somatic library
Our bodies speak a language many of us have forgotten. We are all part of a whole, yet this relationship has been disrupted. A wound is also a story, is language, is memory woven through our bodies and into our souls.
Change is always present.
And the presence always offers change.
Somatic library is a space of deep listening, learning to read the language of your body and create from this wisdom. The conditions we find ourselves in make us leave our body at times. Here, we return home and gather what we have been through, what we have learned and what can be alchemised.
Through somatic touch and mindful guidance, we restore grounding and trust, release tension and stress, practice connection and imagine what’s possible. Every body is different, every story needs a different medicine. Here, we find what works for you and by doing so, deepen the relationship to yourself, your body, your connection to the natural world and your belonging within.
By inviting aliveness back into the body, somatic touch creates space for transformation and the ground that helps navigate the challenging chapters of our lives with more clarity, rootedness and imagination.
All you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God is Change.
Earthseed: The Book of the Living
Octavia E. Butler
My personal practice is deeply shaped by my somatic lineage* as well as the principles of Ayurveda, slowness, fractal change, radical dreaming and storytelling.
The practice of somatics is rooted in indigenous wisdom viewing the body in relationship to the mind and the soul, to the natural and more-than human world. The interconnected systems of oppression and extraction have severed us from these relationships. We have unconsciously inherited practices that do not belong to us and they have often left a shape within our being. We have forgotten what it means to be and feel connected, to read the signals of our bodies and let them inform us. In order to create change, both within ourselves and our environments, we are asked to begin to listen and cultivate resilience by knowing how to stay rooted in our values, to truly trust ourselves and to move with clarity and a vision of liberation for ourselves and all living beings we share this world with.
A wound is also an opening.
Pain is also a guide, is pointing towards something we care about.
A story is always a portal.
Whatever chapter you’re in - you do not have to journey alone.
Somatic Offerings:
Berlin
Nervous System Tending 50-70 Euro
60 Minutes
for deep restoration and grounding
Somatic Bodywork Single Session 60-80 Euro
90 Minutes
inviting grounding, release and
transformation
Somatic Foot & Cosmic Body Reading 40 Euro
unearth your natural gifts
Cleansing Ritual 60 Euro
for energetic release and renewal
Sliding scale pricing is available as a framework of solidarity and a commitment to more accessible healing. Please consider yourself within the shared conditions of inequality and instability as well as your current availablity to support both your healing and my offering to you :)
*Somatic lineage*
My somatic lineage is informed by the wisdom of Audre Lorde, Octavia E. Butler, Mary Oliver, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, adrienne marie brown, Prentis Hemphill, Alta Starr, Staci K. Haines, Dr. Rae Johnson, Kai Cheng Thom, Dr. Manuela Mischke-Reed, my somatic bodywork teacher Barbara Doubray and my fellow somatic practitioner and mentor Sarah Entwistle.
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