Numinous Bodywork

Therapeutic Massage

"Find a moment of eternity in every day"

What is Numinous Bodywork?

Numinous Bodywork is an integrative method seeking to be in touch with the wonder of inherent health, aligning experience with sensation, while assessing subtle movements within living tissue.

When working with someone, the uniqueness of the individual and their relationship to their body in present moment is the foundation of this work. Considering the interplay of physical, emotional, and spiritual experience lived everyday, our individual body presents as various shapes throughout one day. Some of those shapes take on memory and history providing a common form from which each of us derives our living and moving experience.

Pain and discomfort may arrive when our common, learned body form presents differently today; such as a recent accident, injury, or even just sleeping in a funny bed. Pain and discomfort may also show up when our body moves and breathes at a distance from our inherent source of health and optimal alignment of our structure, which may present as chronic pain and movement dysfunction.

Ultimately, Numinous Bodywork attempts to bring your somatic awareness in touch with your movement potential. Walking pain free and with ease, we have the ability to truly relax, opening doors to healthy possibility. When we are fully embodied, we exist in touch with wonder.

What happens during a session?

Numinous Bodywork integrates various approaches and concepts about the living body to access the uniqueness that is you. To begin, we briefly check in around your lived experience and recent movement history. From there, we assess the relationship between your bones and gravity. We agree on a plan for the session incorporating your goals and intention for the work.

At the heart of Numinous Bodywork, we listen through touch to the fluid dynamics of the system. These dynamics include circulation, breath, neurofascial signaling, visceral movement and the inflammatory response. Following the subtle movement of these dynamics inform the direction of the work. Throughout a session, there will be contact to fascia at deep and superficial layers.

Seeking optimal alignment provides our body with access to the inherent wisdom of our bones, our structure, and our movement.

Eight Series Approach

Numinous Bodywork has created an 8 series approach to benefit your optimal body health and movement. This begins with a consultation about your significant life in movement history including any injuries or somatic trauma. Moving forward, we look towards the bones, since the bones do not lie. We look towards how your bones align with gravity to assess each session. Throughout the series body awareness and sensation is developed from deep and subtle layers.

The first and last sessions takes a whole body approach, looking at you globally and treating you for wholeness integration. The middle sessions include various techniques to treat energetic expression within the body, inertial fulcrums of fluid movement, fascial continuity, and structural aberrations. A fully integrated system opens your body to inherent wisdom and movement ease.

The intent of this work lies in the subtle body. If we can live within our subtle body, we can truly express our inherent being. Awakening our personal movement truth and expression brings us closer to the wonder that lies within.