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Depth Work:
A Somatic Solution

Integrating Dialogue With Hands On Healing Work

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Ewa Maris
Founder of Inner River Healing

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How Can I Help You?

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I am a Mental Health Practitioner and I need a place to refresh and restore, so I can continue to care for others.

When you are taking care of your patients, your family, your daily to-do list, who is taking care of you? How can you attend caringly to your clients’ needs and meet the demands of your life, without a place to renew and reconnect with your own deep self?

I am a Mental Health Practitioner and I need a place to refresh and restore, so I can continue to care for others.

When you are taking care of your patients, your family, your daily to-do list, who is taking care of you? How can you attend caringly to your clients’ needs and meet the demands of your life, without a place to renew and reconnect with your own deep self?

As a clinician you provide a heroic service in a Facebook culture starved for deep and genuine human interaction. The profession of therapy places an extraordinary demand on you in that it requires you to be fresh and open, sensitive, and alert with each and every client. I aim to provide a remedy to this unique burden therapists carry by doing hands-on healing and depth work. My unique background integrates the Rosen Method Bodywork with Barbara Brennan Healing Science to provide you a space to find greater ease in mind, body and emotion.

EMOTIONAL OVERLOAD

It’s a simple matter of emotional economics. You take on so much professionally—absorbing hour after hour the energy and stories of your clients. Therapists are uniquely exposed to fundamental existential issues and all of the myriad suffering associated with them. But the demand doesn’t end with your clients. Your own personal life exacts as much on your attention and energy. This demand takes its toll: exhaustion.

THE TIRED MIND

The incessant analytical activity.
Therapists are especially busy thinking about and sometimes for their clients. It’s a unique situation intellectually - the responsibility of thinking your way into your clients’ lives with compassionate and effective understanding. Then, of course, you need to problem solve and think about your own life too. Your mind needs a real break.

THE FORGOTTEN BODY

Your biography in your biology.
The body holds all of your experiences, including your traumas, joys, memories, stresses, hopes and fears. And as a therapist you not only contain within your cells your past and present, but also may absorb some of the energies from your clients’ stories and lives. Although we all aspire to attend to our bodies lovingly, you can find yourself physically run down from the mental or emotional backlog that can be stored in the body as chronic tension or pain.

Here's what I'll do to help

EMOTIONAL EQUILIBRIUM

I provide a safe place to digest and integrate the flood of emotional situations you may face with clients, coworkers, or family. Whether it is the stuck or disturbing client, an unhelpful supervisor, a family illness or institutional bureaucracy, through this work you will meet those challenges with greater ease, insight and fortitude.

A QUIET MIND

Empowers you to see in a new way. Without any pressure to analyze or perform or even to speak, a more essential expression of your Self appears. There is relief in letting your mind go and a clarity arises when you connect to what really matters to you. You will gain insight without analysis. A different perspective can appear when the monkey-mind settles down.

THE ENLIVENED BODY

Hands-on healing of chronic patterns of tightness or pain. Through this work, you will have a direct impression of how everything that happens mentally and emotionally has an immediate correspondence to some aspect of your physicality. This integration allows the sustained healing of physical tension, stickiness, or dis-ease to begin. Openly experiencing more of the body’s myriad secrets, even the ones that frighten us, miraculously relaxes us and expands our sense of self.

Ready for results of your own?
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I am dealing with a Chronic Medical Condition and I am looking for support.

Have you recently been given a life-changing medical diagnosis that has created a new normal? Or have you been living with a chronic medical condition and are looking for much needed relief?

I am dealing with a Chronic Medical Condition and I am looking for support.

Have you recently been given a life-changing medical diagnosis that has created a new normal?

Or have you been living with a chronic medical condition and are looking for much needed relief?

Facing a chronic illness and the life-changing consequences it has on you can be overwhelming, stressful and extremely lonely. Not only do you need to manage the very real pain that lives in your body, but also the feelings of worry or fear that may come up and the thoughts about how this changes your ability to parent, work, create, and love. Whether you are dealing with the shock of a newly diagnosed condition or the exhaustion of managing a chronic illness for a long time, I offer support and relief on the physical, emotional, mental and energetic layers of your being. I do not engage in platitudes or snake-oil quick fixes, but do hands-on healing work to shift the pain around the pain; heal the anxiety, worry, upset, and anger around the pain, and that can help shift the pain itself.

Specifically, I combine the Rosen Method Bodywork with Barbara Brennan Healing Science to bring this relief to body, mind and emotion so that you can awaken new reservoirs of creativity and compassion within yourself and for yourself in the face of this medical condition.

The body at dis-ease

It hurts. And perhaps all the time. Or you are tired, short of breath, or dizzy, and normal activities have become difficult to do. You are managing the symptoms with medication, medical assistance, and lifestyle, but it is not enough. You are still suffering. You want more relief, energy, and ease.

Emotional Suffering

The feelings are overwhelming. In fact sometimes you feel like you’re drowning and it is hard to keep your head above the water with feelings that threaten to pull you under time and time again. It can be an extremely lonely and trying time as you adapt to and manage your illness. You need a safe place to gently be with, unveil, and process the feelings that can dominate your sense of self.

The worried mind

Your thinking is either paralyzed or racing. Can I continue to work and support myself? Can I continue to raise my kids? How will I manage? Anxietal thoughts can flood your mind when you are confronted with a life-changing condition. Worry, or worse, depression, can become a way of life that is difficult to shift alone.

Here's what I'll do to help.

The loved Body

Reawakening the wisdom of the body below the aches and the pain. The hands-on healing touch provides soothing relief for your discomfort or pain. Furthermore, I aim to restructure, repair or clear blockages on the energetic level. Once we are able to calm the pain, we tap into the deeper layers of your body’s wisdom and activate your own healing function.

Emotional Resilience

Healing through feeling. I provide a safe and loving space for you to freely and fully express what needs to be let out and felt. A place to grieve, cry, laugh, be messy or accept what is. A place to reconnect with your inner resources and deep knowing so you can find the emotional strength and equilibrium necessary to navigate the complexities of living with this medical condition.

The Clear Mind

Transforming negative thinking into positive action. We will work to identify and differentiate the thought patterns that keep you spinning and stuck in the Doomsday scenario. Through our work, your mind will find a new sense of calm that will open up access to deeper insight and, hitherto unthought of, creative solutions.

Ready for results of your own?
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I am interested in booking a depth-work hands-on Healing Session.

Are you interested in working somatically? Energetically? Are you interested in clearing chronic holding patterns or traumas that are embedded on the cellular level of your body?

I am interested in booking a depth-work hands-on Healing Session.

Are you interested in working somatically? Energetically? Are you interested in clearing chronic holding patterns or traumas that are embedded on the cellular level of your body?

Sometimes we have gotten to know ourselves and mapped our inner lives and yet there are patterns and behaviors that continue to persist and seem unshiftable. Our thoughts and emotions—the ones felt and acknowledged and the ones just below the surface—and our energetic layers all reside and are intertwined in the body. Thus I start there; with the body, and let it lead the way. Since our biography becomes our biology, my somatic hands-on approach facilitates the release of trauma, memories, or stuck emotions embedded in the tissue and fascia. I combine Rosen Method Bodywork with Barbara Brennan Healing Science to work on the physical, emotional, mental, and energetic layers of your being.

Here’s what our work together
will offer you

THE AWAKENED BODY

Hands-on healing of chronic patterns of tightness or pain. Through this work, you will have a direct impression of how everything that happens mentally and emotionally has an immediate correspondence to some aspect of your physicality. This integration allows the sustained healing of physical tension, stuckness, or dis-ease to begin. Openly experiencing more of the body’s myriad secrets, even the ones that frighten us, miraculously relaxes us and enhances our sense of self.

EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE

Healing through feeling. I provide a safe and loving space for you to freely and fully express what needs to be let out and felt. A place to grieve, cry, laugh, be messy or accept what is. A place to reconnect with your inner resources and deep knowing so you can find the emotional strength and equilibrium necessary to navigate the complexities of your life with ease.

A CLEAR MIND

Empowers you to see in a new way. Without any pressure to analyze or perform or even to speak, a more essential expression of your Self appears. There is relief in letting your mind go and a clarity arises when you connect to what really matters to you. You will gain insight without analysis. A different perspective can appear when the monkey-mind settles down.

Ready for results of your own?
Get started with a Free Consultation

Hi, I’m Ewa Maris

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I am hands-on depth work practitioner trained in Rosen Method Bodywork and
Barbara Brennan Healing Science.

My approach integrates healing touch, energy work and verbal processing.

I create a safe but heightened sensory space to actively shift the patterns and
habits that no longer serve you.

I have been practicing in the Bay Area for the last 14 years.

My office is located in the Albany/Berkeley area.

My areas of expertise are accessing your psyche through the body, clearing
the trauma that lives in your cells, and equalizing body, mind and
emotion for true transformation.

Philosophy

The work I do brings hands on healing work together with verbal processing to enable release from the struggle that keeps us stuck in our pain. By directly engaging the body, mind, feelings and underlying energy this work brings to light new and hidden elements that when seen allow transformative release and healing to happen.

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Energy

The energetic level is a subtle diagnostic tool that I use to track and engage the overall process and progress of the work. It allows me to observe everything that occurs in the client as the work unfolds.

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Touch

The touch of this work makes you aware of the fact that the body is the container for everything you’ve experienced from birth to this moment. By allowing the awareness of the sensation of specific experiences that are locked in your cells, you begin to free yourself at the cellular level. Are CBD Gummies Legal? Hemp Derived CBD Laws and Regulations

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Feel

The feelings are the turning of the key to the door that opens on to whatever has been locked away. As the touch of this work begins to soften the body, you begin to experience and release the feelings that have been trapped in your cells for years.

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Dialogue

As you make contact with yourself a spontaneous dialogue begins that brings into focus the inner movements of your undigested feelings, memories, and physical tensions. By languaging these movements with me an integrative healing process begins to take place.

Ewa Maris has helped many people in the East Bay to heal.

In their own words:

Ewa embodies an uncommon wisdom, has a depth of understanding, and a sensitive, compassionate way of touching the depth within. She is a healer who is committed to the open and spacious exploration of the sacred life of the body, mind and spirit. Her touch is gentle yet strong, intuitive and always respectful of our profound individuality.

JOAN D.
Clinical Social Worker

Coming in contact with the trapped trauma and feeling in my body - truly recognizing and releasing them

NIA L.
MD, Psychiatrist

Ewa provides a safe space to check in deeply with what is, in one’s body/mind. Her conversation — minimalist as it is — assists the process of reflection. Sessions are an integrative experience.

KATE W.
PhD, Psychologist

A safe place to be with what truly matters. It is a joy and a gift to work with someone who is such a high and present intuitive, with a wonderfully open and respectful spirit. I find Ewa's gifts in this important and opening work remarkable.

MYRNA B. H.
Clergy

It’s like opening the trunk and taking it all out, and looking at it one by one; what to keep and what to throw out; what you no longer need. Ewa goes unerringly to areas of tension and anxiety, and works there with me.

CHERYL N.

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FAQs

Here are some answers to common questions about this work:

what does a typical session look like and what can i expect ?

A session lasts 55 minutes and is done on a massage table. The first half of the session in done laying on the front and second half on the back. The first session is longer, lasting 90 minutes. It is structured to include both getting to know to you and what you are looking for, followed by a 40 minute hands-on portion, so you can experience the work itself.

how is a depth-healing session with ewa different from traditional talk therapy ?

Firstly, the session includes touch as an integral part thus making it radically different from a therapy that just uses language and dialogue as its exclusive medium. Secondly, the body leads during the session and the words follow. My work is based upon the understanding that our life experiences are imprinted on the body, in the tissues and fascia, and thus the bodywork helps the body speak its truth. In this way, what you’re experiencing in the moment during the session is the catalyst for the verbal piece of this work.

how does a depth-healing session with ewa differ from massage or structural bodywork ?

Although my work creates deep relaxation (as in massage), and lengthens and eases one’s structural alignment (as in structural bodywork), these are not the primary objectives, albeit wonderful secondary benefits. My work is similar to conventional bodywork and massage insofar as it does use hand-to-skin contact to initiate the therapeutic process. However, it’s primary objective is to use a unique blend of touch and talk to simultaneously work on the client’s system on a number of levels. On the physical level: release habitual unnecessary tension that is no longer serving you. On the emotional level: process past undigested emotional material. On the mental level: shift outmoded belief systems that keep you living small.

how does a depth-healing session with ewa differ from other energy modalities, like acupuncture or reiki ?

Brennan Healing Science is a highly specialized healing model that works with the subtle energy patterns of the human organism. There is a direct correlation between the energetic body and physical manifestations of disease. Energy healers, such as myself, have a rare ability to sense, see, and interact with the unique energy patterns of individuals. Often people seek an energy healer when they begin to recognize that the complexity of their suffering cannot be adequately met by the limited views and techniques of the medical model. Because of the four-year training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, I am able to access/see the 7 levels of the energy field. Each level penetrates through the body and extends outward. I specifically see the energy meridians and chakras in the energy body. There are energy stagnations, rips and tears in the energy body that need to be repaired and cleared. Once repaired and cleared, physical health and vitality is improved and strengthened.

I combine Brennan Healing Science with Rosen Method Bodywork to work physically, energetically, verbally and emotionally with each client.

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"Ewa embodies an uncommon wisdom, has a depth of understanding, and a sensitive, compassionate way of touching the depth within. She is a healer who is committed to the open and spacious exploration of the sacred life of the body, mind and spirit. Her touch is gentle yet strong, intuitive and always respectful of our profound individuality."

Joan D.

Clinical Social Worker

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