Somatic Bodywork, Therapeutic Movement & Sleep Support

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Somatic Bodywork

Therapeutic touch, body awareness education and functional movement that weaves somatic practices, soft tissue work, cranial sacral techniques and more, to create a deeply held space to release and unwind, to strengthen and stabilize, to unfurl and ground into you. Come experience all that somatic bodywork has to offer.

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Somatic Movement

Move, breathe and feel better with intentional and functional movement, body awareness and nervous system regulation. From weekly classes, to educational workshops, you’ll Know Your Body Better through these experiential connections with your amazing anatomy. Learn foundational principles you can take with you into your day to day life that improve how you feel and function.

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  • "I have had the pleasure of both a private session with Amy and group classes. She is very skilled and has a lovely, calming studio in which to practice. Highly recommend if you're looking for a peace-filled experience."

    Ellen Roberts

    Somatic Movement Class & Private Somatic Session

  • "I love working with Amy. She has helped me improve my somatic connection and understanding. And the impact is longterm!"

    Karen Jumisko

    Private Somatic Sessions, Somatic Movement Classes, Nurture You Retreats

  • "I highly recommend both somatic bodywork and soma yoga with Amy LePage! Amy really takes the time to get to know you and your body’s needs and is incredibly knowledgeable. When I had an injury and couldn’t find any relief, Amy’s gentle bodywork helped see me through. "

    Meghan McGeary

    Soma Yoga, Somatic Reset Classes

  • "Amy is a rare gem. Her focus on the nervous system and subtle energy combined with her gentle, grounding approach is something I don’t find very often these days and much appreciate."

    Heather Neff

    Somatic Bodywork

  • "I have been working with Amy for about a decade: two classes each week. I am 83 years old and working with Amy has kept me young."

    Victor Ehly

    Somatic Movement (in-person & on zoom)

  • "Screen Time & Your Body helped me build awareness, recognize and process what I’m doing and walk away with tips to help myself with my screen habits. I loved it and want more of it!"

    Screen Time & Your Body Class Participant

  • "My session with Amy really opened my eyes to recognizing how my body holds stress. I highly recommend scheduling a one on one with her!"

    Sarah DeFelice

    Somatic Bodywork Session

  • "I’m leaving class (Screen Time & Your Body) with practical ways to take care of myself while still using the phone or computer. I learned small, doable tips to “stack” with other daily activities to help create new habits around my screen use. Thank You!"

    Screen Time & Your Body Class Participant

  • "Amy is a dedicated, experienced and incredibly talented teacher. Amy is a focused and deeply knowledgeable practitioner who loves her work helping people to improve their lives and their daily functioning. I highly recommend all of her offerings."

    Ellen Seeger

    Somatic Movement, Breath & Your Body, Somatic Bodywork Sessions

  • "Amy's classes are a perfect fit for me: learning how to move, breathe and make transitions that are comfortable and add strength. Amy approach is more about what is happening as we move rather than doing specific postures. Amy's teaching style also works with all of us during class."

    Peter Evans

    Move with Ease Somatic Movement Class

  • "If you're thinking about addressing your body's aches and pains, tension, or anxiety, I highly recommend Amy for her knowledge, gentle spirit, personal attention, and beautiful, sunny, downtown studio (with a working elevator!)"

    Eileen Shine

    Somatic Bodywork Session

  • "I go into class each week feeling like the tin man and come out with full range of motion. It also clears my mind. The smaller movements have a huge impact."

    Alisson Soccodato

    Move with Ease Somatic Movement Class

  • "I do one of the movements from class every day and it helps relieve the tension in my neck, jaw and shoulders! Thank you Amy!"

    Joy Spontak

    Shoulders, Neck & Jaw Series

  • "Your movement progression today was simply wonderful. The relaxation sensation I experienced is the best so far! Looking forward to your next sessions!"

    - Louisa Nufield

    Shoulder, Neck, Jaw Series

  • "I've had some jaw problems in the past and Amy's series was not only very engaging, but helped me increase my awareness and sense of spaciousness in this area where I've often held tension. What an enjoyable way to build healthier posture and movement habits!

    Stephanie Lahar

    Shoulder, Neck & Jaw Series

  • “I love the deep peace and ease that I leave your classes with. It’s like each group of muscles is reminded of their happiest state.”

    Sandra Vitzthum

    Move with Ease Somatic Movement Class

  • "Amy's four-week "Shoulder, Neck and Jaws" series was a revelation for me. I discovered how a relaxed tongue can support calm breathing and soothe the nervous system."

    Ellie Hayes

    Shoulders, Neck & Jaw Series

  • "The most helpful thing from our session was learning to take the time to remind myself to think about how I am sitting and breathing so that I don't ignore things and then wonder why I am so uncomfortable!"

    Emily Byrne

    Somatic Session

  • “I! Feel! Better! For real! I didn't really notice until the end of the day when suddenly I thought : WOW!”

    J. W.

    Somatic Bodywork Session

  • "This is just what I needed, that I didn't know I needed. I feel so much more relaxed; physically and emotionally. I hadn't realized I was holding so much tension, or how tired I was. I feel so much better and have more energy too."

    K.R.

    Somatic Bodywork

  • "I was so impressed by how, in just two hours, we learned anatomy and physiology, connected with our bodies in new ways, and had a mini retreat with a focus on self-care and attentiveness. Amy is such a knowledgable, nurturing, encouraging, relaxed, and positive instructor. I highly recommend this workshop to everyone!"

    Nadine Budbill

    Your Pelvic Floor Matters

  • “I frequently recommend Amy’s Somatics classes to my clients. As a PT, I appreciate her attention to creating stability and awareness with movement. During classes, she breaks down movement patterns to bring awareness to specific muscles and joints. This enables clients to achieve painfree movement and build strength. These classes are great for preventing pain and injury, as well as transitioning from PT.”

    Emilie Connor DPT, owner Essential PT & Pilates

    Somatic Movement Class, Childbirth Classes, Prenatal Yoga, Move & Breathe with Baby, Somatic Session

  • "Amy's a highly skilled and inspiring teacher. I continue to learn how to increase ease in my body and movements in her creative and engaging classes. I leave this practice feeling enlivened and deeply comfortable. As a yoga practitioner and teacher I find Amy's guidance a richly beneficial support.."

    Martha Whitney - Yoga Teacher, Somatic Experiencing and Hakomi Practitioner

    Move with Ease Somatic Movement Class

  • "Amy is excellent at giving alternative postures, as well as reminders to release muscle tension. Her explanations are easy to understand showing postures & movements and using skeleton models. I know my movement is improving!"

    Senior Center Class Participant

    Somatic Movement: Calm Your Nervous System

  • "Wow! I have to say the quality of my day was really different starting it the way we did in class...Looking forward to next week!"

    S. K.

    Greet Your Day with Ease Online Class

  • "I had not "gotten" the message of slow and steady movement with full attention. I knew about it, I just was unable (or didn't spend the effort, or give the proper attention) to do it. With your help and the exercises you gave me, I am able to "be" with my musculature, not force it to do my bidding, but politely "ask" it and listen to its response. "

    Barry G.

    Somatic Bodywork

  • "I really appreciate Amy's sensitive, creative and calm approach that is also very effective. Exploring this type of slow, meditative, somatic movement has had huge benefits especially for maintaining/improving my physical comfort and mobility as I age. It’s also been great for calming my nervous system when I feel agitated, and most importantly I find it helps me breathe more fully and freely. "

    Faith Ingulsrud - Somatic Movement Practitioner

    Tuning Into You Somatic Movement Classes

  • "Several years ago an elder friend recommended Amy to me when I asked her how she moved so gracefully. I had never heard of somatics, but decided to take the class. I began to experience a more conscious and fluid connection between my mind and body, feeling more relief from stiffness and pain". 

    Joy Spontak

    Somatic Movement Classes

Frequently Asked Questions:

  • Somatics is a deep tuning in to the internal experience of oneself. Through a melding of movement and hands on modalities, Amy offers a unique approach that meets each person in the way that best serves them.

    Classes and bodywork sessions are a blend of functional movement therapeutic yoga, breath awareness practices, Thomas Hanna inspired Clinical Somatics, Feldenkrais-inspired Sounder Sleep System™ practices, Upledger cranial sacral techniques, with a deep understanding of the nervous system, mindset and kinesthetic awareness practices.

    This is the work I offer:

    Exploring the interplay of life, body, breath, thoughts, emotions, sensations, experience, conscious and subconscious expectations and how all these layers reside in our bodies and impact our responses.

  • Understanding our bodies and nervous system responses better helps us navigate the every day moments of life and the big, transformational times too.

    Just like external circles of support matter, a supportive internal environment matters too. Chronic states of tension and being on alert impact the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, as well as all the systems in the body. This affects stress levels, breathing, movement, how ones lives in their body, and relates to others and the world around them. Learning how to self and co-regulate emotionally, along with addressing movement and daily use patterns in the body are important pieces in our web of life.

    Learning how to shift from auto-pilot mode into a more attentive and curious place, enables you to recognize and release tension that is locked in the body that impacts posture, pain, past trauma, habituated movement patterns and years of dis-ease.

    Amy’s whole body approach meets all of you. In a safe, trauma informed way.

    • Chronic pain

    • Preparing for surgery

    • Recovery from surgery or injury

    • Anxiety, stress

    • Sleep issues

    • Training for athletics

    • Complementary with PT, OT, Chiropractic and other medical models of care

    • Navigating grief, loss, big transitions

    • Specific body area pain

    • Improving function for activities you love

    • PTSD and trauma-responsive support

    • preparing to conceive, pregnancy, birth prep, postpartum

    • And more

  • This is a big topic, but to scale it down to something very basic - it’s hard to separate any part of the body from another part - because all of us is so interconnected.

    The more I learn, the more I understand how amazing these bodies we live are.

    Our brain is constantly sending signals to our body and visa-versa. When I think about the brain compared to the mind - it’s all interconnected as well.

    Here’s one example:

    Tension patterns in the body can come from a lot of things: repetitive use patterns, injury, illness, emotions and so much more.

    Innate reflexes help us respond to experience and life.

    Thomas Hanna refers to these reflexes as Red Light, Green Light and Trauma Reflexes.

    Our bodies respond instinctively to things, people, experiences in our environment and to our histories.

    If the body never learns how to release the muscular tension of these innate reflexes or affects of walking on leg one from being on crutches…compensations happen.

    Our body, brain and mind is really smart and will compensate.

    Over time Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) develops. Think of it as the brain “forgetting” that it’s sending signals to muscles to stay contracted all the time.

    By consciously and regularly exploring these reflex patterns and other therapeutic movements and hands on techniques, the body, brain and mind are able to “reset” and experience new possibilities.

  • It can be helpful to understand a practitioners background, to get more of a sense of their work.

    You can see where my path started and how I’ve made my way to where I am today HERE

  • I’d love to connect.

    Email: info@emergewithamylepage.com