Abi Newman

'Learning to listen to the inner language of the body is primary to the task of healing, self-actualization and human fulfilment' - Dr. Scott Lyons

I am a fierce believer in people, I know that we all have the potential to meet and integrate our innate power and wisdom, I also know and understand that being human and being in a body can be a challenging experience.

I offer a space for you to move into, move with and move through what has been and continues to be held in body, mind, story and sense of self. I work in a holistic way, with an intention to acknowledge and be with body, mind and heart in a compassionate and welcoming way. I hold a space for you to explore the map of who you are, giving voice, movement and sound to your emotional, physical and energetic body, allowing a process between what was, what is and what will be.

Our sessions together will depend upon where the process takes us and could include dialogue, body awareness, breath-work, authentic movement, formative Psychology (shaping and re-shaping somatic emotional responses), body mapping and meditation, strengthening your relationship with nature, voice/sound exploration, creative writing, gesture and posture, body dialogue, somatic storytelling and body-gestalt techniques. If appropriate to your process EMDR can be integrated into longer term work together.

The body can hold places of pain, joy, unspoken truth and so much more, our bodies carry within them the legacy of our life experiences; our attachments, our traumas, our abandonment, our belonging and our becoming. By working with different states that the bodymind enters into you can become aware of protective patterns, functions of the shapes we take and deeply written survival instincts, meeting these parts and welcoming them into the space can create an invitation towards wholeness and integration. By finding places in the body that can provide an anchor into more safety and befriending these places, you not only have a valuable resource, you can find sustainable change.

Acknowledging the stories and language of your body can offer another dimension to therapeutic work and creates a space to explore the difficulties in your life that do not seem to move or change simply by talking about them.

I feel driven and passionate about holding a therapeutic space for people to reconnect with their bodies and the stories that live there, to reunite the Soma with the Psyche, to come back home to wholeness and integration.

For more detailed information and FAQs about sessions please head across to my website.