Somatic Therapy & Licensed Massage

Manita is studying for her masters of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch. She is currently seeing clients for Somatic Therapy (Somatic Experiencing), Sound Therapy, Ecotherapy and Massage Therapy (sometimes these are blended in one session).

Manita began her professional wellness journey managing the supplement departments of health food stores in the 90's. There she learned the power of the body to heal itself given the right support and encouragement. She has an in-depth knowledge of nutrition and supplementation. 

Manita studied at the Brian Utting School of Massage in 2005 and opened her massage practice in Fremont in 2006. After a few years of practice, she realized that traumatic experiences can be held in the body causing physical, emotional and mental dis-ease and dysfunction. Manita enjoys finding the root causes of dysfunction/dis-ease and healing them, rather than merely soothing the system. To that end she studied Somatic Experiencing through Dr Peter Levine (2011). Somatic Experiencing (SE) releases the charge from the trauma that is held at the level of the nervous system, without the client having to talk about "what-happened". Clients enjoy the ease at which the trauma is released, and the fact that they don't have to spend time telling the therapist about themselves and their past. The work is subtle so as not to alert or unbalance the nervous system in any way. The positive effects are profound, these included the easing of Physical aches/pains, lifting of anxiety and depression, and the return of ease and joy in life.