SYSTEMIC BODYWORK
Somatic Therapy for Body-Mind-Soul
WHAT IS IT?
Systemic Bodywork offers a somatic therapeutic approach that engages the mental, emotional, and energetic aspects of your wellbeing - via the gateway of the body.
We combine traditional bodywork techniques with - conscious touch – de-armouring internal parts work - presence-based listening - embodied self-enquiry - meditative awareness & breathing within the safety and ongoing support of the therapeutic container.
Unlike traditional massage or bodywork (which tends to take a physical symptom at face value and tries to remedy it, often only providing temporary relief), we approach the body slowly with curiosity and reverence, highly skilled touch, and an open agenda... following its cues as it reveals what it needs to feel well.
The session is informed by what you are currently experiencing and guided by what emerges as we begin to explore. So over a series of sessions we give time and space for the body’s protective mechanisms to reveal themselves, and met with presence, care and acceptance we build awareness and trust in its way of unwinding.
This can often turn out to be a deeply relaxing, liberating or energising experience creating physical ease in the short term, and over time, increasing capacity for a more grounded and wholehearted way of living in the body.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
Because we can’t help but be shaped by our friction with life – and it all has an effect on the body!
In an age where we - Chronically under or over-use our bodies and fix them in the unnatural postures of modern life - Are subject to unprecedented levels of air/water/food/noise/light and information pollution – Inhabit the skewed and limiting belief systems of our families, jobs, societies and cultures...
Add to that the variety of painful and overwhelming experiences that can occur in a human lifetime and we may be living with a build-up of bodily effects often known as embodied trauma, somatised emotion or dis-ease.
This might be showing up as:
Physical pain, tension or illness
Disconnection or numbness
Chronic stress or a general sense of unease
Feelings that are intense or difficult to feel
Recurring thoughts, memories, bodily movements or sensations
Or it might be something else. These are all ways the body tries to alert us to dis-ease in our system so that it can be understood and processed.
To process a challenging experience in real time it is essential to permit ourselves to fully feel and express what we are experiencing, but for many reasons we are often unable to do this or may even be unaware of the discomfort we feel.
When the impact of a difficult experience goes unprocessed it lands in the body’s physical structures. Unattended and over time this can imprint on the nervous system, the neural pathways, and contract or misshape the tissues of the body, limiting the flow of vitality through the system and lowering our natural propensity for health, joy and pleasure.
So taking the time to tend to the body in this highly supported way offers a safe environment in which to encounter these imprints and relieve the body of underlying dis-ease.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
During these sessions we work foundationally with the soft and deep tissues, joints and fascia in the same way that a great massage will loosen and open up the body.
Using a combination of touch, breath, dialogue, sound and movement to generate a state of presence and resource, we gently bring attention to whatever is feeling difficult in the body at a pace that is appropriate and that enables you to fully experience and give space to the discomfort.
Dropping below the surface symptoms to the deeper sensations, images and feelings we give them permission to be felt and expressed.
It is normal to experience a range of emotions during a session, from anger to sadness to joy and pleasure. And it is also normal to meet feelings of resistance, frustration, shame, guilt, or fear around expressing these emotions. Being witnessed in this process is in itself deeply powerful and healing.
By allowing the full spectrum of experience little by little, the nervous system learns to regulate and expand its window of tolerance. Gradually we draw the inherent ease and capacity of your true nature to the forefront of your body’s experience and it re-familiarises itself with vitality, bliss and deep relaxation. Over time, as the body comes to know these states as accessible, it learns to trust itself and naturally begins to lean further into the adventure life has to offer.
WHO AM I?
My name is Mirach, and I bring a rich play of bodywork developed through a synthesis of soft tissue modalities alongside somatic therapy, meditation and prayer.
Grounded in hours of therapeutic practice, I also draw from experience in Conscious Touch, Internal Family Systems Parts Work, Wheel of Consent, Kahuna/Lomi Lomi, Deep Tissue, Myofacial Release, Thai Stretch, Authentic Voice & Movement, Breathwork, and Tantra.
Trusting in connection with the Great Mystery, rhythm, cycles, polarity & wholeness, I aim to offer bodywork that emerges when firmly rooted in the larger Systems of which we are a part.
Having had my hands on bodies (therapeutically) for the last decade, I've practiced from Neal's Yard, Totnes Natural Health Centre and Ola Chiropractic Clinic, and now work from my practice room on Dartington Estate.
I am director of the Totnes School of Bodywork and Somatics, and run the Level 3 Diploma in Holistic Massage. For more information or to find out how to enrol on an Introduction Day, please visit:
HOW TO BOOK
The regularity of the therapeutic container is crucial in building a solid relationship of trust so that this work may be as supportive and beneficial as possible.
I find the optimum session frequency to be every other week. This keeps the momentum of the work active while allowing plenty of integration time between sessions, but depending on your needs and availability sessions could be weekly or every two, three of four weeks.
Cost: £70 per 1.5 hour session
To book call me, Mirach, on: 07746416526
"A cosmic conversation with the body."
Sanchia
