Wellness
Healing doesn’t live in the mind alone. While talk therapy, learning skills, emotional processing, and valuable insights are all powerful— without inviting the body, our healing work is incomplete. At Kindred Counseling and Wellness, we believe healing is multifaceted and involves integrating both the mind and the body for deeper long lasting change. Our approach to wellness is rooted in the understanding that the body holds wisdom, emotion, information, and memory.
Whether through breathwork, restorative or yin yoga, meditation, mindfulness, sound healing, or nervous system awareness, these body-centered practices are designed to help you reconnect with your whole self, improve distress tolerance, regulate emotions healthily and effectively, and establish safety in the body.
This can look like noticing your clenched jaw indicating you aren’t ready to talk to your partner about an upsetting topic, catching the pit in your belly before a spiral of self-doubt, or sensing your body shutting down after a boundary violation.
Our wellness practices can be woven into your therapy experience or explored separately through our community offerings.
Tend to all layers of you
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Yoga
Restorative yoga is a gentle yet powerful practice that promotes deep rest and relaxation with long-held postures using props to support your body.
Yin yoga, on the other hand, targets deeper connective tissue and fascia through slow-pace movement and passive stretching. This allows the body to release trapped energy and emotion.
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Meditation
While meditation is often referred to as silencing the mind, at KCW, we believe meditation is the practice of cultivating a kinder relationship with the mind.
By practicing non-judgmental awareness to our thoughts, we learn to make peace with the mind, notice it’s patterns, and respond with deeper awareness and compassion.
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Sound Healing
Release stagnant energy, activate the vagus nerve to enter a state of ‘rest and digest’, and clear emotional blocks with the calming vibrations of sound healing.
This immersive practice uses instruments like singing bowls, chimes, and tuning forks to gently guide the nervous system into balance, supporting emotional release, deep relaxation, and inner clarity.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the practice of gently and fully being in the present with non-judgmental awareness.
Through this practice, we are invited to slow down and tune into our internal and external world. This allows us to interrupt cycles of negative thought and emotional reactivity, reduce stress, experience gratitude, and notice our needs so we may respond with loving urgency.
Yoga and Sound Bath Session
Our monthly trauma-informed yin/restorative yoga and sound bath session is designed as a somatic practice for healing and integration.
In this gentle, choice-based space, you’ll practice listening to your body, noticing sensations, and cultivating an internal felt sense. Through movement, stillness, and immersive sound, this session supports nervous system regulation, deepening embodiment, and strengthening the ability to stay present with emotions, sensations, and the subtle messages of your body.
This offering is safe space to practice what trauma healing truly asks: being with yourself fully, safely, and with attuned curiosity.
Each one hour session includes a 30 minute yoga flow followed by a 15 minute sound bath, with the remaining time held for opening and closing the practice with grounding and gentle transitions.