Trauma-informed somatic movement and Feldenkrais® — gentle work that helps your nervous system find composure, spaciousness and ground.
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Somatic movement, slowly
Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner — four-year training, completed 2022
1:1 online, worldwide · in person in Peterborough, Ontario
Holistic, trauma-informed and empowerment-focused — no touch required
Accumulated stress and unresolved trauma rarely stay in the mind. They take up residence in the body — as tension you can't release, anxiety that won't quiet, chronic pain, and a nervous system stuck on high alert.
Most approaches talk to the mind. But the holding lives in the body. To change it, you have to work where it actually is.
Inspired by the Feldenkrais Method™
Somatics with Sara is grounded in the Feldenkrais Method™: a form of somatic education that works with the skeleton, brain and nervous system to help you overcome physical and emotional challenges and live with more ease, choice, pleasure and vitality.
Through attention, perception and imagination, gentle movement lessons engage the body and the brain together — relearning, never forcing. Nothing to fix. Only a quieter, more available you, rediscovered.
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A private lesson crafted to meet your unique needs. You're verbally guided through a sequence of gentle movements using attention, perception and imagination. No touch involved.
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Gentle, hands-on touch work that helps the body and mind find a new, integrated way of functioning together — meeting you exactly where you are.
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Verbally guided through novel movement sequences that unwind tension and calm the nervous system — together, weekly.
Choose what feels right. Online sessions are offered worldwide; Functional Integration® in person in Peterborough. You'll have a confirmation within 24 hours — and never any pressure to perform.
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For years I struggled to find anything that actually helped the chronic health challenges that come from accumulated stress and trauma. In 2018, a course on healing trauma and rewiring the nervous system changed the course of my life.
I experienced first-hand how nervous-system–based work — Somatic Experiencing® and the Feldenkrais Method™ — let me work with my own biology to keep anxiety, overwhelm and chronic stress from piling up. It gave me an inner resourcefulness and resilience I didn't know was possible. So I enrolled in a four-year Feldenkrais® practitioner training, which I completed in 2022.
Beyond movement, I hold a BA in Environmental & First Nations Studies, and I love ancestral nutrition, land stewardship, hiking, sunsets, and riding horses. Deep connection and meditative movement are my simple pleasures — and the ground everything else grows from.
Work with me
Sara Binns · Feldenkrais® Practitioner
Replace habitual, effortful patterns with easier, more efficient ways of moving.
Release the holding the body learned under stress, and let it soften.
Down-regulate a nervous system that's been stuck on high alert.
Build a felt sense of safety and composure you can return to.
Respond rather than react — with more room to choose how you meet life.
Into your relationships, your work, and the things you care about most.
Buckhorn & Peterborough, Ontario · Online worldwide
Somatics with Sara is hosted on the treaty and traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishnaabeg.
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Somatic movement and Feldenkrais® are forms of somatic education. They are not medical treatment, physiotherapy, psychotherapy or a substitute for care from a qualified health professional. Sessions are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any condition.
If you have a medical or mental-health condition, an injury, or are pregnant, please consult your physician before beginning, and move only within what feels safe and comfortable for you. You remain responsible for your own wellbeing during a session and stop any movement that doesn't feel right.
This work is holistic, trauma-informed and empowerment-focused. There is never pressure to push, perform or share more than you wish. You set the pace.
Appointments are arranged through Sara's booking platform; rescheduling and cancellation are handled by direct, respectful agreement — just reach out as early as you can.
Feldenkrais®, Functional Integration® and Awareness Through Movement® are registered service marks; the Feldenkrais Method™ is a trademark of their respective owners.
