Erica Otto Embodied Transformation

Hello and welcome! For returning clients: if you can not see available appointments it is because either my schedule is full or I have not opened up the next month for online booking. You will receive an email when I open my availability, if you are not on the email list and would like to be, please send me an email.

Movement & Bodywork

Choose to work either in person or online. I support you to resolve and integrate new ways of moving using a combination of touch work, rehabilitative exercise, muscular training, dynamic neuromuscular stability, somatic exploration. Learn to move in ways that build capacity without compromising stability or the body, mind and energy systems. You will develop the stamina to hold charge and a... Read More

Choose to work either in person or online. I support you to resolve and integrate new ways of moving using a combination of touch work, rehabilitative exercise, muscular training, dynamic neuromuscular stability, somatic exploration.

Learn to move in ways that build capacity without compromising stability or the body, mind and energy systems. You will develop the stamina to hold charge and activation, which are inherent to our everyday stress responses. I will teach you how to foster your nervous system to be receptive to versatility, open to new patterns and experiences.


Energy work

On table work combining reiki and heart resonance healing, including practices influences by the worlds mystical traditions, energy work opens up the possibility for deep healing. You will learn how to connect with and be in relationship to your own vital energy and the subtle aspects of your human experience. We support your system to find its own balance and rhythm, supporting an emergent... Read More

On table work combining reiki and heart resonance healing, including practices influences by the worlds mystical traditions, energy work opens up the possibility for deep healing.

You will learn how to connect with and be in relationship to your own vital energy and the subtle aspects of your human experience. We support your system to find its own balance and rhythm, supporting an emergent and authentic spiritual practice.


Trauma Recovery

In body-centred trauma therapy, we do not need to engage the stories of past traumas. We can heal and move toward wholeness through the language of your somatic experience, the body’s expression. When we heal trauma we reconnect to life in the present moment. We build capacity for rest and activation to navigate life with resilience. We renegotiate incomplete self-protection responses, estab... Read More

In body-centred trauma therapy, we do not need to engage the stories of past traumas. We can heal and move toward wholeness through the language of your somatic experience, the body’s expression.

When we heal trauma we reconnect to life in the present moment. We build capacity for rest and activation to navigate life with resilience. We renegotiate incomplete self-protection responses, establishing new ways for the nervous system to respond. We build intimacy and nurturing relationships, and our body moves toward coherence and wholeness.

Changing what happens in our bodies at a fundamental physiological level also affects what is happening emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. There is no separation between mind and body: they are simply different experiences of the whole.

We will explore boundaries, relationship, deactivation of charge, education. Coherence in a person, system, family, relationship, and community grows our capacity for choice, freeing us from past wounds so we can forge new futures.


Mentorship & Consults

Deepen your understanding of how varied physical training and rehabilitation philosophies intersect. Offer unique and effective programs and strategies to your clients. Use and integrate energy work in your existing practice to effect deep lasting healing for your clients. Learn about the nervous system and add a trauma-informed lens to your work. Consults involve confidentially discussing c... Read More

Deepen your understanding of how varied physical training and rehabilitation philosophies intersect. Offer unique and effective programs and strategies to your clients. Use and integrate energy work in your existing practice to effect deep lasting healing for your clients. Learn about the nervous system and add a trauma-informed lens to your work.

Consults involve confidentially discussing cases from your practice and getting support to work through challenges. Mentorship involves support and training in a specific area of interest.


Embodiment Workshops

In this class for women we explore sustainable movement for life, ending pain cycles and injury prevention.   We learn how to challenge ourselves without overriding body, mind or energy. With regular participation in an integrative movement practice we restore healthy breathing mechanics, nervous system responses, fluid muscles and awareness of interoception, proprioception, and vestibular st... Read More

In this class for women we explore sustainable movement for life, ending pain cycles and injury prevention.
 
We learn how to challenge ourselves without overriding body, mind or energy. With regular participation in an integrative movement practice we restore healthy breathing mechanics, nervous system responses, fluid muscles and awareness of interoception, proprioception, and vestibular stability. You will develop a stable reflexive core and access to your movement resources.


I am a scientist, a mystic, a dancer, a wise woman, a teacher, a mother, philosopher, an intuitive, a healer. But truly in my depth I am a transformer, I take people’s experiences of pain and disease and help them remold them into healing, freeing their energy for connection and creativity. Some people might say I’m a little witchy, and that love rules, only to be rebellious and break them, it’s really all very playful.

I have a BA in Kinesiology and Health Science, and have taken numerous trainings and certificates in anatomy, bodywork and counselling, from dynamic neuromuscular stability and integrated kinetic neurology to Indian head massage and heart resonance energy work. And I’ve read oh so many books on healing; I love to read as much as I love to hear people’s stories.

I am a bridge, a mystic with ancient ways of knowing and a scientist with training to guide you to heal. To teach you a deep way of listening to yourself. I use my perceptual abilities to identify where you get stuck or there is a lack of ease. I will engage you in a multi-faceted way so you may move well, feel well, be seen, and experience greater coherence and well-being in your everyday life. Integrating the spirit, psyche, and soma (body) through physiological processes, subtle energy dynamics, and meaning-making, you move towards wholeness. This is the place from which emerges the energy, drive, and power to realize your aspirations, dreams, and be in deep relationship with yourself.

I believe in working toward equality for all, doing the hard ongoing work, empowering activism and lasting societal change. So that we can leave the world a more harmonious place for future generations.

I bring the energy of the spider, serpent, and moon to my work. It is in darkness that the light was first born.

I live for the joy of dance, my garden, my children, my partner, roses, delicious food, beauty, intimacy, and the mystery of existence.

I am a scientist, a mystic, a dancer, a wise woman, a teacher, a mother, philosopher, an intuitiv... Read More

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