Healing, essentially, is reconnection
to ourselves, to others, to the Earth.
The first step is to listen.
That’s what we do and teach, via touch.
Primordial Expression is a somatic movement practice, in warm water and on land, with a focus on spontaneity and attuned listening. Our one-to-one sessions invite your body to deeply unwind as you expand your awareness and journey within. Beyond sessions, we offer a 12-day group immersion, a 300-hour facilitator training, and creative retreats.
Sessions
The greatest benefits of our work emerge when we move through a series of sessions together. This allows us to work with strongly held patterns, to deepen your capacity for awareness, and to build a continuity that helps the work integrate into your life. We usually begin on land to establish connection and to clarify your needs and intentions. From there, we’ll develop a programme that may combine sessions both in and out of water, according to your needs and preferences.
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60 - 90 minutes
Our sessions on land can take place online or in person. You may sit, stand, or lie down on a soft mat or on a treatment table. There is a wide range of elements we may focus on, always based on listening to your body. We may guide you verbally; we may use subtle or more physical touch, including massage; we may work with movement or with stillness. The emphasis is never on doing, but on developing your awareness of body sensations and impulses, towards inviting your expression.
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90 minutes
The water, set at a body-neutral temperature of 35° celsius, together with the lack of gravity, creates an ideal environment for muscular relaxation, joint decompression, and sensory immersion. With floats attached to your legs to enhance buoyancy, we’ll continuously support your head in a way that your spine gently elongates. At the same time we’ll trace the natural impulses in your body to invite an organic flow of movement to unfold. We may incorporate bodywork techniques to release deep tension patterns, as well as full body submersion after a few sessions.
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90 - 120 minutes
We’ll begin with a meditation to bring awareness to your body sensations and impulses. A guided practice will follow to break through acquired movement patterns and habits of control towards new movement possibilities, leading you into a spontaneous flow of postures.
Cayetana & Steve, Oaxaca by Emma Medina
Our approach
Every session is a conversation. There are no predetermined moves — no fixed protocols. Only listening. We listen for the most subtle rhythms and impulses in your body, offering a container for their expression. At times, there may be seemingly no movement at all — and the session becomes a kind of meditation. Other times, the movement is big, wild, cathartic. We may amplify a gesture or slow it down. We may bring in verbal input or work in silence. Infinite possibilities are at play, just like your experience which may veer between the physical, emotional, or psychological. Our role is to accompany, to witness, and to serve as a mirror of awareness. We emphasise three core elements:
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Your connection to your self.
In a fast world that pressures us to maintain a certain level of performance and control, it’s easy to give our body for granted. Unresolved traumas, whether personal or inherited through our lineage or environment, can further fragment our connection to our body, numbing us or even causing dissociation. In fact, we tend to think of the body and the mind as two separate aspects, yet our psyche isn’t something stored up in our head but rather deeply embedded, through the nervous system, in our entire bodies. It might be fair to say that our life experience permeates our body. So as we exercise our ability to feel our physical selves, such as perceiving subtle sensations, noticing energetic impulses, identifying emotional imprints, we can then begin to re-establish that intrinsic connection and experience the pleasure of inhabiting our body. We will do this through meditations and guided practices, which will also serve as a platform to then work on a deeper level through touch and movement.
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Your connection to another.
In our experience, the attunement that takes place when deeply listening and just being with another, in this case through touch, can unleash profound healing processes. In the case of trauma, which always points to a lack of connection, a present and unconditional touch may be key to regenerate the ability to trust which could have been lost. It may allow vulnerability, often suppressed. It may grant one’s power back, that may have been given up. Ultimately, it will invite intimacy which is nothing but profound and empathetic human connection. With such a foundation, we can then open up a dialogue between your body and our touch, which will evolve intuitively, alternating between lightness and strength, spaciousness and closeness, deep bodywork or mere holding. We will also work with great precision towards the structure of the body, encouraging physical alignment.
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Your connection to life.
If you think about it, much of our movement, whether in our daily routines or recreational activities, is based on a function and a degree of active control from our side. The spontaneous movement we explore in our practice on the other hand, arises from a state of relaxation and passivity. As we carefully trace the impulses in your body -both through your awareness and our touch- we can support your body to express itself in a very organic way. By breaking free from structures, repetition, and habits of control, holding patterns can become revealed. These may be mere tensions or may carry imprints such as suppressed emotions, unconscious beliefs, traumas, conditionings, social and cultural baggage, and many other aspects of the self. We will explore whatever imprints arise, gradually encouraging the circulation of your vital energy, towards your primordial expression.
HENRY from VULNERABILITY by Steve Karle
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