Body Cartography

Your body speaks in warmth, tingling, constriction, and flutters. In the clench of your jaw, the coil in your belly, the weight behind your eyes.

These sensations aren’t random — they’re signals.

In a Body Cartography, we slow down & listen.


Together, we explore your body’s shifting inner terrain —then create a personalized, psychosomatic map of how tension, energy, and attention move through you.

You’ll leave with reflection tools, movement + breath practices, AI-assisted journaling prompts, and (optionally) insights from your wearables —so you can begin to see not just what you feel, but when, why, and how it shifts.

Who is this for?

Body Cartography is for anyone living more in their head than their body — especially those in high-performance, high-pressure, or healing-oriented lives.

  • Founders, researchers, and creatives
    pushing mental limits while bypassing bodily ones.
    You’re designing the future — but your body’s stuck in fight-or-flight.
    You can build the thing, write the deck, run the meeting…
    but regulation? That’s harder.

  • Athletes and high-achievers
    who feel unsafe slowing down.
    You override pain, push through injury, caffeinate to overcome exhaustion —
    and call it discipline.
    But your nervous system doesn’t recover by effort.
    It recovers by presence.

  • Healers, therapists, facilitators
    holding space for others while leaving your own body behind.
    You teach regulation, but rarely feel regulated.
    You’ve created sanctuaries — but do you feel safe inside yourself?

  • Healing spiralers
    who’ve read the books, named the parts, analyzed the patterns —
    but still can’t feel safe, grounded, or present.
    You don’t need more insight. You need it to land in the body.

You don’t need more information.
You need a way for what you already know to land in your body.

This practice isn’t about peak performance or productivity. It’s about building an internal reference point — so that when life gets loud, you know how to return home to yourself.

This is for anyone whose nervous system hasn’t caught up with their intellect, intention, or insight.

The Missing Bridge

We’re really good at talking about being in the body.

We speak of grounding, dropping in, and feeling our emotions.
We geek out over attachment theory, trauma healing, and co-regulation.
We know so much.

But many of us still feel unrooted.
Still override pain.
Still speed through life, even when we’re fluent in the language of slowing down.

This isn’t a critique — it’s an invitation.

There’s a missing link in our collective healing:
the bridge between what we know and what we actually feel.

Body Cartography is that bridge.
It’s not just a conceptual or physical practice.
It’s a space to listen inward, to give form to what’s subtle, and to map how sensation, emotion, and attention move through you.

So that what you’ve learned doesn’t just live in your mind — it lives in your cells.
And over time, you begin to trust your body as a source of truth, not just performance.

What to expect?

This is a 1:1, real-time practice in listening to your body — not just thinking about it, but sensing from it.

We begin by slowing down: breath, stillness, micro-movement.
From there, we follow what arises — maybe a coil in the gut, a fog behind the eyes, or an unexpected opening in the chest. These sensations aren’t random — they’re signals. Together, we track them.

You’ll leave with:

  • A personalized visual map of your internal experience

  • Reflection prompts, breath and movement practices tailored to your needs

  • Guidance for tracking your shifts over time using AI-assisted journaling

  • Optional integration of wearable data (like Oura or WHOOP) to connect your body’s patterns with metrics like HRV, sleep, and recovery

This isn’t a protocol.


It’s a space to attune to the subtle — and begin building a relationship with your body that you can return to again and again.

My Approach

This is a human-first practice.

Before any tools, visuals, or AI — there’s presence. We begin by slowing down enough to actually feel. To notice. To get curious.

My approach is grounded in my understanding of the nervous system, neuroplasticity, and fascia — and shaped by years of exploring somatic awareness, breath, play, and subtle movement. It’s informed by a diverse mix of practices: bodywork rooted in fascia and interoception, movement as inquiry, and the slow art of self-acceptance.

This work isn’t about forcing breakthroughs or fixing what's “wrong.” It’s about listening — with nuance, with patience, with trust. We follow the thread of sensation together, mapping how your experience expresses itself through form, pattern, and rhythm.

I’m not here as an expert on your body. I’m here as a co-explorer — helping you hear what’s already speaking and build a relationship with it.

After our session, I use AI to gently support long-term reflection — organizing patterns across time, so you can track shifts and deepen your connection to yourself.

This isn’t a hack or a shortcut.
It’s a practice of returning to what’s already yours.

FAQs

  • Suggested Contribution: $120–$200
    Body Cartography sessions are offered on a trust-based scale.
    You choose the amount that feels aligned with your resources and the value you receive.

    I trust you to know what’s right. I just ask that it be a stretch that honors us both — neither depletion nor detachment.

  • Body Cartography is a 1:1 guided exploration of your inner terrain — where sensation, emotion, and physiology intersect. It’s not therapy. Not coaching. Not bodywork. It’s a structured practice of attuned listening — where we track what your body is expressing, together, and make meaning from what we find. You’ll leave with tools to keep listening: a visual “map” of your experience, AI-assisted prompts, and guided practices that support your own embodied intelligence over time.

  • No prior experience is needed.
    This practice is designed to meet you exactly where you are — whether you’ve never named a body sensation in your life, or you’ve been exploring embodiment work for years. Curiosity is the only requirement.

  • Yes. This practice is grounded in trauma-informed principles — we move slowly, center your agency, and focus on creating a sense of safety in your body.

    While Body Cartography is not a space for deep trauma excavation, we may gently encounter sensations that carry emotional or historical charge. When that happens, we don’t analyze or unpack — we stay grounded, orient toward regulation, and work with what’s present in a resourced way.

    If deeper processing feels needed, I’m always happy to offer referrals to skilled practitioners.

  • This is a human practice, first and foremost. The heart of Body Cartography is in real-time connection, presence, and listening.

    AI is used gently, in the background — as a support tool for tracking patterns over time. After your session, you’ll receive reflection prompts and practice suggestions based on what arose — all shaped by a map we co-create together.

    As you continue the work, AI helps organize insights across sessions and supports longitudinal awareness. It’s never there to diagnose or override your experience — only to deepen your relationship with it.

  • The map is a symbolic visual reflection of your experience — showing where you felt sensation, emotion, tension, release, or energetic flow.

    It’s not clinical or diagnostic — it’s an artifact of your inner landscape, shaped by what emerged in the session. Many people find it helps bring language and image to experiences that otherwise feel abstract.

  • If you use a wearable like Oura, WHOOP, or a sleep/HRV tracker, we can integrate that data into your ongoing map.

    Together, we’ll look at how your physiological markers — like sleep quality, heart rate variability, or respiration — correlate with your internal states.
    This adds another layer of awareness to your practice, helping you recognize patterns and track progress over time.

  • You’ll receive a personalized post-session packet that may include:

    • Your body map

    • Reflections and key somatic themes

    • Tailored breath, movement, or awareness practices

    • AI-assisted journaling prompts

    • Optional integration of wearable data

    You’ll also have the option for check-in prompts or future sessions to continue building your map.

  • Standard sessions are 60 minutes, with the option to book a 90- or 120-minute session upon request.

    You’re welcome to book a single session as a reset or check-in — but like bodywork or Rolfing, this practice is most powerful over time. I often suggest a “series” of 5–10 sessions, depending on your goals, with a cadence that feels sustainable (many people start bimonthly).

    The goal isn’t intensity — it’s continuity. We’re building a long-term relationship with your internal landscape, one layer at a time.

  • Sessions are available virtually and in-person in San Francisco.

    For in-person sessions, I can come to you — your home, office, or another space where you feel most grounded. For many, the deepest work begins in familiar environments, where the nervous system already knows safety.

    Learning to inhabit your body where you live your life is part of the practice.

  • That’s actually the most common place people begin.
    You don’t need to have a refined somatic vocabulary. You don’t even need to “feel embodied.”
    This work is the practice of remembering how to listen.
    We’ll move slowly, and together — until your body feels like a place you can come home to.