LAURIE JACKSON
RELATIONAL SOMATICS

 

 If you're exhausted and stressed from overriding your knowings and needs, and want to make yourself a safer place to embody a life-affirming self-concept and worldview, I am here to see you, support you, and guide you as you experience the intelligence and power in how you have adapted to maximize safety and relationship in this world and, as you re-discover agency and move into who you have always been:

 One who belongs to the Sacred. One who belongs to the Earth.

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Hi, I'm Laurie.

I am an animist, somatic guide/practitioner/educator, bodyworker, ritualist, seeker, and healer.  I provide one on one and group practice and education in Relational Somatics and ritual with spiritual, earnest, sensitive, curious, and eager to grow people to help you feel connected to the web of life and the inherent worth, discernment, self-trust, and magical world that is already here.  

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I guide somatic practices specific to the way the body has organized for attachment/connection and defense/safety and facilitate Transforming Touch and Transforming Presence to support repair of the relational matrix.   We co-create meaningful ritual for you to continue to nurture relationship, integrate, and celebrate.    

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You are not broken and there is nothing wrong with you.  You will find me in our sessions identifying and disrupting the self-talk that we have all had installed by oppressive and dominating systems, that was transmitted to us through our relationships with our family of origin, our culture, our education.  Our work together is re-weaving the truth into your self, your spirit, and your neurophysiology that

• you are never alone

• you already belong just as you are

• support and benevolence are all around you and within you.    

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I come from an anti-oppression lense: This means that I acknowledge that trauma and healing from trauma are not only the experience and responsibility of the individual. In our work together we acknowledge that:

• We must include impacts of cultural, historical, and intergenerational/ancestral trauma.

• We acknowledge severance from Spirt, Earth and collective humanity as profound wounds.  

• Systems of oppression, domination, and control such as colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy culture are developmental trauma.

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I also come from an animist lense; This means that I view us within a web of relationships that we can directly connect with and tend to.  I regard relationships with humans and other-than-humans as equally valuable for a good, connected life and relational healing. 

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The embodied relational exploration practices and support for nervous system coherence arise out of modalities of Transforming Touch, Somatic Experiencing, Safe and Sound Protocol (polyvagal-based sound healing), Embodied Ancestral Inquiry, EMDR, NeuroAffective Touch, Embodied Recovery. They are also anchored in my values as a student of decolonization movement and somatic abolitionism.  

 

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Relational Somatics explores how the body-mind organizes for relationship.  A good bit of our work together explores the foundations created in early developmental survival and attachment needs.  When early life experiences don't meet developmental needs for safety, dignity, and belonging adequately, we encode the chemistry and defensive physiology of young survival states in the body: optimal nervous system function becomes rigid, chaotic, exhausted, collapsed, or inadequately developed.  As adults these are retained as physical symptoms, cognitive and emotional distress, and relational strategies that are ineffective for good connection to ourselves and/or others.  

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These needs and desires are guided by an intelligence- they are fundamental to our way of being.  We have the “circuitry” for these experiences- it just may not have gotten “hooked up” through adequate tending.  As we experientially support the life force and body systems through embodied exploration and co-regulating touch/presence, and acknowledge and welcome young parts that may feel helpless, afraid, needy, or overwhelmed, we begin to nourish, build, and strengthen neuropathways for your true self and healthy adult self-attachment.

 

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This is life-affirming, radiance-making work.