Rise Up Bodymind Somatic Bodywork & Coaching

03/31/2026

Springtime: What are you practicing? 🌸 🌱 🧘🏽‍♀️ - https://mailchi.mp/riseupmassage/reacting-to-stress-14562733

01/09/2026

Hey friends I’m offering a Somatic movement course both online or in-person starting Jan 19th!

8-weeks of Somatic movement practices, body awareness, and deeper connection to self ✨ I’d love for you to join me or pass along to anyone you know who might be interested

Mondays online at noon pst:
https://square.link/u/STy5c9t8
Tuesdays 7pm in-person in Seattle
https://square.link/u/tlrCAOwn

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10/28/2025

I am obsessed with my healing space in the fall! Nothing better than these views with gorgeous leaves and getting to see amazing people all day. Yes! Thank youuuuu👏🏼 🙌🏼 🌳🍂

05/04/2025

Hello friends!

If you’ve been feeling stressed, stuck, or disconnected in your body, you're not alone. People come to me to feel calmer, more at peace in their bodies and to heal from chronic issues that are hard to put a finger on: chronic pain, unresolved grief, trauma and anxiety.

Rise Up Bodymind is a Therapeutic Bodywork and Somatic Awareness practice located in Wallingford. I support emotional resilience, trauma healing, deep relaxation, and helping you reconnect to your body in a safe, affirming space.

I specialize in:

~ Therapeutic Deep Tissue Massage: grounding, calming, reconnecting, resetting- healing on a cellular level

~ Nervous System Balancing: deep regulation, empowering you in learning your body's own internal signals of when you are in fight/flight and how to feel deeply at home in a calm system

~ Somatic Awareness Coaching: mindfulness practices rooted in relational consent work, what does a no feel like in my body, how do I move forward from a yes, how do I feel more and also feel safe, how can I connect to a life that FEELS authentic and peaceful to me?

My work is inclusive, body-positive, gender-affirming, trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and rooted in self-compassion.

If you’re looking for skilled, supportive care to feel more at ease, more alive, and more yourself again, I'd love to connect! ~ Katy

I offer a free chat to get started: https://riseup.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/1/treatment/87

05/22/2022

“Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we’ve spun, the tasks we’ve assumed, the problems we have to solve. They’ll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.” - Mark Nepo

Read about the importance of retreat in this week's email: https://buff.ly/3lBfYkg

05/08/2022

Happy Mother's Day!

Recognizing all the moms this Mother's Day, and thanking you for the way that you impact everyone around you.

05/07/2022

Show Up For Yourself ❤️‍🩹✨

I recently discovered in my journey of body love, and self-love, that there are three separate components to my health right now.

1. Food
2. Exercise
3. Health Metrics

By separating these three things, I could see that i have a different relationship with each of these parts of me and it helps me feel less overwhelmed by an overall concept of: I’d like to take better care of myself.

How are you showing up for how you want to feel?

Keep Reading: https://buff.ly/3vSXyl6

04/03/2022

Did you know that you are the expert on your body?

In the countless hours that I have spent with clients experiencing pain, I see people who are coming to terms with being the one who is actually in charge of their own healing.

There’s a weight to that.

It can feel like a lot to manage and deal with, especially when it comes to managing the emotional aspects…

Keep reading: https://buff.ly/3C0CusA

04/02/2022

Take a few moments this weekend to rest, breathe and think through the following journal prompts:

✨ What can I do in this moment to bring more peace into my being?

✨ What can I do in this moment to get myself some ⠀
nourishment and self-care?

✨ What’s not wrong in my life?
Here are three things that I can think of right now:⠀

✨ Write about all the places where you currently feel tension in your body. Write about all the areas that feel relaxed.

✨ What fears or stresses am I holding onto that are no longer serving me? How can I release these?

03/29/2022

We store trauma in our body.
What is happening in your body when you feel overwhelmed or anxious?
By beginning to get curious about what’s happening in our body, we can start to notice if there is a thought or meaning we are making of how we feel, an emotion we can name, an image we can bring up of the sensation, any senses like smell, texture, or color that we can relate to this feeling.
We can look at the way our body is responding and wanting to move…

Keep reading: https://buff.ly/3BPT5jQ

02/07/2022

Creating Sacred Space
https://riseupmassage.com/new/creating-sacred-space/

01/20/2022

I have some seriously vulnerable things to share with you!!!
I just survived my worst nightmare and am living to tell you about it….
Healing through sharing…here goes.

I just went on a tropical beach vacation with my favorite people in the world…in my most voluptuous body of my life in a swimsuit.

That’s it!

I’m embarrassed to say that this to me was an actual nightmare.

My body was living this as if I were going to die.
I was not ready for this.

It was dawning on me that this intense amount of body shame I have had for myself my whole life was a real, living thing. I knew that I was a product of our Western world’s diet body-shame culture. But this felt so over the top here.

Packing and preparing for this trip was completely anxiety-producing – almost debilitating. I was having panic attacks and couldn’t sleep. And I was about to go to paradise and be with my best friends to have the time of our life.

My head could find little logic in any of this.

I am actually a LOVER of people in every way, all shapes and sizes. I massage and touch people every day and adore bodies. I geek out on healing and am fascinated by nearly every single thing about our amazing human experience through this lens.

I appreciate my clients in all of their ways of being. Always. Never a judgment or harsh thought on any of the thousands of butts and legs and tummies and backs I’ve seen.

Bodies are beautiful, all shapes, sizes, and versions of any of us and I know that those bodies change. I really love watching people evolve and hold them with so much compassion and love.

So WHAT is happening here?

Why this stress, lady?!
I am going to my best friend’s wedding. On an island.

First of all, I’m so grateful and feeling majorly privileged to be able to go. It’s a pandemic, first of all. Super complicated, I haven’t been on a plane in how long?

Plus, I really never imagined this kind of trip for a girl like me. The Bahamas feels like… pretty fancy. It’s a dream! I should be so excited, elated, over the moon.

Yet here I was TRIPPING OUT on how much my body had changed since I’d seen these friends.

Keep reading: https://riseupmassage.com/new/radical-self-love/