Somatic Alchemist

Somatic Alchemist somatic experiencing, jikiden reiki Providing skilled, sensitive and deeply therapeutic energy work in the heart of Eureka

What intentions would you like to lightly hold for today? Can you imagine feeling into 1% of that intention, or what a ...
12/02/2025

What intentions would you like to lightly hold for today? Can you imagine feeling into 1% of that intention, or what a microdose of that intention would look like for you?

12/02/2025

✨️ tomorrow Tuesday 12/2 at 1:30 is
available for a rare 2 hour bodywork session✨️
My bodywork practice is currently
full for regularly scheduled clients so I
only have availability for people when
there is a cancelation or I open a last
minute spot, so now is your chance to
get some truly deep therapeutic massage!
$250 for 2 hours

BOOKED
11/29/2025

BOOKED

Gentle reminder to remember you have a core. Come back to your midline. Reclaim your energetic boundaries by allowing t...
11/25/2025

Gentle reminder to remember you have a core. Come back to your midline. Reclaim your energetic boundaries by allowing this vertical column to expand from the line down your center to an expanding tube that pushes out what is not yours that has been internalized, and filling your space bubble with this column of your essence.

Spoiler alert, this post comes sponsored by a lifetime of my own personal lessons 🙋🏻‍♀️. I really struggled with this wh...
11/25/2025

Spoiler alert, this post comes sponsored by a lifetime of my own personal lessons 🙋🏻‍♀️. I really struggled with this when I first started working with clients and was always feeling waaay too much and that was getting in the way of doing sustainable and effective work.

The amazing book The 5 Personality Patterns by David Kessler has inspired a deepening understanding in the adaptive survival patterns that drive our repetitive nervous system states, merging being one of them, and the importance of practicing physically connecting with our core to develop a stronger sense of self/boundaries etc.

Meme themes: Unfreezing from shame, re-sensualizing, deconstructing urgency, cycle breaking, you can't take somatics out...
11/24/2025

Meme themes: Unfreezing from shame, re-sensualizing, deconstructing urgency, cycle breaking, you can't take somatics out of the body

Real life happens through the senses. Our senses are what collect the raw data so that the mind can organize around the...
11/23/2025

Real life happens through the senses. Our senses are what collect the raw data so that the mind can organize around the present moment. If you are stuck in a feedback loop, you are likely needing help accessing the somatic tools to help stuck survival pattetns to complete and move through your system.

If you get the sense that somatic work could be useful to you, I am trained and skilled with helping your system move th...
11/22/2025

If you get the sense that somatic work could be useful to you, I am trained and skilled with helping your system move through places in the past it has been stuck due to shock and nervous system traumas. I am educated, skilled and regularly expertly mentored in helping you establish a felt sense of safety, recovering from the somatic effects of anxiety, fear, pain and overwhelm especially when that has been a result of medical trauma, a car accident, assaults, and repressed emotions that now express as physical pain.

My work is best suited for people who have an awareness of their somatic symptoms, have experienced traditional talk therapy to the degree that they have clarity on why they are they way they are and are needing help accessing new states of being in their bodies, and people who understand that nervous system healing is a process not an event, although a loooooot can shift in any given session when we work at the NS level.

To begin working together we will meet initially for a free 15-20 minute q&a. If you feel like I could support your goals we meet for 6 sessions within 3 months so you can build NS momentum. From there you can come whenever works for you, many people find it beneficial to continue coming in to follow deeper threads and as an embodiment practice.

And also, literally going outside, like how the air outside touches our skin and the hairs on our necks and arms and leg...
11/22/2025

And also, literally going outside, like how the air outside touches our skin and the hairs on our necks and arms and legs come alive, like how we can gaze into the open sky and feel its spaciousness within, how we can lean our back against a tree and get the felt sense of rooted uprightness, like how we can hear a symphony of birds or wild water babbling and feel connection.

If you get the sense that somatic work could be useful to you, I am trained and skilled with helping your system move through places in the past it has been stuck due to shock and nervous system traumas. I am educated, skilled and regularly expertly mentored in helping you establish a felt sense of safety, recovering from the somatic effects of anxiety, fear, pain and overwhelm especially when that has been a result of medical trauma, a car accident, assaults, and repressed emotions that now express as physical pain.

My work is best suited for people who have an awareness of their somatic symptoms, have experienced traditional talk therapy to the degree that they have clarity on why they are they way they are and are needing help accessing new states of being in their bodies, and people who understand that nervous system healing is a process not an event, although a loooooot can shift in any given session when we work at the NS level.

To begin working together we will meet initially for a free 15-20 minute q&a. If you feel like I could support your goals we meet for 6 sessions within 3 months so you can build NS momentum. From there you can come whenever works for you, many people find it beneficial to continue coming in to follow deeper threads and as an embodiment practice.

✨️Now is a great time to come in as a new client since my rates will be changing February 1st. If you decide to begin working with me before then, I will hold my current rates throughout our initial 6 sessions✨️

If you are also a self aware, highly sensitive, social justice heart on your sleeve, lover of all things that come from,...
11/19/2025

If you are also a self aware, highly sensitive, social justice heart on your sleeve, lover of all things that come from, reisde in and that are dependent on the natural world, and you want a break from trying new angles of mentally figuring it out: then maybe somatic work could be like a breath of fresh air to you. I listen and attune deeply not just to your words (those are important!!) but also to your nervous system so that we slowly but surely learn how to build the foundations for new somatic and therefore mental patterns to emerge.

Curious? Please do reach out, I have space for one or 2 more somatic clients before my rates change February 1st.

Somatic Experiencing has changed my life and my relationship to safety, my body, and with the world. I would love to su...
11/19/2025

Somatic Experiencing has changed my life and my relationship to safety, my body, and with the world. I would love to support you in learning the unique language of your nervous system too ❤️‍🔥

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427 F Street Suite #206 Eureka
Fortuna, CA
95501

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Providing skilled, sensitive and deeply therapeutic massage and Jikiden Reiki in the hearts of Fortuna and Arcata.

Cristina Menzie is a Shihankaku in the Jikiden Reiki lineage and offers Shoden (beginner level) classes. Class can be requested when two or more people are interested.