the art of sacred tendingCeremonial Bodywork for Your Whole Being.
Return to connection & remember the wisdom within.
Spiritual work that occurs through the body.
Nervous system nourishment.
Release, re-alignment, & re-balancing.
Soul embodiment.
Access Clarity & Coherance
of Mind, Body and Spirit
Each session provides a space for your body to soften. Guards to come down. Layers to shed. Deep inner wisdom to be revealed and recognized.
Experience re-organization, re-balancing, re-calibration and re-attunement to the truth of your system.
Cellular remembrance of who you are and what you are truly capable of.
At the centre of my approach is creating space for the wisdom of the body to lead and guide.
With a deep, listening touch, we may work with multiple layers of the physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual bodies. I listen and learn from the subtle cues and rhythms that comprise the foundation of your experience of day-to-day life.
These sessions are gentle, but powerful– working with layers that may only reveal themselves in silence and stillness.
With this gentle, integrative approach, healing and resolution can occur that may not be reached through more intensive forms of bodywork, cognitive-focused approaches, or purely energetic modalities.
A Ceremonial Bodywork session is not only a healing experience but a learning experience. Each session offers an invitation to orient towards a new way of being, and soften into deeper listening to what lives within.
Based upon a foundation of Craniosacral Therapy each session weaves multiple intuitive, energetic and body-led modalities and is a co-creation with each unique client. I do not apply specific protocols but rather meet you as you are and where you are.
From that space, we tend not only to what is presenting in the body, but to the many different dimensions and faculties of aliveness.
This work can occur in-person in Duncan or Victoria, or be adapted for remote, online sessions.
What People Are Saying
This work can support a wide variety of conditions and experiences. Common themes to bring to the support of a session include:
𖦹 Chronic stress, grief, overwhelm, confusion, fear or burnout
𖦹 Physical, mental, emotional or spiritual pain, distress or discomfort
𖦹 Nervous system dysregulation (feeling on-edge, wired, shut down, stuck)
𖦹 Persistent tension or holding patterns in the physical mental or emotional body
𖦹 Headaches, migraines, TMJ, earaches
𖦹 Acute or chronic fatigue & difficulty sleeping or fully resting
𖦹 A sense of disconnection from your body, spirit or life
𖦹 Any feeling that something is “off”
𖦹 A desire for a more intuitive, gentle, and holistic approach to wellbeing
𖦹 Support in navigating your healing journey
𖦹 Support in grounding your healing work with the healing of the Earth & support of nature
𖦹 Connecting to your inner wisdom, intuitive abilities and creative capacities
𖦹 Simply receiving tending, nourishment, rest, care & touch
What to Expect in an Initial Session:
After being greeted and welcomed, you will…
Engage in brief or extended dialogue surrounding your primary intentions for working together
Move to lay face up and clothed on treatment table (or zero gravity chair if accessibility accommodation is needed)
Receive gentle hands on contact and holding – especially at the feet, sacrum, spine and cranium
Gentle therapeutic techniques may be applied to support release and realignment, or off-body energetic work may take place
Some sessions may be held in silence, while some may involve verbal dialoging throughout
The session will conclude with space for integration and discussion of homecare supports
Frequently Asked Questions
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VICTORIA LOCATION:
202-1005 Cook St.
DUNCAN LOCATION:
351 Festubert St.
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Although they look a little different, distance sessions offer the same grounded support and effectiveness as in-person. These sessions may be guided by somatic dialogue, energetic healing, guided meditation or journeying, self-touch, and deep presence.
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Initial Intake: 90 minutes $150
Subsequent Sessions: $100 per hour (up to 3 hours).
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Each path is unique. Some may benefit from a single session. Some may benefit from continuous tending.
For acute cases a minimum of 3 sessions is recommended, somewhere between 2 weeks to 4 weeks apart. Each session builds upon the last, and supports / is supported by other therapeutic modalities you may be engaging with.
We will work together to determine your best path, and allow the unique healing arc to unfold.
This is not a linear path. It is about reconnecting with the sacred cycles and spirals of life. It is a path of attunement and resensitization. Learning to listen to and awaken natural instincts, and creative capacities to navigate your inner and outer terrain.