Somatic Bodywork and Nervous System Regulation in Naperville
Shiatsu and Reiki rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, for women whose stress has started speaking through their bodies.
Your body has been trying to tell you something.
You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. Your shoulders and low back carry tension you can't release. You wake at 3 a.m. Small things set you off, or nothing does and you feel numb. You're doing all the right things, maybe even years of therapy, and something still feels missing.
Your nervous system isn't broken. It's stuck in a pattern, and patterns can change.
Your nervous system has one job.
It decides whether you're safe, and responds. It doesn't listen to what you tell yourself. It answers through sensation, through your history, and through the people around you.
That's where we work. Not by talking it through, but in your body, together.
Your Five Element Map, after every Somatic Session.
Every Somatic Session includes a hands-on assessment of your channels, and your body shows something a little different each time. After each 75-minute Somatic Session, I email you Your Five Element Map:
- Which parts of you are depleted
- Which are overworking to make up for it
- How that connects to what you're feeling, in your body and your life
- Simple practices chosen for you, so the work continues at home
As you keep coming, your map builds, and so does your understanding of yourself. This isn't massage. It's a way to know yourself through your body, and to learn how to come back to center on your own.
See what a session includesStart with one session. Go as deep as you need.
Somatic Session
Where everyone begins. Shiatsu and Reiki, followed by Your Five Element Map by email.
Learn moreThe Nervous System Reset
Steady, repeated work to change your nervous system's baseline, not just manage symptoms.
Learn moreGroups and Workshops
Private group sessions, Pebble in the Pond, and talks for schools, teams, and community groups.
Learn moreYour therapist helps your mind. This helps your body.
Many of my clients are in talk therapy and want to stay there. Somatic work doesn't replace it. It reaches what words can't, so your body finally gets support too.
How the two work togetherWhen you settle, they can settle too.
When you're running on empty, the people around you feel it. Your kids, your partner, your coworkers, your students. That's why I do this work, and why I focus on women: your regulation ripples out further than you think.
My body learned what my mind had been telling me for years.
I used to be the CEO of a software company. On paper I had it all. In my body, I was falling apart. After health scares I couldn't ignore, I left to focus on healing and found what I'd been missing: my nervous system had been on high alert for decades.
I'm a licensed massage therapist and Reiki Master, trained in Zen Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine at Zen Shiatsu Chicago. I've led group Reiki meditations at the Langham Chicago's Chuan Spa. Now I help women find their way back to a regulated baseline, so they don't have to wander the way I did.
Read my storyIn their words
A session with Anna is everything you didn't know you needed. Her skill and intuition are blended with her warmth and care. I felt able to open and explore my body's messaging in a gentle and comfortable way.
Ivy
Treatments were always deeply relaxing and renewing. She is thoughtful and caring, checking in before and after each session with questions to guide treatments.
Vanessa
Anna helped me feel more centered, less anxious and assisted me in progressing to having more faith in the universe as a whole.
Ashley
A quiet room near downtown Naperville
475 River Bend Rd, Suite 400b, Naperville, IL 60540. Less than a mile from downtown, off Aurora Ave, with free parking on site.
Start with one session.
We'll talk, you'll experience the work, and your first Five Element Map will follow by email. Then you decide what's next. No pressure.
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