1:1 Somatic Therapy with Seonagh

Online via Zoom or In Person on Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Seonagh offering somatic therapy

Credentials:
Ph.D. in Dance (Temple University, 2009)
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator (ISMETA certification)
Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner (Certification with Martha Eddy)
BodyMind Dancing (Certification with Martha Eddy)
Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies International Foundations (training with Janet Kaylo)

Welcome. I offer one-on-one somatic movement therapy online (via Zoom), and in-person on Salt Spring Island, B.C. Sessions weave together experiential anatomy, developmental movement, and hands-on work (based on principles of Dynamic Embodiment® Body-Mind Centering®) with Authentic Movement and Somatic Psychology frameworks.

Each session is 75 minutes in length, and is tailored to individual desires, needs, and wants. As I get to know you, I am able to walk with you through this process, witnessing and helping you to discover the solutions your own body has to teach you. 

Sessions may consist of:

  • Learning strategies for communication, sensation of boundaries, or breaking down separation between self and others
  • Understanding how to become free of chronic stress, release grief, work through relationship struggles, and process through major life transitions
  • Working with fascia to calm the nervous system and encourage feelings of equanimity and peace
  • Healing unprocessed pain, patterns of people pleasing, limiting beliefs or self-criticism
  • Bringing awareness to spaces in the body where pain or emotions have become stuck
  • Training proprioception in connective lines in the body towards a feeling of wholeness in the body
  • Using specific movement to encourage sensory awareness of nature,  break down feelings of separation from the natural world and build a sensed interconnection
  • Exploring questions of purpose, meaning and belonging
  • Healing injured tissue with therapeutic touch, movement that assists with realignment, or somatic experiencing so that the body is not trapped in moving with fear
  • Force-free, judgment-free encouragement of physical alignment and postural integrity
  • Working with systems of the body (for example, the endocrine system or lymph system), enhancing healing with targeted movement or therapeutic touch
  • Birth experiences or traumas are sometimes discussed in session to help identify a blockage created in the past that can be released

If you feel drawn to do this work, I invite you to reach out. Prior to your first session, we can meet for a conversation wherein you help me understand your unique history and needs, and to see if it’s a good fit. Feel free to book a half hour complimentary consultation at the link below. You can also text me if you don’t see a good time for a meeting, and I am often able to be flexible.

Hands on therapeutic touch

Frequently Asked Questions

You don’t need dance training to join me. I will help you approach what you are working through using the movement capacity of your own body.

This work is collaborative in nature and attuned to your pace. You might be navigating a life transition, need to release grief, or sense that it is time to reconnect with yourself in a deeper way.

In our sessions, we work holistically and according to your needs.  After getting to know each other during the consultation, you might approach somatic therapy with a specific obstacle or problem in mind. Sessions may focus on discovering underlying patterning that contributes to it. In this way, we move toward releasing any unwanted imprints of the past, understanding yourself more fully, and achieving embodied clarity.

If we work together over the course of multiple sessions, I can help you design a personalized movement practice that encourages a sensed interconnectivity with nature, wholeness in the body, clarity about boundaries, communication with others, and/or the chosen path your healing takes.

There are methods we can work on together to help you arrive at sessions in attunement with your physical and emotional body. That being said, you are welcome to come as you are. All of us are impacted by our circumstances and the world around us, and I will always meet you at your needs and capacity on any given day.

Zoom sessions should be conducted in a private space where you have the ability to fully extend your arms and legs, whether standing up, seated, or laying down. Please have supportive props, such as a pillow or blanket. If possible, perhaps have a yoga mat, yoga block and a glass of water close by. We can work with the space and props you have available to you as long as you have privacy.

The most important thing you can do is create a feeling of comfort and safety in your body. Comfortable clothing in which you can move easily is ideal, and it can be supportive to have access to a couple of layers, like socks, a sweater, shawl, or a light blanket. As we work with the systems of the body, sometimes we spend time in stillness integrating the experience and physical sensations can be triggered, such as heat or cold.