because you can't sit that long...
Enter into a state where relief feels normal
a simultaneous shift in perspective & physical comfort
Function is not the finish line. Conventional approaches drop you as soon as you can function. It's not enough to just be able to function without pain. What's on offer is the enjoyment of being embodied.
You were taught to strive for good posture by holding yourself up. But alignment isn’t something you hold. By definition, it must be flexible enough to adapt to any circumstance. That's true Resilience.
I teach you to regain the comfort you once knew, and how to do it for yourself, so you're not dependent on outside authority. That independence let's you get back to doing the things you love.
If you sit all day to do what you must
or what you love, the result is the same.
Your comfort & life force are compromised.
A Smarter Way to
Release Tension
Looking For A Clear Path to Greater Physical Comfort?
"My walking improved."
Why would you take something so fundamental to being in a body as walking for granted?
"My Balance Improved."
Do you really want to wait until it's too late to make sure your balance remains intact?
Studies show that 62% of student in Awareness Through Movement have better balance.
"I Was Able To Do My Favorite Activity Again."
What have you stopped doing that you now miss as a part of who you are?
In a different study, 75% of the participants were able to go back to their favorite sport. Imagine being able to sit comfortably again, so you can finish the work that means so much to you.
"It's so much easier to get up off the floor, now!"
What do you take for granted? What would your quality of life be like if you fell on the floor and couldn't get up? It's not just about the discomfort of feeling like a beached whale; it's about fall prevention before it's a crisis.
In one study, 93% discovered how to get up and down off the floor more easily.
Somalogic, the resilience that lets you keep doing what you love
What once restored you...
has started to hurt.
You have given years...
to sitting with what matters:
• a meditation practice.
• a manuscript, a novel.
• a body of work you crave.
Yet, lately your body
has begun to complain.
The conditioning to dismiss your own needs.
The conditioning to push through which blocks the ability to receive.
The conditioning to hide behind behavior that is expected of you.
The conditioning to sublimate emotion even when your humanity is being dismissed.
It's time to find your way back home.
No more living in a state of continuous tension and exhaustion. No more feeling trapped, diminished and anxious.
Instead, if you know you need to be more grounded in what's important to you and in your own wellness and creative life, learn to play with awareness in a way that feels expansive.
Instead, if you yearn to find your voice, your authenticity and your sovereignty, learn to play with words in a way that gives you your power back.
Mobility, awareness, and sovereignty. These are what the system would have you suppress. But you know better. This is how you make that knowing a way of life
you do not have to suffer - if you can find the willingness - you can heal
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$50
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$50
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The more chaotic things get, the more your muscles tighten.
Your body hurts and you feel trapped.
Access the body's innate capacity to heal.
No drugs. No painful conversations. No patronizing.
2026 - another year of unprecedented change.
Exhausted, overwhelmed, you can't find relief.
You can't sleep, you can't rest properly.
Neither the industrial medical complex,
nor the insurance system has your back.
Why doesn't the system want you to relax?
You have to do this yourself.
Your intention to heal determines what's possible.
90% of the people out there are 80% more tense than they realize.
...take advantage of what your body is trying to tell you.
Find out about the class in Jacksonville, OR starting April 12, 2026:
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement®
gentle, exploratory neuromuscular education teaches you how...
A Shift in Perception
From A Mental & Physical State of Stress...
Only From A State Change:
One That Allows A New Perception
- Focus on What Works Every Day
- > Clear Space for A New Response
- >> Change Your Identity
- >>> Break the Habit of Being Yourself
This is a workbook specifically for beginning to unpack the broken identity inside: the 6 core wounds. You won't have all of them, but you may have more than one. Implanted by childhood experiences that you processed from the point of view of a child. Even something unintentional, like having your mother tell you to be quiet because she was dealing with a crisis that made you feel unsafe, unheard, unvalued. We all have these recordings that run us. We all have the capacity to erase them!
Journaling allows you to re-wrigte the narrative inside that drives self-image.
How you see yourself, how you think of yourself, determines what you believe is possible.
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-> Been There, Done That...Found A Better Way!
Since childhood, when we moved all the time and my brothers and I lived with alcohol induced chaos, I instinctively used the disruptions of trauma to initiate new beginnings. Throughout my career, I have had my hands on thousands of people as a massage therapist for 25 years, feeling how trauma affects the tissues of the body. I turned to somatic practices quickly, once I realized that I needed to heal and decompress my own issues if I was to be of any use in helping others. I have curated what works the best. Ironically, the motivating factor is that I know it works, and that in helping others, I find huge satisfaction. I am driven, not just because I knew there had to be a better, faster, less painful way to heal. I am driven because I believe life is a gift. We were not put here to suffer. And in connecting with others who share the experience of trauma, I am also continuously made whole again and again.
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Address How the Body Keeps the Score
Trauma is not a life sentence of suffering. Transcend the past, regain a sense of self that is empowered.
The great news is that there's more than one way to make this transition. It imay nvolve lying down to practice relaxing. It might involve lying down to do mindful movement that allows for a much calmer, more grounded sense of self with less tension. It always involves reconnecting with your body's wisdom, your mind's capacity for critical thinking and your spirit's ability to heal the hurts that time will not, and cannot heal, without clearing space for a new mindset.
The basis for improvement is retraining your brain to regain the state of calm and freedom from tension you knew as a child.
As you reconnect with that natural state of wellbeing, you begin to feel more and more comfortable in your own skin. The transformation is nothing less than a somatic shift in identity characterized by feeling present, happy, inspired...
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How does trauma affect the muscles?It's obvious that trauma causes tension. It causes hyper-vigilance that leads to exhaustion. But you already knew that! What is not so obvious is that it the tension, if allowed to grow at a low level for years, causes density. Healthy muscles are springy and elastic. Tight muscles become more and more hard over time, until they are so dense that it's like trying to soften rock. - How do you prevent the kind of tension that is irreversible?What most people don't understand is that the issue IS progressive and that it gets worse over time. The longer you wait to do something, the longer it takes to get results. It's a bit like doing the dishes or the laundry: you have to do a little bit each day or each week at a minimum, to experience the kind of ease and freedom of motion in your body that you expected as a child.
- How can I get rid of tension in a way that holds?The problem with assuming somebody can fix you, or some drug can fix you, is that it may help temporarily, but it's meant to be a jumpstart that gets you to a better-feeling-place that you need to expand on if you want to feel better for good. Your nervous system controls the resting length of your muscles. If you do things to relax on a regular basis, your nervous system with reset that resting length and you will feel the wonderful sensation of having more spaciousness to move in your own body.
- Why does nobody talk about this in conventional medicine?Professionals in physical therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, surgery, massage, myofascial release, feldenkrais, neuromuscular therapy, alexander technique and fitness trainers all focus on different solutions without having the same basis of understanding of how the body works. They don't communicate, because they each use a different vocabulary for similar terms, or they use the same terms to mean different things. This is a disaster for the consumer, who is left asking the primary care doctor what to do, but they know even less about the muscular system and it's interactions with trauma and how the nervous system both responds and could regulate the response if given the right environment.
- What is it that doctors and other professionals in musculoskeletal health are missing?They pay lip-service to the fact that the nervous system controls the muscles and the response to trauma, but they don't know what to do with that information. They don't know how to set up the right conditions for the nervous system to reset itself. They won't tell you what to do, because they don't realize that you are better equipped to help yourself than they are. Why? Because it involves refining the ability you already have: the ability to sense what hurts, where and when. It's never just, "Does it hurt, or not?" Your body is like a child or a hurt animal: it speaks, but not in words. Only you can "hear" it. And the difference between "good pain" and "bad pain" is something only you can learn to discern. It comes naturally to athletes and may not always be a conscious process. Here, we break it down, so you can respond more quickly each time. That way, you can nip major hurts in the bud, BEFORE they turn into a major medical bill or a chronic issue that is much harder to resolve than at its inception.
- What are they missing in conventional medicine in terms of how to cope trauma?The research on trauma is fairly new and has not filtered into the mainstream, yet. Trauma causes a dysregulation of the nervous system. Dysregulation is a term used by trauma-informed specialists who understand how your nervous system automatically takes over when stressed and how to regulate that response. Talking about it won't change that. Trauma happens faster than thought. It's pre-verbal. Therefore, a somatic solution is the obvious way to go because it addresses the nervous system, which is the master control center that jumps in when any response is demanded, be it emotional, physical or heart-based.
"I feel so grounded!"
This is the most comment I get most often when people work with me. It's usually accompanied by a certain calm that is a result of the process. I'm just the messenger. You embody the work when you do it and the benefits
are a sense of spaciousness and new access to ease and creativity.
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Gabrielle is incredibly knowledgeable. She is helping me through my grief process. By becoming aware of how my thoughts and emotions are affecting my body, I am much more mindful of moving in healthy, safe ways.
Cheryl Colwell -
I've been telling everyone I know with back pain about the lessons I've taken from Gabrielle and what I've learned from her. I sure do recommend her! I have very serious scoliosis and the relief I have found is an improvement I have longed for. The clearing of old emotional baggage is huge.
Michelle Howden - Over the past year, with skill and innate intelligence, she has helped me use writing to tap into my past, understand who I was growing up and who I am now. As I continue the journey to becoming more true to myself. She gives me the right mix of challenge and heart. I couldn't be in better hands.Mary Donkersloot
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After I started working with Gabrielle I found that the peace I long was creeping into my life in unexpected ways. I experience calm in frustrating situations. My reactions to situations are way different. I can see other ways of viewing things. I don’t work at this-I don’t do anything. I merely attend the meditations or listen to the audio files at home!
Pam Perkins -
I don't know how it all works, but Gabrielle has given me some great medicine, in the form of her instruction, that has given me hope for managing my pain. That means a lot to me. She has given me a way to respond to aging that makes me feel it's not an inevitable decline in mobility and mental acuity.
Jennifer Soloman - PTSD was raging and I couldn't get rid of it...I would lash out at people, get overwhelmed and always looking for a bunker, a place to get away. Getting to a different place started with going to iRest sessions with Gabrielle. I started to notice people looking back at me, like I wasn't projecting rage any more...I didn't see that for many years but whatever I was projecting outwards was differentRichard Lowry
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