Body-Centred Therapy
Attuned Listening through touch, movement, and the body
Body-Centred Therapy combines Manual Therapy, Functional Integration, and Intuitive Listening.
Together, we meet accident, injury, condition, pain, loss, transition, and curiosity.
This is an intuitive approach with an intention that honours what is happening within the body in that moment, as well as influences present from other relevant moments.
Through integration of the present and other experiences, we can embody more of the full nature and posture of our being.
Our habits hold us in postures, states, and patterns of thinking. These patterns may have developed as ways of adapting to our experiences, yet may no longer express the full range of what is possible for us.
Manual Therapy
Manual Therapy observes condition, accident, injury, surgery, function and is attuned to somatic structures.
My hands-on approach is a deep cellular listening, attending to somatic structures and the relationships within the body.
Manual Therapy techniques are hands-on and informed by osteopathic methods and massage. They attend to visceral, vascular, craniosacral, neural, fascial, and skeletal relationships and bone articulation.
Touch provides a way of listening into physical pain, injury, posture, tension, and organization.
Functional Integration
Functional Integration attends pain and tension through observation of postural patterns, differentiated movement, and fascial congruency.
Functional Integration is an intuitive manual Feldenkrais approach using slow movement to direct attention toward unconscious postural holding patterns.
Through movement, we can become aware of how we organize ourselves in relationship to our environment.
Awareness allows for differentiation, fascial support, and self-direction toward a neurologically reoriented experience of the self.
Our internal and external experience is available to our understanding and can become alterable through our knowledge.
With this inner knowledge comes capacity and freedom to choose.
Essential thinking occurs within movement.
Intuitive Listening
Intuitive Listening attends to physical, emotional, cognitive, and energetic sensations.
I bring education and experience to the conversation—education and experience that exists both within and outside of ordinary sensory experience.
I offer impartial logic and have a feeling for what is true.
Through touch, movement, breath, posture, sensation, and awareness, we physiologically track patterns of holding and neurological-emotional states.
We listen to what the body is communicating.
There is a quality of being in two places at the same time: here and now, while also walking alongside the other experiences presenting in the tissues.
The body and perception
The body is one of the places through which we perceive.
We perceive through movement, touch, breath, visceral sensation, posture, emotion, and the nervous system. We also experience ourselves through thought, intuition, relationship, and other forms of awareness.
Body-Centred Therapy is a way of gathering information and reorienting in space.
The intention is to listen closely enough that something can become known.
Situations, conditions and experiences we meet
- Accident or injury
- Grief and loss
- Anxiety and stress
- Self-inquiry
- Chronic pain or condition
- Transition
- Cancer
- Surgery and pre- or post-operative care
- Curiosity about the relationship between body and experience
My formal education and training are described on the About Terri page.
Book an appointment or contact me by email.
storeyterri@gmail.com