Somatic Sessions

Body-based skills and nervous system care rooted in Somatic Experiencing for people who want to reconnect with their body and process past experiences, so they can live with a bit more ease.

Why connect with our bodies?

We have been socialized to control feelings and develop intellect over intuition.

Unfortunately, over-thinking creates chronic under-feeling.


It turns out that when we avoid feelings, they don’t just disappear like a fleeting thought, they nestle in our tissues, postures, and movement patterns.

This is where intuitive, body-centered practices and care come in.

These feelings could be stored from prior traumatic events like an impact injury, relational conflict, or illness. Either way, these emotions collect, as do the patterns they create.

As amazing as our bodies are for adapting through life, unprocessed experiences can lead to physical pain, limited range of motion, a weakened immune system, poor sleep, and overwhelm of the nervous system.

Body-centered care provides a way of processing undigested experiences through the physical body, without viewing the individual as a being made up of compartmentalized parts needing a “tune up”.

As complex and dynamic creatures, we are not machines or a mind in a container. The way we experience community, nature, events, and feelings are intertwined in our tissues and apparent in our expression. We can not seem to address one engendered pattern without tending to the whole.

Here, it is understood that your bodily experience is not worlds away from your thoughts, emotions, and spirit, rather integrated with it all.

With the awareness that all of our experiences are with us at all times, this offering is based in practices that acknowledge the discomfort in noticing and processing sensations, especially if they’ve been stored for some time.

Please know that in this work, you will always have choice in depth of processing, and will never be invited to experience outside of your capacity.

Hello, Friend.

Welcome to Earth Body Somatics.

My name is Rachel and I love helping people reconnect with their body, find resolution from trauma, and return to the self they recognize so they can live life with ease.

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We may be a good fit if you’re looking for:

curious inquiry and compassionate validation

I bring my curious and playful nature into each session in hopes of finding an easeful path towards clarifying and highlighting your own inherent wisdom. I also know very well how difficult it is to dig deep and find compassion for the parts of our selves that feel like the culprit. In those moments of facing a challenge, I am right there to remind you that your body holds far more than the “score”. Joy, pleasure, and ease are just waiting to be noticed.

responsive attention and trauma awareness

Your sense of safety and comfort are my top priorities. All of my offerings are aimed at tending to the nervous system with awareness of the individual’s experience, needs, and boundaries. In addition, I want to meet you where you’re at in each moment. This means we can adapt our plan to suit your needs before, during, and after the session. I suggest various props, tools, techniques, and approaches to a session so that we can create a container that looks like care to you.

a steady presence that centers relationship

I think you might already know how incredibly important relationships are in a therapeutic space. With the right person, we feel like co-regulation is a breeze, a sense of safety might be more accessible, and we feel hopeful that we can finally settle and soften with a witness. This sense of being seen and heard is key to our growth. I think you might also know that relationship building and growth take time. Please know, I am here for the slow and steady.

“Rachel is the most thoughtful practitioner I’ve had the experience of working with! It’s refreshing to find someone who integrates movement with body work, and introduces healing practices in this particular way. They are clearly knowledgeable and at the same time they are creative and kind in their work. I honestly couldn’t recommend them more.”

-Carly F.

What’s included in a session?

In our work together, we have many elements of a practice to integrate that include but are not limited to:

  • Somatic exploration is an experiential inquiry of sensation, visualization, patterns, emotions, and beliefs.

    This work is deeply influenced by the Somatic Experiencing method.

  • Personal bodywork provides an opportunity to feel into sensation to respond to what needs might be present in each moment.

    This is an active practice aimed at body awareness and re-patterning limiting shapes and movements.

    Plus: This is a great substitute for the individual who is not able to schedule hands-on bodywork.

  • Therapeutic movement is curious action that invites exploration of static posture and expressive motion with:

    • responsive movements that meet you exactly where you’re at with invitation to expand

    • foundational postures that build relationship with stability

    • dynamic exercises to further develop joint range and expansive patterns

  • There is a vast world of research for the nervous system and approaches to health. In our sessions, I center Polyvagal Theory and additional supporting claims aimed at whole system integration

Payment Options

Supported Rate

Pay $120 if you need a bit of support accessing this offering.

Standard Rate

Pay $150 if you can pay the middle way.

Supporting Rate

Pay $180 if you can pay the middle and more, while helping to balance the scale.

Step 1: sign up on the waitlist

Once there is space available, I will reach out to schedule your initial session!

Step 2: return for regular sessions.

Our work begins with sessions aimed at building a strong support system for the work ahead with attention on resourcing, boundary, needs, and preferences

Each session after will vary in order to meet you in each moment, but for the most part our time together will align within this structure:

  • When we first meet and settle, I’ll join you in an exercise that invites us both to arrive in the room together.

  • An assessment can include body scans, a check in of movements and shapes held in your body, and a revisit of your goals to be sure we are on the right path for you.

  • This care includes everything we planned on and many alternate choices available when we need to adapt.

  • After your session, we can reflect on our work together and create personalized rituals and practices that will carry you long after our session.

“Rachel is sensitive, intuitive, informative and comforting. They offered movement that I could carry with me outside of our session to continue to support my body. I’m so thankful that healers like this exist and grateful to have been the recipient of her care.”

    — Brea Y.

FAQs

  • The duration of your commitment is dependent on your needs, goals, and expectations.

    However, I recommend committing to at least 6 months of weekly or biweekly sessions.

    This allows us to create a foundation of resources and tools you can take for ongoing emotional care.

    One-off sessions can be of value for emergent support needs, once you feel stable in your practice.

  • While somatic skills and resources are a great complement to traditional talk therapy, it does not replace clinical attention.

    Clinical treatment is highly valuable for those experiencing chronic mental illness and seeking diagnosis and/or medicinal therapies.

  • Short answer: yes and no.

    I believe the words “regulate” and “release” to be pretty attractive outcomes when it comes to wanting to rid oneself of uncomfortable feelings. Of course I want this for myself and others, but I just don’t think it’s that simple.

    The work “regulate” reminds me of the social narrative that expects us to control ourselves and “get it together” in order to get back to work.

    While most of us need such resources in order to function, and work to survive, I like to reframe emotional regulation, as emotional relationship.

    This describes the act of being able to sit with the difficult and notice choice. This means that your anger, sadness, resent, disgust and all of those other bigger feelings are welcome and valid.

    With a somatic practice, we might better hold ourselves with compassion, recognize our emotions, patterns, and activations.

    Whereas before, they possibly ran the show and brought shame along.

    Emotions will always be here with us on this ride of the human experience, but acceptance of that might be a good first step to noticing them.

“Rachel makes somatics make sense with practical applications. 10/10 recommended to anyone looking to tune into their persona wisdom.”

— Private Client

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