  | Inner Process Bodywork is validating and affirming - it helps you see yourself more fully, opening the door for profound physical and emotional healing.
-Michelle Anderson | |
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Inner Process Bodywork: Releasing patterns of stress and tension in your body through gentle, intuitive touch and reflective dialogue
Services:
- Inner Process Bodywork: Restorative sessions that focus on relieving your physical discomfort and nourishing you emotionally
- Reiki: Using light touch to channel universal life energy and promote overall well being
- Energetic Balancing: Using deeply attentive techniques to balance and mobilize your own healing life force
Are you experiencing:
- Muscle tension or stress-related pain that brings chronic discomfort?
- An inability to understand the emotional components of your pain that may be blocking your ability to heal?
- A feeling of being stuck, trapped, or blocked in your personal or professional life?
- The burden of weighty emotional "baggage"?
- An inability to express important thoughts and feelings?
- Ongoing stress that prevents you from ever truly relaxing.
- A desire for emotional support in addition to that provided by a therapist?
Then Michelle's gentle approach is a good fit for you:
With expertise in various forms of bodywork, Michelle is deeply attentive to your needs as she creates the opportunity for you to let tensions and stress melt away. Expressing great faith in your ability to heal, she finds joy in watching you blossom.
Michelle begins with a careful assessment of your physical and emotional difficulties before inviting you to relax on a padded massage table in any state of undress you find comfortable. Employing touch that listens intuitively to your body, she gently explores the areas of tightness and holding that cause you discomfort. As sensations, emotions, images, and memories arise, she encourages you to share them, before reflecting these experiences back to you while sustaining her gentle touch. Hearing your observations echoed, you feel a sense of affirmation that heightens your understanding of where and how tension is stored in your body. In the presence of this caring witness, you feel restored - physically relaxed, emotionally nourished, and able to release the burdens that have been weighing you down.
After experiencing Michelle's intuitive touch, you may:
- Gain greater awareness of where your tension comes from and where it lives in your body.
- Finally resolve long-standing injuries.
- See more clearly what holds you back from the life you want.
- Gain a feeling of lightness, relief, and renewed energy
- Find a safe and non-judgmental space to be with your thoughts and feelings.
- A chance to step back from your fast paced life and ask "Why am I running?"
- Experience a boost in your efforts toward resolving difficult emotional issues.
The fundamentals of Inner Process Bodywork:
In common speech, we often refer to the way our emotions are reflected in our bodies. We are told to "keep our chin up" or we are described as "carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders." Think of the last time you were angry and got a stomachache or had a headache after a frustrating day. It's not a great leap to see how receiving gentle touch directed at your areas of tension and holding would help you connect more deeply with your emotions. It is becoming increasingly accepted in medical circles that we are not machine-like. Rather, we are infinitely complex organisms of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual forces. Inner Process Bodywork is based on the principle that all of these elements must be addressed if we are to live with energy and vitality.
Testimonials
"I came to Michelle at a time of intense change in my life that resulted in significant stress. When my shoulders were giving me problems, she helped me realize exactly what I was holding that caused me such severe tension. As she opened up my awareness, I was able to specifically address the burdens my body had been carrying for much of my life. I am very grateful to Michelle for all her work!"
Dana Pape, LMP, Seattle, WA
"My experience with Michelle and Inner Process Bodywork heightened my awareness of the connection between body and emotion. As a long time sufferer of neck and back pain as well as tension headaches I experienced a release from this treatment unlike other forms of therapy. I felt relaxing in neck and back as well as an emotional calm. I will not hesitate to continue receiving Inner Process Bodywork from Michelle and I truly appreciate her skill and the work she does."
Nicole Barrett, Bremerton, WA
Education, Training, and Credentials:
- Inner Process Bodywork Training, Caroline Goodell; Licensed Massage Therapist, Brian Utting School of Massage; Reiki Levels I & II, Jackie Blackburn; BA in Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College; Registered Counselor, Washington State Department of Licensing
- In practice since 1997
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