energetic realignment sessions

What are Realignment Sessions?

  • “You are your greatest healer.” These words, by wisdom carrier Erika Gagnon, are often echoed whenever I hold sessions with folks. I’m not here to heal you. You heal yourself.

    These 1:1 sessions are opportunities to realign with life force energy - that is always present within you. In these sessions, I’m present to hold space with and for you to gently explore what might be out of alignment and to work with you to make way for your life force energy to flow with ease.

    Oftentimes, when we’re searching for healing, we forget that our bodies - by design - are always moving towards healing, reparation, and restoration. These sessions are to support you in bringing your body, mind, and spirit back into it’s natural flow.

  • I believe lasting healing only occurs through safety, slowness, and by fully honoring each person that arrives on the table. In trauma-informed work, we work together to create a container through which healing can occur via agency, choice, equanimity, containment, and intentional space holding.

    Agency and choice is central to this work, meaning you always have choice in every moment: in any placement of my hands, in every breath, in choosing to engage in any deeper explorations that arise. In our sessions, I’d love to work with you to find what would make you most comfortable every step of the way.

    These are sessions that are co-created with equanimity. Everything in a session is always an offering to explore. I honor whatever would benefit you, inviting you to leave whatever doesn’t feel right.

    As a facilitator, I strive to hold an intentional safe and secure space for us to compassionately explore your energy through gentle hands-on healing and a myriad of rest-based somatic practices. In that space and with your permission, I am there to bear witness and reflect what I notice, sense, or feel when we work together.

  • In this work, my primary focus is to:

    • support your reconnection to your life force energy

    • empower your inner knowing

    • hold space for you in re-membering (bringing together all the parts of) your body

    • invite you to realign with usefulness

    In this day and age, it’s so easy to be disconnected. Our time together is a facilitated sacred pause for the disparate parts of ourselves to shift into a unified, integrated whole.

    When we make space for all of the parts of ourselves to incorporate, we then can truly reconnect with the life force energy that is always available to us - within us, through us, and around us.

  • In a session, our goal while working together is to create more space for life force energy to flow. Similar to any other bodywork session, we’ll work together with you on a massage table - fully clothed, draped in a sheet and/or blanket. Here, you’ll lie down, be invited to rest, and simply ground into your breath. During the session, we both connect with life force. I’ll intuitively follow the flow through your body with gentle, hands on touch.

    My hands are extensions of my intuitive awareness, helping tap into energy that might need to be transmuted, released, or cleared. As we both slow down and attune inwards, your inner knowing and awareness arises. As we lean into these rest-based practices, you begin to call back your power.

Energetic Realignment Sessions

The Reset is a shorter, 30 minute session designed for folks who are looking for a way to reboot their minds, bodies, and spirits. This brief session is all about reconnecting with your life force energy and clearing what might be dimming your shine. Complete with a recorded debrief, this is the perfect way to restart all refreshed.

The Reset is only offered in-person at Groundfloor Club San Rafael.

The Reset

The Realignment is for folks who are interested in diving deeply. This 75 minute session is focused on bringing the entirety of your mind, body, and spirit back into alignment. We’ll work together to identify and unwind any blocks and stagnancies, giving you some practices to integrate outside of session. A recorded debrief will follow your session.

The Realignment is offered virtually + in-person.

The Realignment

My mission is to make healing accessible for every body. Choosing healing should not lead anyone to financial hardship.

Sliding Scale sessions are available for folks experiencing financial hardship. Find more information on sliding scale sessions here.

FAQs

  • Reiki is the Japanese word for “universal life force energy” and is the gentle, loving practice of holistic healing through universal life force energy. An ancient practice originating from Japan in the 1920’s, it was developed by Mikao Usui, utilizing hands-on healing to channel universal life force energy. The focus is to simply aid the receiver in becoming a more balanced being: encouraging emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

    It is the belief that every thing and every one is filled with universal life force energy - or the breath of life. Also, every thing is composed of energy. In that case, Reiki is able to bring equanimity on every one and every thing.

    I also believe that when we receive energetic healing, we are simply realigning with our true selves.

    In my session, it is important for me to honor the many lineages and healing art practices I utilize, which are truly a coalescence of many areas of interest and studies. Realignment sessions integrate healing from Latin American healers, sound healing, land-based practices, astrology work, somatic-based practices, chakra energy centers, in addition to traditional Reiki practices that incorporate indigenous Ainu and Shinto practices.

  • Whether we are working together in-person or remotely, the sessions are about the same. We’ll connect, creating a beautiful, safe, and private space for you to relax without interruptions. I’ll guide you into your body using breath awareness, we’ll ground down together, opening an energetic container, and the session begins. Each session is always for the highest and greatest good of the receiver. Guided visualizations or imagery are used to guide you into your own body and notice, as an observer. If in-person, I will most likely put hands on your body (in areas that are comfortable for you). For distance healings, it will be sent directly to you. Depending on the length of your session, we may focus on a few key places in your body or end up incorporating your entire body. After I carefully guide you up and out of the session, we’ll re-ground you, and then connect and debrief on what arose during the session for me: uncovering the places and spaces where you keep tension, what recommendations and next steps that might assist in your journey, as well as some self-care tips following the session.

    These sessions I offer are a true coalescence of all I’ve studied and am curious about, not simply reiki. I like to call them energetic realignment sessions. Each session is intuitively led, utilizing an array different healing modalities, tailor-made to whomever I work with within a session.

  • Every body is different and every body shows up to a session differently. The belief is that Reiki brings you what you most need.

    Overall, the greatest benefit of receiving reiki is the relaxation and calm received during and after a session. Many report that a reiki session helps one’s mind, body, and spirit release, that a session feels like an “energetic shower,” or like a massage without the physical bodywork.

    Studies show that reiki benefits by relieving pain, anxiety, insomnia, headaches + migraines, healing injuries, diminishes inflammation, speeds healing, and eases pregnancy symptoms. Other benefits include a positive state of mind, realigning with your intuitive wisdom, feeling optimistic, grounded and clear.

  • I think the most challenging block to receiving reiki is believing in something that you can’t see, but can feel. Being open to receiving energy healing is an important part of the work we do together. Reiki healing cannot be forced upon someone; the receiver must be willing to receive the reiki. Additionally, I’m not a healer - you are the one allowing healing to come to your body.

    If you can believe that everything is energy and you can believe time and space is a construct, then you are open to the concept of distance healing. In my experience, distance healings work a bit more effectively as they’re more instantaneous. If you can imagine your physical body being composed of many energetic particles that are slowed to become a solid object, energy traveling through time and space versus a physical body makes a bit more sense.

    Stay with me here - if you can imagine that every single human has its own frequency (or energetic footprint) - like a radio station, then simply imagine me getting attuned to your specific frequency and being able to connect with you and send you energy healing over time and space. Once I’m able to connect with your and your energy, it’s quite simple to direct energy your way (think at the speed of sound or light), directly to your energetic body which then integrates to your physical and mental bodies.

  • Since every body is different, it’s really challenging to qualify what you might experience in a session.

    What I like to tell folks is that you experiencing energetic healing can go from feeling absolutely nothing, to feeling heat, tingles, hypnogogic sensations (when your limbs shake or move as you’re sleeping), falling asleep, feeling energized, or anything in between.

    Most of the time, every thing that you’re feeling is “right.” Whatever your feeling should be honored. It’s the way your body is communicating in it’s own language to you.

    Within our sessions, it’s truly a space we create together for you to discover how your body speaks with you, how to trust those sensations and observations, and how to learn to become more in rapport with yourself so you can lead a more authentic life.

  • No, a body map is never necessary. This is just offered and created by a visually-oriented person!

    Since energy work is often felt, but not seen, I’ve found that seeing how one’s energy could be mapped out visually has been impactful for many of my clients.

  • My offerings are truly a coalescence of my studies in awareness practices, energetic healing, astrology, somatics and embodiment, mindful movement, spirituality, anatomy, psychology, restorative practices, meditation, journaling, and guided visualization.

    I am trained within a few different lineages and paths, but my main modalities are:
    • in a traditional, gentle hands on, energy healing lineage that originated from Japan, commonly known as Reiki
    • a 200 hour CYT, specializing in a slower, heart-felt flow; yin and restorative yoga
    • intuition-based inner medicine and healing

    I am also currently completing a few certifications to help broaden my toolkit. My trainings can be found at my About Me page.

  • Absolutely! Every body should have access to wellness and healing. Please find more information here.