Emotional Integration Bodywork
Emotional Integration Bodywork
Reconnect with the wisdom of your body in a safe and loving way through compassionate and present touch. Feel supported to surrender outdated emotional and mental patterns to live congruently from your heart with greater vitality, presence and purpose.
Emotional Integration Bodywork is a holistic, hands-on therapy designed to activate the body’s natural healing intelligence. Sessions may combine NLP, inner child and parts work theory, breath and energy work, or holistic massage. This modality is about relaxing the mind and orienting our attention inwards to open up a channel of communication with the body.
Many people spend much of their life lived in their head and attempt to resolve chronic challenges or repeated patterns of behaviour by cognitively “working them out”. If resolve is not found, it is likely that the patterning or trauma is stored at a cellular, nervous system level and needs to be released via the body. Although titled “emotional integration” bodywork, sessions can work with the mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic and physical body. Every session is unique and the body offers the next layer of content that is ready to be witnessed and integrated. This style views the person in their wholeness and takes an approach of curious inquiry rather than the "fixing"/pathological/therapy lens. All of you is welcome to show up and together we meet each moment curiously and warmly to connect with whatever is authentically alive within you.
Sessions allow for a reconnection with the underlying emotions, sensations and thoughts to be metabolised and integrated back into our system with a greater sense of wholeness. By welcoming these aspects to be felt and heard, we reveal the personal needs, truths and wisdom underlying these emotions and an opportunity to give ourselves the experience of what we haven’t received in the past in order to move forward in life making the most aligned and healthy choices available to us.
Who is this for?
Those wanting to create change in their lives, to access unexplored aspects of their being, to practice deep trust and surrender, and to come into alignment with your truth, presence and joy.
Supportive during life transitions, challenges, or changes in your life or experiencing a sense of "stuckness".
What is involved?
Sessions open with gaining an understanding of your intentions for the session. The bodywork component is offered on a massage table where you are draped like that of a traditional massage. A range of bodywork techniques are used, such as non-invasive trigger point holds, muscle releases, holistic massage and energetic activations, in combination with guidance to track sensations and utilise your breath, sounding and movement. Sessions close with stillness to integrate followed by time to discuss any reflections, questions or insights.
What are the benefits?
Benefits may include:
Accessing deeper layers of relaxation and stillness
Releasing energetic or emotional holdings
Improved functioning of the vagus nerve and restoring balance to the nervous system
Enhanced immune, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic & digestive function
Greater inner spaciousness and enhanced vitality and quality of sleep
Deeper body awareness, i.e., being more in touch with and connected to your own body
Expanded self awareness, fresh inspiration & deeper inner alignment
“There’s a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, ‘Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?’, and they’re finding out that, no, it’s not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we’re much more of an organic creature in that way”
Joel Kinnaman
Yin Bodywork
Reconnect with the wisdom of your body in a safe and loving way through compassionate and present touch. Yin Massage incorporates eastern massage styles with principles of relational touch and emotional integration. Allow yourself the opportunity to slow down, let go and receive nurturing, gentle and restorative touch.
Designed to take your body on a journey into deep relaxation, Yin Massage provides a container to reconnect with your body and inner aliveness. It is a flowing and nurturing form of massage that deeply relaxes the body, allows the mind to enter a restorative, altered state of consciousness and offers a transmission of yin qualities: compassionate, fluid, devotional, with deep reverence for the body and being. Sessions blend eastern massage styles with principles of relational touch and psychosomatic philosophy to activate the body’s natural healing process. It is an opportunity to receive heart-based touch for the purpose of self-care and greater inner alignment.
Who is this for?
Those seeking a unique, soulful massage to restore the entire being.
Those who experience chronic stress, busyness, anxiety, worry and nervous system imbalances, offering a way to calm the mind, let go of tension and bring the whole system back into harmony and ease.
Supportive during life transitions, challenges, or changes in your life or experiencing a sense of "stuckness".
Those wanting to create change in their lives, to access unexplored aspects of their being, to reconnect with their emotions/inner guidance system, to practice deep trust and surrender, and to come into alignment with their truth, presence and joy.
What is involved?
This offering is about relaxing the mind and orienting our attention inwards to open up a channel of communication with the body. Each session meets your body with the care it needs. Sessions may combine any of the following:
Holistic massage (whole-body integrative strokes, offering a sense of unfurling and being cocooned and held); Emotional detox (guidance to sense, release and integrate emotional bracings in the body); Sensory objects (various fabrics, textures and scents to awaken the senses); Touch-based meditation (gentle holds, body compressions and passive stretches that emphasise stillness to regulate the nervous system); Shamanic style sound bath (rattle, frame drum, koshi bells, singing bowl); Rhythmical rocking (rocking and pulsing techniques to unwind physical tension and create the relaxing sensation of gentle waves flowing through the body); Bone and joint massage (non-invasive and attentive touch to feel more present and connected to your body); Guided body scan (meditation to relax, slowly let go of the mind and drop into feeling, listening and sensing the body).
What are the benefits?
Benefits may include:
De-stressing, soothing the nervous system and returning to centre
Accessing deeper layers of relaxation and stillness
Releasing energetic or emotional holdings
Improved functioning of the vagus nerve and restoring balance to the nervous system
Enhanced immune, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic & digestive function
Greater inner spaciousness and enhanced vitality and quality of sleep
Deeper body awareness, i.e., being more in touch with and connected to your own body
Accessing deeper and/or subtler layers of surrender, bliss and aliveness within your body
Expanded self awareness, fresh inspiration & deeper inner alignment