BODYWORK AND INTEGRATION
We offer an integral approach to optimal wellness to help individuals make empowering decisions in aligning their focus toward achieving their wellness goals.
As more individuals seek comprehensive, personalized care for developing their true potential, the field of somatic wisdom continues to expand, bringing new possibilities and ensuring the best outcomes.
We prioritize:
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Personalized mapping
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Trauma-informed
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Collaborative and dynamic
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Holistic wellness
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Empowerment and compassion
BENEFITS
This bodywork is highly personalized and rooted in an interdisciplinary blend of somatic awareness, embodied training and growing your unique gifts. You’ll develop the clarity, grounding, and presence required to express yourself fully accessing unique taoist wellness strategies and alignment principles.
This is customized services designed for individuals who want meaningful, creative and sustainable growth. It is an investment in your long-term wellness and performance—supporting lasting shifts in how you embody your life and communicate your gifts.
OUR PROCESS
CONTACT
A 15-minute discovery call is the first step in reaching out to ask questions about our services, discuss your needs, review your options, create a plan, and schedule consultations.
PLANNING
Starting with Integral somatic may seem overwhelming at first, but we're here to help.
From your initial discovery call to your one-on-one consultations, we're here to ensure you're aware and involved in the process. We believe that your success is dependent on your involvement and commitment to your wellness plan.
We strive to make the process transparent, involve your creative decision making in formulating your unique goals, ultimately helping each individual expand into their true potential.
PREPARATION
It is time well spent to prepare yourself for your wellness experiences. Being intentional with your plan can bring a spirit of achievement to your aspirations. Most importantly, we want you to know that engaging with somatic bodywork can be a joyful and rewarding experience.
Nathalia Gagnon MA
Integral Somatic Consultant
Nathalia is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist RCAT and certified somatic psychotherapist, specialized in working with somatic and integrative wellness.
She has been supporting individual of all ages recovering from adverse experiences for over 15 years, using trauma-informed and psychosomatic perspectives of health and wellness from Western and Indigenous perspectives.
In her continuous quest to better understand optimal health and the human potential, she is a certified practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu and a Medical Qigong therapist. She is a daughter, a sister, a mother, a lifelong student of Indigenous healing traditions, Tai Qi, Taoism and Buddhism.
TRAINING AND CREDENTIALS
JIN SHIN JYUTSU
TaiQi 2019-2026 - Sifu Eric Tuttle
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2026 - Anita Willoughby
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2025 - Jed Schwartz
Qigong 2019-2021 - Lorelei Chang
Traditional Internal Alchemy 2021 - Zhongxian Wu
Master of Medical Qigong MMQ 2018-2019 - Dr Noel Taylor
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2019 - Wayne Hackett
Medical Qigong Therapist MQT 2017-2018
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2017 - Iole Lebensztajn, MD
Medical Qigong Practitioner MQP 2013-2016
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2016 - Michael Wenninger
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2012 - Ian Harris
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2007 - Jed Schwartz
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2007 - Anita Willoughby
Jin Shin Jyutsu 2006 - Wayne Hackett
INTEGRAL SOMATIC
Mental Health & Wellness - Managers & Leaders, 2025
Art Therapy Supervision Series 2024 - American Art Therapy Association
Art and Healing, Transcultural Psychiatry 2023 - McGill University
Contemplative Embodied Psychotherapy, 2022-2023 - Nalanda Institute
Tao of trauma, 2021-2022 - Alaine Duncan
Somatic Attachment Trauma, 2019-2021 - Dr Lisa Mortimore
Psychoanalytic, 2017 - Psychoanalyst John Betts
The Other Client, 2016 - Dr Sandra Weiland PhD
Sandplay Therapy, 2015 - Marie José Dhaese, PhD
Relationship Matters, 2014 - Dr Gordon Neufeld
Art of Attuned Regulation, 2013 - Kim Barthel
Post Master Certificate in Art Therapy, 2011-2012
Masters of Arts in Art Therapy, 2007-2010
Social and Cultural Psychiatry, 2010 - McGill University
Sandplay Therapy, 2008 - ISST
International Society for Sandplay Therapy
HEALING ARTS
Indigenous Medicine retreats 2020-2026
Somatic Psychedelic Integration 2006-2026
Sweat Lodges 2016-2026
Healing, Science and Indigenous Knowledge, 2023 - Chacruna Institute
Foundations in MDMA and Psilocybin Safety, Therapeutic Application, 2021 - Psychedelic Support Network
Dharma Mentoring 2019-2020 VDY
Buddhist Retreats 2016-2017 VDY
Reiki i-ii-iii Master 2008
Hatha Yoga Instructor 2007 Sivananda Yoga
Shamanism 2006 - Foundation for Shamanic Studies
Shamanic Sound Healing 2004-2005 - Zacciah Blackburn
INVESTMENT
MSP does not cover consultation. We do not provide direct billing. The client is responsible for payment for the service package selected. To enquire for services, feel free to schedule a free initial 15 minutes discovery call.
Harvest - 9 consults $ 1320
Core - 6 consults $ 880
Roots - 3 consults $ 440
Mentoring collective - Upcoming
Course - Upcoming
Corporate - On request
ADAPTIVE CHANGE
Attuning to our physical and emotional body
integral somatic is a powerful tool for helping recognize and shifts behaviours, expand mindsets and improve the range of easeful embodiment. It helps with recalibrating your physiology which can shift patterns of impulsive behaviours, stagnation and sensations of overwhelmed. By engaging with stress modulation strategies, body mind wellness can broaden.
The body speaks to us through pain, sensations, intuition and dreams which reflect the body’s intelligence and point to the wisdom of mind body connection.
Key Benefits:
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Ignite mind body intelligence
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Restore sleep, rest and digest cycles
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Balance sensory and intuitive processing
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Release tension and enhance relaxation
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Build communication and relationship skills
INTEGRAL SOMATIC
Body Mind Connection
Bodywork and integration can help with recognizing patterns of internalized oppression, coercive control, power imbalances or discrimination. Often, accumulated tension can hinder the ability to connect with internal resources and access a broader spectrum of resilience.
Somatic strategies can include recalibrating breath and movement in subtle ways that are restorative, generative and expansive. When the body mind mobilize, it is possible to connect and transform what was fragmented, stagnant or deficient.
Key Benefits:
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Restore system's coherence
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Widen a full sprectum affect
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Allow sensorimotor and autonomic stress discharge
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Develop efficacy in stress management
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Broaden sensorimotor capacity
MIND BODY WELLNESS
Healthy Life Dynamics
Integral somatic provides clients with the tools they need to support their growth, life-work-play balance and performance. We offer strategies to strengthen confidence (after stress / illness / injury), get back in touch with your creative self, nurture your easeful embodiment, explore mindfulness and grow your potential.
In search of positive changes, we offer ancient tools that can help with increasing mind body intelligence, core performance, exponential creativity, mindful presence and inspired influence.
Key Benefits:
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Explore resources
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Increase variability of resiliency
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Generate and maintain fulfilling relationships
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Enhance communication skills
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Create tool kits of preventive methods
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Offering appreciation for living, playing and working on this beautiful unceded traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and Coast Salish people. Decolonized perspectives of practice invite traditional Indigenous knowledge systems as an important framework in this work while considering wellness as part of integral relationships with family, community and the Earth.