1:1 offerings

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MY OFFERINGS FOR INDIVIDUALS ARE VAST...

I primarily support women and non-binary folks on thresholds of transformation and becoming. It can take many forms, including Soul-centered Somatic Therapy, Dance/Movement Ritual, Earth-based Healing Bodywork and Somatic Archaeology©, Ancestral Healing/Wholing

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soul-centered somatic therapy

Soul-centered somatic therapy is a body-centered, trauma-informed approach that helps you connect with your body as home and your life as your sacred story/mythos.

If you have done talk therapy for years and have a deep understanding of your story, however, the unwell patterns of behaviors continue to repeat, I am here to support you in unearthing the layers that hold you back and guide you toward living the largest story you can live. I support you in cultivating a range of inner and outer resources, regulating your nervous system and trusting the wisdom of your body by returning to remember and reconnecting with your inner landscape and the wild nature around you.

Through this process, you’ll uncover the roots of what perpetuates the limiting patterns that block love, connection, pleasure, liberation, magic, intuition, meaning and aliveness. You’ll learn to cultivate self-witness, connect the dots of your story, sequence/move what is ready to release, create new neural pathways that open up possibilities as you unearth your life as your mythos/your great story/soul story so you can live your “one wild and precious life” as Mary Oliver reminds us!

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dance / movement ritual

Movement is a primal form of expression, a doorway to deepen connection with your body, heart and wild nature.

This 1:1 personalized dance/movement ritual invites you to explore movement as a way to release blocks and stagnant energy and reconnect with your inner wisdom. Sometimes we just can’t think our way through or figure it out. We must remember the primal ways: movement, sound, intuition and ritual. 

In this space you’ll awaken ways of inhabiting your body, cultivating a relationship with your own temple and the earth. Guided by your intention, we weave somatic awareness and resourcing, creativity, music (or quiet), and light guidance from me to support you to listen deeply—and move from this inner place—rediscovering your birthright of belonging home in your body. As our beloved dancing ancestor, Anna Halprin says, “A dance can be a tribute, a ritual, a ceremony…and a healing.”

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earth-based healing bodywork

Our bodies never lie. When we are disconnected, we can feel stuck, blocked, numb, constricted, or uncomfortable.

With my almost 3 decades of supporting folks through attuned therapeutic bodywork and mindfulness practices, I guide you to reconnect to your body’s inner landscape and rediscover your interweb of connective tissue, bones, muscles and nervous system. It can be a doorway into orienting and awakening awareness around injury/surgery sights, scar tissue, chronic pain or simply an absence of embodiment that can reduce mobility, joy and freedom.  This process of returning helps you cultivate a deeper relationship with your cells, your breath and tune into the language of sensation, curiosity, intuition, and memory.

For some, this journey is about softening into the great embrace of earth, feeling at home in your own skin, reconnecting with aliveness and even joy and pleasure. For others, it’s about diving deep, unearthing stories held in the body, in the tissues and releasing what no longer serves. Whether unwinding tension or replenishing and restoring what has been parched and forgotten, the pathway for transformation begins in the body.

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somatic archeology & ancestral healing/wholing

Somatic Archaeology is a body-centered modality founded by Ruby Gibson, rooted in the understanding that our bodies, like the earth, hold the memory of our past.

As Ruby describes, “Just as the Earth contains the historical library of life in its ruins, graves, trees, rocks, and oceans, our bodies inherit the archives of our ancestors in their cells, nerves, muscles, blood, and bones.”  

In this work, we explore together with curiosity and trust in your body’s wisdom–uncovering what lies beneath cognitive understanding. Your personal and ancestral stories may surface through images, sensations, sounds, memories, or emotional release.  This process may involve renegotiating old contracts that no longer serve you, reconnecting with your forgotten lineages of support and wholeness, facilitating repair, and deepening your sense of ground, belonging, aliveness and purpose. Somatic Archeology creates bridges between realms and expands the circles of ancestral guidance and allyship available to you.

Session are generally 90 min in the healing haven at SantuariO in longmont

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You may hear the call to work with me, iF...

Your life as you know it is unraveling.

There is a knowing from your depths that is rising up and nudging you. 

Your skin feels too tight.

The story you are living is too small. 

There’s not enough breath flowing into your cells and you feel constricted,

and even like a stranger in your own body.

You know there is more beneath the surface.

You know there is an underground spring waiting to be unearthed.

You are not sure what is blocking the flow, but you know you can’t live this way anymore.

It is time.

Reclaiming your life’s journey as your sacred story/myth.

Inhabiting every cell of your body with your breath.

TESTIMONIALS

  • “Jennie offers dynamic, multifaceted and extra-ordinary healing work. She pulls from the ancient story of tending an entire village ecosystem to promote wellness, while also understanding the incredibly complex landscape of the individual psyche, and especially its relationship to the body. 

    I have had the profound privilege of getting to work with Jennie in an extremely wide range of modalities, and have witnessed her gifts to be immense—as evidenced by the unequivocally deep healing I have experienced with her support. Through somatic therapy she offers words and body support that is remarkably gentle, yet pierce directly to the source of the wound, creating space for a certain excavation and opening to take place. Her guidance in the realms of dance and somatic movement is precise and always dives right into the most important spots in the body and soul, revealing the gifts that lay buried within. “

    Sara E.

  • "Jennie holds a space of deep, intergenerational healing that is so trustworthy. Her skill, care, love, and ground in spirit feel like running water for what is dry and parched, allowing bodies to trust and hearts to unclench. When I feel lost, despairing, and disconnected from spirit I go to Jennie and find a tapestry of community, love, and ceremony that puts me back at the center of myself, roots reaching strongly down. Working with Jennie, I have experienced true homecoming. I’ve learned to trust my body and emotions through immense grief, lean into community, and return again and again to what is whole and sacred. She has been a deep mentor in weaving heart, togetherness, and ceremony into all aspects of healing and living."

    Eve P. LPC

  • "Jennie knows the old ways of tending community through life's thresholds in her bones. She shows up with every fiber of her being infusing any situation with her big trust, her deep roots and her unconditional love.The space she holds invites us to tune into our senses in the most delicious and delightful way, helping us to remember what is whole and what is holy. She creates space in which we can slow down and connect to the seen and unseen guides, allies and resources all around us. Her very presence elicits safety and wellness. Her profound connection to the natural world brings our relationship to our own nature alive. Her capacity to be with the breadth of feeling and the human experience is  astounding. Her reverence for life, her intuitive magic and her faith in the great unfolding are a true teaching. She is a village grandmother, a courageous warrior,  a trustworthy guide, and a medicine woman. Her joy, her health and her hope are contagious. We are blessed to have her in our midst. "

    Sarita R.G.

  • “Jennie is a masterful space-holder. She tends to the collective with such depth of heart and care. I always feel exquisitely held and seen in her midst, whether through communal dance rituals, truth-telling councils, seasonal ceremonies, or individual somatic work. She has a true gift of nurturing soulful embodiment and connection, and I'm sincerely grateful that she is sharing her gifts with the world.”

    April T.

  • "I met Jennie seven years ago for a women's retreat she was guiding. My life has never been the same. Through group programs, individual psychotherapy/body work, and intensive couples therapy with my husband (who I met during this time), she has guided me to remember the true path of my soul. SO MUCH HEALING and growth, wow. I credit much of the growth of my family and business/purpose to the work we have done together. Jennie is an authentic healer and will only bring light, truth, and beauty to your life."

    Sophie S., LCSW

  • “I have circled with Jennie Gershater-Lopez for many years, calling upon her profound guidance in several life rituals; dancing and singing at my wedding, grieving through death and changed relationships, honoring my motherhood, sparking my authentic professional voice, and providing containment to find my way back into my body when I feel emotionally tangled. I continue to come back to Jennie because she poetically, vivaciously, and tenderly honors the voice of my soul. Her intuition embodies the essence of wild, fierce, and wise women through timeless lineages. She is a sacred portal of a being who has the life altering capacity to know you, to truly see you, and to ground you into your most authentic self. To receive ritual, massage, or any guidance from Jennie is to feel unconditional love at its most highest.”

    Ellen G. LPC, Dance/Movement Therapist

  • “Her bodywork is beyond massage; it’s a deep ceremonial experience that helps heal so much more than achy muscles—it works into the deep layers of the emotional, spiritual and psychic bodies too. And her understanding of the influence of lineage and ancestry on what’s arising has been pivotal to the unlocking of so many wounds that I wasn’t able to access before her support. Each of her gifts are profound, and she has developed the keen wisdom to know exactly what healing tools to pull from her abundant tool belt when it is needed.”

    S.E.

  • "I have worked with Jennie in various capacities for more than a decade and I will forever be grateful for her as a person and as a practitioner. Jennie creates and holds an exquisite container of safety, depth, and presence. She always meets me wherever I am in my own experience with such tenderness, wisdom, and fierce love that I cannot help but soften. Jennie is a gift to the world and to our communities and I would heartily recommend her to anyone seeking guidance or support in any capacity that she is available for."

    Camille L.

We simply are not meant to journey alone.

I meet you at thresholds of birth, death, marriage, divorce, miscarriage, conscious conception, fertility journeys and the invisible thresholds woven throughout life.

Your journey is rooted in your deepest prayer/intention of what calls you to embark on this path at this particular threshold.

I am a weaver of ways and I carry a medicine basket full of options to support you on your journey.

Contact me here to schedule a free 30-minute exploration/consultation

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