SANTA FE SOMATICS
Osteopathic Therapy and Somatics
for deep embodied change
Meet Danielle Bezaire
My practice brings together the transformative power of somatics and the deep embodied attention of osteopathic manual therapy.
Along my own path of learning, each of these disciplines has helped me to see how I could best inhabit the other. Somatics is about finding and speaking aloud what most matters to you. In 2011, during a Generative Somatics workshop at the Strozzi Institute, each practitioner shared aloud what they most longed for and then made a commitment to it. My commitment was to build a practice that blends somatics with osteopathy. Having come to see both the diverse strengths and the internal limits of each practice, I wanted to integrate the anatomic rigor and palpation techniques of osteopathy with the transformational practices and deep trauma awareness developed in the Generative Somatics lineage. My practice began in Nova Scotia in 2011 and has continued in New Mexico since 2022 as Santa Fe Somatics.
“As a therapist, I’m always looking for powerful practitioners to refer to, and there are few in the world that I trust as much as Danielle. From her dynamic bodywork to her deeply attuned coaching, Danielle can be trusted to help produce healing that changes peoples’ lives.”
— David Treleaven, PhD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Osteopathic and somatic therapies to help you
safely re-inhabit your body
Osteopathic Therapy
Canadian-trained - Collège d'Études Ostéopathiques, DOMP
Osteopathic manual practice is a gentle, non-invasive therapy that treats the body as a whole. Its responsive and highly attuned techniques elicit the body's innate capacity to heal by restoring mobility and vitality to its interconnected systems – vascular, musculoskeletal, nervous, visceral.
Note that osteopathic manual practice is distinct from osteopathic medicine as it is practiced in the US. [Read more]
Osteopathic treatment is an in-person therapy located in Santa Fe, NM.
Somatics
generative somatics
Somatics is a transformative path that allows us to recognize both what we have embodied and what we long to embody. Along the path of somatic practice, we are enabled to feel – and therefore change – the embodied patterns that no longer serve us. We can then choose to move and live more freely and with more possibility, for ourselves and in community with others.
Somatics can be done online from wherever you live, or in-person in Santa Fe, NM.