botanical bodywork
“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers.
Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves.
Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream”.
—Clarissa Pinkola Estés
come home to your body
botanical bodywork
Guided by your body’s wisdom & supported with Flower Essences & other Botanical Allies
Botanical Bodywork combines several modalities & techniques to achieve greater coherence in your entire Being—body, mind, soul & spirit. It is centred in the topical application of flower essences with corresponding acupressure/marma points.
Each flower essence & acupressure/marma point fit together like a lock & a key. The essences are carefully chosen after a thorough consultation. Once applied, their healing intelligence floods the indicated point with an influx of light & vibration. This unlocks any blockages limiting the flow of your vital force/chi/prana. Allowing the vital force to flow unimpeded creates immediate shifts & begins building a landscape in your body where more of your True Self can take up space.
Softening into our True Self often feels like coming home. A coming home to our body as nature. This can be experienced as a a lightening or lifting of heaviness, & at the same time a deep grounding into your own Being.
The tension we hold in our bodies often has psycho/emotional/spiritual connections. By addressing the more subtle layers of our bodies via the nervous system, it is possible for the shifts that occur in sessions to last longer.
I always endeavour to listen to & communicated with your body’s wisdom & allow it to guide me. This approach gives your body the opportunity to take the lead— allowing different patterns of tension to release as you unfold from within.
The body has it’s own innate intelligence & always trying to come into a state of coherence. It also has the ability to communicate imbalances in the system—but oftentimes these imbalances are communicated to you as pain, discomfort & dis-ease. These imbalances are addressed first & always by listening to your body’s needs & requests. Never pushing anything to move faster than it would like to—especially not trauma.
Botanical Bodywork is not about going in & “fixing” anything because I do not see anything as being broken. Rather it is about trusting the innate intelligence of your body with the flower essences acting as catalysts to reawaken your vital force. Supporting the Body with remembering & coming home to your True Self as embodied Spirit. Here we experience more connection, spaciousness, vitality, & ease.
Each session will look different & incorporates various modalities to allow your body’s vital force to flow more freely. Techniques incorporated include floral acupressure & marma therapy combined with the topical application of flower essences, tuning forks, energy work/reiki & Inner Alchemy Journeywork. I also incorporate whole-infused plant oils & plant smoke with different botanical allies (lavender, mugwort, yarrow, rosemary) to purify & protect you.
I would like to acknowledge that this offering is influenced by my studies with Deborah Craydon, Lori-Anne Macleod’s Jin Shin Do Floral Acupuncture Course at Windsong College of Healing, as well as my studies in Marma Chikitsa & Turiya Therapy with Dr. Vasant Lad & Dr. Jaisri Lambert.
