Somatic Therapy for Women
1:1 | Group Classes | Self-Led Course.
Commune with the deepest parts of yourself and awaken to a well of wisdom within.
Be held and facilitated into your body and being so that your somatic intelligence can show you the way.
Virtual and In-Person in Portland, Oregon
We all have states of becoming that we ache to embody, as well as shadows, stories, patterns, and feelings we struggle to shake.
But it can’t just be done through your mind and heart, and it’s not about only mindset or willpower — it’s all tangled up in your body.
You may know yourself intimately — emotionally, spiritually, psychologically — but the nervous system is a completely different channel of intelligence.
Your body remembers everything.
And your nervous system is a time capsule.
It holds layers of personal, ancestral, cultural, and collective imprints that are dictating your unconscious and autonomic behavior, patterns, and felt-sense experience of life on a day-to-day basis.
It’s dictating the way you cope with conflict, stress, and chaos. It's dictating how much safety, trust, and ease you feel in your own skin. And it’s dictating your relationship dynamics.
But it also holds your most instinctual wisdom and power.
Our intuition is our felt-sense instincts. It’s the intelligence of our bodies.
Your whole experience of life as a woman — birth, sex, love, mothering, money, sisterhood, sensuality, body image, your creativity, spirituality, and energy in a female form — is all tangled up in your body and nervous system.
Your wounds, just as much as your power.
Your female form is a sacred well of wisdom.
The bridge between psychology and spirituality is the body.
The bridge between internal and spiritual liberation and liberation in this world is bound to the body.
This work is what empowers women not only within, enriching their quality of life and connecting them to their deepest authenticity — but this is what empowers women in the systems and structures of the world we live in.
It helps them to claim their voice.
Their boundaries.
Their magic, dreams, and truth…in action.
Step into this work and awaken to a well of wisdom within you.
1:1. Group Classes. Courses.
Virtual one-on-one, body-led therapy to be seen, heard, and felt while also being facilitated into somatic processes.
60-minute sessions are $175, though I offer weekly sessions at $125 and monthly or bi-weekly sessions at $150.
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Sessions are a combination of talk therapy and meditative-like guidance into the body. You can share as much or as little as you want. Some days we might talk the whole session, and some days we may do a full send into the body and talk very little. It depends on what you want, what you feel comfortable with, and what’s alive the day we meet.
The difference between this work and traditional talk therapy is letting your felt-sense experience in the moment speak and lead, versus getting lost in the story, the past, why you think you feel the way you do, etc. Maybe you share something, and your throat clenches up, or you feel a pit in your stomach — we go into that, and are led from there.
Breath, sounding, movement, and self-touch or holding are then integrated into everything — to either express what you feel, or to nurture or regulate what arises.
These sessions are virtual. If you are interested in doing this work in-person in Portland, Oregon, set up a free consult to talk with Abby; she fuses it with her bodywork practice.
A sacred space to bring it all and somatically process, without having to share a word.
Think freestyle dance, meets meditation, meets shamanic journey-esque.
Mondays 11-noon PST. Replay available, $22/class.
The ultimate somatic foundation — an experiential self-led course rooted in the feminine and Woman
Meet the divine feminine, dark feminine, your sensuality, and voice, dancing with both the parasympathetic (rest and digest) and sympathetic channels of your nervous system.
Where shall you begin?
I created the group somatic classes as an accessible option in terms of time, commitment, cost, and energy, where women could still be held and do deep work.
I wanted this to be a space for women to drop in with no experience needed, to have a chance to dip their toes and connect with me and this work, and I also wanted it to be an outlet for anyone interested in the doing the bigger courses like Shapeshiting the Goddess or Pussy Fire and still have held space that offered an extra cushion of accountability and holding if they weren’t to do the deep-dive options with 1:1 support.
Over time, after creating this space and doing 1:1 sessions, I realized there was a base foundation I wanted every woman to have, regardless of different personalized aspects of this work that come later — and that is what is now The Embodied Woman.
It introduces you to somatics — the different range of practices, the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest), and the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). It also introduces women to the feminine — the divine feminine, dark feminine, feminine sensuality, and opening our voice.
Everything I offer weaves the feminine and somatics in different flows and flavors. You can pick and choose your own journey.
If you ever have questions or curiosities about where to begin or what to do next, or you simply want to connect and feel for resonance, I always offer free 30-minute consultations.
Word on the street.
What women are saying about Abby
“My experience was soul-transformative. Like losing 10lbs of energetic baggage, which literally felt like losing physical weight. I wasn't sure what to expect, but the impact was surprisingly powerful.
I got immediate results, releasing old, toxic stored energy from my energetic fields and the body (and emotions), both at the same time. It felt like I was unlocking stored trauma in my cells and DNA. Talk therapy can't touch that. “
— Anezka Drazil
“I had never taken this approach with myself before. I can tell my mind/body is very receptive to it. It was like I was being heard in a way I had never experienced before.
It was a new way to listen and nurture myself. I had VERY big shifts in each of the sessions. It felt like I could just breathe, drop in, and listen and feel the magic :) Honestly, I feel like we were in person. It felt like Abby knew what was happening, just like when I had in-person energy-bodywork sessions with her years ago, it was amazing.”
— Anonymous
"I love the trust and the complete safety I feel when working with Abby. She facilitates gentle love and guidance into the somatic experience, providing an opportunity for deeply profound work."
— Jilly
“Talk therapy is very cathartic. It can help me answer questions, have insights, and just feel better by talking some stuff out of my head and heart; whereas this was that, but then a big step further.”
— Anonymous
“As your inner wisdom knows, once you have resonance with someone or something, it not just amplifies but magnifies your self-growth. If you are finding yourself spending a lot of time on this website, as I did, let that be your trigger to follow your inner guidance.
Abby has not just given me the precious missing pieces that I needed, but has become a foundation for this step in my growth journey. If you feel called to work with Abby, know that you will be in the best of hands.”
— Ruby Shah
Meet Abby —
Neither ourselves nor life were ever going to be perfect.
But we were never taught how to hold the reality of all of it — the beauty, the pressure, the chaos, the heartbreak, and magic.
Hi, I’m Abby, a somatic practitioner and educator, ceremonialist, and magic maker.
I’ve worked with and held space for women for the past 15 years, hearing hundreds of women unfurl in circles, retreats, and one-on-one spaces.
A lot of tears have been shed in theses spaces — but not in despair.
When those shares and stories are held in sacred space, and those tears roll down our cheeks in sacred space — it’s simply sacred to feel.
It’s not about fixing or undoing. It’s about the importance of creating space and being with what is.
I’m a space holder, but I’m also a bodyworker who's worked particularly with the womb, pelvis, and nervous system, and I have a background in shamanics and energetics, and a degree in women’s studies.
There is space that needs to be held.
And there is action to be taken.
There are preventive measures to avoid repeating our self-sabotaging loops or finding ourselves in the same distressing situations again and again.
And it’s not just about mindset and willpower, or karma, astrology, and managing our energetic field. It’s physical, visceral, and primal.
The Somatic and Feminine Embodiment work I facilitate is the bridge between it all.
You will commune with the essence of the woman within, but also with your body and the reality you inhabit.
You are not just of the divine or your heart; your time is finite in this animal body, and life is fleeting as you know it.
Say yes to this sacred work, cocooned within yourself, listening deeply, and building your capacity to savor yourself, your life, and your body.
FAQ’s
And everything you might be wondering
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Most therapy does not incorporate somatics or nervous system education and regulation. This work can absolutely be supplemental, and will exponentially support your process of integration and healing that is happening elsewhere.
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Abby has been holding space for women for 15 years, with a background in pelvic care, bodywork, women’s studies, and somatic therapy, but is not a licensed mental health counselor.
This space is deeply trauma informed, but does not treat trauma.
Forcing ourselves to feel when trauma has not been processed first can do more damage than good. Make sure you are well resourced and have had support with appropriate professionals before stepping into this work.
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We all have a body, we all have a breath, and that's all you need. Whether in group sessions, or 1:1, you will always be given options and guidance to meet your body where it’s at.
You cannot just intellectually learn about the nervous system and somatics; you have to feel it in your body, and learn how to be led by it.
That’s exactly what this space is for — no matter whether you are doing 1:1 work, the group sessions, or The Embodied Woman course.
Somatic intelligence is about the sovereign empowerment of following the current of life within and around you with instinctual clarity.
Our beings are fluid, complicated, vast, and shapeshifting. And so is life.
There’s no algorithm.
There’s no one solution or set of practices that fits all.
This is what makes it all magic.
It’s a living dance.
Life is a dance between our beings and the world we are immersed in, and our body is the bridge to experience, soak up, and savor it all.
Simply not hating your body as a woman is a revolution in itself, but let’s take it further.
No more berating.
No more overriding.
Fall in love with your female form.
Awaken to the honesty your body holds.
Build your capacity for presence in this fleeting, vast, and wild experience of life.
Your body knows what you need.
Your body knows what’s true.
It always has, and it’s waiting for you to listen.
