ABOUT SASHA FELIX

Somatic Practitioner | Nervous System Regulation | Body-Based Healing

I’ve always been drawn to the way the body tells the truth long before the mind is ready to listen. Not through crisis or collapse, but through quieter signals: a tight chest that never fully releases, an undercurrent of anxiety without a clear source, a kind of exhaustion that no amount of rest seems to touch. These are not signs of something broken. They are signs of a nervous system that learned how to survive.

Much of what we call stress, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm is rooted in fear. Not fear as a concept, but fear as a bodily state. From an early age, we learn which emotions are safe to express and which ones are not. Anger becomes tension. Sadness becomes shutdown. Joy becomes guarded. Over time, the nervous system adapts by repressing what once felt too much to feel. The body holds what the mind learns to avoid.

This work is about remembering.

Remembering how to feel without becoming overwhelmed.
Remembering how to stay present without bracing.
Remembering who you are beneath the patterns that kept you functioning.

My path into somatic work has been shaped by both lived experience and formal training. I hold a Master’s degree in Classical Acupuncture, advanced psychosomatic training through the Integrative Psych Institute, and years of experience supporting people as a doula during periods of profound transition. Across these roles, one truth has remained consistent: when emotional stress is stored in the nervous system, purely physical or cognitive solutions often fall short.

Somatic therapy, as it is commonly understood, works at the level of the body and nervous system rather than through analysis or diagnosis. In my practice, this work is non-clinical and non-diagnostic, grounded in nervous system education, somatic awareness, and trauma-informed pacing. We work with sensation, breath, posture, and impulse to help the nervous system release what it no longer needs to carry.

I know what it’s like to be the one others rely on. To stay capable. To keep moving. To manage emotions rather than feel them. Over time, that way of living narrows our emotional range. The more fear the system holds, the more it represses. The less we feel, the less fully we live.

My role is not to fix or interpret you. The body doesn’t need to be explained. It needs to be met. Through steady, attuned attention, the nervous system begins to feel safe enough to reorganize. When that happens, emotions move again. Choice returns. Capacity grows.

This work is for adults who are high functioning yet internally dysregulated, who may have tried talk therapy and gained insight but still feel stuck in patterns that live beneath words. It is for those who sense that healing is not about becoming someone new, but about coming back to themselves.

When the emotional root is addressed, the body often responds in ways that nothing external ever could. Not because it was forced to change, but because it was finally listened to.

If you are here, something in you may already be remembering. You are welcome to learn more about this work or schedule a consultation to explore whether it feels like the right next step.

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