Healing Therapies

Somatic Bodywork

Body-based trauma release through touch, movement, and breath — meeting what lives in the body that talk cannot reach.

The body keeps the score. Long before the research confirmed it, indigenous healers, body workers, and anyone who had sat through a deep plant medicine ceremony already knew: trauma, grief, and unprocessed experience live not just in the mind, but in the tissues, the fascia, the posture, and the nervous system.

Somatic bodywork at Mariri draws on multiple approaches — Somatic Experiencing (SE), Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE), myofascial release, and intuitive touch — to help the body complete the stress cycles it has held frozen, sometimes for years. Unlike conventional massage, which focuses on relaxation and structural relief, somatic bodywork follows the body's own intelligence: noticing where constriction lives, working with breath and gentle movement to support natural release, and creating safety for the nervous system to discharge held activation.

Sessions are deeply relational. Your practitioner will not work on you — they will work with you, staying in dialogue throughout about what you are noticing in your body and following your lead about pace and depth. Sessions can bring up emotion, memory, or sensation — all of which are welcomed as part of the healing process.

Somatic bodywork is particularly valuable as an integration support following plant medicine ceremonies, which often catalyze significant energetic openings that benefit from grounded, embodied follow-up.

Lineage & Tradition

Somatic Experiencing was developed by Dr. Peter Levine drawing on his study of how animals in the wild naturally discharge stress and complete survival responses. TRE was developed by Dr. David Berceli. Both are deeply informed by the understanding that healing trauma requires attending to the body's biological responses, not only the mind's narratives. Our practitioner holds advanced certifications in both modalities.

Preparation

Wear loose, comfortable clothing. Arrive without a specific agenda or expectation — somatic work unfolds on the body's timeline, not a prescribed one. Let your practitioner know before the session about any significant health conditions, recent surgeries, or emotional material you have been working with. Sessions typically last 75–90 minutes.

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