma, social shaping and choice, we are weaving the tapestry of our lives, making deliberate choices in our actions, building our world, and establishing meaningful connections with others.
Working with Somatics brings you into your body in new ways: becoming aware of the subtle messages and not just the loud ones that we actually receive. We often hear those ones finally when it can feel a little late in the game. We learn HOW to notice patterns, messages and truths that our body holds. We find space for befriending the intelligence of the body. Then we learn how to shift towards what makes sense for us now.
We practice new ways of acting and reacting, being in your body and your world in a way that allows you to chose connection and greater choice. And ulitimately, we practice feeling more like the YOU that delights you, lights you up and then lights up everyone around you.
The skills and practices that we work with in Somatics are about depth of connection with yourself and with others, really tuning into your body as you are in the room with another. What happens inside of you when you are grabbed, annoyed, irked by that thing that happens every single time?! What if we could slow everything down to see that shifts happen in the realm of the BODY, the body holds our reactions and the stories of our life. Your body is telling you to run, escape, shut down, move away, grip tightly. Your throat is tight, your stomach is in a knot, your breath is shorter. We cannot shift cognitively into letting go of these reactions without this awareness in the body.
As we practice building awareness of our patterns, it becomes a fascinating domain of learning and self compassion, where you get to see how: OF COURSE I want to run away, that makes sense! That’s why I’m picking that fight, that’s why I’m tensing up like that and nothing gets through, that’s the feeling that keeps me from embracing the next new thing, and on and on. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
And the sticky, confusing, stuck feeling starts to unravel.
The grip of the mystery becomes less overwhelming.
And you are building skills around knowing and befriending what’s truly happening to us.
You are less focused on the argument and more focused on the thing that’s happening inside, so you can really show up differently.
You start showing up in ways that FEEL really good, like maybe more alive, softer, more open.
YES!
We are fascinating. And your body wants you to know what’s happening!
What is Somatic Coaching?
Somatic Coaching brings awareness techniques that are both still like guided meditations and body scans and also active like recreating a mild type of stress in your life and practicing what happens inside of you, what it feels like to shift into a new way of being and react differently. We aren’t making the patterns “go away”, we are effectively celebrating how you have moved through your life to be alive and breathing today in spite of all of the challenges.
And here you are, ready to try a centered request instead of the old way of bulldozing or retreating, as your body is so familiar and ready to do.
We build awareness, we practice new techniques and build in the capacity to recognize what you deeply long for in. your life, also by listening to your body as we go. Your soma gets to reallign to your most powerful self, open up to possibilites and find your true inner north, a felt sense of what’s right for you.
How do you even tune into yourself as you go and where do you tend to loose touch? It’s awesome, fascinating and the coaching container creates a playfulness to the awareness that helps you feel supported, light and seen in this process. It makes it feel less “hard” to change but rather you have a partner walking on the path with you helping you to see what your body is saying to you and to support you in the dynamic process of transformational change.
This work of Somatics allows for you to work powerfully with those around you from a place of grounded knowing and connection to your self. We are often very distracted by being in the room with others, our social behaviors are layered and we are conditioned to defer to others needs, protect ourselves, over question our own desires in that realm.
As you practice tuning into the Somatic messages of your body, your decisions and choices become much clearer to you even in the face of distraction. Your YES now comes from deep within you rather than just your head, it might be a feeling of lightness or joy. Your NO is now rooted into the deepest part of you to a knowing that is felt, maybe just noticing the tightness in your stomach is enough to hear your own no now. It’s not just a thought process of yes or no, your body is telling you loud and clear. There is an ease to it.
And the request or conversation that follows your decision becomes much less about needing to convince yourself, rather a showing up with compassion for your inner knowing that expresses to others a sense of confidence and ease. These qualities of being enable a powerful way of working with others that is full of confidence, clarity and ease. At the same time you get to foster a depth of intimacy, connection, and listening to others that we all are deeply yearning for as humans.
This is what blows me away: WHAT IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE on this earth if we can learn to show up lovingly connected to our own selves as we connect with others? I believe that this work allows us to truly listen, to show up for and support one another in uplifting ways that can transform all of our relationships for the better!
At the core of Somatic work lies the concept of embodied transformation. We uphold that true growth and lasting change require more than just mental understanding or surface-level adjustments. Embodied transformation involves a deep, visceral shift in how we inhabit our bodies and engage with the world.
WHY CHANGE?
There are moments in our journey when we realize that or vision or what we deeply long for is out of alignment with our current patterns of thought, emotion, or behavior. Our actions might be totally incongruent with how we truly want to show up this world. In my realm of massage and bodywork, this is often seen through the distraction of discomfort, chronic pain, physical limitations that you long to move past in order to focus on the things that matter to you: your family, health, activities and engagement in life in a deeper way.
You might feel stuck, distracted, frustrated, hopeless on the physical front.
We realize in these moments of stuckness that something needs to shift… but what? And HOW? We are being called upon to participate in a new way of understanding of what is happening in our physical selves. Let’s look deeper. This moment is empowering us to bring a much deeper perspective to what is happening than just the physical realm, to adopt new practices, to take different actions, and build new narratives that align with our evolving selves. Do you believe in change and transformation? Somatic work is powerful, deeply transformative and builds in skills that can shift your body and mind for your lifetime.
Somatic Coaching supports this particular moment of deep change for you as you learn to expand your emotional range, embrace the complexities and uncertainties of life in tough moments, and to move from a new center of connection with yourself into decisive action.
Action that moves you towards BEING your deepest you from a body sense, not just a THINKING sense of who you should be or how you should act. Perhaps like the feeling of fluency in a new language that over time, you realize that you are living and breathing the new language from a felt sense of being in the conversation rather than thinking it through in your head. This is the Jedi stuff I’m talking about ~
You can do this! Step with me towards a new relationship with your body on this journey of Somatic awakening.