Foundations
The principles that guide the BodyWise Method
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Before exploring the approaches that inform this work, it’s important to understand the foundation behind them.
BodyWise is grounded in the understanding that the body is designed to move toward aliveness, connection, and pleasure, adapting around survival only when those are unavailable. Much of what we call regulation is not about calming the body down or suppressing activation. It is about restoring the system’s capacity to experience pleasure within safety. When pleasure becomes available again, survival patterns no longer need to dominate.
This orientation shapes every facet of the work, from spinal flow to somatic pattern awareness, not as techniques imposed on the body, but as invitations the body can respond to when conditions are right.
This understanding shows up as a small number of carefully chosen pillars — approaches that support the body’s capacity to restore balance and settle into coherence.
Pillars of the BodyWise Approach
These pillars are how the work takes shape.
Spinal Flow Technique
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Spinal Flow is a bodywork method that restores the body’s natural communication so it can shift out of survival and return to ease, responsiveness, and coherence.
Embodied Psycho-Sexual Method
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The Embodied Psycho-Sexual Method, developed by Dr. Saida Desilets, is a body-based approach that supports reconnection with sensual energy through direct somatic experience.
Rather than working through analysis or performance, this method invites the body to release held emotional and sexual tension at its own pace. Through gentle, embodied practices, it supports healing where sensation, emotion, and self-trust meet.
Within the BodyWise Method, this work informs how pleasure, boundaries, and emotional safety are restored in a way that feels grounded and self-led.
This approach may support:
the release of stored emotional and sexual tension
a deeper sense of body awareness and healthy boundaries
healing around past experiences related to sensuality and sexuality
renewed vitality and aliveness
a more trusting, intimate relationship with yourself
Embodied Pattern Work
This aspect of the BodyWise Method supports both the recognition of long-held patterns in the psyche and the creation of new, more supportive responses.
Through pattern recognition, habitual emotional, relational, and perceptual loops are brought into conscious, felt awareness. This allows patterns to be seen clearly, without judgment, and without needing to relive the past.
Alongside this awareness, the work supports the formation of new neural pathways. As new experiences are introduced, the brain and body learn different ways of responding, making change more accessible and sustainable.
Within the BodyWise Method, awareness and neural change work together, allowing old patterns to loosen and new possibilities to take shape from a place of safety and ease.
My work is also informed by years of intuitive coaching practice, somatic attunement, and training in soft-touch dearmouring. These influences shape how I listen, sense, and respond in session, allowing the work to remain subtle, responsive, and led by the body rather than imposed from the outside. They are not applied as techniques, but lived as ways of perceiving and meeting what is present.