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Grounded Bliss
Neuro Somatic Practitioner

You can hold it together. You just can't switch it off.

That is usually the point women find me. I work with the patterns your body is running, not just the ones you can think your way through.

In clinic in Ringwood North and Port Melbourne. Three and six month programmes only.

Sarah Parkinson, neuro somatic practitioner in Melbourne
Hands on, on the tableNot a talking session
Three or six monthsNo one off sessions
For high functioning womenAnxiety, reactivity, exhaustion
Who this is for

For women who are high functioning and exhausted by it.

If you are like most women who work with me, you look capable. You hold it together. Until you can't. These are the things women actually name when they come in.

"When you avoid what you're feeling, your body is left to carry what you won't."

What this work is

Three things, worked at the same time.

This is where the work lives. Leave one out and the other two do not hold.

01

Nervous system physiology

How your body is organising itself under pressure. Breathing pattern, reflexes, posture, and where your system is holding threat outside conscious awareness.

02

Relational patterns

The way you hold pressure with other people. Pleasing, managing, bracing, withdrawing. These are learned responses, not personality.

03

Personal responsibility

The part nobody advertises. Change needs repetition, and it needs you to participate between sessions rather than wait to be fixed.

Try it now

The breath pacer.

A longer breath out than in is the piece of this work with the most research behind it. Follow the orb for a minute and notice whether anything shifts. Nothing to sign up for.

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Four in. Two hold. Six out.

  • Breathe in through your nose for four
  • Hold for two, softly
  • Breathe out slowly for six
  • Rest for one, then again
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Short and often does more than one long attempt to relax. Sixty seconds, a few times a day, is the version that actually works.

Sarah working hands on with a client on the treatment table
The work is physical rather than conversational.
In the room

What actually happens in a session.

  1. We take a baseline

    How your body is organising under stress. Breathing patterns, neurological reflexes, posture and range of movement where it is relevant.

  2. You get on the table

    Most of the session is spent here. Precise hands on techniques that support your system to downregulate, working with the diaphragm, the vagus nerve and the lymphatic system.

  3. We find what is being held

    Using muscle testing, we locate where your body is holding threat outside conscious awareness. Not what you can describe. What it is actually doing.

  4. You take something home

    Breath retraining, movement and vagus nerve work between sessions, plus direct access to me by message. The repetition is what makes it stick.

Two minutes, seven questions

Where is your system sitting right now?

No jargon and no typing. Tap the answer closest to the truth, not the one that sounds best. You will get a plain description of what your system is doing and what tends to help first.

Why it is not a one off

Your nervous system learned its patterns through decades of repetition.

Hyper vigilance or shutdown did not arrive in a week and it does not leave in one session. I do not offer one off appointments, because they do not change anything.

3

Three months

Stabilises your system and interrupts the immediate, reactive patterns. Fortnightly in clinic sessions plus direct access to me between them.

Investment $2,500  payment plans available
6

Six months

Embeds the new responses deeply enough that they hold under real strain, not just on a good week. This is where the change stops being fragile.

Investment $5,000  payment plans available

This is for you if

  • You are self aware and still reactive
  • You are capable and tired of managing yourself
  • You are willing to participate
  • You understand change needs repetition

This is not for you if

  • You want a quick fix
  • You want to stay in explanation without practice
  • You want reassurance without being challenged
  • You expect this to replace medical or clinical care
What women report

Stress does not disappear. It just stops feeling like an emergency.

You pause more often

Conflict stops hijacking the whole day. There is a gap between the thing happening and your response to it.

Your body settles

Less tightness, better sleep, and a shorter recovery after something goes wrong.

You stop managing

The energy that went into holding it together is available for something else.

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What clients say.

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Before you ask

The questions that come up first.

No. This is hands on work with your nervous system rather than a talking therapy, and it does not replace medical or clinical care. If you are working with a GP, a psychologist or a specialist, this sits alongside that, not instead of it.

No. One off sessions do not change a pattern that took decades to build, so I only work in three and six month programmes. If you only book when life falls apart, it makes sense that nothing really changes.

Not in the way you are picturing. Most of the session is spent on the table and the work is physical rather than conversational. We are changing the pattern at the level it is actually being run, not analysing it.

Most women who come to me have. Understanding why you do something and being able to stop doing it are two different things, and insight alone does not reach the responses that keep you switched on.

Two clinic rooms in Melbourne, one in Ringwood North and one in Port Melbourne, with different days at each. Exact addresses and times are confirmed when you book.

You get practices to do at home, breath retraining, movement and vagus nerve work, plus direct access to me by message. The repetition between sessions is where most of the change actually happens.

The next step

Start with a conversation.

Tell me where you are at. If this is the right fit I will say so, and if it is not I will tell you that too.

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