SOMATIC PSYCHOLOGY

YOGA and BODY MOVEMENT THERAPY

Are you living mostly from the neck up?

Are you insightful, capable, and self-aware, yet still feel disconnected from your body?

Are you longing to feel desire, pleasure, safety, or spirituality not just as ideas, but as lived experiences in your nervous system?

The Body is Not Separate from the Psyche

As a trauma-informed psychologist and certified yoga therapist, I integrate somatic psychology and yoga therapy into depth-oriented clinical work.

I offer somatic psychology and yoga therapy in Marin County and throughout the greater Bay Area, as well as via secure video for clients in California.

The body carries memory.
The nervous system carries history.

The erotic body carries history as well.

Insight alone does not always create integration.

Yoga therapy and embodied movement allow us to work with what talk therapy cannot always reach.

This is not a fitness class.
It is not performative yoga.
It is clinical, attuned, trauma-informed somatic work.

What is Yoga Therapy?

Yoga therapy is a therapeutic application of yogic principles, somatic awareness, breathwork, restorative postures, and embodied movement to support psychological healing.

In my practice, yoga therapy may be:

• Integrated into ongoing psychotherapy
• Offered as a focused 10-session container
• Structured as a longer-term embodiment process
• Conducted individually, with couples, or in small groups

We work with:

• Nervous system regulation
• Trauma recovery and dissociation
• Emotional regulation
• Desire and embodiment
• Proprioception and interoceptive awareness
• Capacity for pleasure and receptivity
• Spiritual integration

Talk therapy helps you understand your story.
Somatic work helps you metabolize it.

Many individuals who seek sex therapy discover that their challenges with desire, arousal, pleasure, or intimacy are not cognitive problems, but embodied ones. When the body does not feel safe, receptive, or alive, sexuality becomes muted, performative, or conflicted. Somatic psychology restores contact with sensation, capacity, and choice.

Trauma-Informed Somatic Work

Trauma is not only what happened.
It is what remains unresolved in the body.

It is what the nervous system was not able to complete.

In trauma-informed yoga therapy, we prioritize:

• Safety and pacing
• Choice and agency
• Nervous system stabilization
• Gradual re-entry into sensation
• Empowerment rather than overwhelm

For some individuals, particularly those with complex trauma, sexual trauma, or chronic stress activation, somatic work becomes essential.

You cannot cognitively override a dysregulated nervous system.

We work slowly. Intentionally. With respect for your system.

Intuitive Body Movement and SESE

Over time, I developed a depth-oriented embodiment methodology called:

Spontaneous Embodied Spiritual Experience (SESE)

SESE is not a class.
It is not choreography.
It is not expressive dance.

It is a structured, psychologically grounded process designed to facilitate spontaneous embodied integration.

SESE unfolds in four phases:

• Preparation and nervous system regulation
• Intentional descent into embodied awareness
• Spontaneous movement and expression
• Clinical integration and meaning-making

Within a contained therapeutic frame, the body is allowed to move without performance or expectation. When the thinking mind softens and the body is given structured permission to lead, unconscious material, relational imprints, erotic energy, grief, creativity, and spiritual experience may emerge organically.

SESE bridges depth psychology, trauma-informed care, contemplative philosophy, and embodied sexuality.

It is particularly powerful for individuals who:

• Feel disconnected from their bodies
• Experience dissociation or shutdown
• Struggle with blocked desire
• Live primarily in intellectual overdrive
• Long for spiritual experience that feels grounded rather than destabilizing

This work is conducted slowly, with consent, pacing, and integration at its core.

SESE is not about catharsis.
It is about contact.

Private Yoga Therapy and Restorative Sessions

Private sessions may be 45, 60, or 90 minutes, in person or via video.

Restorative yoga is a particularly powerful modality for:

• Chronic stress
• High-functioning overachievement
• Burnout
• Trauma-related hypervigilance
• Difficulty receiving

Restorative work builds the capacity for receptivity. For many high-functioning, achievement-oriented adults, slowing down enough to receive rather than perform can feel unfamiliar, even vulnerable. Yet receptivity is foundational to intimacy, pleasure, and relational connection.

Philosophy and Spiritual Integration

My early immersion in yoga philosophy included study of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother during time spent in their ashram in India. I continue to integrate contemplative philosophy within a psychologically grounded framework.

Embodiment and spirituality are not separate.

However, spiritual experience without psychological grounding can destabilize.

Our work remains anchored in clinical discernment and nervous system safety.