“Shared joy is double joy; Shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” Swedish proverb
Most of us have been taught to solve our problems with our minds. Yet we continously struggle with things like
Anxiety, stress and grief
Emotional stuckness and overwhelm
Lack of ability to feel and be present in our body
We weren’t taught to fully feel and honor our feelings. We haven’t been modeled how to create safety and presence in the body.
Over time, all of this unfelt and unmoved emotion (e-motion = energy in motion) begins to degrade our peace and happiness. This pain, anxiety, sadness begins to fester and become heavy, weighing us down, dulling our light. We can end up lost, confused, and stuck in cycles of suffering that create more suffering.
The most effective path from emotional stuckness to deep, long-term healing - which results in greater peace and joy - is through your body.
Enter Somatic Therapy comes in. Somatic therapy is an alternative and holistic method of working with emotions and trauma. Somatic therapy offers a holistic approach to healing that acknowledges the inseparable connection between the mind and body, making it a powerful modality for addressing a wide range of psychological, emotional, and physical challenges when practiced consistently.
Somatic therapy assists you in integration of all aspects of your core self, enabling a more comprehensive approach to accessing and resolving the underlying causes of distress and illness.
From Harvard.edu:
“Since disturbing feelings often show up in the body in debilitating ways, somatic therapy aims to drain those emotions of their power, relieving pain and other manifestations of stress, such as disrupted sleep or an inability to concentrate.
These types of emotions can stem from a variety of conditions and circumstances that somatic therapy may potentially help alleviate. They include
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
complicated grief
depression
anxiety
trust and intimacy issues
self-esteem problems.”
You body contains more wisdom than you know.
The form of Somatic Therapy I practice is Kindrêd. Kindred is an intuitive movement meditation that uses shared intention, imagination and emotional expression and move protective/constrictive emotions into pleasurable/expansive emotions.
The form of Somatic Therapy I have been studying and practicing since August of 2020 is called Kindrêd Meditation. Kindrêd is an intuitive movement meditation, done in partnership. It’s a dynamic and creative, form of non-sexual tantric meditation that creates circuits of connection between alternating senders and receivers.
I am a Certified Facilitator of Kindrêd and have logged thousands of hours deep-diving into my own body and emotions, and holding space for others’ expression and movement.
When I first discovered Kindred in August 2020, I was in a very unhappy place in my life. It was lockdown times, so I was feeling isolated and unsure of the future. I was also living in a toxic relationship where most of the time I was feeling shitty and anxious. Kindred came into my life like a light - it was SO EASY and quick to go from anxious and shitty-feeling, to bliss. It made me realize the huge gap in how I felt versus how good it was possible to feel on a day to day basis.
Kindrêd also began to open me up in other ways - erode deep-seated wounds of not enoughness, fear of intimacy and being seen, fear of authentic expression… Kindrêd changed my life by helping me feel safe enough in my body to be more and more fully ME, to connect to myself and my emotions on deeper levels, and be able to connect to others on deeper levels too.
“Kindrêd helped me acknowledge, feel and direct the feelings and emotions in and through my body. I felt acknowledged by myself, I felt the emotions, rather than being stifled and stuck and carried within me, were able to be RELEASED.
Brings relief from the OVERWHELM of feeling all these emotions in my body and wanting to be SEEN, Relief came from being deeply seen and validated by myself and another! Allowed for greater clarity about what exactly I was feeling led to a deeper understanding of the mix/complexity, and acceptance of self and all emotions.”
Joy M., Grants Pass, Oregon
Healing trauma, grief, anxiety, and stuckness doesn’t have to be a slog through discomfort.
Healing can be FUN.
Healing can be PLAYFUL.
Healing can be PLEASURABLE.
1:1 Kindrêd Somatic Therapy Sessions with Maya Lila di Vento - offered via Zoom or in person in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Especially helpful for grief, trauma, and loss, Kindrêd offers a helping hand to get to the other side of heartbreak. Be witnessed, felt and accepted in your pain. Results can be a sense of relief, more openness, ease, and joy. Find peace, get ready to love again, be able to breathe, find greater wellbeing. Free yourself from emotional stuckness and get your energy flowing towards power and openness.
$60 / 1 hour
First session free.
Packages:
15 minutes daily for 14 days for acute emotional distress/heartbreak/grief: $200
30 minutes 1 time / week for 6 weeks: $160
Group Kindrêd Class - every Monday at 8am-8:30amPT on Zoom
Sliding Scale/Pay What You Can Per Class: $10 / $20 / $30 payable via Venmo or Zelle (request phone number)
Monthly Membership, Sliding Scale/Pay What You Can, 25% discount: $30 / $60 / $90 payable via Venmo
We’ll come together to listen to our bodies, to Celebrate and Grieve, and to move allll the emotions in between!
A safe, fun, beautiful, connective space to drop the masks, to learn and to share, to be seen and felt, and to feel others deeply.
Come home to your body.
Come BREATHE, with full presence.
Come move.
Come explore the inner landscape of your emotions.
Come flex your imagination.
Come ALIVE.
Come dance the divinity in your bones.
It’s fun. It’s easy. It’s transformational.
Come see and be seen and create playful circuits of connection with other amazing humans.