Learn how to weave breathwork and somatics to enhance your ability to turn towards your internal system with loving attention.

I practice with a healing-centered Polyvagal and Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed approach. I am Canadian born, neurodivergent, white and able-bodied, middle-class, cisgender woman, with colonizer (British) and colonized (Irish) ancestral blood lines. I have benefited from practicing and teaching healing modalities that have roots in multiple ancient cultures. I acknowledge my social location and am actively researching, listening and deconstructing colonial consciousness within my own psyche and circle of influence. Check out my blog to follow along - and contribute - as my journey continues to take shape.

What is Somatic breathwork?

‘Somatics’ refers to a body-based therapy that seeks to uncover what is blocking healthy movement of energy and the body’s innate ability to heal. As a field and practice, the usage of the term somatics is also problematic due to the colonial extraction and appropriation that was/is a part of “Universalizing” this field of practice. I will continue to use the word somatic to describe my work in various ways, but I do so with full understanding of its complex history as I actively research to strengthen my relationship with the true roots of somatics multicultural history and lineage.

Somatic is a term that refers to the body’s subconscious and autonomic (automatic) reactions in the form of sensations, movement, visuals and various other types of communication that generally skips conscious processing. As a model of practice, it guides us (incrementally) towards a reclamation of our body’s natural ability to come back to a healthy baseline after intense or traumatic events.

Breathwork is a deliberate practice of taking conscious control of your breath in various ways to upshift, downshift or amplify our current physiological state. This can be practiced for both acute and chronic alterations of one's mood, emotions, health, beliefs and perspective. Using the wisdom garnered from slowing down and listening deeply, we can engage with our breath to experience altered states of consciousness, deep relaxation, or as a gateway to release what is stuck in the soma.

Why might you choose to work with me?

• You struggle with anxiety

• You have a sense of feeling blocked, stuck, or lost

• You are curious as to how to strengthen your mental health and well-being

• You experience muscular tension that massages or muscle relaxers relieve only temporarily

• You are curious to understand your nervous system and it’s intimate link to how you breathe

• You desire to learn how to start or deepen your meditation practice

• You’ve had a psychedelic experience (or are considering one) and are seeking integration

WELCOME to dope(a)me Somatic Awareness and Breathwork Coaching

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