embodyment

Susana was my first experience with somatic therapy. I used to pride myself on having a *great* connection with my body and thought I didn’t need it, until I went to Susana. What followed were some of the most positive life altering experiences of my life, and I have only been seeing her for a few months. Because she exists on this plane and another, she is both the safest space and the unmarked wilderness, her work is purposeful yet untamed, her abilities are magical yet practical - making her the ultimate guide. The one who comes into your life when it is time. She has a sight and an intuition that allows her to navigate a landscape unknown to the thinking mind but innate to her.

For someone, like moi, who prides herself on her powers of intellectualization, you may realize mid-session that you are completely lost in the forest of your body and life experience, but you are untouched by fear because you understand that this is what being held feels like. The biggest shift for me was noticing that many of my old coping mechanisms - thinking, talking ad nauseam etc - were no longer the first line of defense. And that in fact, I didn’t need a defense! My body is learning it no longer needs to be scared, something I have been wanting to experience over the last 15 years of therapy.

This all sounds very dramatic and it very much so is as the shifts I have experienced have been nothing short of foundationally life changing. If you are at all mentally inclined, or spiritual, or stuck, or angry, or sad, or traumatized, or literally anything, you will be so so happy you met Susana.