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Somatic Therapy
and Developmental Trauma Integration
My approach to therapy is based on the paradigm of the body-mind connection. While this perspective has always been central to traditional wisdom practices, it has made its way into modernity thanks to proven research on trauma and neuroscience.
Sessions with me start with a verbal, body-focused, somatic inquiry dedicated to exploring a topic you want to address in your therapeutic process. It allows you to discover the roots of emotional patterns, learn how they manifest as sensations, and practice how to stay present in your body. It is the first step towards finding ease, self-compassion, and acceptance.
Later, with the combination of breath, touch, and movement I guide you to release holding patterns and reach a deeper state of relaxation through bodywork and breathwork. The session ends with reflecting on your insights, and on ways to integrate them into everyday life.
Every session has its unique shape and we adjust the amount of inquiry to bodywork, and breathwork depending on your intentions and needs.
This process allows you to feel more freedom, inner peace, and self-acceptance. After the series of sessions, my clients are clearer about what they want and need, more content about life, and relaxed about the future.
MY APPROACH
In my practice, I combine techniques from different bodywork schools, and healing approaches coming from the worlds of trauma therapy, breathwork, somatic inquiry, and mindfulness. The main paths that I have been studying are Myofascial Energetic Release, Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System, Circling, and Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Mate.
IS IT FOR YOU?
I invite you first to apply for a free inquiry session during which we explore together what you want to get help with. We check if I am the right person to work with you and give you ideas on how your healing process can look like.
It often also gives participants initial insights and some relief.
TREATMENT PLAN
I recommend doing a session every or every second week, in total from 4 up to 20 sessions, depending on the work you have done already, and the goals you want to reach. The price of a 90-minute session ranges from 900 to 1200 dkk depending on the package.
If you book directly through the website
the first 90-minute session costs only 600 dkk.
My educations and affiliations
TESTIMONIALS
Marco
After the series of sessions, I realised some very useful insights and tools to accept and mitigate my experience of restlessness in my legs and continue to integrate these lessons into different aspects of personal development and discovery. Very valuable experience, thank you, Mateusz
Emma Garðarsdóttir
Violinist
I came to Mateusz for help to find peace in my body, after being abused. I had already been many times to psychologists and found peace in my mind and heart, but the fear and sadness were still in my body. Already after the first session, I felt a big emotional and physical relief. I always feel safe during sessions and leave them happier, and more centered.
Ernest Holm Svendsen
best-seller author, coach
Sessions with Mateusz allowed me to sink into the body and tune into its needs and natural impulses. While the process was organically unfolding I could release physical tensions, and feel into their emotional component which allowed for more complete integration. It left me with a deep sense of calmness and grounding.
Julie Reindl
Cultural Researcher
Mateusz's practice truly supports me in my journey of finding back to my body and restoring deep gratification for it. His touch, presence, and emotional sensitivity are without a doubt healing energy. Whatever arises during a session, Mateusz holds space for it. His practice and his calming energy are in many ways touching.
Zuzanna Gruszczynska
Health Care Proffesional
I would recommend Mateusz without any reservations. His holistic methods, and compassionate approach are working very well for me.
Jonas Ingerslev
Ingeniør
A completely unique and liberating treatment. Mateusz is very present and creates a very special space where traumas can be acknowledged and released. My highest recommendations from here 😊
Melany
Mateusz helped me to release feelings that I had held on to for a long time. I used to be fearful or angry most of the time. After a few sessions, I was able to release these feelings. I now have a wider range of more subtle emotions. I am also more relaxed and am able to stay calm in stressful situations.
Tina Kretschel
Data Analyst
I came here not sure what I was looking for, but felt in the right place immediately. My world felt too heavy and my feelings too big. My hardest fight was between me and my own thoughts.Mateusz helped me to get out of my head and feel my feelings instead.It's making me vulnerable in front of another person. It's breathing with me when I don't know how. It's helping me listen to what my body's been trying to tell me for years. Mateusz offered a safe space for all of that, for which I'm truly grateful.
Anna Greenberg
Military instructor
Before the session I felt the urge to connect to my body and my heart, it’s like I felt detached instead of whole. This is also what I wanted to work on and I came in with the wanting to understand and explore myself and my body-mind connection.
The session was everything I had hoped for and more, it helped me to let go and feel comfortable in my own skin and with myself, something that I’ve been feeling lately was missing.
It created a space for my mind and my heart to breathe.
Below you can read about the main approaches which I integrate during individual sessions.
MYOFASCIAL ENERGETIC RELEASE BODYWORK
MYOFASCIAL ENERGETIC RELEASE (MER) releases fascia* and muscles through mostly slow and deep touch. The slowness and mindfulness of the touch allow you to contain and relax even in the most challenging and contracted areas. Clients experience a reduction of pain, deep relaxation, increased somatic awareness, connection to emotions, and physical or emotional release. The approach is trauma-informed and each treatment has its unique shape, depending on your needs. Besides slow, deep touch, it normally also includes elements of:
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Conscious breath
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Conscious movement
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Work on trigger points
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Pulsing, rocking
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Release through tremors
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Joint release
I am meeting you with my touch, and you are invited to meet me with your breath, conscious movement, and verbal expression.
*Fascia is a connective tissue, which creates a web interconnecting muscles, organs, and each component of a human body. Over the last decades, more and more studies indicate that fascia's role is substantial in the processes of releasing chronic tensions and embodied traumas. If you are curious to hear more I can recommend this TedTalk or Tom Mayers prelection at Google.
Here, you can find more information about the Myofascial Energetic Release modality.
COMPASSIONATE INQUIRY by GABOR MATE
Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.
Using Compassionate Inquiry, both the individual and therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.
Through Compassionate Inquiry, the client can recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them. It is based on somatic awareness, mindfulness, and making connections between the inner belief system, emotions, and sensations. Compassionate Inquiry is focused on feeling and consciously experiencing the roots of developmental trauma and integrating that process into the body, preventing leaving clients with only cognitive understanding.
“The purpose of Compassionate Inquiry is to drill down to the core stories people tell themselves – to get them to see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are, where they came from; and guide them to the possibility of letting go of those stories, or letting go of the hold those stories have on them …
That’s what Compassionate Inquiry is.”
~ Dr. Gabor Maté
BIODYNAMIC BREATHWORK AND TRAUMA RELEASE SYSTEM
The fundament of the Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System is deep, connected breath. Connected means with reduced pauses between inhalation and exhalation. When we allow for such respiration, over time, the patterns of holding suppressed responses of our body, and unexpressed emotions are loosening, and our somatic experience of the body is waking up. As a result, one can release various physical, emotional, and energetic residues kept in the system. Those residues can be called traumas and can arise from single events in our lives (shock trauma) or lasting exposure to a challenging environment (developmental trauma). That breathwork modality has been developed based on the work of Peter Levine in the field of trauma, and Wilhelm Reich's concept of belts of tensions and character types.
Other key elements of this practice are conscious movement, bodywork, emotional and verbal expression, music, and mindfulness. These elements aim to create space for staying present and surrendering to arising sensations and impulses while allowing for the integration of the release process. From the session you can expect:
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loosening emotional and physical holding patterns,
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release of embodied trauma,
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connecting with your center,
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finding deep relaxation and peace.
Follow this link, if you are eager to read and watch more about this breathwork modality. Also, here you can find a FB group where I publish information about upcoming group workshops or events.
TESTIMONIALS
Natacha Withøft
I've been to several breathwork and dance events and I leave feeling present and full of life. Mateusz creates a safe space that I deeply appreciate.
Estrid Mortensen
I had a really good experience with body therapy at Embodied Release. Mateusz is a skilled practitioner with great empathy. After the treatment, I felt more comfortable in my body, a higher level of body awareness, and more in touch with my emotions. Particularly the latter was something I desired but wasn't sure if I could expect. I highly recommend Embodied Release to anyone interested in the connection between body and mind, or who simply wants to release tension in the body.
Liv Linea Holm
Agriculturist
I've had regular individual sessions with Mateusz for the past three years and have been really happy with it. It has always been a safe space for me. In the beginning, it was mostly physical release, but later on, there was more emotionally therapeutic work, which opened up new doors for me. I highly recommend Mateusz as a practitioner.
Sara Hyldegaard Lystbæk
Yoga teacher
I received a breath therapy session by Mateusz, and I felt so safe and seen. He was beautifully holding space for my emotional vulnerability with big empathy. I felt a deep dedication and passion from Mateusz - he is a body therapist by heart
Sarah Warny Berg
Anthropologist, Group Facilitator
Mateusz met me with a very comforting and warming presence, which made me feel very safe and taken care of already from the beginning.
I felt he was very respectful and genuinely curious in understanding my body during the treatments, and at the same time as he was very gentle, he also managed to give me that firm squeeze in sore spots of my muscles, that no massage therapist has ever managed to treat so satisfyingly.
Belinda Neuhauser
Yoga teacher
Mateusz radiates a very deep and truthful presence that encourages the entire system to trust and allow for the release of long-held patterns of control. After the session, I felt very much grounded in my natural flow of life, trustful to breathe deeper and enjoy more. I highly recommend working with him.
Benjamin Hugo
Experience Designer
Mateusz is perceptive, he reads my body and applies measured and consistent force with serenity and care. I trust his hands and heart and I can let go with him in a brotherly way.
Zuzanna Gruszczynska
Health Care Proffesional