Relational Somatic Therapy
Relationally-based somatic movement therapy integrating nervous system science, attachment-based therapy and developmental patterns that help you to move from freeze, to moving and living with more aliveness and ease.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Discover your body wisdom for healing & life enhancement
Perhaps you want something to complement or deepen talk therapy. Perhaps that stuck feeling has no words but you know there’s more exploration, healing and growth you desire. You might feel overwhelmed, isolated, depressed, foggy, shameful, anxious, rigid or perfectionistic. And, yet, you want to feel steady, fulfilled, motivated, energized, focused, grounded and flexible.
We learn how okay it is to embody, to be present in an exploratory way, to have and express big feelings, to live with a variety of movement expressions, during our earliest experiences of life. The degree to which our early relational experiences and environments tended to our physiological and relational needs to connect and separate, as well as our multi-generational patterning, set a foundation for our nervous system patterning, movement expression, and relational dances.
However, no one gets what is ideal. Sometimes we need reparative experiences to reconnect with our core self, our aliveness, in an effort for a more embodied and present journey through life along with healthier relational dances with others.
With relational support, over time, it’s possible to reconnect with your body’s wisdom, your chi, your life force, your core sense of self, to feel more equipped to ride the waves of life with more sustainability, nourishment and satisfaction.
M-Bodied gently invites the body into therapy as a container for exploration; a womb for self-discovery, nourishment and growth. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we move and make art, sometimes we explore developmental shapes or movement patterns, and sometimes we do all three. You set the pace.
Monday Movement Group - new openings!
🌀 Explore how to move from freeze, to moving with ease 🌀
With Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator
1:00-2:00pm Kirkwood/ATL
Ongoing, closed group
3-month commitment
Interview required
$200 month
All bodies, 18+ welcome
No experience necessary
Along with developmentally-significant yoga poses and sequences, members get to explore somatic movement practices including:
• Navel Radiation: Move from your core with fluidity
• Contralateral Movement: Explore blockages & invite more energy to flow
• Gesture: Discover your energetic skin for presence as well as boundaries with others
• Handling: Expand your movement vocabulary for a more satisfying and eventual self-supported experience
Register: Caroline@MBodiedTherapy.com
What People Are Saying
“This therapy has transformed the way I experience moving through and being in the world.”
— client
“Now I know it’s not in my head, it’s in my body. The healing, the progress, happens as I experience what I really needed so long ago in my body.”
— client
