Bodywork — Alicia Maria Medicine

the art of sacred tending

Ceremonial Bodywork for Your Whole Being.

Return to connection & remember the wisdom within.

Spiritual work that occurs through the body.

Release, re-alignment, & re-balancing for soul embodiment.

Nervous system nourishment for deep restoration of spirit and soma.

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Access Clarity & Coherence
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 reorganization, recalibration and reattunement to the truth of your system.

Cellular remembrance of who you are and what you are truly capable of.

A return to wholeness.

At the centre of my approach is creating space for the wisdom of the body and soul to lead and guide.

With a deep, listening touch, we may work with multiple layers of the physical, mental, emotional, energetic 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.

Together we traverse the terrain below the issue, to uproot and repair it at the source.

Resolve the imprint and rewrite the code operating below the surface.

Retrieve lost parts of self and re-tether to the truth of your wholeness.

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, somatic, 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 to 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

My sessions with Alicia have been deeply healing, integrative & profound. The way she holds space for my full being to arrive on the table and the intuitive nudges and hits that she gets before, after and during the treatments are always spot on and exactly what I am needing to hear. I have integrated some of the deepest inner workings I’ve ever done through my sessions with Alicia and I cannot recommend her enough! I will be seeing her again and again.

– Karli K.
Alicia is extremely talented at what she does. The depth of energetic tuning reached far beyond my expectation. I hadn’t experienced anything like it before. As if she could feel where blockages were, in relation to my muscles and nervous system, in a way that was gentle, nourishing and so so supportive. So grateful to have had this treatment and have felt more aligned since.

– Leah M.
I’ve been working with Alicia for over a year now and I am so grateful to have found such an intuitive and caring healer. Her ability to adjust and truly curate a healing session for exactly what is arising in that particular moment is such a gift and blessing to experience. I’ve felt so guided by her presence and ability to hold space for all that I’ve been moving through on my healing journey.

– Kaleigh C.
A session with Alicia was something I didn’t know I needed until I experienced it. I was early postpartum, navigating all the emotions and changes that come with becoming a new mom. Alicia held space for both me and my baby in a way that felt profoundly nourishing for us both. She is a naturally gifted healer who cares deeply for her clients, and I would recommend her to anyone moving through a life transition.

– Kendra C.
Alicia brought me closer to myself, closer to understanding the parts of me that don't have words, and closer to the parts that can only be felt. We worked together online and she was able to hold me even from a distance in such a vulnerable space with a tender presence. This allowed me to surrender to myself more fully and openly. For that I am eternally grateful.

– Ellen W.
Alicia is a talented and powerful healer. I felt so held and supported as she helped me move through and dissolve several intense emotional and energetic blocks around the recent loss of my father. I felt my body somatically shift into states of greater relaxation, surrender and trust in life. It was a deep healing for my whole system. After one online session I felt more like myself and more in my body. Thank you so much Alicia!

– Kristen W.
My two sessions with Alicia have created a shift in how I process emotions. During session I experienced what felt like electricity moving out of my body and this has allowed me to feel a deeper connection to my core self. I found through the prompts Alicia gave I was able to express things that I didn't know were there and just came pouring out naturally in her presence. I left our sessions feeling a release of emotional turmoil I had been struggling with for many years - possibly even decades. Now I find myself connecting to my feelings with more ease and able to actually process and release them rather than think my way through.

– Lesley A.
Energy healing was new to me and Alicia was the perfect teacher to guide me into it. She is gentle, caring and curious. One session helped lower my anxiety and discover areas of my body that need more care and attention. Alicia's knowledge of medicinal plants is also incredible. I highly recommend sessions with Alicia for anyone who suffers from anxiety, feels creatively blocked, or is new to energy healing like me!

– Danielle C.

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, chronic pain or holding patterns in the physical, mental or emotional body

𖦹 Headaches, migraines, TMJ, earaches, post-concussive syndrome

𖦹 Digestive issues or discomfort

𖦹 Acute or chronic fatigue & difficulty sleeping or fully resting

𖦹 Hormonal imbalances

𖦹 A sense of disconnection from your body, spirit, life, will or purpose

𖦹 Any feeling that something is “off”

𖦹 A desire for a more intuitive, gentle, and holistic approach to wellbeing and vitality

𖦹 Support in navigating your healing journey & soul path

𖦹 Conception, pregnancy & postpartum support

𖦹 Support in grounding your healing work with the healing of the Earth & support of nature

𖦹 Connecting to and activating your inner wisdom, intuitive abilities, visionary gifts and creative capacities

𖦹 A readyness to welcome in a new way of being, in coherence with your soul calling

𖦹 Simply receiving tending, nourishment, restorative rest, care & gentle contact

Frequently Asked Questions

VICTORIA LOCATION:
202-1005 Cook St.
DUNCAN LOCATION:
351 Festubert St.
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.
Initial Intake: 90 minutes $200
Subsequent Sessions: $125 per hour (up to 3 hours)
Each path is unique. Some may benefit from a single session. Some may benefit from routine and/or sustained tending over time.
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.
Read more about bundles + journeys below!
I offer 5 unique bundles of sessions to support different paths of healing and needs for growth.
Journey 1: Rest + Reset
Three sessions to support the body in restoration and regulation.
Journey 2: Replenish
Five sessions to support the body in replenishing itself and connecting to the nourishment within.
Journey 3: Realign
Six sessions to support aligning with your higher self and soul path. We will work with mental, physical, emotional, relational and spiritual alignment.
Journey 4: Reattune
Six sessions to support attunment and resensitization to your own essence, and the essence of life. We will work to clear the blocks that are in the way of a coherent connection with self, source and nature. This journey includes longer sessions that may involve either Tea Ceremony and/or Nature Immersions.
Journey 5: Reverberate
Ten sessions to assist in navigating a deep transformation and soul sojourn. The ripples will be felt throughout your whole being as you reconnect with the sacred cycles and spirals of life. Learning to listen to and awaken natural instincts, creative capacities, and resilience to navigate your inner and outer terrain and orient to a new way of being.
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