“Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition.”

1) Somatic Coaching

How I work:

I see each client I have the honour of working with, as unique and appreciate the place they’re in on their journey when they enter our coaching relationship. Often, we are beginning with growing capacity to turn towards the inner experience. This may look like more talking and making sense of experiences in the beginning. This can provide co-regulation and help develop trust and more of an inner sense of safety. Over time this gives us more space to be with your inner experience and we might begin to turn towards exploring different parts of you that are showing up from a more embodied place. At the same time, staying in the story is often keeping us in the activation of our trauma vortex. I use my discernment and attunement, as well as the client's agency and consent to explore when to stop the story and move towards growing capacity through orienting and resourcing, which come from Somatic Experiencing. My work is about supporting you in building awareness, understanding and then changing your relationship with different parts of yourself.

My work is also embodiment work as we’re deepening our relationship with the felt sense and growing capacity to feel emotions. My work is relational, meaning that I explore and get curious about what comes up in sessions between us as well. This requires time, and we may see patterns in how you relate and self-protect in the way that you interact and engage with the container and myself. This gives us an opportunity to approach these experiences in a different way, which is where so much healing occurs. My intention is to also support you in the fostering of the relationships closest to you, as relationships heal and can be our greatest resource.

These sessions are for you, if you’re struggling with chronic stress, anxiety, overwhelm, a sense of unworthiness, stuckness, disconnection from self, interpersonal challenges, disordered eating behaviours, negative body image, navigating transitions, procrastination and self-sabotage behaviours.

2) Relationship Coaching

How I work:

I use Present Centred Relationship Coaching and the Interpersonal Intelligence model to support you with your relational development. Together we explore what your goal/intention is and then work towards that. We are developing awareness of your patterns in relationships and what gets in your way of developing the relationships you want. With relationship coaching I support you in developing communication and listening skills, understanding needs and boundaries. We look at where your ideas about relationships might be coming from fantasy and how you can work towards secure partnership, so that your closest relationships become safe harbours and launching pads helping you thrive more in your life. This work requires that you can take personal responsibility and move from blame and the dynamics of right over wrong, to collaboration. I see relationships as a path to healing the split that occurs from true self to strategic self, which is the ways in which we learned to get connection and belonging. This creates an inner conflict and often contributes to many of our ‘unhealthy’ coping strategies and lack of fulfillment in our life. These sessions are not for you if you’re in an abusive relationship.

These sessions are for you if you’re struggling with relationship anxiety, patterns of avoidance, people pleasing, working through conflict and learning how to repair, want to develop better communication and listening skills, want to deepen intimacy in your relationships.

Investment:

60 minute session: $150 +GST

*sliding scale available

Sessions are available online via Zoom or in person in Edmonton at 4 Points Health and Wellness.

To inquire please email me at info@richelleludwig.com.

I offer free discovery calls so you can learn more about the way I work, feel into my vibes and ask any questions you may have. In these discovery calls my intention is for us to check for 3 things: 1) Is it safe? Meaning is what you need support with, within my current capacity and scope of practice? 2) Is it doable? Meaning, can you afford the investment and make the time for sessions? 3) Is it ideal? Meaning, is this work the right fit for you, or do you need something else right now?

At the end of the discovery call, I will ask you to take at least 24 hours to decide if it feels like it’s a good fit for you. This is to ensure that you don’t feel pressure and we mitigate rapid decisions that can sometimes come from patterns of urgency, but end up not being fully aligned. And even if it is aligned, I want to support in shifting out of those patterns of urgency from the get go.

Intuitive Somatic Yin is a practice that works with your autonomic nervous nervous (ANS) to gently access deeper levels of embodiment. Most postures are held for 3 minutes, shorter than traditional yin practices. The focus in each posture is geared towards comfort, which supports movement towards the ventral vagal complex of the autonomic nervous system. This is an aspect of the parasympathetic branch of the ANS where we can access connection, presence, inner wellbeing and an inner sense of safety.

Many of us exist in a chronic stress physiology simply because of the world we live in, not to mention our experiences during our early developmental years that contribute to the imprint of stress that can keep us stuck in hyperaroused and/or hypoaroused states. Hyperarousal can look like a chronic busyness, feeling like there's never enough time, anxiety, overwhelm, rigidity, impulsiveness and emotional reactivity. Hypoarousal can look like lethargy, disconnection, numbness, depression and social isolation.

This practice also uses slow movements to cultivate a sense of spaciousness. By turning towards our inner experience in the practice, it supports in developing our interoceptive capacities. Interoception is our ability to sense our inner experience and is something that we can deepen into and begin to access a profound subtleness of our inner world. This is a gentle practice that supports you in coming back home to your body.

Some of the slow movements we use are clinical somatic exercises, called pendiculation. These exercises can support with psychosomatic pain caused by sensory motor amnesia. By intentionally moving slowly and turning towards interoception with pandiculations, we are creating a reduction of the voluntary sensory motor cortex, and regaining full motor control of the areas impacted by pain that may be dissociated from.

Next Offering:

6 Week Intuitive Somatic Yin Series

Where: 4 Points Health and Wellness, 11634 142 Street, NW Suite 110, Edmonton, AB

Date: Tuesdays from October 24th to November 28th, 2023

Time: 7pm

Fee: $120 + GST

Classes are 75 minutes in length.

Register: https://4pointshealth.janeapp.com/#/discipline/11/treatment/502