Lauren Tietz, Second Street Studios, Santa Fe, NM
Offerings
Craniosacral Therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a gentle yet powerful hands-on therapy that supports your nervous system and entire body to come into states of calm presence and grounding.
Like a midwife, I support organic shifts taking place, guided by the intelligence of your own body, into spaces of reorganization from pain, injury and suffering, to re-balance and re-pattern in gentle & deep ways.
This creates renewed integration in your whole system, supporting a deeper sense of safety, balance and ease in your body, mind, heart, psyche, which can alleviate a range of symptoms from migraines and concussions to anxiety, depression and other trauma & distress patterns.
Authentic MovemenT Practice
Authentic Movement practice (AM), also know as Contemplative Dance practice (CDP) is a relational moving meditation practice.
Movers learn to listen for and trust as sensations arise in the body, noticing physical qualities, movement impulses, gestures, archetypes, image, memory, emotion etc. Working with eyes closed, they track experience and material as it arises naturally, movers cultivate a depth of present moment attunement in the body, psyche, heart, mind. It is typically practiced without external music, instead listening for inner rhythms and sounds arising from the body. Movers move in the presence of a compassionate and attuned witness.
TRE® & Somatic movement Therapy
TRE® - tension and trauma release exercise, is a therapeutic somatic movement modality, developed by Dr. Berceli. A form of therapeutic shaking, it is a practice that teaches people how to safely activate an innate reflexive tremoring response, inviting the same release process that we see in animals in the wild who "shake it off," after experiencing a threatening event. Sessions are available in person and online, 1-1 or in groups.
Somatic Movement therapies helps us to bring conscious awareness to the experience of breathing, moving, being - inviting us to slow down in order to sense and feel in ways that are usually out of our conscious awareness. In this way, it can often feel relieving and pleasurable as we come into clearer connection with ourselves.
Lauren Tietz
Lauren’s attuned and sensitive approach to healing through Craniosacral Therapy, TRE and other Somatic Therapies is supported by more than twenty years of experience and specialization within the fields of embodiment, mindfulness, trauma-informed therapy, meditation and dance and movement arts.
Working one on one with clients Lauren brings a gentleness and a deeply emotionally attuned presence as she assists people in the powerful and vulnerable work of sensing and feeling through the body, the place where healing and repair begins and deepens.
She loves to support folks who might identify in one of these categories: highly sensitive (she is an HSP!); artistic; neurodivergent; recovering from distress patterns and trauma (be it from family of origin experience or larger cultural and societal harm wanting support, witnessing and liberation). She enjoys working with a diverse group of people each with their own reasons for seeking out an embodied approach.
In addition to her private practice Lauren loves to teach and regularly facilitates movement & dance classes and workshops both online and in person, including Contemplative Dance (aka Authentic Movement).
Lauren is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST), Licensed Manual Therapist (LMT) and a certified TRE® provider. She also holds an MFA in dance/interdisciplinary arts and a certification as an advanced level Pilates teacher.
She has spent many hours studying interpersonal neurobiology (Dan Siegel, Kalila Homann and others), and has attended lectures and classes on different approaches to trauma resolution and Polyvagal Theory.
Lauren also enjoys hiking, time spent in nature, poetry, singing, meditation, earth based spiritual practices that support remembering our deeper connections with each other and the animate earth.
If any of this resonates for you, she looks forward to the opportunity to connect with you!
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is a noninvasive manual therapy that works directly with nervous system rebalancing and re-patterning which helps to create renewed safety, balance and ease in the body and psyche. It is a gentle modality that nevertheless can work quite powerfully with restoring balance to the nervous system, and also ultimately works with all of the body systems.
BCST takes a whole-person approach to healing and I deeply honor the inter-connectedness of mind, body, heart and spirit. The relationship that develops between myself and my clients is essential, as it establishes a ground for trust and safety. It is in this relational field where there is a great potential for healing. I bring warmth, openness, curiosity and sensitive listening to support this therapeutic process.
My approach to Craniosacral Therapy is through the biodynamic lens of orienting to the body’s natural wisdom and allowing innate intelligent processes to arise and bring about authentic change. It is a non invasive approach. These changes will be physiological and psycho-emotional. The body’s own priorities for change are listened for and encouraged to arise. As a therapist, the art is to connect with the underlying forces of health and facilitate a process of natural reorganization. These forces express as subtle motion of tissues and fluids that you and I track and feel in different ways.
Authentic Movement Practice
Authentic Movement (AM) practice, also know as Contemplative Dance practice (CDP), supports a generative somatic space of discovery that goes well beyond words, and trains new relational self-experiences into body and psyche. The simple but profound practice locates the body and somatic awareness in a relational field. It helps practitioners identify and move beyond old patterns to actively practice novel ways of being and relating. This can bring about a freer range of movement through life—physically, emotionally and relationally.
As a contemplative practice, it can resemble other modes of spiritual discipline, ceremony or ritual (meditation, chanting, contemplative practices, zen koans etc.) and as an expressive practice it can resemble other expressive disciplines like dance and singing and other arts sourced through the body. AM/CDP is a contemplative and expressive practice, sourced directly through the body and it’s innate wisdom, intelligence, capacity to heal and to self-regulate within a safe relational field, with the right amount of space and support.
Through the safety of the practice, each person moving at their own pace, following their own timing, participants experience renewed personal agency, the unwinding of unwanted tension patterns, a stronger internal container to hold the sensations and emotions that naturally cycle as awareness arises from the roots of the body.
All are welcome. No dance or movement training needed.
Personalized TRE® & Somatic Movement Sessions
Integrated sessions that support individual learning, re-patterning & healing through movement.
In sessions I draw from my experience with a range of somatic modalities to facilitate movement sessions that support slowing down, softening and discovering new pathways of integration and organization. Ultimately we find the renewed pleasure of movement sourced with ease and the integrative power of rest that nourishes relaxed activation. As the body moves through pathways of comfort, of natural patterns of opening and closing we find less tension and ultimately more intelligence in our movement.