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Joy Walker, SPRe Practitioner

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Joy Walker, SPRe Practitioner

SPRe is Somatic Personal Resonance Education. SOMATIC refers to how your body works as both a time capsule and a constantly reporting system.

PERSONAL reflects that the information is already yours and unique. RESONANCE to being alive and relational.

10/22/2025

I've been thinking about transformation, changes, transitions; as if I've pulled the Death card from the oracle deck of my body. I guess its that time of year, the turn of the seasons. People in my sphere are going through big changes and shifts and it's been so hard in many ways. It can be scary but also so good...letting go of what doesn't serve you, what's holding you back, choosing a new path, letting the old go, like watching a feather blow away in the wind.

Are you or someone you know contemplating changes, or undergoing transformations? Do you need companionship and witnessing as you shed your skin or find a new pathway, or try to navigate old pain in a new way? Somatic therapy might be able to help!

A new shift I've made this year has been studying (and experiencing!) somatic parts work to add to my bodymind and SPRE toolbox. I'd love to hear about what's happening with you and I am currently accepting new clients. Let's shift together!

07/23/2025

Meet my newest client - Verne the turkey chick; tiny to work on, but a sweetie! In reality, he was just a lovely guest, but he brought a welcome energy and a lesson about the beauty of the nervous system and the benefits of co-regulation.

As his "mom" and I worked together and our systems attuned, he relaxed and snoozed comfortably, heartbeat slowed. When we felt more emotion and activation, he definitely made it known that he felt it - with peeps and wing-flapping.

We can all access and assist our own nervous systems, with a little knowledge and practice, and improve our daily lives. In a pinch, we can borrow a loved one's calm and cheerful system, to help ourselves move into better regulation. The body is amazing!

Just being with Verne, watching his little system respond and adjust naturally, watching him relax as I stroked his head - feeling myself relax accordingly - was an education and an honor.

03/06/2025

Whew! Such a relief that in these dark, disappointing, and debilitating days that rebirth and revival could be making an appearance. Somehow, nature always pushes through, rebelling against the dark and cold to revel in the light. This gives me such hope and I'm sending that hope as well as some love out to you. We all need some light and life and, especially, connection right now...make sure you are spending time with others; revel in these lengthening days!

If you've been feeling at the effect of everything happening in the world - including Winter! - join us for - Feeling Others While Feeling Yourself: A Somatic Practice Workshop. My amazing colleague Victoria Vinson-Jones and I have put our heads (and bodies) together to find a way to nurture and support healers, activists, parents, caregivers, and everyone with a body who could use some joy right now!

We plan to explore and embody rebelling and revelling alike, tune our nervous systems, and practice living in our beautiful bodies in order to give us the strongest foundation from which to go forward and do what we need to do.
April 5, 2025. 12:30-3:30. $125
Studio Evolve in Seattle, WA
Register at www.joywalker-spre.com/workshops-spre, or contact me for more info.

10/03/2024

I love a sunset! Seriously, if you look through my phone gallery a good half of the pics are sunsets, taken various places. I know some of the reasons why - being outside and in nature, the colors, and the spectacle, and the way the trees or hills become dark shapes against the glow. I also know that my heart slows down as I'm drinking in the beauty. I feel my nervous system resting. I hear myself taking big breaths, and sighing out in contentment. I'm doing it right now, just thinking about it and looking at these (unfiltered) pictures taken on a recent trip to Arizona.

If you are feeling stressed, or your vague nerve is activated, or in fight/flight, one of the best things you can do for yourself is take it outside. Being outside and in nature has proven, restorative effects on your nervous system: calming, regulation, increasing breath and oxygenation, and moving from the activated ventral state to a more rest and reflect state. Even just looking at a PICTURE of nature can have the same soothing qualities. So go to a park, look around at nature, feel the trees, listen to water, feel dirt or sand under your feet, watch a sunset.

06/28/2024

I know how hard it can be to admit you need some sort of help but there's no shame in getting a little assistance to do the things you love or need to do. I love to garden but there's no way I'm getting down on the ground or digging big holes so I had to pivot...meet my new garden cart/seat!

Whether you have to sit down while chopping vegetables, get help to do laundry, make the bed, or go grocery shopping, tote things around the house in a wagon, or use a cart outside, it doesn't have to define you or ruin an experience. I understand the challenge of losing these tiny battles of ability and movement and activity; they can wear on you and make you feel defeated. Life is hard..but you can do hard things.

I really wish I could do things the way everyone else does but getting help or figuring out a workaround is better than feeling depressed or frustrated. And frankly, I'd rather be outside getting dirt on my hands!

03/12/2023

Growth and change are impossible without safety. I found this little nest today and thought about the safe place it represented for its inhabitants.

We can only move out of survival, look around us, and begin thriving when we have a secure place to come from and return to - it's how we build resilience.

If your origin story doesn't include that kind of safety, from family or surroundings, you can still build it for yourself. SPRE can help, through attunement, co-regulation, self-discovery, pain and tension relief, and a little re-parenting. I'd love to be part of your journey to safety.

In-person or on-line sessions.

02/15/2021

Your illnesses, traumas, injuries, and difficult experiences help make you what you are, but they don't have to define you, nor do they always have to have a "reason" or a "greater purpose!"

Sometimes crappy is just crappy. Sometimes just accepting what is and trying to live life, is quite enough work to be getting on with.

Www.joywalker-spre.com
Complimentary 20-min sessions available, on-line or in-person.

10/14/2020

For anyone who is navigating chronic illness, fatigue, long-haul Covid, or daily life, I personally know something about that.
I'd love to help you explore your present-day body, and maybe discern new options!
Complimentary initial sessions and sliding scale available.

09/11/2020

I know that my past is always present in my body! Everything I've experienced, endured, and encountered is literally em-bodied in my physical and emotional matter. I'm grateful I have such an experienced and empathetic guide to help me make sense of it all in my body so I can keep moving forward and enjoying life as much as possible!
Find out how YOU are embodying the past in the present by having a SPRe session today!
Online or in person.

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08/28/2020

What would you do if you had more of you? Write a book? Ride a bike? Do laundry? Kiss your sweetie? Make brownies? Garden? Take a walk? Complete a project? You can have more! Together we can start to understand what is limiting your movement, causing you pain and stiffness, holding on to trauma, increasing your illness, and just generally taking you apart and holding you down.
Attuned dialogue and collaborative bodywork - in person or on-line.
DM here for a free 20-minute session.
❤
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08/24/2020

What is it, and why is it so important in SPRe?
Resonance is the quality of being alive, vibrational, and relational. During a SPRe session, its important for me to resonate with my client, to attune to their vibrational quality and their physical and emotional state. Their body shows me the way to feel better, and we make it happen together! What could be better?
Let's resonate together!
20 minute complimentary sessions still available - in person or on line. DM me or email at joy.spre@gmail.com.

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08/19/2020

Join us for the SPRe Fall Class Series - online! First up is a great basic that a lot of us aren't practiced at: feeling how our bodies can help us say "yes" or "no."
Venmo to register, DM here, or email martine@studio-evolve.com.
For info on the other classes,
https://www.sprebodywork.com/somatic-classes-mindbody-education

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Wednesday	3pm - 5pm
Thursday	3pm - 7pm

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