This is the question I am asked most often, usually in a slightly apologetic tone, as though it were rude to want to know. It isn’t. You are being asked to take off your shoes and trust a stranger with your body. You are entitled to know exactly what that involves.
So here is the whole of it, in order.
Before you arrive
We talk first. Not in the room, not on the day — beforehand, by message or by phone. I will ask what brings you, what you hope for, and whether there is anything in your body or your history I should know about. You will ask me whatever you need to.
By the end of that conversation we both know what the session will include and what it will not. That agreement is specific, not general. It is not a form you sign; it is a sentence we can both repeat back.
The room
A quiet private space, warm, with the phone off. Blankets, cushions, low light. Nothing clinical and nothing theatrical. You keep whatever clothing you want to keep on.
How a session moves
Most sessions follow a shape rather than a script:
- We sit and land. Often we just breathe together for a few minutes, until the journey to get here has left your body.
- We work with breath and small movement, so that you are in your body rather than thinking about it.
- Then whatever we agreed — touch, grounding, sound, stillness — at a pace you set.
- We finish slowly. There is time to lie still, to say nothing, and to come back before you have to speak to anyone.
Nothing in that list is compulsory. If we agreed to something and it turns out today is not the day for it, we do something else. That is not a failed session. That is the work.
What you might feel
Sometimes very little, and that is fine. Sometimes a lot: heat, shaking, tears, laughter, a memory arriving sideways. None of it is a problem to be managed. Shaking in particular alarms people, and it is simply the nervous system discharging something it has been holding.
Afterwards, most people are quiet and tired in a good way. Some are unexpectedly energised. A few feel tender for a day or two, the way you do after honest conversation.
Why I ask for two or three sessions
A single session can open something without leaving room to integrate it. The first is largely about your body learning that this space is safe — and that learning is not intellectual, so it cannot be rushed. The real work usually begins in the second.
If after the first you decide this is not for you, that is a complete answer and you owe me no explanation.
The thing worth saying plainly
You do not need to arrive prepared, healed, flexible, calm, or clear about what you want. Turning up as you actually are on the day is the entire requirement.