Somatic therapy, in its many forms, rests on a simple but profound premise: the body often reveals what needs to be known through echoes of old stories still living in our cells.

There are practices that reveal the body’s brilliant architecture, ways of listening through geometry and living metaphor and an ancient map that can be used for self-inquiry. Drawing from myth and muscle memory, and from years of witnessing patterns repeated across thousands of sessions, we find the first threads of translation.

You feel and ache in the left hip? That’s often where ancestral pressure from the maternal line resides—wilfulness, perseverance, or a deep wish to stay the course. You have persistent pain in your elbow? Perhaps there’s something you’re afraid of giving up — your place at the table. Maybe you’re on the precipice of retirement.

As the language arrives, the sensation—once mysterious—begins to hold a message.

That’s the moment of alchemy. When the whole self begins to integrate.