Continuum opens us to a world of potential where new perspectives inform and enrich our personal lives, passions, and professional practices, whether physical, emotional, artistic or spiritual. Continuum is beneficial for people of all ages and physical abilities. At Somanautiko, Continuum is the web that weaves the container for everything that is offered in individual sessions, classes, and creative performance work.

It can be challenging to describe Continuum before you’ve experienced it.

“Continuum is biological optimism in action.”

“This is fluid support for any situation life presents us with.”

“It is the opposite of a binary model.”

“It is an on-going conversation about our bodies; the complexity is inviting rather than scary. I am not overwhelmed, instead I am intrigued by all the interconnections. This self-knowledge is empowering and deeply healing.” 

Find Continuum classes on Megan’s Class schedule.

For more information about Continuum and its founder, Emilie Conrad, please visit continuumteachers.com.

Craniosacral Therapy is, at its core, about learning to quiet oneself, be still, and listen to the innate and fluid life-force of the body. Healing comes from within the client, not from the practitioner. Essential for our survival, the craniosacral system–the membranes and fluid that surround and protect the brain and the spinal cord–begins with the bones of the skull, face and mouth, the cranium, and extends down to the tail end of the spine, the sacrum. A craniosacral therapist uses light touch–about the weight of a nickel—to listen for what is healthy and moving well within the client’s body and to detect any tension patterns being held anywhere, that could potentially restrict the natural fluid movements of its tissues, thereby limiting the expression of health everywhere else in the body or mind.

CST is used to address a wide range of common physical and psychological issues such as sleep disorders, stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, headaches, scoliosis, learning difficulties, TMJ, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Sessions are performed fully-clothed, sitting or lying on a bodywork table. CST is deeply relaxing and restorative. It is suitable for people of all ages and abilities–particularly newborns, the elderly or anyone with highly sensitive systems.

Throughout its development, Somanautiko has been deeply informed by both schools of craniosacral therapy: biomechanical and biodynamic. For more information about these two branches of CST, their founders, and the evolution of this work please visit upledger.com and craniosacraltherapy.org.

Matrix Repatterning® is a form of manual, or hands-on therapy, which involves the application of gentle pressure in order to locate and release specific areas of tissue tension held in the deeper, denser, core structural parts of the body (bones, organs, fascia) that can affect the fluid flow of information – like a dam in a river.  When we have an injury or a strain the mechanical and electrical properties of our body’s tissues change. Similar to when a fly gets caught in a spider’s web, these tissue changes create detectable tension patterns through our body’s exquisite and extensive web of connective tissues that connects every cell in our body, called the tensegrity matrix.  Matrix Repatterning® contacts and contains these “caught and taut” areas in order to release the dam and restore optimal flow in our body’s systems from within – treating the source of an issue rather than the symptom.

Matrix Repatterning® has been clinically proven to improve muscle tone, flexibility, joint mobility and optimize biomechanical function.  It demonstrates measurable success in the treatment of certain structural and functional disorders, such as:

• Back Pain
• Neck and Shoulder Pain
• Knee Pain, Hip Pain
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Headaches, Concussion
• TMJ Disorder
• Pelvic Disorders, Incontinence
• Snoring and Sleep Apnea

The development of Somanautiko was profoundly shaped by Megan’s intensive training and on-going experiences as a Certified Matrix Repatterning® Practitioner. To read more about Matrix Repatterning® and its founder, George Roth, visit matrixrepatterning.com.

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. The SE approach supports the release of traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and healing the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. The acute stress we experience from a perceived life-threat (accidents, birth trauma, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, war, natural disasters) or accumulative stress (emotional abuse, neglect, loss, or living with ongoing fear and conflict) can both lead to traumatic shock. Both types of stress can significantly affect an individual’s natural resilience and ability to live with ease if they get “stuck” in the physiological states of fight, flight or freeze.

The SE approach offers tools that help individuals remember how to mobilize out of these stuck places where the survival energy got blocked and bound up in the body. SE practitioners gently guide clients to develop awareness of and increase tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions in order to restore self-protective motor responses in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms.

The evolution of Somanautiko was deeply informed by Megan’s three year training as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. SE is the lifework of Dr. Peter A. Levine, bringing together his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, ethology, and medical biophysics.

Pre- and Perinatal, Birth and Attachment Therapy is an approach to healing early developmental trauma and shock imprints. PBAT seeks to help people of all ages learn to identify, resolve, and re-pattern imprints from disruptive early life experiences that remain stuck in the nervous system pathways and other expressive areas of the body. This approach uses tools developed out of studying attachment theory, an integration of energetic, somatic, physiologic and psychotherapeutic principles, and the practices of Somatic Experiencing and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. PBAT work can be done in individual sessions or in small group, Womb Surround Process workshops. The purpose of this work is to heal and re-pattern early imprints in order to create more options for one’s current behaviors and ways of being in relationship.

Megan completed Myrna Martin’s three year professional training and works with individuals and facilitates birth process groups. PBAT Professional Trainings developed out of the life work of Dr. William Emerson, Dr. Ray Castellino, and Myrna Martin. For more information please visit myrnamartin.net or castellinotraining.com

Somanautiko integrates a variety of Abdominal Therapy techniques – specialized massage, energy healing, and herbal formulas – to support the health and function of the whole body, with particular attention to the pelvic and abdominal organs.

Abdominal therapy focuses on relieving the physical and emotional congestion underneath the tension patterns placing pressure on the structures of the pelvis and abdominal organs that disturbs their health and function. This often causes them to shift out of optimal position and/or restricts the movement of the body’s essential systems of flow: circulation of arterial and venous blood, nerve supply, lymph, and energy/Essence/chi, which the Maya call Chu’lel.

These abdominal therapy techniques help Somanautiko clients find relief from many common digestive and reproductive disorders, prepare and heal from childbirth, and inhabit their bodies more fully. This is not a sexual massage technique.

Megan is a part of a group of practitioners, healers, and bodyworkers who are passionate about the world of Abdominal Therapy and were mentored by Dr. Rosita Arvigo, DN in the U.S. and in Belize. Rosita developed this external, non-invasive, hands-on approach to core body health during her years of study and apprenticeship in Belize with the Maya healer – Don Elijio Panti, celebrated herbal midwife – Miss Hortense Robinson, and Rosita’s own experience in massage, naprapathy, herbology and spiritual healing. Now in her 80s, Rosita is still living and working in Belize. You can learn more by visiting: abdominaltherapycollective.com.

Welcoming Newborns is a program that Megan developed to provide dignity for and recognition of every baby’s unique experience coming into a human body. Care for this journey into the body often begins with physical and emotional support for the family before conception, through pregnancy, around delivery and throughout the first three months postpartum, the “fourth trimester.”

As the daughter of a midwife, pregnancy and birth have always been central in Megan’s life.  In her Welcoming Newborns program Megan actively listens to the newborn’s experience and expression of needs in order to help identify any structural restrictions or prenatal & birth imprints that might interfere with how easily the baby can come into its body and bond with its caregivers – both of which are essential for surviving and thriving.

Care in the Welcoming Newborns program begins whenever a family makes contact. Sessions, including a Craniosacral evaluation, within the first 72 hours of birth are ideal but it is never too late (or too early) to provide support to an individual on their journey of self-embodiment and fulfillment.

Read more about child-centered family sessions with Megan.

Graceful Aging reflects Megan’s commitment to provide dignity and recognition of everyone’s unique experience of what it means to be human. Shaped by growing up in a family of physicians, midwives, psychologists, educators and philosophers, Megan embraces the necessary cycle of loss and renewal that keeps all things moving forward in life.

The Somanautiko approach helps individuals at any developmental stage explore the “leading edges” of the comfort zones in their lives. Aging is a process that brings most people to their leading edges with considerable regularity.  Learning to live gracefully with vulnerability and an acceptance of mortality becomes the dance of aging. Megan is an eager dance partner for those who are exploring this rich territory full of self-discovery and self-fulfillment.

Megan is honored to provide similar support for individuals transitioning out of their bodies at death as she does for little ones coming into their bodies at birth.