A body-based approach for Real Change.
Free your body and mind from held tension, and experience more clarity, ease, and presence in daily life.
How the work is offered
Sessions are available one-on-one, in person and online, in Milan and West Palm Beach → see current availability and location updates.
While individual sessions can be meaningful, this work is best approached with continuity over time.
Services
The approaches offered are rooted in contemplative and traditional lineages rather than clinical models.
Each modality provides a distinct entry point into embodied inquiry, through touch, movement, breath, or stillness, while maintaining a shared orientation: direct contact with experience as it unfolds.
Ways to work together
Reset
(single or occasional)
A focused session to release tension and reset the body. A good place to start, or to return when you need support.
Flow
(series of sessions)
A series of sessions offered as a structured way of working over time.
Because the approach is gentle, it works gradually and benefits from consistency.
deepen
(ongoing practices)
Ongoing work to stay connected, maintain change, and continue the exploration over time.
Practices in Detail.
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Hawaiian Ha'a Mauli Ola
Ritualized bodywork rooted in Hawaiian lineage, approached as a process of relational and energetic reorganization rather than therapeutic massage, supporting profound shifts in how the body holds and expresses experience.
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Chi Nei Tsang
Abdominal work rooted in classical Taoist internal arts, engaging the organs directly to address accumulated emotional charge, digestive stagnation, and density within the visceral system.
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Karsai Nei Tsang
Focused work on the lower abdominal and pelvic region, addressing tension patterns related to sexuality, vitality, and reproductive function in an area often associated with deep energetic holding.
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Marma Therapy
Precise touch applied to specific anatomical and energetic junctions described in Ayurvedic medicine, influencing systemic balance through subtle regulation of pranic flow and neuromuscular tone.
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Lymphatic Drainage (Vodder method)
Slow, structured manual work designed to stimulate lymphatic circulation, support tissue recovery, and reduce inflammatory or fluid stagnation within the body.
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Kuṇḍalinī Hatha Yoga
A structured yogic discipline rooted in traditional Hatha methodology, using breath retention, posture, and sustained attention to expose and reorganize conditioned patterns within the body-mind system.
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Meditation
Direct contemplative practice centered on sustained contact with present-moment experience, revealing the mechanics of perception, identification, and reactivity as they unfold.
book a Session.
Sessions are limited and scheduled by appointment. An initial meeting allows us to determine appropriateness. Work is offered in person, in specific locations and periods of the year.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Individual sessions that integrate bodywork, movement, breath, and contemplative practices to help clients access regulation, release tension, and develop a deeper relationship with their body and experience.
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This work is focused on supporting real change, not just relaxation.
While it can feel deeply calming, the intention goes beyond that, working with the body to release tension, improve how your system functions, and support longer-term shifts in how you feel. -
Each session is guided and adapted to you. We begin with a short check-in, then move into hands-on work and/or simple guided practices depending on what’s needed.
Sessions are generally quiet and focused, with space to notice what you’re feeling. Some sessions are deeply relaxing, others more active, all are designed to support your body in releasing tension and finding balance.
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No experience is needed.
This work is simple and accessible, and you’ll be guided throughout. The focus is on helping you connect with your own experience, not on doing anything “right.” -
The focus is on releasing tension held in the body and supporting a better connection between how you feel, think, and respond.
Rather than adding techniques or ideas, the work helps clear what’s already there, so your system can settle, reset, and function more naturally.
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This work may be relevant if you feel generally stable, but notice underlying tension that doesn’t fully resolve. You might recognize recurring patterns in how you feel, respond, or relate, or experience ongoing holding in areas such as the digestion, breath, or pelvis.
It tends to suit those who are less focused on quick fixes, and more interested in understanding how their system works. A willingness to stay present with what arises, and to explore patterns as they unfold, is helpful.
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This work is not psychotherapy, counseling, or medical treatment.
It is also not focused on relaxation alone or performance-based outcomes.The body is approached as the place where experience is held and expressed.
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This depends on the type of session.
For bodywork sessions, you may be partially clothed or draped appropriately.
For movement or guided practices, comfortable, loose clothing is best.
You’ll always be informed beforehand so you feel prepared and at ease.
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Session length varies depending on the type of work.
Most sessions range between 60 and 90 minutes.Specific details are provided when you book, so you know exactly what to expect.
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The first step is to book an initial session, in person or online. This session is an opportunity to have an introductory conversation and to see how this work resonates for you.
No prior experience is required. The work is one-on-one and tailored to your patterns, supporting a direct encounter with experience rather than producing specific results.
After the first session, we can discuss whether ongoing sessions or practices make sense. While continuity deepens the work, each session is self-contained and offers insight in itself.
Sessions can be booked directly through the booking page, or by reaching out with questions.
Orientation
The work is informed by non-dual traditions, in which body, breath, and awareness are inseparable, with an emphasis on clarity, presence, and direct experience.
This framework remains in the background, shaping how sessions are held rather than what is taught or explained.
No belief system or prior experience is required.
About the Practitioner
The work I offer is rooted in non-dual contemplative traditions, in which body, breath, attention, and awareness are inseparable aspects of a single, living process.
My own orientation toward this work did not arise from an interest in philosophy, but from a direct encounter with the limits of trying to resolve experience through control and self-improvement. What initially appeared as suffering gradually revealed itself as a pattern of relating: a continuous attempt to manage, escape, or refine what was already present. It was through this recognition, and through sustained guidance from my teacher, that non-duality became not an idea, but a lived necessity.
Through their teaching, I learned to notice habitual patterns of tension, avoidance, striving, without trying to fix or eliminate them. This work did not orient me toward “feeling better” or producing particular states, but toward creating the conditions in which what is already present can be met directly. It is precisely this attentive witnessing, cultivated under careful guidance, that over time opened the possibility for a different relationship with experience.
Today, I offer this work in a way that reflects both my own journey and the guidance I have received: supporting others in seeing their patterns, attending to body and breath, and exploring the space in which experience unfolds without added resistance.
Elisabetta Woo