The Work
Most people arrive having already tried things. Massage, physio, stretching, a few different studios, maybe a therapist. Some of it helped. None of it quite reached the thing.
That is usually because the thing is not in the muscle. It is in the nervous system, and the nervous system does not respond to being worked on. It responds to being met.
A nervous system that has been running in an altered state for a long time, whether that is shut down or permanently switched on, stops knowing what a settled state feels like. It is not being difficult. It genuinely does not have the reference point anymore.
What happens in a session is that your body borrows mine.
That is the simplest way I can put it. I hold a regulated state, and over the course of a session your system calibrates towards it. You are not being fixed and you are not being adjusted. You are being given something to settle against, and given permission to let go of what your body currently thinks it has to hold.
What a session actually looks like
Most people arrive in whatever state they came in with, and it takes a few minutes for anything to change. That is normal. There is no version of this where you are supposed to be relaxed on arrival.
From there it varies more than people expect.
Some clients fall asleep, which is often exactly what the body needed and nothing to apologise for. Some have an emotional release. Some see things. Some find their body starts moving on its own, which is usually a nervous system finally being given permission to discharge something it has been holding.
Some people struggle to let go, particularly if energy work is new, or if feeling safe in the body is the thing that is hard in the first place. That is not a failed session. That is information, and we work with it.
Almost everyone experiences some change, even if it is small. A breath that goes deeper without being told to. A lightness. Something letting go that you did not know was gripping.
How I work
I read bodies. Before you lie down, the way you stand and hold yourself has already told me a good deal about where you are carrying things, and I read the energetic field alongside that. I have spent more than fifteen years working with bodies and a long time before that learning to trust what I perceive.
None of that is used to catch you out. It is used so that I can meet you where you actually are rather than where you say you are, which means you do not have to explain yourself or perform being fine.
Every session is different, because every person on the table is different, and because your body decides the pace, not me.
Ways in
Practical
Sessions are held in Abu Dhabi, by appointment. Every session starts with a short call first, so we can work out what you need before you come in. I share the location once a session is confirmed.
If you are travelling, or you are outside Abu Dhabi, get in touch and we will see what is possible.
If you are not sure which one you need, that is a very normal place to start from.
Send me a message and we will work it out.