Elsa Korinke, SEP

What if how you were born created an imprint that drives many of the unconscious patterns that form the current foundation of your life?

First as a yoga teacher and then as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I have spent the last 7 years guiding clients into their bodies to reconnect to parts of them that have been abandoned or shoved down in order to survive. My role as your guide in this work is to provide time, space, and support for your nervous system to intelligently do what it already knows how to do. 

Through titrated sensory exploration, I help clients reestablish a felt sense of safety in their bodies so they can focus less on the stories their mind is telling and begin to tune in to the story their body has been waiting to tell. Through this work, you get to complete trauma responses that have been stuck in your nervous system by revisiting traumatic experiences, not reliving them. Perhaps more importantly, you will get to feel the emotions you did not get to feel at the time while being held by a compassionate witness. Somatic approaches allow you to go directly to the root of your patterns so that you can create meaningful, lasting change in your life. 

But even after years of my own somatic therapy and supporting clients through theirs, the missing piece came for me when I realized that our systems hold implicit memories from the moment we are conceived. Our time in the womb, our experience of being born, and what occurred in those precious first minutes, days, and weeks of life are an essential thread in the tapestry of our lives and must be explored in order for us to truly thrive.

Once I discovered this for myself, I never looked back. My primary body of work for the last few years has been birth imprints, pre/perinatal psychology, and postpartum care. We live in a culture that does not see these moments in our lives as the rites of passage and sacred initiations that they are. We often do not recognize the need for repair when trauma occurs in these early moments of life. Through allowing ourselves to revisit our earliest moments, we can integrate these imprints and align with the blueprint for thriving life.

All my work, including Somatic Experiencing, Karuna Reiki, Yoga Nidra Meditation, Birth Imprint Integration, and Physiologic Postpartum Care is in service to thriving life. When we transcend the realm of intellectual understanding and once again feel truly safe enough to develop secure attachments, take healthy risks, and embody our authenticity, we thrive. Thriving is our birthright and it is what I want each and every person I work with to experience in this one precious life.