Embodiment Therapy supports physical and emotional healing and deepens your connection to your natural rhythm of life.
Treatments consist of carefully attuned body-based methods such as shiatsu, acupressure, lymphatic drainage, deep tissue, and Chi Nei Tsang.
You can follow individual sessions or embark on a longer process. If desired, we will map out a path together that offers deeper insight into areas that affect your wellbeing. Thanks to the cyclical approach, new themes can continuously emerge. The therapy evolves with you.
THEMES
Each treatment and therapeutic route is tailored to your unique process. There is space for a wide range of themes, from physical discomfort to existential questions.
What they have in common is that they are all felt through the body and can therefore be approached through the body.
Common reasons people seek support include:
– Fatigue and burnout symptoms.
– Headaches and tension-related complaints.
– Back, neck, and shoulder pain.
– Sleep difficulties.
– Nervousness and trouble relaxing.
– Stuck or unprocessed emotions.
– Difficulty setting boundaries.
– Unexplained physical symptoms.
– Menstrual and menopausal issues.
– Recovery after impactful experiences.
– Strengthening self-confidence and body awareness.
Themes that can serve as recognition, entry points, or inspiration.
Physical symptoms
Muscles & Joints
• Muscle pain and tension
• Stiff or cramped muscles
• Back, neck, and shoulder complaints
• RSI and muscle overuse
• Joint pain and stiffness
• Restless legs
• Tension due to poor posture
Stress & Emotional Balance
• Anxiety and restlessness
• Headaches and migraines
• Insomnia and (chronic) fatigue
• Burnout and overstimulation
• Restlessness
• Tension-related jaw pain
Circulation & Lymphatic System
• Poor circulation (cold hands/feet)
• Fluid retention and edema
• Cellulite and skin laxity
• Reduced lymphatic drainage
• Fatigue and low energy
• Support for the immune system
• Recovery support after illness or surgery
Digestion & Abdominal Complaints
• Bloating and digestive issues
• Abdominal pain and tension
• Support for bowel function
• Nausea and acid reflux
Hormonal & Female Complaints
• Menstrual pain and hormonal imbalance
• Pregnancy-related complaints
• Menopausal symptoms
Other
• Sleep problems and insomnia
• Chronic pain complaints
• Lack of energy and fatigue
• Dizziness and tinnitus
Nervous system
Balance in Stimuli
A sensitive nervous system makes you more intensely receptive to stimuli, which can lead to overstimulation and emotional intensity. Highly sensitive individuals process impressions deeply, which can be both enriching and overwhelming.
Embodiment therapy helps channel stimuli and find a balance between over- and understimulation. Through relaxation and grounding, a sense of safety emerges, allowing your sensitivity to feel less like a burden and more like a valuable quality that you can enjoy with greater ease and pleasure.
Resilience
Stronger in Balance
Embodiment therapy is a holistic approach that brings body, mind, and emotions into balance. It promotes deep relaxation, helping you process external and internal stimuli more effectively and enhancing your ability to recover.
Additionally, massage strengthens your emotional resilience and mental well-being. This helps you better cope with stress and setbacks while boosting your self-confidence.
With this therapy, you build a stronger foundation of resilience and balance in your daily life.
Vitality
A boost for vitality
Embodiment therapy stimulates circulation and the lymphatic system, improving organ function and the elimination of waste products.
The nervous system switches to recovery mode, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and increasing resilience. Additionally, massages boost the production of serotonin and endorphins, which relieve pain and promote well-being.
This therapy helps your energy flow more freely and strengthen both body and mind. A simple, effective way to enhance your vitality.
Transition
Support in Change
Embodiment therapy provides valuable support during physical and psychological transitions. By deepening your connection with your body, it helps with self-acceptance and embracing changes in body and identity.
In a safe, respectful space where your gender identity, orientation, and queerness are fully welcomed, you can explore yourself on a deeper level.
This therapy invites relaxation, acknowledgment, and trust in your own process, allowing you to navigate your transition with more strength and gentleness.
Intimacy
Connection Through Touch
Positive touch is a powerful tool against stress and anxiety and promotes emotional security.
During a massage, oxytocin is released, the hormone essential for growth, healing, and building intimate relationships.
Additionally, massage helps you feel more comfortable in your body, strengthening your self-worth and integrity. This also enhances your openness and confidence in the areas of intimacy, sensuality, and sexuality.
By increasing relaxation and body awareness, embodiment therapy creates space for deeper connection – with yourself and with others.
Pregnancy
For Mother and Baby
A prenatal holistic treatment relieves pain, promotes recovery, and stimulates circulation, benefiting both you and your baby.
In my practice, you can lie comfortably on your stomach thanks to a special massage table, or on your side with pillow support. You are welcome from 14 weeks of pregnancy until birth.
Massage helps with discomfort such as pelvic instability, fluid retention, back and shoulder pain, sleep problems, and emotional fluctuations.
Before Birth
If your due date has passed, a relaxation massage with acupressure can help induce labor. Acupressure stimulates the production of oxytocin – the hormone that triggers contractions – and enhances blood circulation. At the same time, it helps release endorphins and serotonin, reducing pain perception and making you feel calmer and better prepared.
Postpartum
Recovery and Self-Care
After childbirth, your body needs time and support to recover. A massage helps relieve tension in the back, shoulders, and neck, supports hormonal balance, and reduces fatigue caused by disrupted sleep patterns. It is a valuable form of self-care during this intense period.
After a vaginal birth, you can receive a massage from 4 weeks postpartum, and after a cesarean section, after at least 6 weeks.
Emotional and Physical Recovery
A Embodiment therapy treatment can also help with the processing of a miscarriage or abortion. It calms the nervous system, reduces feelings of emptiness, and helps restore trust in your body. Additionally, it supports hormonal balance and provides a moment of rest and comfort.
Grief
Period of Loss
Grief takes many forms – the loss of a loved one, a miscarriage, abortion, breakup, or other farewell can be emotionally, mentally, and physically overwhelming. Sadness, anger, guilt, fear, and difficulty concentrating are often accompanied by physical tensions, such as tight muscles, stomach pain, and reduced appetite.
Embodiment therapy helps to calm the nervous system, regulate emotions, and release tension. It offers comfort and supports you in consciously experiencing your feelings and blockages, allowing you to process your grief at your own pace.
A gentle, healing way to connect with yourself during a period of loss.
METHODS
The treatments are a combination of body-oriented methods, tailored to your themes and preferences.
Acupressure
Acupressure is a form of manual therapy in which pressure is applied with the hands to specific points on the body, also known as meridian points. These points lie along energy pathways connected to organs, emotions, and bodily functions.
By applying focused pressure to these points, the body’s self-healing capacity is activated, blockages are released, and energetic balance can be restored. Acupressure helps to reduce tension and pain, enhances the flow of Qi (life energy), and promotes harmony between body and mind.
This technique is often combined with Shiatsu and other forms of touch. It is an invitation to relaxation, inner calm, and conscious presence.
Zen Shiatsu
Zen Shiatsu is a Japanese pressure point massage that originates from the traditional healing art of Anma. This technique uses fingers, palms, elbows, and knees along the meridians, which also play a central role in acupressure. Instead of focusing on specific points, Zen Shiatsu emphasizes the meridians as energy pathways, enhancing the synergy between Shiatsu and acupressure.
This approach works with the concept of Ki—the physical, emotional, and mental energy that flows through the body.
The ‘Zen’ aspect refers to the presence and focus of the practitioner. The quality of touch is shaped not only by technique, but also by inner stillness, concentration, and attunement to the moment. The touch is rhythmic, breathing, and responsive to what arises.
Zen Shiatsu views symptoms as expressions of imbalances in the energetic whole. Through conscious pressure along the meridians, the body is invited into regulation, relaxation, and healing. This method deepens body awareness and is particularly effective for stress, fatigue, and emotional imbalance.
Lymph Drainage
Lymphatic Drainage is a gentle, rhythmic form of massage that supports the lymphatic system. The slow, circular movements stimulate the removal of waste products, improve fluid balance, and strengthen the immune system.
This treatment is particularly effective for swelling, fatigue, skin issues, and recovery after illness or overexertion. It often induces deep relaxation and a renewed sense of vitality. The touch is subtle yet works deeply on the autonomic nervous system and body fluids.
Lymphatic drainage is also supportive during recovery periods, hormonal imbalances, and chronic stress.
Deep Tissue
Deep Tissue is a powerful and slow massage technique focused on releasing deeper muscle layers and connective tissue. The slow pressure and precision help release tension that has become trapped in the body.
This method is often used for persistent pain, posture issues, fatigue, or after physical overexertion. The touch is firm, but always attuned to your pace and capacity.
Deep Tissue is liberating, grounding, and creates space in the body. It helps release tension and often brings emotional layers to the surface, making them more manageable.
Foot Reflexology
Foot Reflexology: The entire body is reflected in the feet. By applying targeted pressure and massage to specific zones on the feet, corresponding organs and systems in the body are influenced. This helps restore balance, improve circulation, and enhance vitality.
Foot reflexology has a calming effect on the nervous system and promotes deep relaxation. It supports a wide range of complaints, such as digestive issues, sleep problems, headaches, hormonal imbalance, and stress.
The feet often reveal a lot about a person’s state of being. Paying attention to the feet literally reconnects you to the ground beneath your existence.
Chi Nei Tsang
Chi Nei Tsang is a form of deep abdominal massage from the Taoist tradition. “Chi Nei Tsang” literally means: working with the energy of the organs. The abdomen is considered the center of emotions, digestion, processing, and intuition in this view.
Through gentle, focused touch on the abdominal area, stagnation in the organs is relieved, tension is released, and flow is restored.
Chi Nei Tsang promotes detoxification, digestion, vitality, and emotional processing. It is an invitation to feel more deeply, let go, and return home to yourself.
MYSTICS
The treatments are supported with therapeutic guidance in the form of conversation, focusing, meditation, or visualization. This introspective support deepens the process, both in preparation and in the integration of what is touched within the body.
You strengthen the connection with your body and become more attuned to your inner needs, boundaries, and desires. This expands your freedom of movement within your inner landscape—your ability to orient and attune from within.
Often, depth is found in silence. During a treatment held in silence, your body can focus more fully on regeneration. Without distraction, attention turns inward, allowing thoughts and emotions to become clearer. Silence creates space for insight, intuition, and creativity.
As an additional approach, creative expression may be used. Through preparatory or reflective assignments involving visual language, imagination, or writing, insights take form and your inner compass is engaged in a different way.
FOUNDATIONS
This complementary therapy is based on the five nature-oriented principles, enriched with insights from the Eastern elements theory, which views the human being as part of the natural cycle of life, growth, release, and renewal. Together, they form a compass that invites movement, awareness, and balance.
It creates space for releasing old patterns and anchoring new experiences of safety, resilience, and relaxation. A shift occurs—from surviving to living—toward the embodiment of your natural rhythm.
Embodiment Therapy is not a one-way street. It is a dynamic collaboration in which you actively participate in your own process. As a therapist, I offer safety, experience, clarity, and creativity, attuned to your unique rhythm of sensing, processing, and transformation.
