PRIVATE SESSIONS WITH RACHAEL SEYMOUR
Somatic sessions, Melbourne
Somatic, energetic and consciousness work.
Most people who find their way here are already on the way. Something in you is expanding, and you are curious, drawn, ready to go deeper into your own awakening.
This is not a fix. It is how the deepening actually happens, in the body, not only in the mind.
Awareness alone rarely moves what the body is still holding.
You may already know a great deal about yourself. Years of practice, insight, meditation, therapy or your own inner work.
And still there can be a layer that has not caught up, because it was never held as thought in the first place. This is the layer somatic work reaches, so the rest of your practice can land more fully in your body.
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HOW THE BODY HOLDS
Four ways a body holds what has not yet moved.
It braces
Your body protects you faster than you can think. If something never really ended, it keeps bracing long after the danger has gone.
It stays switched on
Energy that was there to run, fight or speak had nowhere to go. It can remain as pressure, agitation or blocked energy.
It shuts down
When staying switched on costs too much, a body goes flat, tired, numb, far away. Still protection, expressed differently.
Reactions that outsize the moment
The reaction does not belong entirely to what is in front of you. Something earlier has been touched.
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Work with me
There are two ways to enter the work: personally, or through the lens of leadership.
The depth of the work and the pricing are the same. Executive sessions are not a premium version of the private work. They bring a different context to the same body of somatic, energetic and consciousness practice.
Private somatic session
First session · $385
Allow up to two hours
For whatever is asking for your attention personally.
You may arrive with something specific: a pattern, relationship, response, transition, emotion or something you cannot quite move. Or you may simply have a sense that there is another layer ready to be explored. Nothing needs preparing.
Executive somatic session
First session · $385
Allow up to two hours
For founders, executives and senior leaders who want to explore what is happening underneath how they lead.
You may bring a difficult relationship, pressure, visibility, conflict, a decision, transition, recurring response, or simply a sense that the way you are leading is asking something different of you.
The session draws on the same somatic, energetic and consciousness work as Rachael's private practice, alongside more than twenty years working with leaders and organisations.
You can know exactly how you want to lead and still have your body respond differently when the pressure is on. Your state travels, into the conversation, the meeting, the decision and the people around you.
Returning clients
$335 · 90 to 120 minutes
After your first session, return whenever there is something more you want to explore. This applies equally to Private and Executive Somatic Sessions. There is no prescribed number of sessions and no program to commit to. Some people return regularly. Others come when something arises, when life changes, or when they sense another layer is ready.
Two doors into the same body of work. Private asks what is happening in me and my life. Executive asks what is happening in me as I lead.
TWENTY YEARS, AND NOW, DEEPER
Twenty years of consciousness work. Now, deeper into the body.
Rachael came to somatic work through more than twenty years of consciousness, meditation, breath, energy and transformational learning. Across those years she has watched people understand themselves profoundly, change beliefs, expand awareness and change their lives.
She has also watched the places where understanding alone does not reach. The body has its own language.
Her professional training with Somatic Experiencing International has brought greater precision to how she works with that language: understanding protection, activation, capacity, and how the body can complete responses that could not be completed at the time.
She brings this together with Spiritual Psychology, meditation, breath, energy work, Reiki and intuitive practice, developed over more than two decades of working with people.
Not one modality replacing another. Each has taken the work deeper.
A DIFFERENTIATOR
Where the work reaches
Conscious
What you can describe and decide. Only a small part of what runs you.
Subconscious
Habit and belief, running underneath attention.
Unconscious
The body's own record. Where the pattern actually is.
Superconscious
The quieter, wiser part of you, glimpsed in moments of real stillness. Not something to reach for. It becomes more available on its own, the calmer and more settled your system gets.
I work at all four, in different ways. The conscious is where I teach: the intellect, frameworks and the things we can understand in words.
Spiritual Psychology reaches into habit and belief underneath. Somatic work gives us access to the body's own responses and patterns, including those that may sit beneath language or memory.
And as the system settles, something else becomes increasingly available: the quieter, wiser seat of consciousness itself.
ON DEPTH, WITHOUT FORCE
The body sets the pace.
Depth does not require force. Rachael does not go searching for what is difficult, push for emotional release, or measure a session by how dramatic it is.
The story does not have to be retold for the body to work with what it holds.
Activation can arise, but it is worked with in small amounts, so the system is never asked to hold more than it has capacity for.
You remain in charge throughout, and can pause, slow down or change direction at any time.
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WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE
Every session is different.
90 to 120 minutes. Nothing needs preparing. Comfortable clothes you can move and lie down in.
One
We check in
A short conversation about what is present for you, and an intention for the time together.
Two
We settle
Often guided meditation or breathwork, moving toward the place your body already knows is true, free, liberated, safe, whatever it is you want to feel, and reminding your body that it is there.
Three
We do the work
Nervous system tracking, sensation, movement, energy work, Reiki with your consent, and intuitive practice, however it wants to move.
Four
We finish with favourite moments
Time to integrate and reflect on what landed, so you leave feeling grounded and complete.
Settle
Feel
Release
Remember
Become
NOT A DESTINATION OF FIXING
What becomes possible
More choice
Room between what happens and how you respond to it.
A system that can hold more
More joy, pleasure, peace, intimacy and possibility. Capacity, not simply relief.
Old stories resolving
Personal, relational, generational or energetic patterns having less influence over the present.
Your own life force
A deeper ability to sense, hold and direct your own energy and prana.
The larger intention is freedom. We work with what the body has held so less of the present is unconsciously organised by the past, and more of you becomes available for your actual life.
WHO YOU ARE WORKING WITH
Rachael Seymour
More than twenty years working with consciousness, breath, meditation, the body and energy, gradually becoming one body of work.
She is in the final year of a three year training program with Somatic Experiencing International, and completing certification. She holds a qualification in Spiritual Psychology, is a Kundalini Yoga and meditation teacher, a Yoga Nidra facilitator in the Daring to Rest tradition, and is VITA certified in love, sex and relationship work, trained with Layla Martin.