Somatic Alchemist

Somatic Alchemist somatic experiencing, jikiden reiki Providing skilled, sensitive and deeply therapeutic energy work in the heart of Eureka

Healing and expanding our consciousness is our birthright. Learning to be with the inevitable discomforts of this wild ...
09/11/2025

Healing and expanding our consciousness is our birthright. Learning to be with the inevitable discomforts of this wild life so that we hold less of ourselves back from doing this life, now that is liberating.

Its in the teeniest of tiniest of actions forward that allows our nervous system to stretch without that dramatic recoil...
09/11/2025

Its in the teeniest of tiniest of actions forward that allows our nervous system to stretch without that dramatic recoil backwards.

Want more access to speaking up for yourself, your truth, your community----try first with expressing this maybe on paper with no one watching, or maybe with a friend or compassionate other who shares your values.

08/21/2025

Child consciousness says: "do whatever you gotta do to keep the peace! become what ever you have to be to not be abandoned by your family/society system!"

Adult consciousness says: "My worth isn’t dependent on other people’s approval or moods, I can tolerate conflict and disappointment. My courage to experiment and grow allows me to be a vessel for collective liberation."

When was a time in your life when you or someone you saw was angry and you/they were able to wield it in a way that made...
08/21/2025

When was a time in your life when you or someone you saw was angry and you/they were able to wield it in a way that made you feel proud?

Here are some at top of mind for me:
All Palestinian voices, all black women who have lost a child to police and systemic violence and all who show up in their righteous rage, and personally when I am being taken advantage of or when my kindness is mistaken as weakness. It takes practice to hold such big energies in the body/mind/spirit, and when we get used to no longer collapsing or fawning or freezing, there is so much power and agency to experience in our own lives and to share in the future building of collective liberation.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is cause the least amount of harm, to yourself and others.Sometimes, doing your bes...
08/04/2025

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is cause the least amount of harm, to yourself and others.

Sometimes, doing your best means straight up harm reduction.

Sometimes the stretch, the growth, is in learning to celebrate your ability to make choices (thoughts, actions, feelings) that are just one percent less unhinged than the most unhinged version of yourself.

Sometimes growth means celebrating (lke actually telling yourself!) how awesome it was that you only blew up a small portion of your life and not the whole thing.

✨️If it's been awhile since you have connected with your dreams, your Spirit's essence, your body's wisdoms and needs fo...
04/25/2025

✨️If it's been awhile since you have connected with your dreams, your Spirit's essence, your body's wisdoms and needs for expressing it's joys and pains, come see me for Somatic Experiencing. In person and zoom sessions available ✨️

04/10/2025

If you are at a place in your life where you have done (or already doing) the talk therapy, you have an understanding of why you are the way you are, and want to create room in your body to catch up with your mind, come see me for Somatic Experiencing✨️

I offer zoom and in person sessions at $125 for the hour. Reach out to schedule a brief meeting where I can answer any questions you may have and get a feel for if you want to work with me.

You deserve softness. You deserve gentleness. What an extraordinary gift to give one's self that radiates onto others 🫶
04/08/2025

You deserve softness. You deserve gentleness. What an extraordinary gift to give one's self that radiates onto others 🫶

Any amount you are able to help with counts, even $10 a week with enough of us contributing could save this family from ...
03/20/2025

Any amount you are able to help with counts, even $10 a week with enough of us contributing could save this family from imminent death in Gaza. My friend here needs funds for immediate evacuation and medical care and I know we can help him. If you think you only have a few dollars and that won't possibly make a difference, just imagine the hope you are helping to keep alive when my friend's phone pings with another alert that funds have been transfered and someone in the world is thinking about them, the hope that comes from letting them know we haven't forgotten, we haven't grown numb and normalized this genocide. May all beings be free from suffering, may all free beings do one thing each day to ease the suffering of another, may Palestine be free 🇵🇸



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03/13/2025

What I wish everyone could know is that freeze doesn't want to hurt you, it doesn't intend for you to shame yourself for it being so accessible to your nervous system.  It wants you to allow it to have something to lean on, a felt sense of something to rest against so you can allow the emotion, the sensation, the movements it is bracing against to trickle forward and thaw in its own time.
I currently have room for Somatic Experiencing clients for in person and zoom sessions, if you feel like you could benefit from nervous system, body centered work please reach out!

Where are all my freezers at? 🙋‍♀️⛄️It is one of my nervous system's main go tos when I am overwhelmed. As one of my te...
03/13/2025

Where are all my freezers at? 🙋‍♀️⛄️It is one of my nervous system's main go tos when I am overwhelmed. As one of my teachers Dave Berger says, if it helped you survive once then your system will think it is what will continue to keep you alive until that pattern is interrupted.

What I wish everyone could know is that freeze doesn't want to hurt you, it doesn't intend for you to shame yourself for it being so accessible to your nervous system.  It wants you to allow it to have something to lean on, a felt sense of something to rest against so you can allow the emotion, the sensation, the movements it is bracing against to trickle forward and thaw in its own time.

If you are wanting some support in understanding your nervous system and help in moving through habituated survival responses please reach out! I currently have room for Somatic Experiencing clients in person and via zoom 🌟✨️🌟

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Fortuna, CA
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Providing skilled, sensitive and deeply therapeutic massage and Jikiden Reiki in the hearts of Fortuna and Arcata.

Cristina Menzie is a Shihankaku in the Jikiden Reiki lineage and offers Shoden (beginner level) classes. Class can be requested when two or more people are interested.