My focus is on real healing, weaving in trauma science, somatic experiencing, conscious expression. healing touch, and relational elements, not just over-activation for a temporary cathartic high like you see in most holotropic breathwork or even in many psychedelic journeys.

The body, as the first layer of mindfulness, supports us in deeper inner awareness and connection to our present moment experience.

The breath, which means spirit or life force across languages, revives our vitality and unlocks our infinite reservoir of compassion ad creativity, opening us up to intimate connections to ourselves, others, and to life.

Activating breathwork in particular is used to access the layers of the autonomic nervous system through stimulation, while putting our analytical and intellectual mind to rest so we focus on feeling.

My focus is again on true healing so is not about over-stimulation, and we engage in stabilization or regulation as much as needed, as well as discovering and expanding resources. But without any stimulation, it’s not trauma healing. We’ll find the sweet spot for you together.

Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive and self-protective or survival response. To heal trauma is to restore a sense of safety.

Our impulses to traumatic experiences need to be expressed and the emotions realized so the autonomic nervous system’s cyclical process can complete. By completing these impulses, feeling what needed to be felt through compassionate presence, and shedding layers of false identity, we can reconnect to our heart and true self which is innately healing and resilient.

Trauma can be acute/shock based that’s from a specific event, developmental based from our early life experiences, or from chronic stress and repressed authentic emotions overtime.

Trauma prevents us from being present and, as such, it is presence that liberates us from trauma. Presence means feeling and being.

Don’t get caught up in calling every part of you a trauma response though as that’s not helpful. Instead, use this knowledge as liberation to understand your nervous and attachment systems had initially been responding in a way to protect you. And now, if you’re ready to change, you can do something new. I’d be honored to support you on that journey with this work.

Somatic healing is an approach that focuses on the connection between the mind and body to help release trauma, stress, and emotions. It works on the idea that our experiences, particularly the ones that are hard to be present with, are stored in the body, or rather create layers of defense, protection, and compensation patterns that keep us in a sense of feeling stuck.

Healing can come from addressing this through the power of physical sensations and emotional feelings. Emotions that we allow ourselves to feel, using the body as the vehicle, flow through us and complete on their own. Notice how you get butterflies in your belly when you’re nervous, teary eyed when sad, flush when angry, etc. These are the body’s physiological responses to emotions moving through us.

Trauma overwhelms the nervous system and prevents our natural physiological response to the experience to complete. This makes the autonomic nervous system rigid, stuck in the experience of the past, and the life force of the individual unable to freely express. So somatic healing empowers our innate ability to resolve and release trauma on its own, shedding those defensive blocks and returning to our true self.

Somatic healing like somatic experiencing and breathwork are bottom-up methods, rather than top-down methods like talk therapy.

See also my somatic trauma resolution brainspotting offering.

Start by booking a free 15-minute discovery call using the calendar below.

I offer single sessions for returning clients or those seeking just to try the work. But for true transformation, I offer a 7-session package or a 12-session personalized Integrative Container.

If currently managing a heart condition, detached retina or glaucoma, diagnosed brain or abdomen aneurysm, high blood pressure, uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid conditions, epilepsy, experiencing or being treated for psychotic or mental illness conditions (including diagnosed bipolar or schizophrenia), recent surgery/injury, currently pregnant, or any serious medical or mental condition mentioned that you are unsure about, this type of breathwork is not recommended.

Sessions are either online from anywhere in the world via live Zoom, or in-person in NYC.

For those in the New York City area, I always recommend in-person for any of my somatic work as it is more powerful when we’re together. Please reach out to book. I utilize a space in Chelsea, Manhattan.