Because healing isn't about surrendering your power to an authority who thinks they know better about your body.

Healing is in reclaiming your power and body in real time connection with someone who honors both.

Healers that are ready to give as their full time job become their own anchors in their lives. They discover their center, who they are and what their own energy feels like without any outside influences. They learn to inhabit their bodies so that other people’s energy has no where to live in their fields.

I tell them the foundation of it all is personal boundaries.

Men have been at the forefront of many respected bodywork modalities —
John Barnes’ MFR, John Upleger’s Cranial Sacral work, Arthur Pauls’ Ortho-Bionomy, Jean-Pierre Barral’s Visceral Manipulation, Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetics.

I have learned and experienced bodywork from highly skilled men who have dedicated their lives to perfecting their technique.

But something was always missing for me.

Most massage therapists are trained to work with the physical body — the muscles, fascia, posture, and nervous system.

And this work matters deeply.

But there’s another layer I’ve spent years studying — the felt sense of the body.

So many clients come in and talk about their pain like they are at war with their bodies. They want to fight the pain away. They want to have the deepest pressure possible to force it out of their bodies. They think that more intensity = more results.

However, sometimes more pressure can actually just reinforce bracing patterns that the body has, keeping muscles contracted and tight and not achieve anything except keeping the nervous system in fight or flight.

Bodywork has the potential to work on the implicit memory, not just the explicit memory.

Explicit memory is the conscious things we remember and can recite as stories about our childhood and life to our therapist, our friends, and our loved ones.

Implicit memory is what our minds may have forgotten, but our bodies remember. It is the unconscious emotional memory that creates bracing, tension, and contraction in the body. We don’t fully have context or a verbal story for this type of memory.