Welcome to Embodied Life!

Embodied Life offers a pathway to recovering our natural state of ease, resiliency, and wellness of being. Here we learn to safely feel again and inhabit the wholeness of our experiential somatic self.

Sometimes in the journey of life we all need a little support. Whether your challenges are physical, emotional, relational, health based or you are just looking to improve your sense of personal wellbeing, this work can help.

This trauma informed, somatic approach can help to release long held tension patterns in the body, recover from surgeries and accidents, heal pain syndromes, support recovery in chronic health conditions as well as recover from physical and/or emotionally traumatic events, past or present. Here you can find release, integration and recover your natural capacity for ease of being.

When we fully inhabit our sensory selves it is possible to feel truly alive, present, whole and intrinsically belonging to the web of life.

Meet Laura

Laura is trained as a trauma informed Craniosacral Therapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. She offers therapeutic light touch as a Certified Massage Practitioner licensed in the State of California. Her work primarily incorporates Craniosacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release and Somatic Experiencing®. Laura continues to stay connected to these modalities as a Teaching Assistant for Upledger Institute and Somatic Experiencing International.

 

My greatest love in working with clients is cultivating a space for presence, potentiality and deep attunement with felt experience. I believe (and have found) that all pain whether physical, emotional or psychological is connected to unintegrated emotions and subconscious decisions rooted in past experience. My intention is to partner with my clients and together attune to their body’s instinctive capacities for connectivity and ease of being. Let us come with curiosity as we follow the body’s lead. Let us learn to feel, sense and inhabit ourselves unconditionally.

Laura specializes in light touch modalities done on the treatment table for working through physical conditions such as injury, surgery, systemic disorders, pain conditions as well as healing for attachment styles, developmental trauma, childhood trauma, prenatal, birth trauma, and PSTD symptoms. Sessions may be done in part or in whole seated, moving/standing, and/or lying on the table, depending on what is indicated to best support client regulation and recovery.

Laura’s work draws on her diverse trauma informed and somatic studies including the following:

  • MA in Depth Psychology and Somatics from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

    • Jungian Dreamwork

      Active Imagination

    • Authentic Movement Practice

  • Certification in Somatic Experiencing®, a three year trauma resolution training for professionals.

  • Upledger Institute International Craniosacral Therapy advanced studies

    • Advanced 1

    • Somato-Emotional Release 1 & 2

    • CST for Cranial Nerves (10 cranial nerves including vagus nerve work)

    • CST for the Enteric System (gut-brain for immune and trauma response)

    • The Brain Speaks (specialized brain work including brainstem brain stem down-regulation, systems connectivity and rewiring.)

  • Nature Connection - 8 Shields Mentoring

  • Authentic Movement and Dance

  • 300 RYT Yoga Instructor

In addition to working one on one with clients Laura also offers group embodiment practices including Somatic Yoga, Authentic Movement Practice Groups, and Embodiment Retreats for women on the Central Coast.