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Totality Healing Arts, 2 South Main Street #26, Weaverville, NC (2025)

11/28/2025

We can talk about frameworks, concepts, and anatomical underpinnings - but the real transmission is always how things FEEL and how to develop the sensitivity to work with them in real time.

At these seminars, I promise to satisfy your intellectual curiosity into how things work - but mostly just to help your mind relax into ‘not knowing’ so that you can stay deeply present enough to listen.

When we explore the intersection of fascial tensegrity with the fluid dynamics of the spine, you start to tap into some incredibly detailed and precise sensations that allow you to work inside the hardest to reach and most guarded places within the body - and work with them at their own pace of subtle unwinding so that they can melt from within.

11/28/2025

It’s hard to put into words the experience of the ‘somatic flashback’ until you experience it for yourself - it’s not relegated to one sensory experience but a cascade of sense data moves through that touches on everything.

Physical sensation, visuals, emotions, memories all flood in at once as the body finally expresses what it has been holding all this time.

I had several incredible opportunities to witness these healing catharses at the very start of my journey, so when it started happening to me more and more via Craniosacral work, I knew I was on the right path.

Deep nervous system calibration from palpating and working with the spinal fluid brings people into lowered brainwaves where the filters of the monkey recede and make way for richer sensory data and right brain processing to occur.

This has been my passion and purpose of my work, to crack the code on inducing these somatic release states - though they can never be forced- but guide people into states of receptivity where they are more likely to occur.

11/27/2025

Today I’m thankful for the journey that has led me here.

I recently got an opportunity to sit down with my friend and professional peer to drop some insight for her massage mentorship group.

It’s really the first time in a while I had the opportunity to reflect on my path as a therapist and practitioner.

I’m grateful that I always took the leap of faith when I could have told myself my goals were out of reach.

I went straight into practice for myself as a self employed therapist.

I studied the advanced modalities I was passionate about and immediately began serving clients; even if I was unsure I was ‘good enough.’

I built up my first tiny office into a team of 15 bodyworkers and healing arts practitioners in the first 3 years.

I never stopped doing what my vision called me to, even when I had no idea what I was doing from a business standpoint.

But those continual trust falls into the unknown rapidly expanded both my sensitivity and client outcomes, as well as my own professional growth.

The only reason I get to connect with awesome people like Melinda in the healing arts space is because I was putting myself out there and chasing the dream.

It wasn’t always easy, it wasn’t always efficient, but it was a learning experience that shaped me and now gives me the confidence to impact more and more lives.

I’m building the new wave of bodywork education behind Myo-Somatic Bodywork - I’m condensing everything I’ve learned over 14 years into a transmission that cuts the learning curve down and empowers practitioners to be at the cutting edge of fascial and somatic therapy.

I will help you build an advanced skill set for client transformation, and can give you the keys to making your practice successful and profitable.

2026 and beyond is going to be an incredible time as the alternative health renaissance and global awakening aren’t slowing down!

I’m grateful for it all, as it has all led me here!

11/20/2025

The first set of dates for 2026 Myo-Somatic Bodywork seminars are now posted on my website.

Link in bio to register, feel free to connect with me over DM if you have any questions.

11/19/2025

Working fascia, to me, is about plugging in to the tensegrity matrix.

I don’t oil up and glide over it.
I don’t thrust my elbows in and try to pe*****te to the core.

I respect the tension patterns as they show up in the person in front of me.

I listen, wait, and feel for the invitation to merge with the scaffolding their body has built to protect them from harm.

Once I’m ’in the spider web’ with them, I can find the end range of the collagen barriers - both at depth, and in direction.

I stop feeling for muscle bellies, minding origins and insertions, and prescribing treatment plans based on my mental/conceptual understanding.

I throw all of that away, and listen to what the tissue wants.

The forces of sheer, compression, elongation, torsion, and bending are all nested together within the tensegrity of the fascia in a way that is unique to this individual in front of me.

If I want to help navigate them out of that labyrinth and unwind these forces to rehydrate, soften, and remodel the collagen within the fascia back to a neutral balance - I am going either towards the barrier, or towards the ease.

It’s a yin yang dance of collagen and elastin floating within the Extracellular Matrix and I am just there to be the body’s dance partner.

So we learn to be sensitive to the feeling of thixotropic release, and follow the distribution of forces in the direction the body is willing to allow.

We navigate the maze of forces and restrictions without triggering the collagens guarding response, and we also awaken dormant mechanoreceptors that will allow our client more awareness, sensation, and activate their intero and proprioception to give more detailed feedback on their experience.

11/15/2025

My approach to myofascial work is simple to administer, but it stumps people who are used to ‘following the map’ of certain modalities or approaches to mapping the body.

When we learn to become sensitive to meet the collagen barrier without forcing, thixotropy begins and fascia remodels.

We can feel this. And if we can feel it, we can follow it.

I don’t need to know exactly how the fascial tensegrity structure has adapted and where exactly it has nested various forces to respond to this unique individual in front of me, and the stories of their body’s lived experiences.

If I learn to sense, and to trust what I feel - when the fascial unwinding takes us through the maze of forces in a way that the map in our textbooks could never show us, I won’t be confused by the fact that ‘I don’t know’.

It also won’t surprise me that when I am working a lower extremity, let’s say, that the client feels the effect somewhere totally different.

Because I realize that it’s all connected, and that the fascia as a structural and sense organ is determining where to distribute the forces of my therapist hands into the places it’s most able to receive them.

All I need to do is get very good at listening, adapting, and following the trail of breadcrumbs to help my client out of the labyrinth.

Very often, the body will show non verbal cues that affirm what our hands are feeling - if not our clients themselves saying: ‘Wow, I feel you all the way over here!’

Learn to go off road. Let go of the maps.

Your hands are the perfect tools to navigate the sensory world of connective tissue.

11/14/2025

Bodyworkers are in a unique position to really find the BOTTOM of bottom-up therapy - so much so that I’m not sure if clinical somatic psychologists or somatic coaches and anyone who is doing somatic work without deep, manual, physical tissue engagement really knows what is possible when we add modalities like myofascial release and craniosacral therapy as the foundation of our clients somatic work.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re all doing amazing things to walk our clients back to themselves and create a more embodied world. But I’ll continue to shine a light on what kind of activation is possible - just from the hands on work.

As the research around fascia continues to show us how incredibly it’s tied into our sense of self, ability for sensation and awareness of our body, and impacts regions of the brain responsible for memory, emotion, and more… it’s a unique opportunity for bodyworkers to gain more somatic skills, and for somatic therapists to get proficient with more intricate, hands on, tissue manipulation.

The more that we meet in the middle of the bottom up / top down paradigm, the more well rounded practitioners we train, and the more impact we make on the lives of our clients.

11/14/2025

One of my students from our last Myo-Somatic Bodywork cohort in October, was gracious enough to spend some time with me to share about her experiences throughout the training.

It was such a great time hearing her unpack some of what came up in her own process during the training, and she gives such a great description of the depth of what our work can really dig up for people.

If you’ve been curious for a first person perspective on my seminars from someone who was there - this is such a great listen! Link to our full chat in bio.

I’m so proud of her and the entire October class and I look forward to seeing great things in the future of their practices.

11/04/2025

Kristen came to me for a week of intensive therapy over the summer with a goal to connect deeper to the parts of herself that she felt may have been holding ‘hidden fears’ and hoped she could find an inner sense of courage and self-assuredness to take the next steps in her life and relationships.

I wrote at the time in some of my emails and posts about her experience of what she called ‘the bullet wound’ - a spot in her back under her right scapula that was so familiar she gave it that name. You can also scroll back a few posts and read about the ‘iron doors’ that helped her and her inner child release the stored grief that was the finale of our work with ‘bullet wound.’

When we get into our inner experience of self, other, life, and all points in between - it can be difficult to tease out and separate the parts of our experience and our self that are holding onto issues or preventing us from taking those courageous next steps in life with a sense that ‘I know myself, and what is right for me is clear.”

I often tell clients, even the simplest form of life - a single celled life form - knows to move towards food, life, nourishment and away from harm, danger, or other life forms that just want to consume it.

For modern humans, the stories we learn and carry are engraved in our nervous system until we cultivate the tools and awareness to go back and intentionally uncover what lies underneath story - the pure, unadulterated, innocence of awareness.

Where self and other are no longer tangled in a mess of broken boundaries or self-abandonment.

Talking with Kristen after our intensive, I can tell she found a place underneath what she had learned in this lifetime in which her real clarity and courage lived hand in hand with her true self.

10/21/2025

I’m really proud of my last group of students - they were able to witness and hold each other through some really powerful shifts and transformations.

It’s no joke to sign up for 5 days of training, learning subtle bodywork skills that require such a deep listening - while also going through their own recalibration.

Feeling tender, triggered, and in our own emotions and still being able to show up and absorb information, practice it, and then allow their partner to go through their own catharsis is such a testament to their skills as therapists.

It’s a lot for a nervous system to navigate all these subtleties and then to also witness and feel the tables next to them also having their experience when the level of intensity goes up and people relive uncomfortable or traumatic memories.

They all really showed up for each other even when it was intimidating or uncertain to be that support- which allowed the person on the table to go that much more into their process and release.

I know they’ve come away from this weekend with some powerful stories of their own that they’ll be able to hold with them as a reminder of what is possible when we really allow ourselves to feel everything inside of us.

06/27/2025

I’m so stoked to be hosting the upcoming Myo-Somatic Bodywork trainings at .resort

Getting this opportunity is nothing less than a synchronous nod from God that everything is in higher order.

We saw the domes being built from across our ridgeline to the next, and all these rumors were flying around.

Then of course came Hurricane Helene, no greater motivation to know your neighbors.

It turns out Munaya was the perfect fit to launch my trainings… and our July class will be the first official group to stay on site.

If you’re looking for an intimate deep dive into this work, July 31 is your class - it will be a smaller, intimate group which will allow me to give each student more hands on focus and attention to help them master the techniques.

I’m holding a spot open for someone with an incentive to balance our numbers - if you’re feeling called, I’m opening back up the early bird rate just for you ($300 savings.)

October is 100% going to fill up at 12 students max, and I’ll be excited to work with a larger group container and have more of that community feel as you all support each other through the process.

Who is ready to take their hands on healing skills to the next level?

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