Touch & Trauma: Reclaiming Safety Through Accompaniment and Warm Curiosity
Touch has the power to heal. It also has the power to harm. For those who have experienced trauma, touch can become complicated—woven with old memories, instinctive bracing, and a nervous system that struggles to trust or feel safety. But healing through touch is possible. Not by force, not by pushing, but through accompaniment, consent, and curiosity—gently revisiting old memories with the encouragement to bring awareness to your body in the safety of this moment. At the same time laying down new memories in the relative safety of this moment.
The Wisdom of Non-Doing
Alexander Technique touch should never be about correction or control. It is an invitation. A quiet presence that accompanies and meets you as you are. We offer direction towards wholeness. In the same way that the body finds balance when unnecessary effort is released, healing happens not through forcing change, but through meeting what is already here with warmth and curiosity and a gentle guiding touch towards wholeness.
Lucy’s approach now includes resonant healing language—developed through the work of Sarah Peyton—and adds an added depth, allowing you to sense yourself more fully, name what you experience, and gently unburden the habits we have carried for so long. With this combination of touch and language, there is no need to “fix” anything. Instead, you can recognise that safety and spaciousness are available now, in this moment.
Consent & Titration: The Art of Gentle Healing
Trauma often lives in the body as urgency—an impulse to brace, to flee, to override discomfort. But healing asks us to slow down. To take small steps. To titrate.
Titration is the art of introducing healing in small doses the nervous system can handle. Too much too soon can overwhelm. But accompanied in small, digestible moments, your body can begin to remember ease.
This is why consent is vital—not only external consent (the agreement between people) but internal consent (the body’s readiness to receive). The Alexander Technique’s principle of non-doing allows space for choice.
Rather than imposing touch, we listens. Meet you as you are. Follow. And invite. Trauma-informed healing honors where the body is in this moment, rather than straining away from what we wish hadn’t happened, or rushing toward where we wish to we could be.
Laying Down New Memories
Healing isn’t just about processing the past—it’s about creating new experiences in the present. When warm curiosity is combined with skillful touch, the body learns something new. It learns that not all touch threatens. That movement can be free instead of guarded. That accompaniment—being met, being heard, being gently supported—creates a foundation where trust can rebuild itself.
Slowly, step by step, tension unwinds. The shoulders drop not because someone instructs them to, but because holding is no longer necessary. The spine lengthens not because of effort, but because spaciousness has arrived. And because through spacious touch, you can be accompanied safely where you may have previously dissociated or numbed out – both useful survival strategies.
This work is never about forcing the body into an idea of “good posture” or “better alignment.” It is about guiding the body toward wholeness — where movement, emotion, and thought flow together in safety.
A Healing Space, Moment by Moment
There is no urgency in healing. No rush toward a perfect outcome. Only the invitation to pause, to feel, to allow. With Alexander’s gentle touch, Lucy’s resonant language, and a deep understanding of how trauma lives in the nervous system, healing becomes a conversation. A soft unfolding. A reclaiming of ease.
And from this ease, we begin to trust the world again—one safe, accompanied moment at a time.
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