My Services
In Person or Video Chat Stress & Pain Resiliency
Hands-On Bodywork & Movement
For stress, overwhelm, burnout, chronic pain patterns, and difficult life transitions.
These sessions help you understand how stress and pain show up in your body—and how to work with them in a more supportive, natural way. Together, we focus on completing the body’s stress response so your system can return to a more regulated, balanced state.
We actively work with your body and mind through guided, experiential practices, parts-based dialogue, and simple tools you can use in daily life to build resilience. The goal is to help you feel less overwhelmed, more at ease, and more capable of handling life’s challenges.
Sessions may include:
Nervous system reset practices
Guided somatic awareness
IFS-informed parts dialogue
Stress and pain education
Tools to complete stress and anxiety cycles
Healthy lifestyle and mindset strategies
Graduated exposure and movement planning
Gentle calming and centering techniques
Titration and pendulation to process emotions and build resilience
Rate:
60 minutes — $65
Package of 3 sessions $185
For pain, tension, strains, recovery, or any bothersome symptoms, these sessions are designed to improve how your body moves and feels.
Each session is personalized using a blend of hands-on therapies, drawing from decades of experience to create a “body buffet” of care, combined with movement-based approaches to address root causes and support lasting results.
You were built to move and born to heal. Movement is medicine—when applied with the right dose and proper guidance. Together, we work to gently break boom-and-bust or fear-avoidance cycles, reduce flare-ups, and build confidence through consistent, supportive movement so your body can do what it’s designed to do—adapt and heal.
Sessions may include:
Therapeutic massage
Graston, cupping, and percussion therapy
Trigger point, craniosacral (CST), and myofascial release (MFR) techniques
Joint mobilization and soft tissue holds
Active or assisted stretching
Issue-specific strengthening
Movement guidance to improve confidence and ease
Rates:
60 minutes — $100
75 minutes — $125
I offer two ways to work together, depending on your needs: hands-on support for physical pain and tension, or experiential sessions to help you regulate stress, understand pain, and build nervous system resilience.
While clients may start in one area, we always work with the whole system—because the body and mind are deeply connected. Through hands-on support or guided practices, you can ease discomfort, reduce stress, and restore balance.
Sessions are available in-studio in Asheville and Hendersonville, as well as in local parks, gyms, or via video conferencing.
Why this work is important
Most people have never been taught how to work with stress, anxiety, or pain held in their bodies only how to push through or ignore it. Over time, this leads to incomplete stress-anxiety cycles, which can show up as physical discomfort, unhelpful thinking patterns, and reactive behaviors. Learning simple, body-based tools can change how you experience your day-to-day life in a very real way.
When your system is constantly on alert, it becomes harder to connect with others, stay present, make clear decisions, or follow through on what matters to you. You may find yourself zoning out, having trouble sleeping, feeling moody or on edge, or reacting in ways that don’t feel like your best self.
This work isn’t about feeling less it’s about building the capacity to feel more, without becoming overwhelmed or burned out. It helps you move through difficult emotions, stay grounded during challenging times, and respond in ways that align with who you want to be.
Stress affects every part of us our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical body. When it isn’t processed or released, it accumulates. Over time, the nervous system can become dysregulated, stuck in cycles of activation or shutdown. By learning how your body responds to stress, and by using simple tools like movement, awareness, breath, creativity, connection, and intentional focus, you can begin to complete the stress cycle and return to a more balanced, regulated, and resilient state.
Chronic pain often develops within this same system: an overprotective, sensitized nervous system sending ongoing danger signals, even when the body has healed. Combined with inconsistent movement or fear-avoidance patterns, this can keep you stuck in pain loops. With understanding, and more importantly consistent practice, you can gently retrain your system, restore a sense of safety, improve movement patterns, and reduce pain without assuming your body is broken or needs to be “fixed".
Get in Touch
Reach out to resonavida for personalized support and to start your journey toward balance.
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555-123-4567
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hello@resonavida.com