Body-based healing services

There are times when thinking alone cannot reach what the body still carries.

My work in body-based healing grows from the same path that shaped my retreats: a deep trust in the intelligence of the body, and in the ways rhythm, attention, and lived experience shape how we move through life.

Rooted in yoga, somatic and bodywork practices, and more than 15 years of supporting children, adults, and families, I offer sessions for those seeking a steadier relationship with themselves, especially in seasons of overwhelm, disconnection, and transition. These private sessions offer quiet, attentive moments to slow down and listen differently, to what feels held, unsettled, or difficult to name.

In each session, we explore a range of body-based and somatic tools that may support you to cultivate internal safety and resourcing. The intention is not to push for a breakthrough, but to create enough safety, space, and pacing for your body to soften, respond, and reorganise in its own time. Depending on your needs, sessions may include:

• Hatha Yoga practices (body shapes and postures, breath, and sound) and other somatic practices that are trauma sensitive. Find out more about trauma-sensitive yoga here.

• The polyvagal theory of the nervous system and its application in daily life. The sound, breath, and movement practices will also be understood in the context of this theory.

• Imagery and guided visualisations that invite relaxation and rest in the body.

• Practices anchored in applying the Polyvagal theory and the 5 elements framework in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Alaine Duncan (Tao of Trauma). These practices, focused on areas of the body that may have held stuck energy, aim to support the body in reconnecting with its natural rhythm of contraction, expansion, and flow.

The sessions are mainly online.

The sessions are guided by the 3 key phases in trauma treatment. Movement from one phase to another is a co-created process.

1st Phase: Stabilisation and Safety

• The sessions are designed to re-establish a relationship with your body in ways that feel safe for you.

• We discover the practices help your body feel safer, present, nourished, and connected.

• Triggers, if any, that arise during sessions in this phase are contained. We will not open up any wounds when the body is not ready yet. This is to prevent re-traumatisation experiences.

2nd Phase: Resourcing, nourishment, and processing

• We continue to cultivate practices to nurture a regulated state while supporting you to deepen your relationship with your body.

• We nourish increased capacity for larger emotions, so we can work through some of the painful bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions of the past.

• When your nervous system is ready to contact previous experiences of hurt, pain, overwhelm, and grief, we will begin to process some of these memories. However, processing is not a prerequisite, nor is it always necessary for us to move towards healing.

• The resourcing and nourishment practices are more important in rewiring the patterns in our nervous system.

3rd Phase: Integration into daily life

We practice mini doses of integration in every session. As a phase, integration comprises meaning-making to help us make sense of what has happened to us. We gain clarity into how we would like to write our life stories from this point onward. As the sessions come to a close, we reflect on practices that we will continue on our own. Healing, after all, is a lifelong journey.

This work may be helpful if you are moving through:

• stress, overwhelm, or chronic fatigue

• a sense of disconnection from your body

• emotional patterns that feel difficult to shift through thinking alone

• life transitions that call for steadier internal ground

You do not need prior experience with yoga or somatic work.

1st 5 sessions: $110 SGD / 60 mins

Subsequent sessions:

$140 SGD / 75mins

$170 SGD / 90mins

I recognise that not everyone has easy access to individual treatment. The fees for the sessions are available on a sliding scale based on individual's capacity.

For those seeking a deeper and more spacious process, these sessions can also be woven into private retreat immersions in Taiwan.

These are slow, personalised retreats shaped by season, landscape, and your own nervous system needs.

A private retreat may include:

• 1:1 body-based sessions

• gentle daily practice

• time in nature

• rest and reflection

This allows the work to unfold not only within a session, but through the rhythm of a few days held by Mother Nature.