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,
to remember who you are in your naturalness.

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. Challenges in the present can unconsciously active past undigested memories, like a kind of time travel. This can feel like heightened confusion, frustration, fear, hurt, or certain physiological symptoms—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 approaches healing primarily through the mind. This style of learning misses the child, who feels life in their body. TM contacts the child directly using touch, to communicate a felt sense of safety and togetherness. Through this connection, defenses soften, and you emerge in your body in the present. Through this cultivation of embodied awareness you can begin to feel yourself clearly and navigate life with more agency. In TM we call this the adult self. The adult has more capacity to feel nuance, hold complexity, and ride the waves of life.