the art of sacred tending

Ceremonial Care for Your Whole Being. 

Remember the wisdom of your body.

Bodywork that utilizes gentle healing touch and the power of presence. 

This whole-system therapeutic treatment works with the body’s⁠ innate intelligence to support and nourish the central⁠ nervous system — improving overall health and well-being⁠. When one aspect of the system experiences realignment, the ripple effect can be felt throughout the whole being.

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Tending to ourselves is not something most of us have been taught to do.

Most of us have not experienced being tended to and cared for in a way that feels truly aligned and attuned to our system. Many of us may not even know what needs tending.

A Ceremonial Bodywork session is not only a healing experience but a learning experience, and invitation to listen deeply within one’s own being.

Based upon a foundation of Craniosacral Therapy each session is a co-creation, where 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 be adapted for remote, online sessions.

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

CLIENT TESTIMONY

“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.”

- EllEn W.

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.

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

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Sun Rose Studio 

    Upstairs, 351 Festubert St. 

    Duncan BC

    V9L 3T1

  • 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 $150

    Subsequent Sessions: $100 per hour (up to 3 hours).

  • This work can support a wide variety of conditions and experiences. Common themes that find this work particularly helpful:

    • Chronic stress, overwhelm, or burnout

    • Physical, mental, emotional or spiritual pain, distress or discomfort

    • Nervous system dysregulation (feeling on-edge, wired, shut down, stuck)

    • Persistent tension or holding patterns in the body

    • Headaches, migraines, TMJ, earaches

    • Acute or chronic fatigue and/or difficulty sleeping or fully resting

    • A sense of disconnection from your body, self

    • Any feeling that something is “off”

    • A desire for a more intuitive, gentle, and holistic approach to healing

    • Support in navigating your healing journey

    • Simply receiving tending, nourishment, rest and rare

    • Anyone who needs a space to rest, be held, slow down, receive tending and care, ground in the support of nature, and reconnect to their inner guidance

    • Anyone who is ready to create a new world (inner and outer) 

    • Anyone is who looking to connect deeper into their body, their experiences, their embodiment of self-energy, their hearts as compass, the innate intelligence of their physiology, and the gift of their challenges.

  • Each path is unique. Some may benefit from a single session. Some may need a dozen. 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 capacities to navigate your inner and outer terrain. The truth is that this can take time. AND it can also happen really quickly.

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