Integrative Massage, Intentional Bodywork and Breathwork in the surrounding areas of Nashville, TN.
Intentional Bodywork and Breathwork in the surrounding areas of Nashville, TN.
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Jess.sowards@gmail.com
Services
Bodywork
Intentional bodywork supports your body through the use of integrative techniques which includes gentle to deep Swedish massage for general relaxation and muscular tension relief. Offering separately or combined with Swedish massage, acupressure and craniosacral to support your body’s nervous system allowing your body to deeply rest.
Breathwork
Conscious connected breathwork helps to reduce stress, enhance emotional well-being, and heal past traumas, offering a profound connection to yourself and a pathway to greater inner peace and holistic wellness.
The Embodied HarmonyMission
At Embodied Harmony I use integrative techniques to support you on your life’s journey, helping you bring your body back into balance. Through modalities like Swedish massage, acupressure, or craniosacral. With regular use of intentional bodywork and breathwork, we can support the body’s nervous and muscular system and help release physical and emotional tension. My heart-centered approach creates a safe and supportive space for you to reconnect with your body’s natural rhythms, so you can experience a deeper sense of well-being and inner harmony.
With intentional bodywork and breathwork, we nurture your body’s capacity to feel safe and calm, allowing the nervous system to shift from a high-stress, anxious state to a more relaxed, sustainable and regulated place.
The Embodied HarmonyMission
With intentional bodywork and breathwork, we nurture your body’s capacity to feel safe and calm, allowing the nervous system to shift from a high-stress, anxious state to a more relaxed, sustainable, and regulated place.
The Embodied HarmonyMission
With intentional bodywork and breathwork, we nurture your body’s capacity to feel safe and calm, allowing the nervous system to shift from a high-stress, anxious state to a more relaxed, sustainable, and regulated place.
As we build a more meaningful relationship with our body, we begin to cultivate more internal safety, which allows us to live more embodied lives.
My StoryHi! I’m Jess
I am a trauma informed Licensed Massage Therapist and Breathwork Practitioner. Here is a little about me as it relates to how I got into this work that I get to do. Many years back, I was experiencing some painful growth indicators, and searching for solutions, I started exploring different healing and personal growth approaches. I had spent my life bottling up my feelings, being dissociated, and just trying my best. I stumbled upon the amazing benefits of bodywork and breathwork and the results I experienced were nothing short of amazing. I now share these powerful tools of change with others in a mission to help others on their way.
My StoryHi! I’m Jess
I am a trauma informed Licensed Massage Therapist and Breathwork Practitioner. Here is a little about me as it relates to how I got into this work that I get to do. Several years back, I was experiencing some painful growth indicators, and searching for solutions, I started exploring different healing and personal growth approaches. I had spent my life bottling up my feelings, being dissociated, and just trying my best.
My StoryHi! I’m Jess
I am a trauma informed Licensed Massage Therapist and Breathwork Practitioner. Here is a little about me as it relates to how I got into this work that I get to do. Several years back, I was experiencing some painful growth indicators, and searching for solutions, I started exploring different healing and personal growth approaches. I had spent my life bottling up my feelings, being dissociated, and just trying my best.
Full story here
I had some early on and long-lasting traumatic experiences, and as anyone would, I moved through the world carrying my trauma, living through filters that either I had created or had been given to me in childhood. I was numb, dissociated, highly anxious, and the results of not being in flow with myself or life started to take its toll.
I was searching for answers, a way that I could become comfortable in my body. One of the many approaches I was taking at the time was weekly group Conscious Breathwork sessions targeted towards supporting the release of trauma. One day in a session, I was coming up to the wall of some really old grief that had not been felt. My breathwork coach came over and pressed on an area around my shoulder, and the grief broke free…Oh, the relief! Some space had freed up inside, and for once, I did not feel like my body was going to explode due to pent-up pressure spontaneously, the pressure that was holding in my unexpressed sadness and grief that had been piling up over the years. I also didn’t feel my heart would stop beating; I had room to breathe!
Discovering that I could cultivate more internal safety by releasing the held imprints in my body, a personal mission was born. I began seeking out different modalities and techniques I could implement to aid me in my goal of making my body a safe place to live and a place I loved
to be in. In opening up and becoming willing and eager to try various experiences, I began to explore the depths of my being and find comfort in the edges, and I became a person I loved.
Fast-forward to becoming the change I wish to see in the world. These days, I offer both breathwork sessions and intentional bodywork sessions. My soul’s purpose is to shine a light on the way for others to see that there is a different lens to look at how we approach healing, the body, and all the beautiful, useful emotions that are there, and to provide healing work that is nourishing to the spirit.
What I have learned is that the more we let go and let flow internally while offering love and compassion to ourselves along the way, the safer our bodies become. And the safer our bodies become, the more we want to actually be present in them! I present the opportunity for another road to travel along for a bit of a long while on your path to becoming harmoniously embodied.
BODYWORKThrough Acupressure
What is Acupressure?
Acupressure is a traditional healing practice in Chinese medicine that involves applying gentle pressure to specific points on the body, known as acupoints. These points are located along meridians, or energy pathways, that connect to various organs and systems. By targeting these acupoints, acupressure unblocks the flow of “Qi” or energy, promoting balance and harmony. This method helps to relieve tension, restore energy flow, and dissolve both physical and emotional blockages.
What is Craniosacral therapy?
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, technique that helps release tension in the body, promoting deep relaxation and healing. By lightly touching areas around the head, spine, and sacrum, it encourages the body’s natural healing processes, easing physical discomfort and calming the nervous system. This soothing approach offers a range of benefits, from relieving chronic pain and tension to enhancing overall well-being. It can help reduce headaches, improve sleep, and ease stress by supporting emotional release and promoting a sense of deep relaxation and inner peace. Whether you’re seeking relief from physical discomfort or looking to restore balance, craniosacral therapy gently nurtures the body’s healing abilities, making it a restorative experience for both mind and body.
A Holistic Approach to Healing
Somatic therapies bring more balance and harmony to the embodied responses of life addressing these human experiences:
Stress
Anxiety
Depression
Overwhelm
Chronic Pain
Chronic Muscle Tension
C-PTSD/PTSD
Restlessness
Headaches
Back Pain
Dysregulated Nervous System
Digestive Issues
What to Expect
Integrative massage is a combination of techniques I have learned that I use in the flow of a session. We will talk beforehand to gain an understanding of what is going on and what your goals are. Integrative massage session is done using lotions and creams with varying degrees of pressure, I am a heavier handed therapist so super light work doesn’t come natural to me. Acupressure and Caniosacral sessions are typically done with you fully clothed, making it comfortable and easy to relax deeply. As your body settles into relaxation, you might even experience a dreamy, trance-like state—some people describe feeling like they’re floating or seeing a range of colors. This type of bodywork can also help release emotions stored in your body, offering a chance to let go of what’s been held inside.
Your body is incredibly wise, and this process naturally supports the flow of taking in what nourishes you and releasing what no longer serves, bringing you back to a state of balance and harmony.
Massage/Intentional Bodywork Pricing
60 mins $135
90 mins $165
120 mins $195
BREATHWORKTransformation
Conscious Connected Breathwork
Conscious Connected Breathwork is a powerful healing modality that harnesses the innate power of your breath to promote deep emotional and physical healing. This practice involves a continuous, rhythmic breathing pattern that helps to bypass the conscious mind, allowing you to access and release stored emotions, trauma, and tension held within the body.
What To Expect
In a session, you are gently guided through this transformative breathing technique, creating a safe space for self-exploration and healing. The practice encourages a heart-centered approach, helping you to reconnect with your inner wisdom, cultivate self-awareness, and embrace a state of deep relaxation and clarity.
Breathwork Benefits
Whether you are seeking to reduce stress, enhance emotional well-being, heal past traumas, or simply experience a profound connection to yourself, conscious connected breathwork offers a pathway to greater inner peace and holistic wellness.
Breathwork increases oxygen intake and helps to mobilize energy, regulates the nervous system by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation, and reducing stress.
Breathwork brings conscious awareness to the body, directing focus and intention to areas where energy may be stuck or imbalanced. By consciously breathing into these areas, we can mobilize energy and promote healing.
Release of Stagnant Energy
Through rhythmic and intentional breathing, stagnant energy—
often held in the body due to emotional or physical blockages—can be released. Breathwork
helps to break up these blockages, allowing energy to flow more freely.
Conscious Awareness & Focus
Breathwork brings conscious awareness to the body, directing focus and intention to areas where energy may be stuck or imbalanced. By consciously breathing into these areas, individuals can mobilize energy and promote healing.
Vibrational Shifts
Sound is encouraged (like humming or chanting), which can create resonance within the body. Through vibration, this resonance can help dislodge stagnant energy and encourage its movement throughout the body.
Private Breathwork Session with Bodywork
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This journey towards self and all the beautiful mysteries that life brings is never finished. The more I grow and learn, the more I love the life I get to be a part of.