What’s the approach?
The body is often treated as a broken machine to be fixed, silenced, or forced back into productivity. We work differently. Here, the body is a subject to be heard. It is a landscape that carries the sediment of your history. Every tension, every restriction, every pain point is a chapter of your biography written into your biology. The session is a container. We do not force, we wait for the process to welcome us.
What Happens in a Session
We begin with conversation. You tell me where you are. I listen for what’s beneath the telling, the places where language tightens, the gaps, the thing your hands do while you speak. Together we find a bearing: what is this time for?
This is already the work. We’re feeling the weather of you — what’s settled, what’s stirring, where the season is turning.
Before depth, we establish ground. This is nervous system calibration work, usually fully clothed, finding the parts of you that are still at rest. Islands in the body where the soil is solid, where something is growing undisturbed. We anchor there first. The whole ecology needs to know it has solid ground before anything can shift.
Sometimes this means standing work. I may teach you a qigong form, a way of moving that invites the breath to settle lower, the weight to find the feet, the spine to remember its own length. Qigong is integral to my practice. It gives the body a way to participate in its own reorganization, rather than only receiving.
Hands-On Work
I’ll name what I notice, and invite you to do the same. Language tends to fall away on its own, in its own time.
The central pillar of the work is unwinding. I’ll take a limb, your arm, your leg, and hold it, supporting its full weight so you don’t have to. And I follow. The limb has its own impulses, its own small movements, rotations, reaches. You may be aware of them or you may have dropped below the surface of monitoring. You may not know who is moving. That’s right. It’s a conversation happening between your nervous system and the room, and the question of who leads dissolves. Like a dance where both partners are listening so closely that the distinction between leading and following becomes irrelevant.
I might spend fifteen minutes with one arm. It depends on what surfaces. The limb spirals, pauses, reorganizes. I’m not directing it. I’m offering it the conditions to find its own resolution, a more spacious way of resting in gravity. Sometimes the resolution is a long, slow settling into stillness. Sometimes something rises first — a tremor, a wave of emotion, heat, cold, tears — and then stillness. All of this serves as a way to help us access spaciousness in the central channel of the body.
If/when catharsis comes, we welcome it. Hands behind the head. Palms beneath the sacrum. A hand on the heart. If what your body needs is resistance, something to push against, I meet it with equal weight. Yielding and returning, the way a good partner receives force without collapsing and without escalating. Just presence, matched.
Elsewhere in the session, the touch changes. On the back line, the work can be deep — my elbows, my forearms finding the density in the tissue, the places where the fascia has thickened, where the body has been bracing for so long it’s forgotten how to stop. I may work a point where a channel converges — acupressure, steady and sustained — and wait for the tissue to open on its own time. I don’t force a release. The body does not respond well to being overridden. It responds to being met.
Throughout all of this, I’m feeling for something specific: the moment the body discovers it has a choice it didn’t know it had. A shoulder that’s been held high for years finds that it can rest without falling. A hip that’s been gripping discovers that the leg is still connected, still supported, even when the muscle lets go. A ribcage learns — not through instruction but through experience — that the breath can fill it more fully than it has been allowed to.
This is what I mean by reorganization. The nervous system, given the right conditions — safety, time, gravity, skilled contact — will find a more efficient, more easeful way to hold the body together. It’s already brilliant at this. It just hasn’t had the space.
We close with integration. You don’t leave mid-current. We take time to let what moved settle into a new arrangement, the way a landscape looks different after rain. The contours haven’t changed, but the light has. Something that was dry is saturated. Something that was buried has surfaced.
This may be silence. It may be a few words. It is always unhurried.
How People Respond
People relax. Some reach something that has been gathering for a long time. People leave saying they feel taller. Lighter, like something has shifted in how they carry their own weight. Gravity hasn’t changed, but their relationship to it has. The body remembers it has been moving with gravity all along. Something that was unconscious becomes felt. A partnership that was always there is finally noticed.
I needed body therapy for my neurological issues, and working with Laure over several sessions has been incredibly beneficial. Laure’s approach allowed my body to relax and trust the process, helping me access deeper levels of release and healing.
Laure possesses unique skills, and their training, including Qi Gong, enriches the work. I felt changes on multiple levels, notably the release of emotions deeply rooted in my body. This work helped me access and manage emotional patterns I had been carrying for years. This therapy is particularly valuable for conditions like Parkinson’s disease, as it works on tensions in the skull, brain, and throughout the body. Thanks to these sessions, I’ve seen real changes in my life. I deeply appreciate Laure’s knowledge, their presence, and the benefits of a series of targeted sessions to go deeper. Thank you!” – ROBERT C.
Logistics
Rate:
Initial meeting: 150$ (90 minutes)
Follow-up: 100$ (50 minutes), 125$ (75 minutes), 140$ (90 minutes)
First session: May run longer to allow for a complete anamnesis.
Attire: This is a laboratory for movement, not a spa. Wear loose, comfortable clothing that allows for breath and range of motion. Unlike oil-based massage, this work often involves movement, limb rotation, and structural leverage.
Insurance: Massage therapy receipts are available for providers that cover these services.
Cancellation: 24 hours notice required.