Somatic Therapy

Freeing body & mind to find your optimal way of being

When your body can relax and deepen into its own process, emotions release, old beliefs drop away, and overwhelm in your body resolves.

Do you struggle with…

  • Looks like:

    • not standing up for yourself and what you believe

    • being overly concerned about surviving

    • fixating on what others think about you

    • giving your power away

    • trying to always get it right

    • driving yourself to achieve at the cost of your health

    • feeling uncomfortable relating to others

    • not speaking your truth

    • feeling the need to control what happens.

  • Emotions behave like the weather - they come and go, letting you know how you feel and what you need.

    Emotions that are held back limit your self-expression and frustrate your ability to meet your needs.

    When you hold emotions in your body, you can feel vulnerable with unexpected outbursts of anger or sadness.

    You can also feel tense or stressed which saps your vitality, especially when you’ve done it for a long time.

  • Ongoing pain can come from your nervous system being stuck in a loop. This can manifest anywhere in your body.

    Often a person who experiences frequent headaches, backaches, or migraines has undigested overwhelm in their body.

    Medication suppresses symptoms; it doesn’t resolve the cause.

  • When your body is overwhelmed it protects you by:

    1. Engaging your social nervous system to soothe others and yourself. This looks like people pleasing and being compliant.

    2. Distancing you from the trigger. This could be withdrawing into yourself, or avoiding something or someone.

    3. Activating your fight response - you become more assertive and attempt to control the situation.

    4. Shutting down and going into a freeze response. This can look you collapsing, zoning out, or being more passive.

    You can keep using these protections for years without realising. Your body needs to process the overwhelm.

  • Your mind and body are one. When you are overwhelmed, your mind can create story loops that disconnect you from experiencing your body. Your physical systems stay stuck in repetitive responses.

    In effect, your past becomes your present.

    Your body and mind need to work together in real time to process your overwhelm.

If you answered YES then your unresolved overwhelm and protections are more than likely affecting your life now.

Your body holds onto unresolved overwhelm until given the space & resources to transform in the present moment

  • Self confidence keeps growing

    When Francesca started seeing me, she didn’t feel strong in her body, or very self-assured. She was unsure of her self-worth. Through sessions, she has came more into her internal alignment and her self confidence has grown. As with many clients, she looks forward to what will happen in her next session,

    ‘“It’s always something different and unexpected.”

  • Anger and frustration levels really toned down

    Michelle has a very stress full job. She felt she was going to burst with anger and under a lot of pressure. She was becoming someone she didn't want to be at work. She didn’t know how to change her internal world.

    ‘I didn’t realise how tight my head was, and how relaxed and peaceful I could be on the table. ”

  • A lot less pain & a lot less pain killers

    Moan hates giving reviews but is happy to do so about my work. She loves coming for sessions because her body keeps getting better. Here shoulder problem is often not there and best of all, she rarely has to take pain medication to deal with a twisted internal system - a family inherited condition which she suffered from for a long time.

    ‘My health has changed beyond my wildest imaginations’

  • Post-concussion headaches gone

    Georgie had a head injury 10 years ago that left her with chronic debilitating headaches for a decade. After a single session, her headaches stopped. Not only is she now pain free, she also feels more able to respond to life challenges. Georgie continued sessions and is discovering whole new layers of herself, including breathing deeply and fully ‘for the first time’.

    “As soon as she touched my head, it felt like she was holding it to a point where it could pour out all the pain that was being held.”

  • Feeling safe for the first time

    Katie grew up experiencing a lot of childhood neglect and trauma. As an adult, she didn’t let people touch her body because it was too emotionally painful. In session she realised touch could feel safe because that’s what she was experiencing in her body, with me. A new experience and realisation was being patterned into her body. She is on her journey of learning it’s okay to be herself

    “I didn’t realise touch could feel safe.”

  • Freeze response literally melting away

    Susan was aware when she came to see me that her body is often in a freeze response. Psychotherapy had helped her navigate OCD, and she was now looking to work somatically to address the freeze response.

    “ I’t’s been eye-opening to…

  • PTSD no longer dominates

    In childhood, Georgia experienced a lot of clinical investigations and a surgical intervention. This trauma led to a diagnosis of PTSD. She has had regular sessions for several years. Her healing process keeps reaching new depths of being and freedom.

    “I feel free and liberated to be me.”

  • Undo

    In ancient Latin

    RESOLVE

  • Body

    In ancient Greek

    SOMA

  • Wound

    In ancient Greek

    TRAUMA

Touch is your body’s first language. It is also a powerful way to reveal what is held and offer your body an opportunity to do something different.

Somatic Services

Somatic therapy supports your body to resolve overwhelm, shock & trauma. I work directly with your body through therapeutic touch and I use inquiry to help heal your body - mind connection.

Somatic therapy helps you open, release, and transform what’s unresolved and held inside your body-mind. My intention is for my work to help you live your life more fully and with ease.

I offer a truely body-led transformational process. My approach is grounded in a deep understanding of how the mind can both hinder and aid healing and how to support the body to let go from within.

  • NeuroAffective Touch® is a professional psychobiological approach that integrates the key elements of somatic psychotherapy, attachment and developmental theory, and affective and interpersonal neurobiology.

    Through offering direct communication and support to the body at the nonverbal level where we all receive our first imprints, NeuroAffective Touch® treats lifelong emotional traumas to reconnect us to the wholeness of our relational matrix.

  • Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on, body-based, therapeutic healing modality.

    It is characterised by a strong orientation to the holism of the human experience where both the body’s anatomy and physiology are related to in real time with the subtle forces of life that act through the interface of the body’s fluids.

    Bodies like being listened to and seen. When the body is deeply heard, it gets to tell its story and change happens.

    The therapy creates a safe space for traumatic experiences to emerge and resolve smoothly without being overwhelming or re-stimulating.

  • Somatic inquiry supports trauma resolution and inner development by integrating mind and body with the unfolding process.

    Clients are guided to become aware of what is arising in their body, explore what is arising in the moment, and make links between thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. This aids the unfolding process, and supports integration.

Modalities

Essential oils

I offer essential oils to my clients because they are a great resource for coming into the present moment.

Essential oils are aromatic, volatile liquids, found within many shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds.

When essential oils are inhaled, they are then transported to the limbic lobe of the brain. This area stores emotions and memory. Essential oils help to release, calm and balance emotions.

What People Are Saying

I have used many different healing modalities over the last 30 years. Sonia trumped them all. She can hold a safe space to heal, space for grace, space for issues, and space for peace. I think some healing just has to be experienced. She gave me a safe place to heal and finally bring out the better me.

— Abi Read

If you want bodywork to heal trauma see Sonia. She has done some amazing mahi with me. Her work has supported me to process and integrate a sense of stillness and safety in my body. Sonia is culturally sensitive, incredibly kind, knowledgeable, & honestly amazing.

— Aimee Maaka

Discovering Sonia has been a transformational blessing in my life. She embodies empathy, clarity, and a beautiful ability to hold safe space without judgement. As someone who lives with complex trauma, the emerging freedom and confidence I now feel to be able to bring into the world is liberating.

— Georgia Andrews

Meet Sonia

Helping clients find resolution & healing

I’m a somatic practitioner. I offer a safe space for you to process and release deep layers of overwhelm in your body and mind.

Many of my clients have been impacted by these issues for years, if not decades. I am honoured to be part of people’s deep transformation.

My work helps:

  • Your body tell it’s story and shift out of outdated holding patterns

  • Your nervous system come out of chronic stress & freeze responses

  • Meet early patterns of unmet emotional needs and lack of nurturing touch held in the body

  • Clear out old patterns and open up new ways of seeing and experiencing self and others.

Sonia Ogier owner Inner Body Freedom
“I’ve spent the last 15 years focused on learning, from the inside, how to heal and grow. I love sharing my knowledge, and providing an opportunity to others for their transformation.”

Discover the essence of Inner Body Freedom

Embark on a journey to uncover your natural qualities of peace, clarity, confidence and resilience. Let my passion and expertise guide you towards a path of resolution and self-discovery. Together, we can create a space for transformation and growth.

When overhwelm resolves, your body reorganises, your mind drops old beliefs and you orient to the present.

It is a surprising and beautiful journey.

What next?

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Find Sonia in Wellington

Inner Body Freedom is located next to the stunning Botanical gardens in Wellington.

Room 241, Salamanca Group Building

32 Salamanca Road

Kelburn, Wellington

 

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