APPROACHES
​​​Embodied Processing
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Embodied Processing (EP) is a somatic (body-centred), psycho-spiritual modality which draws on the ancient healing traditions as well as modern neuroscience. It was co-created by Australian practitioners Matt Kay and Ryan Hassan in response to their own lived experiences.
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EP utilizes the body's innate intelligence to discharge stress, heal and return to equilibrium. It is an experiential process anchored by resourcing as well as self-regulating practices and offers different ways to help process emotions and stuck energies, integrate internal parts and find completion around past experiences.
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Sessions provide witnessing, deep listening and supportive facilitation, encouraging self-discovery and transformation which unfolds naturally. Initially focus is given to building a felt sense of safety through guided somatic exploration or finding other ways to regulate before looking into personal themes. Sessions can be done remaining comfortably seated or also include floor work eg moving and changing body posture and position.
Many life issues can be brought to sessions including: stress, anxiety and depression, patterns of overwhelm or shutdown, intense, heavy or stuck emotions / sensations, bodily tension or pain, grief and loss, relationship patterns, feeling disconnected or isolated, unresolved or reactivated hurts, unwanted habits, beliefs about self, others or the world or simply the desire to connect more deeply with direct experience (and more).
Constellations Work
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This holistic approach to healing and transformation traverses philosophy, art, psychology and biology and was founded by Bert Hellinger, a German therapist, author, wisdom teacher and mystic.
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Constellations offer dynamic representational work with energy fields. ​​​​​Family / Systemic Constellations help to uncover, shift and heal ancestral generational patterns and unprocessed experiences in the family field that lie behind an issue or topic. Structural Constellations overlap with systemic and relational work, supporting exploration of individual themes, integration of internal parts and cultivation of embodied or somatic wholeness.​
Both individual and group processes utilize key representatives or elements - the issue holder or seeker, persons involved and / or other related aspects - to set up, explore and transform the inner image of an issue or topic. Supportive facilitation helps the participant/s to 'represent' or feel into and intuitively express for these elements, sometimes initially unnamed so the field can speak clearly and get to the heart of the matter.
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Depending on the session, simple Constellating exercises as well as brief or full processes can involve table top or floor work with papers, felts or other objects, working in the 'mind's eye', use of an online 'app' with moveable shapes or other people in a group workshop space.​
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Many topics can be explored through a Constellation including: intense, unexplainable or stuck emotions, obstacles and blocks, patterns in repeat, exclusion and self-exclusion, confidence and self esteem, health, relationship issues (self, intimate, family, social), loss and grief, adoption and identity, separation and divorce, work and vocation, relationship with money.
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Slow Mindful Yoga
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Integrated practices informed by both Svastha Yoga and Subtle Yoga.
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Svastha Yoga is an authentic and personalised approach emphasising breathing and its effect on the mind, the relationship between breathing and conscious movement as well as balanced and integrated sequencing of breathing, movement and meditation. ​Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda was founded by Sri A G Mohan and Indra Mohan and is highly regarded in the therapeutic application of Yoga.
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Subtle Yoga is a trauma-attuned approach which uses Yoga to strengthen the nervous system, optimize brain health, build greater resilience, support health and promote functional, low-risk practices. ​ Founder Kristine Kaoverii Weber is a leading authority on the intersection of Yoga and Neuroscience, bringing together ancient practices with the latest knowledge to support the 'slow yoga revolution'.
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Depending on the context, brief and supportive practices can be incorporated into I:I session work with full practice sequences the general focus of in-person small group programs. Practices are non-performative, personalised and usually suitable for adults of all ages.
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Art image: ‘Lotus Blossom’ by Martin Johnson Heade (PD Wikimedia Commons)