Bio-Somatic Therapy.
Releasing Your Body.
Supporting Your Life.
The mind and body are intrinsically connected. Historically, psychology separated out the mind, considering the body less important. Conversely, physically based therapies often disregard the mind, reducing a person to muscles and bones. Until now. Welcome to holistic therapy – for mind and body.
What My Clients Report
What My Clients Report.
The Emerging Science Linking Movement & Behavior.
The record of our life is stored in our minds and projects onto our bodies. The body reacts to the dictates of the mind. Fear constricts. Hate tightens. Shock freezes. The body’s reaction to stimuli represents a natural occurrence. The problem arises when you can’t or otherwise don’t let go, leaving traumatic events to be lodged in your body, sometimes for years. This illustrates how you literally and physically carry your past around with you.
Your body doesn’t have your mind’s defense mechanisms for disguising and reinterpreting events. Because your body doesn’t lie, it is a prime indicator of your life experience. I “listen to your body,” sensing through your posture, alignment, and quality of movement how your body carries daily stress. I initiate dialogue between you and your body, creating emotional release through your body.
Living with repressed emotions and unresolved traumas resembles driving a car with the emergency brake on.
The body’s capacity to communicate goes beyond simplistic observations like equating fatigue with “doing too much.” When your body tightens, you are holding something within you, or reacting to something. When someone exclaims, “It doesn’t feel right in my gut,” they are referring to a bodily reaction they felt. The body serves as the site where transformation manifests in physical reality.
Traumas that impact long-term behavior can represent “unprocessed memory” – memory you appear stuck on or stuck with – as opposed to the memory of events that pass on by. If you constantly live in reaction to the trauma, the trauma becomes “hard-wired.” The unprocessed memory becomes part of your body and part of you.
Once you “embody” enough stress/trauma, you begin manifesting pain. Sometimes pain acts as a catalyst for you to confront specific issues. Getting sick has a way of clarifying one’s priorities, shortcomings, support systems, and promoting change. Sickness also acts to improve “physical morality,” i.e., taking better care of your body and working within its limitations.
- Science recognizes “body memory” – contained in the body’s musculature and activated by movement.
- Body memory triggers experiences from throughout your life based on specific movement patterns.
- The absence of movement patterns between the brain, nervous system, and muscles of the body is also noteworthy.
- In essence, body memory represents your life history, stored in all the physical structures of the body, accessed by movement.
When You Free the Body, the Mind will Follow.
Intuition, your “sixth sense,” acts to connect your mind and body. Intuition manifests through unique “feelings,” or “my gut said,” or “I have this sense about…” Intuition influences your choices and decisions while skillfully guiding the forward progression of your life.
Core life concerns may reflect unmet needs. Needs reflect both temporary/acute issues and chronic/long-standing problems. When needs are met, satisfying emotions result. Unmet needs create uncomfortable emotions.
With 30 years of training and hands-on experience, I interpret all this information, while facilitating dialog between you and your body. I focus on this “energetic vibration” where you chronically carry stress and its sources… what your body is trying to tell you. You can intellectually determine that you have resolved an issue. But restoring the corresponding movements, postural alignment, and cellular muscle memory must also occur.
A unique form of validation and affirmation occurs when someone outside your inner circle quickly “gets your story” – without extensive dialogue and intellectualizing. By “cutting to the chase,” we connect various life themes together, without agendas or proselytizing specific belief systems. You end up taking better care of your body.
Language reflects dialog with the mind, movement with the body.
You must have both.
What My Clients Report.
“VitalMind imbues a person’s value back to them. Positive aspects became self-generating, rather than endlessly rehashing faults and deciding who to blame. Becoming more proactive, I see myself more authentically, free of endlessly reinventing my life or falling into “hope thinking.” VitalMind provided a template for understanding my life. Now, no matter what happens, I can generally make sense of it, including the role I played.” – GA Client.