Alchemical Alignment

What is alchemical alignment?

Alchemical alignment is a type of energetic body work that offers an approach to release somatic trauma held in the body and nervous system.  It provides a safe and nurturing healing space to explore, release and integrate the body with the mind and spirit.  It is not psychological therapy. 

How can I benefit from alchemical alignment sessions?

• If you can identify with any of the questions above, you may have trauma that is held in your nervous system and body. 

• This trauma can make it difficult to feel safe connecting with other people. 

• It can also make it difficult to live in your body anchored in the present. 

• For those on a spiritual path, it can effect your ability to be grounded and inhibit the expansion of your spiritual awareness. 

Alchemical alignment supports your body to heal and release the emotional charge of the trauma that is held there.  This work is done in small doable pieces avoiding re-traumatizing the body and the nervous system.  When the trauma is released it becomes an integrated memory that no longer calls for attention in body symptoms, emotional triggers or barriers to relationships.

Each person is unique in what somatic trauma release offers them. 

• Sessions can result in a feeling of more expansiveness and lightness in the body. 

• You may feel more resilient and have more capacity to engage with life. 

• You can also feel safer in the world and less hypervigilant in your environment. 

• You can establish healthy boundaries.  You may feel more connected with others around you. You may feel more grounded in the present. 

• You may also feel more connected to yourself, your body, and your spiritual life. 

What is an alchemical alignment session like?

Every alchemical alignment session is unique to each person.  Most of my sessions are conducted remotely over the phone or Zoom because of COVID and to also provide my services to a larger global community. 

1. The client always leads with an intention of what they hope to accomplish in a session,  what their body wants to release.  Personal choice is always honored. 

2. Once that is determined, we begin grounding in the present and being in the body. 

3. We then follow the body and nervous system’s lead to stabilize, identify and release trauma that is held. 

4. The body has its own rhythm and pace that is honored.  It is a process that approaches trauma in small doable pieces. 

What is somatic trauma?

When you experience trauma, you have a sense of being overwhelmed.  The body experiences this overwhelmed feeling in the nervous system.  You have the inability to cope with or somatically process an event or series of events.   As a result, the trauma is often held in the body’s nervous system.

If as a child, you had parents who were able to comfort you and use their bodies (a more mature nervous system) to soothe you (co-regulate),  the trauma is processed and not held in the body. If you did not have the benefit of this somatic co-regulation, the body response can be fight, flight or freeze.  These body responses can get “trapped” or stored by the nervous system in the body.  They can be experienced as emotional triggers and/or physical symptoms throughout life if not released.

As an adult, you experience trauma events that overwhelms your nervous system. You feel as if you have an inability to cope with the situation. It feels like being swamped by it.  You may feel like you have to struggle back to find a way to cope with life.  If you can find comfort or experience soothing from friends and family who help us to regulate back to a sense of balance, the trauma is not held in the body.  However, if you do not have this support, these events can remain in the nervous system held until released.  This sense of being overwhelmed in the body can also occur in shock events such as accidents, illness, or surgery.  You can often find yourself overwhelmed and out of control of what is happening to your bodies.  This shock can be absorbed and held in the nervous system as trauma.

If you feel you have trauma that is being held by your body and would like to experience an alchemical alignment session, click on the bottom below to schedule an appointment.   If you have any questions, schedule a free 30-minute consultation appointment.  This is not psychological therapy work.  It is a type of energetic body work that releases trauma stored in the body.