Somatic Alchemy
Somatic Alchemy is a movement method designed for mental health. It is especially suitable for anyone experiencing chronic stress and craving time to release built-up energy and turn inward toward wholeness.
It’s a unique, science-informed approach that helps you move from stuckness, depletion, and overwhelm toward greater stress regulation, enabling you to navigate your life with greater ease and agency, and to feel at home in your body again
Does any of this sound familiar?
You find it hard to relax, and relaxing can make you feel even more stressed.
You feel like you are living in constant overdrive, having to be on 24/7.
Your thoughts and emotions are becoming exhausting.
Your body is tense, and you might have unusual aches and pains.
You live in your head and have lost a connection to your body and yourself.
You are looking for a release outside of your body from food, alcohol, or excessive sports.
You get easily triggered and find it hard to keep your temper in challenging situations.
You want to connect to your creativity and intuition.
Did you answer yes to any of the above?
Somatic Alchemy is a bottom-up movement approach designed for mental health.
Grounded in the science of neurobiology, neuroscience, physiology, and psychology, it aims to facilitate a shift in your nervous system toward a parasympathetic state—a state of rest, digest, and recovery.
Through this methodology, you will also learn to be present with the triggering aspects of your stress experience, allowing the body to fully process and release accumulated stress. In addition, you will enhance your resilience to stay with the stress response while cultivating presence and relaxation when needed.
You will also learn to drop into a deeply relaxed and hypnagogic state, which allows you to access your intuition and creativity.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In. that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.”
— Viktor Frankl
Somatic Stress Recovery is for you if:
You need support with mental health.
You are done with trying to fix yourself.
You want to learn how to deal with your emotional reactivity.
You need a place where you can feel safe and explore your inner world without the ruminating mind.
You yearn for a break from constant stimulus.
You would like to help your body relax and soften again.
You want to feel at home and safe in your body.
You would like to develop a greater connection to your intuition and creativity.
What to expect:
Our meetings will start with a coaching conversation about your current day-to-day situation. We will discuss your specific needs and how to support your body outside the sessions.
You will then be guided through a gentle and restorative movement journey to open up the body, ease chronic tension, and soothe the ‘busy brain’. This movement could be described as a moving meditation, as it’s soothing, mindful, and yet deep. Movement will mostly be done on the floor, but standing postures are used as well.
If suitable that day, you will also be guided through somatic techniques that will help you release tension and complete the stress response cycle in your body.
The session will be finished with integration, which is a deep relaxation journey with hypnagogic elements allowing you to access your intuition and creativity
This practice is suitable for all ages, and no previous experience is required.
What you get
6 x 60min Somatic Stress Recovery Session
Investment: £470
*Trial sessions are available £100