Nurturing Touch and Somatic Exercise Integration
If you are new participant, this service is great for you if you have pelvic pain, pelvic trauma, birth trauma, and if you are not ready for internal pelvic floor work. This service does not include internal pelvic floor therapy. Learn more about internal therapy here.
If you are an established client, this service is great for you to practice your prescribed home movement exercises with your practitioner.
If you are new to pelvic PT, this service includes gentle approaches to feeling safe in your body, using somatic approaches to source groundedness and presence. You have the opportunity to establish a trusted relationship with your physical therapist, without receiving a diagnosis, and to ease into the process of transformation and somatic repositioning.
Are you an established client feeling a bit lost, overwhelmed, or struggling to commit to your home exercise program? If you already have a prescribed home practice (2-3 exercises), this one hour visit will start with guided imagery and meditations, and may include hands-on guidance from your therapist as you practice your prescribed PT exercises. This is a wellness visit. Virtual option available.
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Somatic approaches to exercise and touch include:
Somatosensory and vestibular integration through embodied, compassionate touch with a skilled practitioner.
Connect to your nervous system, organs, fluid body, connective tissue, and endocrine system as an approach to source movement with ease and joy.
This is also for you if you want your spine and pelvis to feel free and your hips and shoulders to feel strong.
Individualized dynamic posture movement exercises likely included.
***You may experience surprising emotions, discomfort, and nervous system “dysregulation” while being witnessed and held in a body practice at a slower pace. Nothing is wrong with you if you experience this. Our bodies are colonized by oppressive systems and we are all experiencing and witnessing violence at local and global scales.
Our collective humanity is threatened. Our bodies store these wounds until we slow down to attend to them, and mindful movement may awaken the trauma. Our spirit needs multiple wise healers in our “village.” Participants who also have a relationship with a trusted psychotherapist (Black Therapists Rock, Somatic Experiencing) tend to feel safer in their body when discomfort or fear emerges.
Fee: $140/hour in person. $100/hour virtual (guided self touch is welcome). Service facilitated by Dr. Maryssa, PT, DPT, Body-Mind Centering® student.
