Somatic Support
Opening to grief and death through the wisdom of the body
Body Wisdom
Both grief and death happen in the body. The body is the brilliant vessel that instinctively knows how to grieve and how to die. We have been conditioned away from our own embodiment. In order to meet those natural processes of life, we have to learn and remember how to meet and follow the body’s wisdom.
Grief
We can learn to align with nature’s wisdom about how to move through grief and death as a natural process. When we work with the body, we can fully move through the grief and/or allow it to fully move through us rather than becoming stuck (prolonged grief or long-term grief disorders). Instead of identifying with the pain and layering on more suffering, we can move through grief in a direct, simple, and easeful manner.
Working with grief brings us back to our body as a place of peace and stillness. We can get a deeper sense of who we are in the body. A sense of coming home to ourselves.
Grief & Trauma
Experiences of trauma can often get trapped in the body. Trauma can be defined as an incomplete experience that didn’t have the presence required to fully move through the body. In the space of deep presence the body will heal itself, and moving through grief can a part of that healing process. Through bodywork, we can bring the potency of presence to the body so the nervous system can ease-fully release. Through this process, we can help the body come back into resourcefulness and aliveness.
Death and the Body
Bodywork can help ease the dying process to aid us in coming into harmony with the body’s natural process. We are taught to be scared of death; fear lives in our minds and affects our body. Bringing presence to the body through gentle touch can bring ease and help one let go, making peace with one’s life and death.
What does your body need for balance?
Book Craniosacral if…
if you want to work with the nervous system
Provides gentle support for releasing grief from the body and nervous system
are looking for somatic trauma healing
are dying and want gentle support to make peace with and be present for your journey with death
needing help to rest into unknown, trusting the body to lead the way through grief and death
Book Shiatsu if…
you are needing touch, movement, and stretching in the body
you need physical relief and are seeking balance in the body
you want to open the flows of energy in the body
Book Daoist Energy Healing if…
you want to balance the organs and flow of Qi in the body
you orient toward the 5 elements and meridians
Rates
Single Sessions
75 min / $105
90 min / $140
2 hours / $180
Monthly Package
4 sessions
75 minutes each
includes personalized Yoga or Qigong set
$390
3-Month Package
12 sessions
75 minutes each
includes personalized Yoga or Qigong set
$1170
Intuitive Craniosacral Style Bodywork
Craniosacral therapy is a modality that works with the rhythms of the cerebral spinal fluid in the brain and throughout the spine and nervous system to open the body’s natural resources to restore health and well being. Through gentle holds with cultivated presence along the spine, neck, head, and joints the nervous system returns to parasympathetic activation, otherwise known as rest and digest. In this place the body’s own healing mechanisms are engaged.
Mikyö utilizes this style of work intuitively to help the body to release grief and trauma with grace and ease. It is also a powerful offering for those who are dying or those caring for the dying. Through presence and nurturing touch, what’s been stuck, overwhelming, or incomplete can find resolve through the deep relaxation of the body and psyche.
Shiatsu
Shiatsu is an ancient japanese style of massage that uses acupressure and gentle, deep stretching to open the flows of energy in the meridians and body to restore balance and health. It is done clothed, typically on a mat on the floor. It is deeply relaxing, grounding, and brings harmony and balance to the body, heart, and mind.
Daoist Energy Healing
Daoist Energy Healing is a potent form of energy work that focuses on cultivating and toning the qi (energy) in the body to address the root causes of imbalance and dis-ease. By removing energetic blockages the body is freed up to heal itself with ease and grace. This practice is similar to Reiki, yet different in that it works with the major organ systems of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Personalized Yoga and Qigong
Yoga and Qigong can be powerful tools for bringing and maintaining greater coherence, balance, and well being in the body. Personalized Yoga and/or Qigong sets are offered with packages or as stand alone offerings to support the body’s physical and energetic systems to come into healthy alignment. Yoga is wonderful for working with the structures of the body and Qigong focuses on the energy flows in the body connected to the major organ systems and meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
About Mikyö
Mikyö began their career in the somatic healing arts in 2003 at Healing Hands School of Massage. They quickly went on to become a certified yoga and meditation teacher. They trained in ayurveda, ayurvedic massage and detox therapies, becoming a natural health consultant.
As part of their own healing and embodiment journey they began studying and training in shaolin kung fu and qigong, later becoming a certified qigong teacher. After 15 years of being a massage therapist they began teaching at Cypress Health Institute Massage School.
They are passionate and devoted to supporting the miraculous healing capacity of the body. Each session they offer is given with deep, nurturing presence and is attuned to what the body and whole being is needing in the moment. They deeply trust the body’s wisdom in leading the way towards greater aliveness and well being.
‘You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.’
~ Mary Oliver, ‘Wild Geese’
