Elia is highly skilled at balancing listening to our stories about what we’re experiencing with offering suggestions and demonstrations for movements that might help process the NS charge beneath the stories. While my NS was in a bit of a flight mode in the first session, not yet feeling safe, with his guidance of the overall experience I quickly felt safe and was able to experiment with movement and sound and expand my “repertoire.” He also engendered close attention, compassion and empathy between all of the participants, so that we felt closer and closer as the class progressed.

Movement and sound with NS work is not a complicated “secret” that only people with years of experience in somatic work can “get.” It’s highly accessible, intuitive and straightforward.