You are watching a scary movie. You sit there terrified, wondering what will happen next, eyebrows raised, shoulders hunched, belly tight, breath held. When the movie ends, you relax and breathe normally.

But what if the scary movie didn't end? Your tight belly, high shoulders, frightened eyes, and shallow breathing would become fixed, as your muscles hold the memories of your daily trauma.

In just this way the painful experiences of childhood and adolescence -- fear, loss, rejection, abandonment, and humiliation -- are recorded in the mind and expressed in the body. To the trained eye, a person's muscular development, posture, breathing, movement, energy, and expression, reveal their history -- their life story.

In seeing the body as the physical manifestation of the mind, Bioenergetics integrates traditional 'talk' therapy with bodywork giving clients a tangible, physical way of healing psychological wounds. Work with the body includes helping the client to identify and release blocked energy, thus promoting improved self-awareness, increased energy, a broader range of self-expression, and a decrease in anxiety and depression, as well as an improved sense of well-being and connectedness to others.

More than a series of exercises or techniques, Bioenergetic therapy is a powerful, in-depth, expressive process, a verbal and physical, mind-body experience that helps clients move beyond their psychological limitations to live more passionate, pleasurable, and creative lives.