Managing anger is one of the hardest things to do for many of my clients.

Somatic breathwork (or breath work) entails guiding a client through a particular breath pattern as a way of supporting the client to move energy, access more aliveness, and become more open and connected to their body.

As a coach and bodyworker, I’m not simply in the room to give you practices and suggestions or provide bodywork, I’m also there to offer assessments around how I see you showing up in the relationship.

The bodywork I offer is designed to help people feel their bodies more deeply, and because many of my clients have had trauma, the bodywork is also a place to process that trauma.

Many of the people I work with - especially many of the women I work with - express a very understandable concern about receiving bodywork from a male identifying bodyworker.

For many struggling with anxiety, simply learning the very practical steps of how to soften and let go in the tissues of their body can make the difference between feeling overwhelmed by stress and feeling skillful in managing it.

This blog focuses on the main aspects that make the somatic bodywork I offer distinct from somatic therapy.

The core offering of somatic bodywork and coaching is to help people become reacquainted with their sensations, their energy, their body.

From a somatic perspective it is not our strong emotions themselves that are the problem, but rather the way we let ourselves become consumed with the emotion.

Fundamentally the issue isn’t that our emotions are too strong, but rather that we have not yet made ourselves a big enough container to be with our emotions.

As discussed in previous blogs, there are similarities and differences between therapy and the type of somatic work I offer clients.