Kikokara weaves wisdom from thai-yoga massage, reiki, somatic psychotherapy and dance. It is a holistic bodywork practice that finds it’s ground in heartfelt connection, tenderness and pleasure. It is guided by principles of non-forcing, fluid movement and spacious listening – inviting the receivers’ body to unfurl without expectation. Kikokara venerates the body as its own healer, holding all the intelligence it needs to attend itself. It helps people remember how to let the body lead – how to let this ancient system guide us. The deeper inspiration of kikokara is to reconnect human beings to the broader cosmology of which we are a part; it is ultimately in and through the body that this connection is remembered.
What can I expect from a session?
Sessions are unique to each person; they vary based on how you show up and what you express you want to explore. Ultimately, the sessions are a space for you to be exactly as you are, without judgment, allowing what needs to come up to come up. Some sessions can be very dynamic with a lot of movement, while others are slow and still. Sometimes we speak with words, other times we do not.
Why should I get a session?
Kikokara bodywork can help with
- Stuck emotions
- Nervous system grounding
- The need to be held
- Trauma
- Muscle and joint tension
Kikokara is a holistic practice that meets each human being as a complex interconnected system. The physical layer (muscles, joints, bones etc) is typically where things show up last. Accordingly, Kikokara tends to orient more toward the emotional and energetic / environmental aspects of experience.
Kikokara sessions are not about healing you. Primarily, there are about providing a space for you to learn something new about yourself, to experience your inner world in a new way, to put your nervous system to rest so that new information has space to come in. Sessions will release tension, they will calm your nervous system, they will leave you feeling more relaxed, but the heart of Kikokara is about connection and knowledge in the felt sense.
What is the intention?
One of the great mistakes of self-help culture, and a lot of western psychotherapy, is that it places the burden of communal dysfunction onto individual people. Many of our systems of ‘healing’ funnel us into an individualistic way of looking at everything, and in so doing create a cycle of shame where one questions never seems to leave us: ‘what is wrong with me?’ Further, many psycho-therapeutic approaches try to address this question with thought and speech – this propels individuals out of their heart and up into their head, which only amplifies their sense of isolation and self-blame.
One of my fundamental intentions with the work i do is to allow people to realise that there never has been, and never will be, anything wrong with them. There is nothing to fix and nothing to improve, only messages to listen to. When we start listening to the messages, we begin to see: anxiety is a sign of function, not dysfunction. depression is a sign of function, not dysfunction. indigestion and cramps are a sign of function, not dysfunction. our bodies are always responding appropriately, they are always in a state of truth. Someone suffering in depression is simply a mirror to a depressed world, someone’s chronic anxiety is an apt response to the environment humans have created, it is not a fault or lacking in that individual person, it is the universe speaking through that person, trying to say: ‘hey! this isn’t right, let’s do something about this!’. The things many ‘healing’ modalities pathologize in individuals are actually invitations from the universe to come back into rhythm with itself. This is the project of re-sensitisation and the heart of the intention behind my work.
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