About Original Body Wisdom - Somatic Movement
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Monday: 9AM - 5PM
Tuesday: ClosedWednesday: 9AM - 1:30PM
Thursday: ClosedFriday: 9AM - 5PM
Saturday: 10AM - 2PM
Sunday: Closed
Original Body Wisdom offers individual sessions and classes focused on somatic yoga and embodiment. The practice helps clients recover from injuries, manage chronic pain, and alleviate stress. Sessions can improve gait, pelvic floor function, respiration, balance, and overall well-being. The approach creates new connections between the brain and body, addressing constricting habits in muscles and the nervous system. Clients report feeling more confident, resilient, and relaxed after sessions. The practice is compatible with other therapies and can enhance the benefits of physical therapy and exercise. Donna, the practitioner, is described as knowledgeable, attentive, and caring, with a deep understanding of the body-mind connection.
Donna is amazing. When I first met Donna, I was unable to walk normally. My issue had been going on for months, and I had been told my two doctors that physical therapy was unlikely to work for me. Thank goodness I didn't believe them! With Donna's help, I'm back to walking normally. I feel like my old self. Thank you so much, Donna!
As a bodyworker myself I'm super picky about who I work with and who I refer to. Donna is one of the most gifted providers I've ever encountered -- her work is so subtle, just little suggestions for moving this way and that -- and yet the changes can be huge. I had a chronic ankle issue for decades, and I never would have believed how much it improved after just a few sessions.
On the most basic level, I always feel more regulated and at ease in my body after one of Donna’s classes. That is already a great gift, and would be enough, but Donna offers so much more.
After taking several somatic movement sessions with her, I’m impressed by how much body awareness I’ve gained and amazed by the power of breath to gently and painlessly facilitate shifts in movement patterns that have become limiting or dysfunctional. Her cuing is clear and specific, and the depth of her experience with breath work, yoga, and other modalities provides a rich reservoir of imagery from which she can draw to facilitate exploration and adapt exercises...read full review