Offerings
Mind-Bodywork and Tensegrity Medicine for All
Sassia provides holistic, gentle, whole body treatment through the lens of non violence and Tensegrity Medicine™ (while also emphasizing consent and agency of the individual) for all bodies and ages. Instead of treating just symptoms or parts of the system like traditional therapy, Sassia thoroughly analyzes the whole body, taps into the nervous system, and treats compensation or adaptive patterns in the body that develop from developmental or genetic disorders, trauma, injury, or repetitive movement patterns. A variety of modalities are used to treat the body, mind, and spirit including cranial-sacral therapy, bowen technique, structural integration, dialoguing and visualization, dreamwork, neuro re-education of muscle tissue, and energy work. Sassia works with a client to help reach relaxation, overall preventative wellness, and a new way of being after trauma, injury, stiffness, and pain.
Distance Energy and Wellness Sessions
A distance energy and mind-embodiment session is for you or your organization's retreat.
The time during a session is tailored to all involved. We will check in to our bodies and nervous systems, love on the parts of us that need warmth and space, and move through pain, discomfort, love, and joy together. Sassia will offer you time to rest and receive distance energy work through the phone or online platform.
Also check out my bi-monthly, donation-based group I co-tend: Dragon Sister’s Ibasho
An Iyashinomori (Cara Mori) and Anku Wellness (Sassia Woo Nelson) “Dragon Sisters Collaboration”.
Safe and Sound /Rest and Restore Provider
Disclaimer: I am very careful on how I use the words “safe/safety” as it can be a triggering word and hear most of my clients say they do not feel safe or cannot remember if they have ever felt “safe”. I am also changing the way I use the word regulation, as it usually expects a type of compliance. The literature uses the words safe/safety and regulation but the goal in my opinion is a feeling of groundedness—a safe-enough feeling to be connected to self, others, and nature. To find and feel sanctuary. To feel and decipher attunement.
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a powerful listening therapy and neural exercise designed to help you learn to feel more grounded, engaged, and connected. Through specially filtered music, the SSP sends cues of “safety” within a controlled environment to your nervous system, building the foundation for awareness, embodiment and resilience.
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The Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) is a powerful listening therapy that supports restoration, recovery, and homeostasis by engaging autonomic regulation, internal rhythmic coherence, and subdiaphragmatic processes that contribute to balance and groundedness.
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Set up a consult to find out if this could benefit you!
me and lil sis <3
How it all began…
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sassia is the proud older sister of a fabulous human diagnosed with Prader-Willi Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder. After attending many therapy sessions, doctor appointments, and IEP meetings with lil sis, sassia decided a career in occupational therapy was for her. She saw how occupational therapists used meaningful activities to build skills and confidence but recognized early on the discrepancy throughout systems for a number of identities and populations. sassia is creating her own practice in response to the limitations she saw working as an OT in the education, healthcare, and jail systems.
Throughout the years, lil sis has taught sassia the importance of play, patience, laughter, connection, and listening that has influenced sassia’s therapeutic style with her clients, no matter their age or ability. lil sis is sassia’s number one fan, best friend, and favorite karaoke singing and dance partner (because lil sis knows every song on the radio—one of lil sis’ many superpowers)!
ANKU in Action
