Aerial Somatic Therapy · Encinitas, California

Come home to your body.

Precision bodywork in the swing, where gravity becomes a therapeutic tool.

“Sure hands with a supple movement vocabulary.” Thomas Myers, author of Anatomy Trains

Where Would You Like to Begin?

Three ways in.

One three-hour ceremony, a three-part container for deeper work, or a one-of-a-kind experience shared in the company of others.

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Metamorphosis

A three part ceremonial container for deep transformation

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Group Experiences

Some of the most profound work happens in the company of others.

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The Practice: What Is Aerial Somatic Therapy?

Aerial Somatic Therapy is Spatial Medicine in motion. Hands-on bodywork done in a suspended fabric, where the whole body can be reached simultaneously. Gravity becomes a therapeutic tool and complete nervous system support creates the conditions for genuine transformation.

A modality grounded in over two decades of exploration. Accessible to the body in ways ground or table-based work cannot reach. Designed to serve both the person receiving it and the person offering it.

The Method

Aerial Somatic Therapy is a precision bodywork method that harnesses gravity and spatial positioning to resource the nervous system into safety, recondition the fascial network, and offer ease for the practitioner. The swing creates complete support while the practitioner works from multiple planes of access (below, lateral, above), creating 360-degree contact with the body.

Through compression, traction, and rotation, the fascial system hydrates. The body reorganizes at new depths and reconnects with its fluid nature for movement and response.

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What Is a Somatic Practice?

Somatic means “of the body.” Somatic practice is learning to sense and listen to your body’s own intelligence.

It recognizes that your body holds wisdom, memory, and protective patterns held in the fascial system. When the nervous system experiences genuine safety, the body can release what it’s been holding, remember itself as whole, and reconnect with its own aliveness and potential.

AST is built around two practices: a self-bodywork practice and a practitioner-client session. Both are woven through the training, and both are essential.

The self-bodywork practice gives you a dedicated methodology for your own fascial and nervous system health. The practitioner-client session is the work you’ll offer to others. You’ll learn to hold space with precision, read a nervous system in real time, and guide the body toward its own reorganization and wholeness.

How both expressions are taught

Three Principles, One Practice

AST is built on three principles that run through every aspect of the work:

Attunement

Presence and the capacity to listen with the whole body, creating the container for nervous system safety.

Alignment

Organizing your body in relationship to gravity and your own center, accessing regenerative support.

Embodiment

When the body accesses its own wisdom and remembers how to inhabit itself fully.

These principles live in both the self-bodywork practice and the practitioner-client session.

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What Makes Aerial Somatic Therapy Different?

AST was built around a specific set of conditions, for the body, the nervous system, and the practitioner, that are unlike anything else in the field.

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“Maura’s Thai-inspired work couples sure hands with a supple movement vocabulary to produce just the right stretch challenge that leads to relaxation and somatic clarity.”
Tom Myers Author of Anatomy Trains

“Integrating a combination of breath, movement, massage and sound she brought my body into alignment, and my mind into a state of radiant clarity. She is a true body-mind-spirit master.”
Mark Divine Founder, SEALFIT. NYT bestselling author, Unbeatable Mind

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