Visual:Photo de Naoki Suzuki sur Unsplash
“Sensing the body directly increases our access to feeling and emotion”
The BMC® /Somatic Healing 1:1 session can help any person who is looking for a state of deep relaxation in order to relieve physical and/or emotional tensions due to stress, traumatic circumtances, exhaustion, anxiety, pain, injury or long-term illness.
Practicing through a body language I observe and address movement patterns and the body-mind relationship. I offer helpful resources for more sensitive issues, and simply listening all play a part of my capacity as a therapist.
On the other hand, a session can be combined with inviting your emotional and felt experiences. I believe we are always growing our individual body within the collective body throughout our ongoing interactions and reflection. My practice helps you to gain discernment in recognizing your internalized patterns, inherited through your family, lineages, culture, environment and how it impacts your embodiment.
Our well-being on a psychophysical and spiritual level is rooted in our capacity to navigate our ups and downs with trust in our cycles and the progression of our growth:
- By acknowledging your sensations, I help you access the dynamic of your feelings for what they are, the sessions invite you to inhabit your body, become more present and mindful about your postural and emotional orientations.
- Naming your experience, being received and heard, your embodied experience will guide your journey into understanding more clearly your desires and your needs.
- Practicing imagination as a powerful transformative tool to foster your creativity in multiple aspects of your life
- Reflecting from your embodiment process what is underneath the how you make choices in the moment to moment, from your past and toward your future and how you connect with yourself and others. From there, we can work together to identify what serves and/or doesn't.
- Engaging with compassion, inviting your inherent dignity to clarify your intentions and how you can grow new edges to empower yourself through choices aligned with your ability to co-create healthy relationships and boundaries.
WHAT DOES A Body-Mind Centering® / somatic healing session 1:1 SESSION LOOK LIKE? We will start with a 5-10 minute talk about your specific needs and feelings. I’ll begin by asking a few questions to help guide a session plan that is unique to you. You’ll be invited to settle comfortably on the massage table or the warm, padded floor, and you are welcome to change positions at any time—seated, reclined, lying on your back, your belly, or your side. I’ll also gently invite micro or larger movements, exploring what feels supportive, easing, or expressive for your body in the moment. The session is fully responsive to your needs, allowing your body to guide how you move, shift, and rest.The base of my work is to hold a frame of quietness in order to support a state of mindfulness, sustained by the different qualities of verbal cues, possibly touch which encourage bringing awareness of your internal states, moods, sensations and emotoins. Gentle touch support allowing deep breathing of your body tissues and feel more present.
My method focuses on accessing different layers of your internal states, and body systems in order to help you find a sense of comfort and a calm, energized presence. This is a moment to reconnect deeply with your whole body and all of its healing potential. The openness of your mind informs and impacts the vitality of your body. Depending on your what is unfolding, I will accompany you and extend the session to integrate these qualities with your own spontaneous movement and/or through guided movement through you inner space and toward outer space.
A three- to five-session plan is generally a good format to address deeper psychophysical patterns, while one session is an excellent gift to yourself to feel relieved from immediate tension and stressful situations.
On one hand, a session looks like a unique body mind work. You will feel more integrated, grounded, and gain clarity in how you perceive your mind in relationship with your body. We may engage with talking as much or less as you need. It is your session and I am at your service holding a space for welcoming all your parts with open heart and mind, offering my deep listening from my whole presence.
On a physical level, sensing directly your body through receiving different quality of touch opens up you accessing the embodied awareness of your attention, creates spaciousness and flow in your presence, invites slowing down and learning to rest to restore your energy in movement and/or in stillness:
- Guided by specific ways to focus on your body and letting go, through the movement of your breathing, experiential anatomy and visualizations, patterns of stress can be uncovered.
- Working with listening to how regulate your nervous system, through guided movement and touch, my approach balances and supports a fluid circulation in your body tissues, your organs, your bones structure, your bloodstream.....
- You can experience a sense of interconnectedness from the ecosystem of your body, a clear and soft container to feel yourself, revitalized, spacious.
- Clients receive a nurturing and protective pause for the natural healing process of the body to be activated.
session hold a space for a profound relaxation while simultaneously invigorating your energy, sense of presence and agency towards your relationship with self, others and your environement.
visual: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Water Twins
Sliding Scale rates
I offer a sliding scale to help make sessions more accessible while honoring the sustainability of my practice. Please reach out if you have questions about pricing
Sessions Fees:No tips are expected:
in person:
60 min: consistent ongoing work, focused support, weekly/biweekly rhythm over months.
90 min: more spacious container, deeper exploration, first sessions, integration, and complex material.
60 minutes: $125–150
90 minutes: $165–190
60-minute vs. 90-minute sessions
The choice between a 60- or 90-minute session depends on your needs, the frequency of our work together, and your relationship with the time container.
I usually recommend starting with a 90-minute first session, as it offers more space to get to know each other, explore what brings you to the work, establish a shared understanding of your intentions, and begin to build a supportive foundation for our work together.
A 60-minute session offers space to focus on what is most present, explore patterns, reconnect with the body, and work with somatic practices in a contained way. It can be a great fit for ongoing work, especially through a consistent rhythm of weekly or biweekly sessions over time, such as a 3-, 6-, or 9-month process, or when you are looking for more focused support.
A 90-minute session allows more time to slow down, arrive, and move through layers of experience at a deeper pace. The additional time creates more space for exploration, nervous system regulation, and integration—allowing us to stay with what emerges, follow the body’s process, and support deeper reflection and transformation without rushing toward closure. This format can be especially supportive for a first session, deeper explorations, or moments when more spaciousness is needed within the therapeutic process.
Both formats offer meaningful support; the best fit depends on what you are needing and what feels sustainable for you.
Online (sliding scale)
45-minute Focus Session: $75–95
A focused one-on-one session offering space to explore a specific challenge, intention, or area of support. Through a somatic lens, we work with body awareness, nervous system resilience, and embodied reflection to support greater clarity, access inner resources, and develop practical tools that can be integrated into daily life.
Note: If you are experiencing financial hardship, please contact me. I am happy to discuss a rate that feels accessible.
Cancellation Policy
Please provide at least 48 hours' notice if you need to cancel or reschedule an in-person appointment.
Cancellations made with less than 48 hours' notice will incur an administrative fee to help cover the cost of the reserved studio space:
Thank you for your understanding and for respecting this policy.
LOCATIONS
HELD SPACE, 960 Manhattan Av, (Greenpoint), Brooklyn, 11222,
By subway (G train):
Exit at India St. Walk one block south on Manhattan Ave toward Java St.
960 Manhattan Ave is between India St & Java St.
603 Bergen Street
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Online session
For the session you need a quiet (as possible as possible) space for privacy, a surface to seat, move, stand, lie down. Comfortable clothes. Pillows.
As Movement therapist I use Body-Mind Centering, Body Mind Psychotherapy and Mindfulness practice to address your needs and support your development in a generative, creative and resourceful way for each unique individual
Schedule an appointment: amelie.gaulier@gmail.com / Call: +1 929 444 8411
Sessions are running through the zoom platform. Other option are available.
Somatic Art with dancers, actors, musicians, and other performers and creators:
I practice with the keys of intention, attention and presence in action and share somatic tools to connect and relate bodily movement to emotional, theatrical and performative expression to support your full body awareness and the depth of your expression and communicative tools in relationship with your audience. We dialogue of on how to dialogue with the awareness of your wisdom for you to become intentional in your artistic choices and the impact of y our audience.