Welcome to Embodied Life!
Embodied Life is a somatic therapeutic approach for recovering our natural state of ease, resiliency, and wellness of being.
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.
Meet Laura, SEP, M.A.
Laura is certified as a trauma informed Craniosacral Therapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work primarily incorporates these somatic therapies for healing on all levels.
Craniosacral Therapy for healing body pain, tension patterns and overall nervous system.
Somato-Emotional Release work for releasing emotions held in the body from current/past events.
Somatic Experiencing® methods and tools for working through trauma states and building resilience.
Laura specializes in light touch modalities done on the treatment table for working through physical conditions such as pain conditions, injury, surgery, systemic disorders, as well as healing for attachment styles, developmental trauma, childhood trauma, prenatal, birth trauma, and PTSD 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. Education and somatic practices may be offered to assist clients in learning to recognize and move toward greater states of regulation both in session and between sessions at home.
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’s work draws on her diverse trauma informed and somatic studies including the following:
Certification in Somatic Experiencing®, a three year trauma resolution training for professionals pioneered by Peter Levine’s trauma work.
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, brain elasticity and limbic rewiring.)
MA in Depth Psychology and Somatics from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Jungian Dreamwork
Active Imagination
Authentic Movement Practice
Nature Connection - 8 Shields Mentoring through engaging with the natural world and connective culture
Authentic Movement and Dance
300 RYT Yoga Instructor
Laura continues to stay connected to these modalities as a Teaching Assistant for Upledger Institute International and Somatic Experiencing International.
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.
