Welcome, and thank you for stopping by my website! I regularly update my website, as I continue training and development and my own personal growth experiences. Most of the photos, however are more than ten years old, from when I opened my private practice. Since I have now gracefully aged to 72 years old, my hair is greyish and I wear glasses, as you can see in this one updated photo above. The photos of my healing room are still accurate depictions of the treatment setting. I am happy to have sufficient well-being to be able to provide sessions and feel good in my body. I have had a hip and knee replacement and am enjoying embodied movement more than ever.
Join me for some “you time” and trauma informed bodywork for stabilization and grounding and exploring do-able bits of your felt sense of past experiences which no longer serve you.
I love session time, because, even though I have my own practice of meditation and nutritious movement activities (walking, yoga and the swimming pool), intentionally meeting with an other (you) gives me the chance to drop even deeper inside and learn more with you. We both benefit from the session, a really great win-win situation:
- refresh, recharge, reattune, reorient, reflect, reconnect, replenish, renew, rejuvenate, refill, re-stabilize, re-ground, and come more fully into a felt sense of well being.
We all come into life with these capacities, and sometimes early life events interrupt our experience of wholeness, and we have to re-connect with the innate wholeness of our body, mind, and spirit. As we intentionally spend time slowing down, feeling more present in our body, including our own totally unique intentions, our sense of what is possible can expand. This is part of one of the gifts of being human, being able to reflect and see where some past experience is impacting our experience of goodness in the present moment. The best part is we all have everything we need to do this: a body and some time for reflection and awareness. Noticing what is happening in the body, in the present moment, can guide us to the healing. (In other words, the wisdom is already inside of you, and I will accompany you on a journey to connect to your own wisdom.)
To allow our work together to be as effective as possible (either by Zoom or in-person) I will be bringing presence, grounding, safety and connection to the session. Then together we will discover, in an interactive way, what works best to settle your body security system and hear the story your system is sharing in the present moment.
I will use principles and practices from the foundational trainings I have been participating in for the past decade and a half since receiving my massage therapy license. These include: Alchemical Alignment — Somatic Experiencing — Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy — Integrated Pre and Perinatal Healing — Integrative Reflexology — Myofascial Release Massage — Singing Bowls for Sound Healing. In addition, my nearly three decades of work in management in the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital system gave me experiences and observations of the impact of stress on the suppression and expression of health.
Together, during your session and in the preparation for the session, we can understand and allow difficult patterns from the past to be felt in the present moment, facilitated by your awareness of your body, mind and spirit. Using your present time, right here, right now awareness, past experiences can dissolve, and be “extinguished”, and wholeness, resilience, rejuvenation, stability can come to the present moment. This is work we will do in the present moment, with the sensations and images that come to your awareness during the session. (Please note, I am not a psychological therapist, I am a body worker. This work we will do is not regression or cathartic therapy; we will stay with the present moment with awareness of physiology, sensations and images.) And because of my years of training in pre and perinatal dynamics, we can include awareness of those times as well.
By listening to the body security system (aka “nervous” system), and using communication skills, this is different than a traditional massage, where I as practitioner focus almost exclusively on the tension and thickened musculature in your body. Instead, we will partner in discovery of healing that is right for you in the present moment. I am a facilitator rather than a healer. This is an important distinction. Your system has everything it needs for healing and I will be with you in discovering where your body’s inherent capacities for healing have an “imprint” from the past inhibiting the healing. And, healing can continue after the session, as the body slowly continues the process that got started during the session. So I request that you let me know what you are experiencing after the session.
Your results and benefits will be optimal if you have an intention for the session. I will ask about your intention(s) for the session. This can be as simple as having more ease, feeling more safety, feeling more peaceful, and can be related to your whole body and being, or specific parts of your body, awareness, and breathing.
I look forward to seeing you if you are someone who enjoys self reflection, growth and development, and if you are willing to share what is going on in the present moment.
I recently had a total knee replacement. It has been a bit of recovery and I am better than before when the knee was not strong and supportive. I learned so much from the process (which included a very strong reaction to the anesthesia). The recovery gave me the chance to review some earlier surgical and medical experiences and clear unexpressed fragments from those earlier times. And I learned a lot about re-regulating my sleep because my body did not want to drop into sleep after the whole anesthesia/surgery process. It is so interesting. And I am better than before, for sure.
Susanne
