Compassionate Embodiment with Barbara Kaplan

You deserve to feel grounded, powerful, loving, and compassionate. I’m happy to help guide you there.

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  • Somatic Experiencing || Somatic means "of the body"

    Created by Peter Levine, PhD, this body-oriented therapy works on the principle that trauma and stress get trapped in the body. Sustained healing happens when our nervous system regains balance and we reprogram the body’s primitive survival instincts so we can feel more connection, ease, and safety in the body.

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  • Touch-for-Trauma

    For decades my yoga classes and somatic sessions have been places of love and healing. I felt like a missing piece was being able to transmit more positive energy to clients through my hands.

    Gratefully, in 2019 I graduated from Kathy Kain’s Touch-for-Trauma course which brought more education and sensitivity to my hands. Now I bring a co-regulating touch to clients, specifically to organs. For instance, holding the kidney/adrenal area with presence helps clients downshift from anxiety to a more relaxed, embodied state. Combined with yogic breathwork clients can move out of the fight/flight mode to being able to feel more grounded and centered. Similarly, compassionate hands on the liver or around the brain stem help the body release into greater homeostasis, and then the mind gets to follow. So often we are top-down creatures leading with the head, but in my practice we explore the power of sensing the body and witnessing how that changes the mind.

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  • Reiki

    Reiki is a Japanese technique for relaxation and stress relief that promotes the body's natural ability to experience well-being. Everyday stressors can bring blockages to the flow of our energy, and Reiki helps restore energy flow to its optimum state which supports the body to return to equanimity.

    In my sessions, I like to combine Touch-for-Trauma and Reiki to bring the highest benefits to clients.

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  • Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)

    I had the good fortune to study MSC in-person with the founders Kristen Neff and Chris Germer. Most people are great at giving compassion to a friend in difficulty, but treating ourselves with love and care can feel quite foreign. I interweave wonderful practices and meditations into sessions to help client's hearts open to themselves with kindness that lasts.

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  • Yoga

    I have a passion for helping people live more comfortably in their bodies. I guide them to feel grounded, powerful, loving, and compassionate, especially towards themselves.

    My safe, nurturing yoga sessions invite clients to relax deeply, learn how to listen to the body's wisdom, and vitally reconnect with one's center.

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Testimonials

  • Doing Somatic Experience sessions with Barbara has been life-saving for me. I had a hard time being “in the moment” and was always running from one thing to another, usually taking care of others before taking care of myself. Working with Barbara has helped me find peace within myself and in relationships with others. It has helped me release tension and better define what I want and need. When Barbara and I meet on Zoom, I feel she’s right there with me, instead of six thousand miles away.

    WG, Netherlands

  • Barbara’s care, gentleness, and wisdom help to make her online yoga class an exceptional experience. Despite the distance I feel very at home in the community. I’m healthier in every way as a result!

    SB, Switzerland

  • Barbara has a radiant spirit, and I always leave class soothed and restored to wholeness.

    S.M.

  • Barbara Kaplan literally saved my life. I strongly recommend her for both yoga and somatic experiencing!

    S.F.

  • I came to see Barbara for somatic experiencing and it was very helpful. Barbara has a very inviting and kind way about her, that made me feel able to go in to my body and be safe talking to her about issues that I have had for years. I highly recommend her.

    W.W.

  • Barbara Kaplan isn't just a great yoga teacher, she's one of the nicest and friendliest people you'll ever meet on this (and probably any other) planet. What this means in terms of yoga instruction is that she is extremely helpful, patient, and empowering for yoga students of any skill level. There is zero intimidation factor in her classes, as she goes out of her way to make everyone feel totally comfortable and at ease with their bodies and their skill level. I'm a 50-year-old male and not even remotely "good" at yoga, and yet I love coming to her classes and feel great every time afterward.

    J.G.

  • All the high praises for Barbara are well deserved-- her knowledge, expertise, patience, kindness and care are exceptional. The first time I took a class from Barbara, I came out feeling like I had just had a full body massage--so loose and relaxed! She makes yoga accessible to all and tailored to individual needs.

    J.H.

  • Barbara is a highly skilled yoga teacher who has a gift for sequencing poses in a way that takes the student easily into gradually more difficult poses.

    S.M.

WELCOME

We all have difficulties and stress at times in our personal lives and the world also brings many ups and downs. How can we find some balance and a sense of well-being in the midst of life’s flurries? I would love the opportunity to help you become more embodied, compassionate, and regulated to navigate these challenges.