Bodies of the Earth
Transformational Thai Bodywork
Transformational Thai bodywork is a full-body, holistic modality that involves the physical, energetic, and emotional bodies. Like other Eastern forms of healing, Thai massage is based on the idea that the body’s life force flows along channels within the body, and blockages in the flow of this life force or energy manifest as discomfort and disease. When energy is flowing freely along these channels, we feel energized, relaxed and healthy. Together, we are able to explore these patterns through therapeutic touch, breath, and attuning to the nervous system. With trauma-informed techniques and awareness we can orient toward safety and allow energy to flow, and ultimately, feel better.
Some techniques utilized in our sessions are inspired from time spent training in Thai Massage, Structural Integration, Structural Energy Alignment Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, and Relational Bodywork.
What happens in a Session?
Facilitating Awareness
To begin each session, you will gently be invited into your embodied experience. Using the senses to root in the present moment and feel is the first step in creating change, movement, and ultimately healing.
Breath
You will be guided and supported in breathing that is intended to engage the parasympathetic nervous system, utilizing the body’s inherent healing processes. This quality of breathing guides our pace and allows us to work with deeper and deeper layers of congestion, stagnation, and dysfunction.
Deep, Attuned Contact
Slow, deep compressions help down-regulate the nervous system to create change in the tissues of the body. With precise pressure and pacing combined with engaged breathing we work together to move energy that is stuck or stagnant.
Pricing
Two hour sessions allow us to do work that will be lasting and transformative. Slowing down is more than just a pretty idea. It is necessary to work at the pace that the nervous system is able integrate, tissues can change, and energy can move.
2 hour - $180-$300 sliding scale
3 hour - $270-$450 sliding scale
Limited monthly low cost spots are available;
email bodiesoftheearth@gmail.com to inquire.
What others are saying-
My sessions with Jacob have been highly restorative and allowed me to have a deeper curiosity about the pain that often ails me. I could tell right away that Jacob was not only skilled at his craft but deeply passionate and curious about the systems of the physical and energetic body. This work has helped me to feel grounded in my body, less stressed, more myself, and cared for. I very much recommend!
-MM
Jacob is truly a deeply intuitive being who held space beautifully during my time with him. His work goes far beyond technique and is deeply rooted in his presence with you in the process. My body felt like it was floating after our session and I would recommend that feeling to anyone!
-KC
I can really tell that Jacob has been steeped in the alchemy of body and breath for many years. The combination of his strength, sensitivity, gentleness, and intuitive kindness in the session was so supportive for me to be able to release what was ready to go while feeling safe and grounded the entire time. I felt Jacob’s presence as very attuned without ever being invasive. I highly recommend bodywork from this gem of a practitioner!
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