B O D Y S P O K E N

Collaborative
Unlike other modalities that tell you what is wrong with you, and how to fix it – this relational process collaborates with you on how to articulate your experience and where you want to take it.

Gentle but long-term effective titration
We use a process of gently entering and exiting challenging or highly dynamic states or themes, so your body doesn’t get overwhelmed.

Guided tracking helps self-regulation
You will be supported to practice awareness in tracking your sensations. These help anchor you in your body in moments of high-performance or stress. Eventually you will be able to do this alone.

Develop a richer felt sensation of your relational self
As you progress, you will gain a complex unique landscape of physical sensations that go beyond ‘fight, flight, freeze’ and other ways that our survival instinct protects us. You will be able to hold complexity, empathy and deep connection for yourself but also with others.

As a child I grew up in London around multiple cultures, languages and belief systems, and was exposed to many perspectives of the world.  It taught me to notice the importance of empathy and compassion in a panoply of differing views. Growing up, I often found connection through dancing or playing music, which I started to do professionally – performing and teaching to support people’s creativity and expression.

Working as a musician, dancer and performance-maker, I became fascinated with body awareness and the communicative power of touch, to learn about ourselves and each other.  These things are a basic human need, yet so neglected in our education and society today. We may still engage in physicality and touch, but we may not be encouraged to connect it deeply to our thoughts, feelings or ideas. The body can remain repressed, mystified, inaccessible or unspoken.

With BODYSPOKEN, I want to flip this around. Here, in these sessions, we tap into our bodily intelligence while exploring verbal communication. Working with both can give us clarity, strength and empowerment into our goals, challenges and wishes in life.

We usually start speaking together in conversation. 

The verbal conversation helps to get a shared picture of what is present for you, and together we learn what physical and emotional themes are important for you to connect to.

This leads us onto the hands-on part of the session which continues, much like our verbal conversation but through touch.

We can do this while sitting, standing, moving, or lying down on the massage table.

During the bodywork, we can continue at moments to describe your experience through both touch and verbal instruction to guide you through the session.

Touch can be gentle, firm, or anything in between. The practitioner continually verbally checks in with you, encouraging movement or release in fascial, skeletal, organ pathways. The bodywork responds to subtle emotional tension and release responses. The touch is relational and it connects to an empathic co-regulatory approach between us.

Often an expansion of breath and free movement happens as an integration process, which is supported if you wish to follow it. Movement can be internal or external, initiated by you, or guided by the practitioner.

At the end of each session there is time for you to rest on your own to let your body and mind process.