Emotional Bodywork
For your emotions longing to be felt, expressed, and integrated.
Based in Portland, Oregon on Clackamas land.
My contribution
Emotional Bodywork can bring you deeper understanding and catharsis by journeying through your unique emotional landscape.
While traditional talk therapy helps you mentally comprehend your blocks, emotional bodywork can help you physically feel and deepen your understanding of your blocks. Not just in the mind, but in your whole body.
Sessions begin with a somatic exercise to deepen presence. Then, with consent, attentive reflection, inquiry, and my touch, you're invited to delve inward, where your unspoken and incompletely expressed emotions can find more resolution.
Each session unfolds uniquely—sometimes with a wellspring of grief, rage, or laughter. Every emotion is welcome, no matter its intensity, gifting you the opportunity to bravely meet and integrate your pain.
As part of my practicum for my Shift Emotional Release Therapy certificate, all 90 minute sessions are currently $25. I also ask clients to give their feedback and refer their friends who they feel may be interested in this work.
Meet your emotions with courage.
Transform the pain holding your power.
Find freedom in your body’s innate wisdom.
I do this work because…
It sheds the unaligned parts of myself and makes room for what is.
We must let go of what isn’t serving our souls and communities if we are to create a just world.
I know when I let go of patterns, I give permission for others to do the same.
I want there to be more safe enough queer spaces to receive consent-forward touch-based care in the world. Queer people also need safe outlets to fully express. The selves we want to explore and that we’re afraid of being seen. This work exercises courage and self compassion along our gender journeys (which we’re all on!)
To bring about transformation, it’s time we learned to fully express our anger and grief, so we can have a greater capacity to hold our joy too.
“Santi’s skilled hands complement their engaging personality for an outstanding experience. They communicate well verbally and physically, and they put me completely at ease.”
— David Miu, 2024