Hi, I’m Lilian.

I’ve spent more than a decade working with bodies.

I started as a Fascial Stretch Therapist, which meant spending thousands of hours with my hands on people, noticing how they moved, where they held tension, what they protected and what happened when their bodies finally had a little more space.

But somewhere along the way, I started getting curious about things stretching couldn’t explain.

Why does someone’s body tense when they talk about a certain person? Why do we hold our breath when we’re trying not to feel something? Why can someone know exactly what they need and still struggle to say no? Why does anger make one person want to push and another want to disappear?

I wanted to understand more than muscles, fascia and movement.

I wanted to understand the person living inside the body.

That curiosity eventually led me into four years of training in Core Energetics and changed the way I understood the work I had already been doing for years.

The body was never separate from the conversation.

Today, I work as both a Somatic Therapist and Fascial Stretch Therapist.

Those are two different practices, and people come to me for different reasons. Sometimes we’re working with physical restriction, mobility and pain. Sometimes we’re working with relationships, emotions, patterns, boundaries, identity or the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to suppress.

But underneath both is the same curiosity:

What is your body communicating?

I don’t believe every tight muscle has an emotional meaning or that every sensation needs to become some profound revelation. Sometimes a tight hip is just a tight hip.

But I do believe our bodies are participating in our lives all the time.

Learning to notice that gives us access to information we can’t always think our way into.

I’m not here to tell you what your body means.

I’m here to help you become better at listening to it yourself.

I believe self-awareness is more than understanding your patterns intellectually. It’s noticing what happens inside of you while you’re actually living them.

I believe resistance deserves curiosity before judgment.

I believe anger, fear, pleasure, grief, joy and desire all need somewhere to go.

I believe sometimes we need stillness, and sometimes we need to stomp our feet, make noise, push against something or move our bodies.

And I don’t think the goal is to become calm, regulated and happy all the time.

The goal isn’t always to feel better. Sometimes the work is getting better at feeling.