Welcome! I’m Dylan. I work with a basic and fundamental trust that our bodies are wise, dynamic, and constantly working for balance and fulfillment. If we learn to get out of our own way, we can process what needs to be processed and move towards a life of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Often what is lacking in finding our own strength to heal and be well is 1) trust in the body 2) energy 3) attention.
I support people in regaining trust in themselves by teaching them how to feel their feelings, stop creating tension in their bodies, and experience pain and fear as energy.
I work with a talk and touch based somatic teaching modality called the Grinberg Method®. I am also trained as a therapist and draw guidance from models such as Internal Family Systems, Focusing, and various trauma models such as Polyvagal Theory and the Neurosequential Model. However, the work I am offering here is not therapy but rather somatic teaching.
A body-based approach to healing
The Grinberg Method
The Grinberg Method is a structured way of learning through the body. It is based on the understanding that suffering, limitation, and self-defeating habits are held physically, in posture, tension, and automatic reactions, and that the body itself can reveal what needs to change.
What I teach:
Body Attention: cultivating the ability to feel and perceive through the body, rather than only interpreting with the mind.
Stopping Patterns: learning to recognize and stop automatic patterns that create suffering or limit growth.
Fear and Pain: approaching these experiences directly, without avoidance or resistance, so their energy can be released and reintegrated.
Letting the Body Work: trusting the body’s inherent capacity to heal and reorganize itself when given the opportunity to do so.
Silence & Relaxation: quieting the mind and accessing deep states of rest, which make it possible to meet fear and pain from a new angle.
Personal Responsibility: finding the willingness to commit to your own wellbeing, to learn from your body, to dare to become. The practitioner creates conditions for learning, but true, powerful change depends on your participation.
Offerings
Bodywork session
60 mins @ $75-$100
This option is for people who have a physical pain they would like relief in by getting to know how their reactions to their pain is prolonging the pain. We work hands-on to teach you how to let go of resistance to pain and feel the pain so that the body can heal itself.
Examples: Migraines, chronic tension, back pain, neck stiffness, indigestion, fatigue
Personal Process on general well-being and fulfillment
Assessment session: 80 mins @ $85-$120
Standard session: 60 mins @ $75-100
This option is for people who are aware of how patterns they’re maintaining are preventing them from experiencing life fully. We define the pattern and the aim of the process in the assessment and work through the body to unlearn the pattern, allow emotional experience, and maintain attention in the body rather than thoughts.
Examples: confidence, intimacy, connection with self, creativity, organization, self-expression, pleasure, relaxation, silence etc
Online Somatic Coaching
45 mins @ $50-75
Learn how to listen to yourself through guided somatic practice and reflective listening to understand your feelings and trust your inner knowing.
Testimonials
“Dylan has helped me better understand who I am both through a hands-on session as well as personal support at a distance.
During our session they unearthed unacknowledged beliefs, and channeled vast amounts of energy through my arms and body in ways that I had not felt before.
At one point, they cradled my head to work on neck and shoulder tension, and I was transported to an ocean that I had floated in years before.”
Eric Y. age 32
“The Grinberg method was new to me and I found it to be extremely profound, a mixture of physical and emotional/mental re-organizing and learning. Dylan has a wonderful presence and guided me through some intense healing. Highly recommended!”
Simone W. age 55
“The Grinberg Method is a way to next level your body awareness practice and Dylan has a particular gift. I considered myself to be quite "body aware", but my work with Dylan has led me to many new and unexpected discoveries about how I use my body and how I store and or avoid fear, anxiety, & tension. Allowing my body to naturally process and move through emotion, even unpleasant emotion, has invited a new grace and ease into my life. As noted in Dylans's description of this work, you become an active participant in the journey; meaning you also get to walk away with personalized awareness tools for how you may inhabit and befriend your body more fully. Dylan is a Grinberg ninja, if you feel called to participate is such work for yourself, do not miss the opportunity to work with them.”
Adam, age 52
“I’m turning 76 in a couple of months. Being in pain after surgery and experiencing a general serious malaise I knew I had to do something. Dylan has been treating me now for several months. Their treatments are having a fabulous impact. It’s been a wonderful process. I’m recommending them as a true caring distinctive healer.”
Gary S. age 76