Where the body leads

Somatic bodywork and somatic energy work uses uses intentional touch and energetic attunement to access stored tension and survival patterns. Ideal if talking feels overwhelming or if you’re stuck in patterns that insight alone hasn’t shifted.

It's a hands-on, sensory-based process that invites connection, felt experience and release without needing to explain. Helps the body feel safe enough to soften, regulate, and reset at a deep level.

Primarily engages the primitive, sensory, and autonomic centres of the brain.

I’m devoted to understanding the deeper essence beneath somatic bodywork and somatic energy work; not just learning modalities for the sake of it. What drives me is a profound curiosity - a desire to understand the deeper layers of our conscious experience and what truly supports embodied and integrated transformation. Over the years, I’ve studied, and continue to study, a range of bodywork approaches with internationally renowned teachers I deeply respect.

Spinal Flow

Taught by:
Dr. Carli Axford

Taught by:
Dr. Sarah Jane

Currently being taught by:
Dr. John Amaral

Taught by:
Eve King

My experience

Spinal Energetics

Intuitive Bodywork

Somatic Energy Healing

For me, it’s about attuning to the conversation between body, mind, and spirit - both my own, and my clients' - to be able to hold space with care and precision. To be able to recognise where someone is on their journey and meet them with the support their system needs the most in that moment. Years of working with people from diverse backgrounds have shown me just how uniquely each system holds and responds to life. It’s taught me how to listen closely, adapt intuitively, and honour the pace and needs of each person’s journey.

How the body communicates

In Somatic Bodywork, we tune into the the language of the body, which is often subtle, layered, and ancient. It doesn’t speak in words. but in sensation, movement, breath, energy, posture, tension, and stillness.

It tells us what feels safe, what feels too much, and what has been left unspoken.

The body communicates through:

Sensations: tightness, heat, numbness, tingling, or spaciousness
Movements: shaking, stretching, curling in, expanding out
Breath patterns: shallow, held, deep, or trembling
Energetic cues: pulling back, softening, opening
Instinctive sounds: sighs, cries, hums, or even silence

This language often speaks the truth before the mind can make sense of it.
It reveals where we are holding, where we’re protecting, and where we might be ready to release.

To listen to the body is to come into relationship with your whole self—not just intellectually, but somatically and energetically.

It’s not always comfortable. But it is always honest.

A little reflection