Somatic - Earth
Centered Therapy
Create intimacy with life.
Return to your body, and Earth, as home.
Naturalize your mind, body, spirit & soul.
Move beyond early trauma to cultivate a relational, connected existence.
A spiritual existence is humble and lives in the mundane. It is rooted in relationship and reciprocity. For at the at the heart of our existence, is the truth that we are interconnected. A spiritual life holds magical moments of light balanced by fertile moments of darkness — and death. Light and darkness are always existing simultaneously.
My therapeutic approach towards wholeness is suitable for a multitude of experiences and presentations, including grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, relational struggles, transitional deaths, existential concerns, experiences of disconnection and feeling cut off from a sense of aliveness, and colonized bodies and minds sensing the possibility of a different way of being.
I am relational and rooted in the depths of our shared humanness. I interweave body-centered modalities, incorporating somatic interventions with a transpersonal earth-based perspective, an orientation that is most echoed by modern ecotherapy. While body-centered interventions cultivate awareness and true listening, inviting emergence of wisdom and movement to constrictions born out of protection, an earth-based orientation opens us up and connects us to the wholeness of life, naturally expanding our resources and capacity to experience the full spectrum of the human experience. Ultimately, contacting and being in relationship with the heart of who we are involves surrendering and feeling. And more often than not, re-emerging more alive from the deaths of protective, but limiting identities, toward a life that feels more truthful.
HOW
Connecting to your body’s healing wisdom
Surrendering to metabolize emotions
Creating through “I” deaths and loss
Awakening into your expression
Living in relationship to all life
All contemporary somatic practices have roots in indigenous traditions and ceremonial practices.
An earth-based paradigm is indigenous.
For the Indigenous Souls of all people who can still remember how to be real cultures, life is a race to be elegantly run, not a race to be competitively won. It cannot be won; it is the gift of the world’s diverse beautiful motion that must be maintained. Because human life has been give the gift of our elegant motion, whether we limp, roll, crawl, stroll, or fly, it is an obligation to engender that elegance of motion in our daily lives in service of maintaining life by moving and living as beautifully as we can.
Martín Prechtel
I grew up in the Eastern Sierra and as a young adult began to develop a nurturing relationship with the land and beings of the mountains and desert. Developing a safe relationship with nature, with all its wisdoms, has been central to my own growth and healing. I look forward to supporting you on your journey.
Offering Telehealth Throughout California
I accept Aetna PPO, L.A. Care Medi-Cal, Anthem Blue Cross Medi-Cal, Carelon Medi-Cal, HealthNet Medi-Cal, Partnership HealthPlan of CA & Private Pay