The human heart is the center of a territory with no boundaries.
-Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee
My Offerings
Somatic + Acupuncture
Length: 90 minutes
These sessions integrate somatic therapy and acupuncture into a single, continuous process. Each begins with 40–60 minutes of somatic focus—a time to slow down, sense, and engage the body’s innate intelligence. Through guided awareness, breath, and mindful dialogue, we listen for the body’s language of tension, memory, and movement. Somatic Experiencing®, a body-centered therapy, guides our process.
Acupuncture follows as an adjunct to the somatic work, chosen in response to what emerges during the session. Using pulse and tongue diagnosis, each treatment is customized to support the body’s unique patterns and needs. When appropriate, sessions may also include sound medicine, manual therapy, cupping, or gua sha to enhance circulation, release stagnation, and assist integration.
This integrative approach supports those ready to work beneath surface symptoms—addressing stress, trauma, and imbalance through both subtle awareness and embodied restoration.
Learn more about the somatic foundation of my work →
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Somatic Therapy
Length: 60 minutes
These sessions are dedicated entirely to the body’s lived experience, without the use of acupuncture. Somatic therapy invites curiosity toward physical sensations, impulses, and emotions as expressions of the deeper self. It rests on the understanding that healing begins when the body is safely included in the conversation. Somatic Experiencing®, a body-centered therapy, guides our process.
Sessions may include guided awareness, breathwork, and subtle movement to support regulation, integration, and embodied understanding. The process is trauma-informed, relational, and paced in attunement with your nervous system.
You can learn more about this approach here: vesselhealing-arts.com/somatics.
This work is well-suited for those seeking to deepen body connection, explore patterns of holding, and build resilience.
“I’m not sure how or when I began my apprenticeship with sorrow. I do know that it was my gateway back into the breathing and animate world.
It was through the dark waters of grief that I came to touch my unlived life, by at last unleashing tears I had never shed for the losses in my world. Grief led me back into a world that was vivid and radiant. There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive. Through this, I have come to have a lasting faith in grief.”
— Francis Weller