Rise Up Bodymind Somatic Bodywork & Coaching

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Rise Up Bodymind Somatic Bodywork & Coaching

Gender inclusive, neurodiverse, body positive

Somatic Bodywork & Coaching, Nervous System Balancing, Deep Tissue Massage~ I support trauma healing, emotional resilience, deep restoration, helping you reconnect to your body in a safe, affirming space.

05/04/2025

Hello friends!

If you’ve been feeling stressed, stuck, or disconnected in your body, you're not alone. People come to me to feel calmer, more at peace in their bodies and to heal from chronic issues that are hard to put a finger on: chronic pain, unresolved grief, trauma and anxiety.

Rise Up Bodymind is a Therapeutic Bodywork and Somatic Awareness practice located in Wallingford. I support emotional resilience, trauma healing, deep relaxation, and helping you reconnect to your body in a safe, affirming space.

I specialize in:

~ Therapeutic Deep Tissue Massage: grounding, calming, reconnecting, resetting- healing on a cellular level

~ Nervous System Balancing: deep regulation, empowering you in learning your body's own internal signals of when you are in fight/flight and how to feel deeply at home in a calm system

~ Somatic Awareness Coaching: mindfulness practices rooted in relational consent work, what does a no feel like in my body, how do I move forward from a yes, how do I feel more and also feel safe, how can I connect to a life that FEELS authentic and peaceful to me?

My work is inclusive, body-positive, gender-affirming, trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and rooted in self-compassion.

If you’re looking for skilled, supportive care to feel more at ease, more alive, and more yourself again, I'd love to connect! ~ Katy

I offer a free chat to get started: https://riseup.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/1/treatment/87

05/22/2022

“Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we’ve spun, the tasks we’ve assumed, the problems we have to solve. They’ll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.” - Mark Nepo

Read about the importance of retreat in this week's email: https://buff.ly/3lBfYkg

05/08/2022

Happy Mother's Day!

Recognizing all the moms this Mother's Day, and thanking you for the way that you impact everyone around you.

05/07/2022

Show Up For Yourself ❤️‍🩹✨

I recently discovered in my journey of body love, and self-love, that there are three separate components to my health right now.

1. Food
2. Exercise
3. Health Metrics

By separating these three things, I could see that i have a different relationship with each of these parts of me and it helps me feel less overwhelmed by an overall concept of: I’d like to take better care of myself.

How are you showing up for how you want to feel?

Keep Reading: https://buff.ly/3vSXyl6

04/03/2022

Did you know that you are the expert on your body?

In the countless hours that I have spent with clients experiencing pain, I see people who are coming to terms with being the one who is actually in charge of their own healing.

There’s a weight to that.

It can feel like a lot to manage and deal with, especially when it comes to managing the emotional aspects…

Keep reading: https://buff.ly/3C0CusA

04/02/2022

Take a few moments this weekend to rest, breathe and think through the following journal prompts:

✨ What can I do in this moment to bring more peace into my being?

✨ What can I do in this moment to get myself some ⠀
nourishment and self-care?

✨ What’s not wrong in my life?
Here are three things that I can think of right now:⠀

✨ Write about all the places where you currently feel tension in your body. Write about all the areas that feel relaxed.

✨ What fears or stresses am I holding onto that are no longer serving me? How can I release these?

03/29/2022

We store trauma in our body.
What is happening in your body when you feel overwhelmed or anxious?
By beginning to get curious about what’s happening in our body, we can start to notice if there is a thought or meaning we are making of how we feel, an emotion we can name, an image we can bring up of the sensation, any senses like smell, texture, or color that we can relate to this feeling.
We can look at the way our body is responding and wanting to move…

Keep reading: https://buff.ly/3BPT5jQ

01/20/2022

I have some seriously vulnerable things to share with you!!!
I just survived my worst nightmare and am living to tell you about it….
Healing through sharing…here goes.

I just went on a tropical beach vacation with my favorite people in the world…in my most voluptuous body of my life in a swimsuit.

That’s it!

I’m embarrassed to say that this to me was an actual nightmare.

My body was living this as if I were going to die.
I was not ready for this.

It was dawning on me that this intense amount of body shame I have had for myself my whole life was a real, living thing. I knew that I was a product of our Western world’s diet body-shame culture. But this felt so over the top here.

Packing and preparing for this trip was completely anxiety-producing – almost debilitating. I was having panic attacks and couldn’t sleep. And I was about to go to paradise and be with my best friends to have the time of our life.

My head could find little logic in any of this.

I am actually a LOVER of people in every way, all shapes and sizes. I massage and touch people every day and adore bodies. I geek out on healing and am fascinated by nearly every single thing about our amazing human experience through this lens.

I appreciate my clients in all of their ways of being. Always. Never a judgment or harsh thought on any of the thousands of butts and legs and tummies and backs I’ve seen.

Bodies are beautiful, all shapes, sizes, and versions of any of us and I know that those bodies change. I really love watching people evolve and hold them with so much compassion and love.

So WHAT is happening here?

Why this stress, lady?!
I am going to my best friend’s wedding. On an island.

First of all, I’m so grateful and feeling majorly privileged to be able to go. It’s a pandemic, first of all. Super complicated, I haven’t been on a plane in how long?

Plus, I really never imagined this kind of trip for a girl like me. The Bahamas feels like… pretty fancy. It’s a dream! I should be so excited, elated, over the moon.

Yet here I was TRIPPING OUT on how much my body had changed since I’d seen these friends.

Keep reading: https://riseupmassage.com/new/radical-self-love/

01/03/2022

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately feeling into what it means to love my body, to truly love it, all of it.
I am familiar with the resistance I feel to this, to loving all of me. The wrinkles and the curves and the parts that don’t fit like they used to.
The pressure to be different.

But how do I want to live?
What’s on the other side of fully embracing this gorgeous miracle of life that exists within and without this body?
Wouldn’t I rather see what’s on the other side of holding judgments and pain and self-loathing?
Wouldn’t it be cool to see if there is more freedom, lightness, and joy just on the other side of this baggage I’m bringing to my mirror?

I find so much love for my body when I feel into what does feel good.
I find so much compassion for my body when I see how solidly I am built and how well my body adapts and restores itself.
My body is strong, able, and alive.
My body loves to move, to move gently, to move regularly, and to play.

What do you want to do today, body?
How do you want to feel?

The body speaks and I listen,
I can feel the relationship of being in my body and connecting back into myself.
Gentle, witnessing awareness.

Thank you, body.
Thank you for your patience as I learn to love all the parts of you!

12/30/2021

As one year ends and another begins, allow yourself to be drawn back to the things you love.

12/27/2021

If you’re like most of my clients, you’ve been just trying to make it through for a WHILE now.

A client recently summarized, in just a few minutes, the entire last pandemic year for all of us:

so many changes

so many unknowns to navigate

unresolved anxiety and trauma

lots of family hurts and feelings to manage

a big job shift

unsure of how to move forward socially

in a really bad place with their body

It’s time to think of sustainability for our bodies. It starts with self-care.

12/23/2021

Your Journal Prompts For The Holidays

💭 As the holidays approach, how are you feeling?
Check-in with yourself. Be honest with yourself.

💭 What are some ways you might nurture your healing during this season?

💭 How might you nurture healing in others during this season?

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3301 Burke Avenue N Ste 315
Seattle, WA
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+12064149392

Website

http://www.riseupmassage.com/

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