Somatic Practice, Toronto, ON (2025)

06/01/2025

🍃 Healing isn’t just something we think about, it’s something we feel, embody, and move through together. As a somatic and relational therapist, I believe that connection is a powerful part of the work. My specialty lies in helping people reconnect with their bodies wisdom, to find healing that goes beyond talk alone and to find a sense of presence and steadiness ⚖️

🌀Sometimes our bodies carry the weight of what our minds understandably have tried to leave behind — painful memories, patterns of tension, holding, or shutdown. These are the places I help folks explore, gently and with curiosity. I bring a holistic body-centered approach to talk therapy that invites you to tune in to your emotions, posture, breath, movement, and impulses 🫀👂🏻🫁 🧠 💬

🤲🏻 Together, we create a space that is safe/brave, inclusive, and grounded in respect for each person’s lived experience and unique needs. I offer a space of compassionate presence, to be seen and met exactly as each person shows up, and to gently explore new possibilities for relating to oneself, the body, others, and the world 🌍

🌼 Let’s be honest, being human can get really messy, especially as we figure out how to survive under late stage capitalism, while building families, careers, caretaking, studying, contributing to community/friendships, finding companions/lovers, and supporting movements for liberation and a just future - where ever you might be oscillating within the ecosystem of life and living, together we can find a way to hold these messy, beautiful parts with care, compassion and curiosity.

www.somaticpractice.ca 🌱

10/30/2024

Only TWO more weeks left of 🐣BUN IN THE OVEN🐣 prenatal yoga series. Drop-IN’s welcome!

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10/25/2024

Hello there!

There are some new faces around here so it seems like a good time to say hi and introduce myself. My name is MD (they/them), I am the genderfluid/non-binary and q***r human behind Somatic Practice. I am a multidisciplinary artist and careworking millennial who has spent the majority of their adult life confronting their intergenerational trauma and finding creative and holistic ways to heal. This is precisely what brings me to the work that I do. The most important thing you should know about me is that I am a proud Zia! I am a second generation settler of Italian decent (maternal) and third-generation Danish (paternal), residing in Tkaronto (Treaty 13 territory).

Some of the carework you will find me offering here include, somatic oriented counselling/psychotherapy, bodywork, somatic movement and embodiment coaching/education, consulting and facilitation work. If interested, you can read more about the lineages and modalities that inform my somatic work on my website. I offer both one-on-one and group support, and I work with people of all ages, orientations and intersections. In addition to somatic therapy/bodywork, I provide doula support to birthing people and their families during the prenatal and postpartum period, which includes childbirth education and perinatal counselling. I also work at a youth gender clinic offering psychosocial support to young people who are gender diverse, non-binary, gender questioning, trans and everything in-between! As a movement teacher in the community, you can catch me at Toronto in Parkdale teaching weekly classes!

I wear many hats (and I also have ADHD but we make it work, lol)! I come into these practices as a neurodiverse artist and survivor, cultured by personal experiences with severe trauma, anxiety and volatile environments. As a politicized careworker, I position myself in service amid collective trauma and community liberation for all. My work is rooted in firm values of abolition/restorative justice, intersectional feminism, deconditioning colonialism and harm reduction. My offerings are relational, de-pathologizing and highly reflective. Thanks for being here friend! ✊🏻✌🏻🍉🏳️‍⚧️

04/04/2024

🌱Thrilled to be leading a somatic movement practice for the Worker Wellness Conference for the Toronto Drop-In Network (TDIN) at April 19th! This special day is dedicated to celebrating the contributions and work of drop-in workers and frontline staff in Toronto. A day filled with food, community, connection, rest, revitalization and wellness. It’s not easy doing frontline work and these community members are truly hero’s ♥️

Shout out to my fellow care-worker colleague who will be leading us through the closing ritual ✨ Looking forward to it!

PS 👉🏻 looking to host a conference or workshop and looking for consultants, presenters or holistic practitioners to facilitate? My books are OPENED 📖!

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http://somaticpractice.ca/

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