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.
The practitioner continually verbally checks in with you as the hands-on touch happens, 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.