As we try to understand ourselves on a deeper level, we often find ourselves at the door of a counsellor or therapist. For me, it was Psychotherapy. And for a while, it was incredibly supportive. To have someone to express what was arising within me, and to be seen in that.

But eventually, it felt like I hit a wall. 
People would ask me, "So you think it's helping?" and I was unable to answer with conviction. 
In some ways, absolutely, but it felt like there was more that I wasn't able to reach with talking alone.
That was where I began to research somatic therapy. Therapies that move energy/emotion through the physical body.
My introduction to this was a book called The Body Keeps the Score. 
It opened a whole new world to my perspective of this healing journey I was on. 
It was about this same time that I discovered breathwork. 
In my entire 18 months with a therapist, in weekly sessions, I didn't cry once.
In one hour of breathwork,  I processed a huge amount of emotion. It came in waves, often grief, but I felt safe to let it flow.

That began my journey with the somatic practice of breathwork. Not long after I stopped seeing my therapist to focus on really getting to the root cause of what was causing me so much pain and disconnect, a place that my logical mind was not able to reach through oral communication.

Oftentimes times clients come to me with a similar story.  Therapy supported them so far, but it had reached its limit; it was time to step out of the thinking mind with all its stories and strategies and into the body.