It’s all learning.

-Wynn Tamura

Touch is a powerful way to come into deeper connection with ourselves and
one another. I use touch to help you tap into the felt sense of your being and
remember who you are, naturally.

I’m trained in a style of touch work practiced in The Tamura Method (TM), a psycho-energetic model of healing. TM distinguishes between two states of being: the “child” and the “adult.” The child is composed of layers of body memory from our experiences growing up, which shape us inside and out. We don’t outgrow our childhood—it remains deeply imbedded in our body/mind.

Maturity brings more ease, logic, and understanding to our lives. But even challenging experiences in adulthood can active past undigested memories. This can feel like heightened confusion, frustration, tension, fear, hurt, or other physiological sensations—coming seemingly out of nowhere. On a conceptual level, many understand that the past impacts them today—what’s harder to grasp is that the child is still living it.

Traditional therapy often falls short because it relies heavily on conceptual models, an approach that focuses on educating the adult. This style misses the child, who learns experientially. TM emphasizes the importance of contacting the child directly, using touch, to communicate a felt sense of safety and togetherness. Through this connection, defenses soften and deeply held patterns of protection begin to shift.

The felt experience of change opens the door to possibility and, when coupled with increased awareness, can begin to pattern new ways of being in the world. Keeping this exploration alive, through a practice of conscious embodiment, you can begin to emerge in the present with more clarity, joy, and freedom.