Ivy Phillips Bodywork and Healing

01/06/2026

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP for the year long embodied healing program is TONIGHT 1/6 at 7PM. Call or text me at 360.460.1491 or sign up at ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com

01/06/2026

DEADLINE to signup for this year-long embodied healing program is TODAY 1/6 at 7pm!! Call/text me at 360.460.1491 to sign up! Or sign up online at ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com

01/05/2026

Just a few spots left for the year-long embodied healing program I am offering starting this Wednesday. DEADLINE TO SIGN UP IS TUESDAY 1/6 BY 7PM. Call/text me at 360.460.1491 to sign up or sign up online at https://ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com/classes

I am using DIFFERENTATION as a model to explore DEEP CONTACT WITH SELF as a human living in community.

3 STEPS OF DIFFERENTATION
Adapted from Ellyn Bader, Peter Pearson, and Martha Kauppi

1. KNOW YOURSELF: The ability to look inside yourself and identify what you feel, think, believe, and prefer separate from what anyone else might think, prefer, or want from you. This aspect is foundational. Without the first aspect of differentiation, the second simply isn’t possible. You can’t share your beliefs, feelings, and preferences with someone else if you don’t know what you think in the first place. Do you know who you are?

2. EXPRESS YOURSELF: The ability to hold steady while you communicate your unique thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and desires to another person regardless of what you imagine their response might be. The goal is to communicate about one’s own perspective as clearly, deeply, and fully as possible, regardless of the reaction from the listener. Can you hold steady while you share your truth?

3. BE CURIOUS: The ability to hold steady and access genuine curiosity and empathy when someone tells you something about their thoughts, beliefs, and perception, even if it is hard for you to hear or you don’t agree. It requires cultivating curiosity but also the ability to hold two perspectives simultaneously, which is just about as hard as it sounds. Can you hold steady and engage actively when someone else shares their truth with you?

HOLDING STEADY: THE FOUNDATION OF DIFFERENTATION
Holding steady is feeling grounded and balanced despite what is happening outside of you. Having a strong sense of internal safety and self-reliance provides the basis for being able to listen and respond with balance in difficult conversations and situations. Holding steady is feeling at home inside of yourself. This is where we build a network of tools for self-regulation.

When we are not able to differentiate with ease, dysregulation (extreme distress) can occur. Dysregulation can look like anger, attacks directed towards self or others, internal collapse, shutting down, disassociating, or stonewalling.

It is a challenging project, to differentiate even though perceived stress. It requires going against the brain’s automatic defensive system. During periods of stress, the self-protective part of your brain wants to fight, flee, fawn, or freeze; these reactions are helpful in a life-threatening situation but unhelpful when you’re just trying to have a tough conversation with the people around you.

Through the course of this program, hopefully we can grow our ‘window of tolerance’, to adapt our nervous systems so we can think, get curious, and respond congruently.

Through this program hopefully you will better understand who you are from the inside out, and feel safe and excited to express your unique individuality in community.

We will start with a deep curiosity about the communication from our physical bodies, and build from there.

What if the world is a better place with your own embodied perspective? What do you want to share with the world? What do you want to receive in this life?

What moves you? Be YOU in CommunityA YEAR LONG PROGRAM OF EMBODIED HEALINGAre you ready to connect, explore, and understand yourself more deeply? Who are you at your core? What skills do you need to express yourself more fully? How do you engage with the world?  Learn tools to cultivate awareness ...

11/07/2025

Ready for relief from the inside out?

I am Ivy Phillips, and I specialize in nervous system regulation through craniosacral therapy and somatic healing.

20% off packages and gift certificates at ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com
PROMO CODE "EMBODYPEACE"

Sliding scale session available for those in need.

11/02/2025

Support yourself or someone you love in their health!

What is your body communicating to you?Create more awareness and connection with yourself in a session today. How do you want contact? Relax and let go of tension Massage Connect to your body’s innate health Craniosacral Therapy Understand and shift your posture Embodywork Let's work together to h...

10/29/2025

Support someone or yourself in HEALTH.

I am loving helping people in their journey to FEEL MORE ALIVE.

ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com

10/29/2025

What does your gut say?

I'm now offering visceral manipulation through my craniosacral therapy practice. For so long with bodywork, I made contact with everything but the organs. I focused on bones, muscles, fascia, breath, and the nervous system. But our guts, our bellies, are integral to our health. Our organs perform all the functions that help keep these amazing bodies alive. Where would we be without digestion, nutrient absorption and delivery, and waste removal?

I'm really excited to have a hands on approach to listen and invite motility (movement from the inside) into the heart of our nervous system....our organs. Did you know the enteric nervous system (the nerves within the digestive system) has more neurons than the spinal chord?

Just like our muscles, the small intestine , large intestine, gallbladder, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, stomach, kidneys, heart, and lungs all are wrapped in fascia and can have holding patterns within the organs. Gentle contact can help release this holding and allow for better function of the organs.

Reach out if you would like to schedule a session at 360.460.1491 or book online at ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com

Photo of the nerves of the large intestine from Frank Netter, Atlas of Human Anatomy.

10/04/2025

How do you dialogue with what is important to you? What is present in your heart and your mind…and does that presence feel nourishing? What are the details of your vision and of your life you want to keep alive?

Come find me at the Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market today until 2pm for a 20 minutes session.

Or book a session online at ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com

09/08/2025

Book online at ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com

09/08/2025

Embodied Flow will be back tomorrow and Tuesdays in September 9-10:15 am at the Nutritious Movement Studio. NO CLASS 9/16 . Embodied Flow is a movement class to practice body awareness and connection through alignment focused stretches, breath work, and deep restorative poses with props. Every class is a little different, using shapes from yoga, Pilates, chi gong, Gyrokinesis, nervous system regulation tools, self massage, and more. The focus is to learn and practice awareness of what it is like to move from the inside of your body. As we create an internal map of what it feels like to be in our bodies, our bodies become a full and inviting home to inhabit. Drop-ins welcome!

NO EMBODIED FLOW on 9/16 because Katy Bowman Nutritious Movement is teaching a week long series (LENGTHEN AND STRENGTH YOUR UPPER BACK, SEPTEMBER 15th-–19th
Meets daily, 9:30-10:30am (but you don't have to take all of them!)) She will be using the studio during our regular class time. Her series this month looks great, check it out!

09/08/2025

"I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now see the answers, which cannot be given to you, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers."-Rainier Maria Rilke

What questions are you sitting with at the end of summer? What questions are your framework... for what you are searching to understand and live? I am home from an adventure and asking myself these days, what does deep peace feel like?

After taking a long summer break, I am really curious to re-enter work with deep curiosity to help clients fine-tune what they are searching for. What needs support? What is asking to be listened to? What patterns are showing up in your body and in your life that you would like to better understand or shift? How do you create more awareness and deep connection with yourself? Why is change important to you now? What do you want to move towards in this next autumn season?

Book a session at https://ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com/bookonline or give a call/text at 360.460.1491.

07/30/2025

How do you give yourself a deep reset, a return to homeostasis with clarity and aliveness like jumping into a crystal clear alpine lake?

I have a few openings 8/4, 8/5, 8/6, and 8/11 before I head into the woods for 3 weeks for my own deep reset! I'll be back in the office 9/8. I'm really enjoying my work these days, helping people make deep contact with themselves, in their physicality, and in the fullness of what is showing up for them as they choose to be alive. Give a call/text at 350.460.1491 or book online
https://ivyphillipsbodyworkandhealing.com/bookonline

Remember, I'm offering sliding scale, now...so reach out even if full cost is a limiting factor.

No Embodied Flow 8/19, 8/26, or 9/2. Class will resume on 9/9.