Somatic Healing

Our bodies carry records of unprocessed memories from our lives and the lives of our ancestors. Transformative Touch is a Somatic Touch practice used to unlock the stories that are ready to be heard, told, and brought back into wholeness.

What is Integrative Somatic Bodywork?

I practice Transformative Touch, a modality of integrative somatic bodywork therapy designed to release an experience of relaxation, understanding, and relief from symptoms. Sessions include somatic stress release techniques, massage therapy, dialogue, and accompanied present moment awareness of bodily sensation. A session will bring a client into a greater understanding and wisdom of their own body’s direct embodied experience. Through connecting and listening to the messages carried in the body, the intention of the session includes connecting to the wisdom inherent within. 

This practice takes a holistic approach to building relationship with the messages, memories, and responses of the body. This healing work fosters a sense of safety through connection that then opens opportunities for movement, transformation, restoration and repair. 

There are many factors that contribute to how and why our body’s carry stress. Anyone alive right now, also carries the impacts of living within settler colonial capitalist structures. This bodywork practice honors the experience of structural harm, understanding that bodily disconnection and can be both a consequence of and survival strategy within oppressive systems. Our collective practice holds these experiences while growing awareness of the places where we hold capacity, support, and potent resources for healing. 

Sessions are focused around listening to the body through present-moment awareness of bodily tension, gestures, and sensations through a combination of mindfulness, dialogue, movement, and/or touch. Through connecting and listening to the messages carried in the body, the intention is to connect to the wisdom inherent within. 

A Somatic Healing Session can prove very helpful to those experiencing:

  • isolation and alienation

  • physical pain

  • difficulty in feeling grounded

  • spiritual angst, anxiety or overwhelm

  • resistance to overcoming bad-habits

  • challenges in accessing a sense of ease and safety in your body

1 on 1 Somatic Sessions are 75 minutes, fully clothed and conducted in person from my NYC home office, or on Zoom.
House Calls are also available.

What People Are Saying

 

It’s fair to say that the kind of healing that I’ve experienced in Miriam’s care, has been nothing short of life-changing. Miriam’s healing presence is safe, powerful and skillful. Miriam doesn’t just work with the body - she listens very carefully and deeply to the whole system. I’ve seen many healers over the years, and not many practitioners have the kind of deep listening, and profound loving respect for the body that Miriam has. In her presence and care, I have been able to touch into deep wounds, and release their hold on me. I more than often emerge from a session feeling more integrated and renewed.

— Michelle L, Director of Sales

In a recent phone session with Miriam, she helped me to move through an issue that I’ve been struggling with for years. We named it, acknowledged it, honored it, and Miriam guided me in unwinding from this habit from o physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual level. For a few days after the session, I felt my body processing that session, and then 3 days later I felt like something really let go. Now, a few months later, I feel like a completely new person. Miriam is an incredibly skilled healer, and I feel so grateful for her support in my life.

— Caroline L., 45, Writer, Entrepreneur

Miriam is by far one of the best body workers that I have ever encountered. As a body worker myself, I am often keenly aware of other’s touch and can’t relax when getting worked on because I’m either learning from their technique or frustrated by it not being exactly what I like! Miriam’s touch, however, has been nothing short of magical and has time and time again allowed me to finally truly relax, get out of my head / stop analyzing the touch and had put me into a deep trance. I, and anyone else who receives body work from her is truly lucky.  

— Shelley C., 35, Physical Therapist