SomatoEmotional Release
“He who looks outside dreams, he who looks within awakens.” Carl Jung
Somatoemotional release can be a powerful component of craniosacral therapy. Within each session we honor that we are working with the entire person; mind, body, and spirit. Often times as we connect with a certain area of the body, that body has stored the history of that person on a deep cellular level. As we release or open what may have expressed as a physical symptom, we hold space for other emotional and energetic energy which may have also been stored. For example. if someone were to come to me for neck pain post accident or injury, we begin to support the healing of the physical tissues but as we do that the client has an emotion or sensation that arises when we begin to work. We hold space to explore what comes up for the client. This could be the emotions that happened during the accident, or emotions stored after the accident. We trust that sometimes healing is taking place on many levels and hold space for all of it.
About Somatoemotional Release
"I have been the profoundly grateful recipient of craniosacral work from Danielle for the last seven years or so. Of all the other therapies that I benefit from, including massage and psychotherapy, it is under Danielle's intuitive and transformative presence and craniosacral work that I have made a number of extremely powerful spiritual and personal breakthroughs. She always helps bring everything to light, from across every realm of being, in a way that no one else can. Danielle shepherds such a subtle and powerful process of helping a person tap into their own inner guidance and wisdom. She has a way of locating deep inner truths where they live and are held in the body. She somehow knows how to move what needs to be released or shifted or rewritten, with the utmost compassion, gentleness and safety. I have come to her with so many different kinds of challenges as well as joys over the years - a tough relationship and breakup, the death of my mother, a number of moves, the writing of a book, falling in love once again - she has always been there with unwavering care and support. I cannot recommend her highly enough." -JN
'The work with Danielle has been supporting me ever since giving birth to my child, which has been an initiation to find back to myself.
Danielle has an amazing ability to hold space, for you, your body.
For you to be gently, lovingly witnessed and guided through whatever is present for you, needs to be seen or integrated.
Our work has led me through and to my body, my bones, through experiences of this lifetime and lifetimes past.
Each time working with her was a different experience - never knowing what would happen during a session yet always knowing that whatever I needed, would unfold in the space Danielle created during our session. -Anne
A writing reflection from a session including powerful SER imagery. “Still, I am learning how to feel my own feminine nature within my animal self. Under the gentle hands and masterfully intuitive guidance of Danielle of whom I have received body and energy work from the last eight years, I finally allow myself to search inside. Just when I start to abandon hope, I begin to feel, deep in my womb, a pearl. It’s pretty, but it’s hard, and locked inside a tightly closed abalone shell. Mistaken for an aberration, this essence of my feminine self has been calcified and concealed, held in the wild and foreign darkness inside the vault of my womb. This is not a wilderness I have travelled to often, or known very well. Not a human mother, I spent most of my youth intent to avoid getting pregnant, especially by the wrong man, wanting to avoid the same fate of my grandmother Mabel. At 42 now, I have properly grieved and made my peace with the fact that I will not bear children. But I want to allow my womb to be, for the first time in my life, an intrinsic, beautiful, fully connected and beloved part of my body, and to let the soft woman that I am to bloom from there. “ Jessica