Vessel Healing Arts: Acupuncture and Somatics

09/29/2025

When we brought Zuzu to the Shaman vet, the one who does acupuncture, he held his head to hers and said, “She’s had trauma.” Then, he adjusted her back and neck and laid his hands on her heart. Why can’t we do this for each other?

09/22/2025

Trauma, which might be thought of as what happens to a person when there is:

too much too soon

too much for too long

not enough for too long

This creates an autonomic demand that shapes the system away from connection towards protection. - Deb Dana and Duros & Crowley.

Somatic Therapy and Education helps build resilience in the nervous system to help move us towards connection!

09/13/2025

Discovering what we hold inside!

09/04/2025

A meditation I made for you!

https://open.substack.com/pub/tendingvessels/p/a-meditation-on-death

09/01/2025

Client Share: Exploring tension in the heart space. The heavy and contracted strokes in the first photo point to extreme affect and powerful held emotions which the client identified as feeling into his memories of abandonment and how they still live within him. As the session moved forward and he was able to self soothe through the art process he reported a sense of release and openness within the deeps of the heart. Just touching where it hurts can have profound shifts in the physiology. This session was follows by acupuncture in which I opened up the Gates of the Heart, Pericardium-6 and San Jiao-5- The inner and outer frontier gates.

09/01/2025

08/28/2025

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08/27/2025

A full body exploration of anger uncovers a nourishing and budding self-love. -therapy therapy

08/26/2025

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08/23/2025

08/19/2025

Well Hello There! Sharing with you my new client space, expanded to invite more somatic movement explorations, including a standing, full body kinesthetic art space. The treatment room is now partially separated and tucked in the back away from the windows. It feels like a womb enclosure. The deep black is incredibly nourishing evoking ceremony and magic. I believe in the experiential qualities a space invokes and am overjoyed with the liminality and sacredness of this space. All in service of deepening our work together. All Love-Elissa 🌹 .vessels