Somatic BreakThrough Intro Session • 85-minute private session • $100
A Skillful Encounter With What's Happening Within
Can Change How You Relate to It
You've spent years trying to understand what you're carrying.This session offers another way.
How You Meet Your Experience Matters
Much of what shapes our lives begins before we become aware of it.
During conflict, stress, uncertainty, or when we're making important decisions, familiar ways of responding take over before we realize it. They show up through our thoughts, emotions, sensations, impulses, and memories. By the time we notice what's happening, we're already caught up in it.
This session invites you to work through it as it happens, with skillful guidance that helps you stay with what emerges. Meeting it with enough attention, safety, and the right pace creates the conditions for something new to happen.
Why a Skillful Guide Matters
Meeting your experience differently is difficult to do alone.
When we become overwhelmed, defended, or disconnected, our attention naturally narrows. We react automatically and repeat familiar ways of responding.
A skilled guide helps you notice patterns that are hard to see from the inside. They help you stay with what needs attention, discover possibilities that are difficulyt to access, and cultivate conditions that allow your experience to unfold more fully. What once felt fragmented or confusing often begins to reveal its own coherence.
Our Pace Is Different
Shorter sessions often end just as something meaningful begins to emerge. A familiar pattern becomes visible, but there's little time left to stay with it long enough for something new to happen.
Depth emerges at a different speed than ordinary conversation. Some aspects of ourselves only become available when we slow down enough to notice them. Throughout the journey session, we intentionally slow the pace. As more of your experience comes into awareness, it can be worked with rather than simply reacted to, allowing meaningful change to unfold more naturally.
Eighty-five minutes creates enough space to meet what is asking for attention, stay with it skillfully, and begin integrating what emerges before returning to ordinary life.
What the Experience Is Like
You may arrive with something that keeps pulling at your attention, even if you can't yet explain why. It might feel confusing, painful, unresolved, or difficult to navigate.
Rather than analyzing it from a distance, we slow the experience down and follow it where it leads. We move at a pace that allows curiosity to replace urgency, making it easier to notice what has been overlooked and stay with what has been avoided. We stay with it as it unfolds. Often, what changes first is not the situation itself, but your relationship to it. From there, the next step often becomes clearer and easier to take.
You don't need to know where to begin or where the session should lead. That's part of my role. Beneath the conversation is a clear structure that helps us stay oriented while making room for whatever your experience is ready to reveal.
Below is a closer look at each stage of the journey.
ORIENT
Listen beneath ordinary awareness
1. Frame
Clarify what matters. Create context and safety.
2. Access
Enter the BreakThrough Access State.
ENGAGE SKILLFULLY
Meet what arises, with curiosity & care
3. Attune
Listen for deeper signals of sensation, emotion, image & impulse.
4. Dialogue
Meet what arises.
5. Movement-Repair
Allow expression & completion.
(experience reorganizes)
New orientation emerges
EMBODY
Extend deeper shifts into daily life
6. Integrate
Bring new organization into your life.
7. Align
Live from the new orientation.
Agency Increases.
From here, clarity, choice, and agency become possible.
When your inner world starts making sense, you become freer to live from it.
What clients notice
People describe the experience as:
- greater emotional honesty
- unexpected memories or insights emerging
- a sense of movement where something previously felt frozen
- physical relief once emotions are allowed to complete.
These shifts begin during the session itself.
The Pathway Into This Work
For some, the introductory session brings immediate clarity and a sense of movement that had previously been unavailable. For most, it becomes the beginning of deeper work.
Emotional dynamics often repeat for years. This session reveals what will support their completion.
Clients experience meaningful insight in the first session. Many continue into the Foundations Journey, where we engage in precise work with the patterns that emerge.
Who This Session Is For
The work we do in this session resonates with people who:
• feel caught in recurring emotional patterns
• are navigating an important transition
• sense that something deeper in their life is ready to move
• are curious about somatic and nervous-system-based approaches to change.
It's not necessary to arrive with a fully formed agenda. The process itself reveals where the work wants to begin.
Experience
Over the past three decades I have facilitated thousands of individual somatic breakthrough journeys and guided more than sixty immersive emotional healing retreats and intensive group experiences.
Across my career I have worked with people from ages three to ninety-seven, helping them move through anxiety, grief, crisis, and the loss of internal power or direction.
This session allows you to experience somatic work before committing to the Foundations Journey.
Real change often begins
when the nervous system
is given the conditions it needs
for long-held emotions to move.
If something in your life feels ready to shift, this session is a place to begin.
85-minute introductory session • $100
