Marie-Daphné Roy

My approach incorporates more than 25 years of study and work in the field of body-mind explorations : yoga, meditation, yoga therapy and somatic therapy. I find that building a quality of listening and presence to your body and to yourself is a unique foundation for health. This presence can improve resilience and empowerment while helping to reduce certain symptoms of health conditions. Building presence helps cultivate your vitality, access to your internal resources and your capacities for self-healing and self-regulating. My primary goal is to support you in your ability to recognize what you experience in the present moment, whether physiological or emotional. I am particularly interested in women's health, trans health, and managing symptoms related to stress, anxiety, trauma and chronic pain. Depending on your needs and interests, I draw on several methods such as meditation, mindfulness, movement, adapted and restorative yoga postures, respiratory work, relaxation, chi enhancing techniques and Somatic Experiencing ®. Somatic Experiencing is a step on a path of independence, kindness, and (re)connection to one's self and body. Together, we can develop practices and strategies that will support you in becoming your best ally in your relationship to yourself and to others. Since the completion of the Somatic Experiencing® professional training, I have completed two trainings specializing in Developmental Trauma, Transforming the Experienced-Based Brain training with Steve Terrel and Somatic Resilience and Regulation with Steve Terrel and Kathy Kain.