Kikokara bodywork weaves wisdom from reiki, somatic psychotherapy and dance. It is a holistic bodywork practice that finds it’s ground in heartfelt connection, tenderness and curiosity. It is guided by principles of non-forcing, fluid movement and spacious listening – inviting the receiver’s system to unfurl without expectation. Kikokara venerates the body an an ancient system that holds all the intelligence it needs to attend itself. 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. Kikokara bodywork is not about becoming a better person or fixing faulty parts, it is about listening and remembering; coming back into rhythm with life
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. All sessions begin with a verbal conversation, where you can share what is present for you and what you would like to focus on – this will be the direction for the session. 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 speech is used to assist in mind-muscle connections and to open the imagination, but most of the time, verbal communication can distract from the conversation of the rest of the body, and is therefore not used
Why should I get a session?
Kikokara bodywork can help with
- Stuck / inaccessible emotions
- Nervous system grounding + replenishing
- Muscle and joint tension
- Numbness / disassociation
Kikokara sessions are not about healing you. Primarily, they are 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. Kikokara is about connection and knowledge in the felt sense.
What is the intention?
I believe that there is great blind spot in self-help culture, and a lot of western culture in general, in that that it places the burden of communal imbalance onto individual people. Many of our systems of ‘healing’ funnel us into an individualistic (and capitalistic) 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 modern approaches try to meet this with thought, speech and analysis alone – This splitting of the mind and the rest of the body only amplifies our sense of isolation and self-blame.
One of the fundamental intentions of Kikokara bodywork 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 and depression are 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. Raised in an abusive culture, we are taught to mask the ancient knowing of the body. There is a sacred threshold between what we feel and what we have chosen to un-feel, and it is in this tender space that our silenced melodies lay hoping for a voice. The things many people and schools of thought pathologize in individuals are actually the precise places in which our exiled power lay dormant. They are invitations from the universe to come back into deeper rhythm with itself. This is the project of re-sensitisation and the heart of kikokara bodywork
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