PSYCHOSOMATIC FASCIA THERAPY
FULL PRESENCE PRACTICE
A connective-tissue approach to care and change
This practice sits at the intersection of manual therapy, movement and dialogue. It is developed within Perceptual Pedagogy (Psychopédagogie perceptive). Sessions combine touch, guided slow movement and reflection to support you through stress, transition and change. The aim is not simply to relax you, but to open access to parts of your experience that are hard to reach through words alone.
Much of what we know about our bodies and our lives comes from what we have been told. Here the starting point is what you perceive. In a culture organised around productivity and success, the vitality of our connective tissue is often hardly felt. When touch and slow movement bring it back into perception, new insights can emerge, ones that come from your own experience rather than from what is expected of you.
You can come for a few sessions when you need support, or make this an ongoing practice. No need to choose beforehand: we'll talk about it in the first session.
I see this work as a practice of care through the body, and as a way of imagining how we might live differently.
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Each session draws on three elements:
· Manual fascia therapy: slow, precise, attentive touch working with the fasciae, the connective tissue running through the whole body
· Guided sensory movement: slow movement done with attention to internal sensation, distinct from exercise or stretching
· Dialogue and reflection: finding words for what emerges during the session
A 75-minute session usually includes around 35 minutes of manual work, with movement, awareness practices and conversation making up the rest. You stay clothed and lie on a treatment table for part of the session. You decide how much you speak.
Rather than analysing your experience from the outside, we work with what you notice, moment to moment: bodily sensation, shifts in mood and intensity, the felt quality of an experience before it gets a label or an explanation.
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Two or three sessions within a few weeks, when you're depleted, overloaded or in a rough patch. This is often enough to loosen what has become fixed, restore some energy and give you your bearings back.
PLEASE SWITCH ME OFF
Stress, mental overload, difficulty slowing down, chronic tensionPLEASE UNSTUCK ME
Fatigue, exhaustion, difficulty getting startedA HARBOUR
Strong emotions that are hard to hold, personal or professional transition, a need for grounding, presence or clarity -
Working over time suits a longer-term project: a life change, or a need to realign with your values and make changes that follow from them.
This work is rooted in Perceptual Pedagogy (Psychopédagogie perceptive), developed by the French fasciatherapist and researcher Danis Bois. It understands perception as a capacity that can be developed throughout life. Coming regularly means you are learning to perceive differently, and learning takes repetition. Over time you start to recognise your habitual patterns and responses, to build a closer relationship between sensation, emotion, thought and action, and to act in ways that are closer to what matters to you.
WHAT IS THIS BODY FOR? I JUST DISCONNECT
Feeling disconnected from yourself, your body, other people, your work, or a sense of alivenessI WANNA THRIVE AND DO MY THING
Creative blocks, or a wish to reconnect with inspiration, pleasure and desire, which social norms and power relations can numbIn this approach the body is not an object to be fixed or controlled. It is a partner in a process of learning and discovery.
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I also work with this practice outside the treatment room, in artistic, activist and research settings, as a way of thinking through the body about the times we live in. I teach, give workshops and collaborate on research, and I'm willing to travel for this work.
It is for anyone interested in hacking our usual ways of thinking and relating, and for dancers, musicians, artists, philosophers and thinkers who are curious about other ways of knowing and relating.
Get in touch if you'd like to explore this together: ingrid.catherine.andre@gmail.com
Through sensorial awareness, towards more presence, empathy and connection to our vital bodies
Practicalities
Book a session
Choose a time that suits you IN MY BOOKING CALENDAR. We'll talk about what you're looking for in the first session and go from there. You don't need to decide in advance whether you want a few sessions or an ongoing practice, and you can change course at any point.
Price
75 min · €95 (incl. 25.5% VAT)
The price is the same for every session, whether you come once, a few times close together or regularly over time. There are no packages and no commitment, and you pay per session. I use an online booking calendar and send a pay link or invoice after each session.
A few Pay What You Can spots are available each month if money is a barrier. Get in touch.
Location
Hesperia Therapy Practices
Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 3 B, Etu-Töölö, Helsinki
Languages
English, French, Swedish, Finnish
Cancellation
Free up to 24 hours before
Contact
Questions before booking? Call, WhatsApp, email me or contact me via the form
+358 45 112 1590
ingrid.catherine.andre@gmail.com
Safe space principles and accessibility
I strive to apply safe space principles in my work. I offer a professional, confidential space guided by care rather than performance or self-optimisation. My approach is feminist-informed and welcoming to people of diverse genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds and life experiences.
Unfortunately, the space where I currently work is not accessible. The clinic is up a staircase of about 10 steps and has no step-free entrance or lift, which means it excludes wheelchair users and anyone for whom stairs are a barrier. If this is the case for you, I am willing to travel to a location that works for you, so please get in touch to see if we can arrange another space for your session.
This work complements medical and psychological care and doesn't replace it.
