Somatics

As a Certified Somatics Practitioner since 2022, I enable and empower women of all ages and stages to find deeper connection with their bodies, their felt sense, and ultimately themselves. My approach is trauma-informed, social justice-informed, disability justice-informed, consent-based, and client-led; it’s not directive or prescriptive. I do have Western training, and I can utilize those techniques when asked to do so; however, I’m happy to blend them with or to simply offer a number of other modalities. I recognize, trust, and honor women’s innate capacity to alchemize experiences and to heal, no matter how deep the wounds may be. I meet each woman where she is on her journey and on any given day.

About Liz

I found resonance with psychology at 16 when I took a developmental psych class. At Yale, I continued exploring the field, focusing on Emotional Intelligence. Ultimately, I walked away from psychology and into organizational work because I found the techniques presented at that time too top down and non-inclusive of trauma and its effect on individuals. Around 2016, I found body-based healing modalities: restorative yoga, somatics, cranial sacral, mindfulness, etc (these techniques are now being mainstreamed into the traditional therapeutic world). I’ve continued to amass training and experience in this vein since, alchemizing my own life experiences as well as serving as a guide to other women doing the same.

Women have access to all of my life experience and training:

-Yale, Class of 2007 (BA Psychology, Emotional Intelligence)

-Somatics (body-based psychology): My primary focus is on integrative parts work, inner child work, IFS, breaking cyclical patterns, and intergenerational trauma.

  • YTT 200 Yandara Yoga Institute: focus on Restorative and Nidra (2019)
  • 60 hr “Holding Space” with Gary Strauss through The NY Open Center (2019)
  • 60 hr Yoga Nidra Training with Marin McCallen (2021)
  • 60 hr Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate through The Embody Lab: focus on Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing technique (2022)
  • 60 hr ReSource by Embodied Intimacy (Rachel Rickards and Buster Radvik, 2023)
  • hundreds or thousands of hours of PESI’s and The Embody Lab’s somatics summits and trainings over the years (anything from social justice to trauma to sexual abuse to ADHD)

-astrology: Astrology Hub’s Inner Circle since 2023

-tutoring: Alongside parents, I delicately navigate the educational journey of (special needs) students, allowing each student to blossom within a system that often isn’t built for him/her/them.

-non-profit leadership: former president and director (2013-2017), former delegate (2019-2022)

-leadership development consulting (2016-2021)

-over a decade of recovery from severe injury (concussions)

Liz Foglesong is currently Boulder County-based and very happy to be so close to the Rocky Mountains, a plethora of natural foods, and a holistic culture.

Contact

lessonswliz@gmail.com

480-478-8144