Somatic Therapy
So many of us have forgotten what it feels like to be safe without effort—to be held without bracing, to stop doing, fixing, striving, and simply be. One of the most transformative practices I offer is Somatic Therapy. I’ve recently integrated Somatic Thanatotherapy into my sessions—a body-led, presence-centered modality that gently guides the nervous system toward surrender. Not surrender as collapse, but surrender as homecoming.
The word Thanatotherapy comes from Thanatos, the Greek word for death—but not in the morbid sense we’re used to. Here, death is symbolic. It’s the death of tension, the death of hypervigilance, the temporary death of the ego’s grip. In our sessions, the body is guided into a parasympathetic state—what some call the “rest and digest” system—through deeply supportive positioning, subtle, non-invasive touch, and long moments of stillness. When the body receives the message that it no longer needs to protect or perform, something beautiful begins to unfold: softening, breath, presence, peace.
Developed in Russia by psychologist Vladimir Baskakov, Somatic Thanatotherapy helps a person experience what it feels like to completely let go—of muscular tension, mental activity, and hypervigilance.
Do you struggle with anxiety or chronic stress?
Do you have trouble sleeping or relaxing?
Do you feel disconnected from your body?
Are you recovering from burnout or emotional exhaustion?
This work is especially resonant for those who live on high alert—those who can’t seem to turn off the background noise of anxiety or overstimulation. The ones who say, “I feel tired, but I can’t relax,” or “Even lying down, I don’t feel safe.” For many, this is more than stress—it’s an unconscious fear of letting go. A fear that rest is weakness, or that without tension, we’ll lose control.
Somatic Thanatotherapy doesn’t force anything. It doesn’t fix. It simply invites. And in that quiet invitation, the body begins to remember its own way back to balance.
My role is to meet your body where it already is.
As I place my hands on a client’s body, I’m communicating with their nervous system. My touch translates the message: You are not alone. You are safe now. You can let go. Sometimes tears come. Sometimes sleep. Sometimes silence so deep, it feels like floating on water—held by something older than thought.
In this space, healing isn’t a goal—it’s a natural unfolding.
If you’ve been longing for rest, for a deeper connection to your body, or for a healing experience that doesn’t ask you to talk or explain—this may be what you’ve been waiting for. This work is for those recovering from burnout, moving through anxiety, or simply seeking a way to feel themselves again. It’s a practice in surrender, in trust, in returning. And for many, it becomes a sacred threshold—the place where doing ends, and being begins.
Your body already knows the way. Contact me to begin the journey.