Sacred Embodiment:
Womb Somatic Bodywork & Yoga Therapy for the Female Nervous System
At the end of my suffering/ There was a door - Louise Gluck
Do you long to be restored to a sense of flow and self-trust?
Maybe you have been through experiences of pain and loss, and feel their imprints in your body and relationships.
Do you long for a different kind of relationship with your body and self?
It often feels hard to imagine a way out of chronic pain, fatigue, resentments and low mood, yet some part of you knows you’re not meant to feel like this forever.
Working with the body gets to the root of things in a way that talking therapy may not touch. With the use of nurturing touch, your body feels directly that you are not alone, and that you are supported.
This work is gentle, sensitive and powerful. We bring curiosity, reverence and compassion towards ourselves.
We recognise the wisdom of our body’s protective strategies, and establish a sense of safety and being at home in the here-and-now.
Prioritising process over outcome or agenda. Prioritising pleasure, and the female-system’s primary regulator of oxytocin.
I support your expression so you can be witnessed in your truth, and pain is turned to art through creativity and imagination.
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I am in the final stages of a diploma apprenticeship training with Sophia Ansari in trauma-informed Womb Gaia bodywork and yoga therapy.
This approach is an alchemical marriage of modalities which include massage, yoga, dance and qigong, within a person-centred, trauma-informed framework. It combines clinical practice grounded in the science of the nervous-system with ancestral wisdom and the medicine of love philosophy.
We take a ‘bottom-up’ approach, focusing on what is happening in your experience in the present moment. While revelations and meaning making will occur, we spend more time in the somatic layers of experience: sensation, image, emotions, impulses and movement, deliberately practising coming out of thoughts and narrative and back into the senses.
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We will start with a check-in and body scan to establish how you are doing today. We gain a shared understanding of our starting point.
From there the session flows with your consent and direction. This may involve movement, simple breath awareness, sounding, and touch through clothes or massage with oil.
Gentle dialogue takes place through the session. I may share my observations and will encourage you to sense and express your experience with compassion and patience.
I will follow your process and offer suggestions and guidance when it seems helpful. There is time in every session for integration and rest.
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Info to come…
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If you are interested, please use the contact form to reach out and I will send you further information about how we work together. I am here if you have any questions.
While finishing my training, I have set my fees at:
Initial consultation: £45 for one hour
Weekly therapy: £60 for 75 minutes
In the initial meeting, we will discuss what you are hoping to get out of therapy and I will be able to give you some idea of how long we may need to work together.
Your body is sacred
Your body is nature
Nothing is outside of Love
Your sensuality is your own to claim
I celebrate the fullness of your expression
I honour the intelligence of your body
I have faith in your aliveness and
The wellspring of your power
