Somatic Healing, Bodywork, and Embodied Transformation
Somatic healing, Tui Na bodywork, and movement therapy for people ready to move beyond insight into body-led change
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Somatic healing, Tui Na bodywork, and movement therapy for people ready to move beyond insight into body-led change ·
Grounded, experienced, and body-led
Welcome to Embody Alchemy!
I’m Brae Onnah Sisk, a California certified Tui Na massage therapist and internationally recognized registered somatic movement educator/therapist based in Chico, California.
My work brings together therapeutic bodywork, somatic education, trauma-informed practice, earth-based awareness, and creative embodiment. The heart of this work is simple: to help people move from insight into lived, body-level change.
~ Brae
Body-Centered Support for People Ready to Move Beyond Insight Alone
You can understand your patterns, name your stress responses, and still feel stuck in the same places in your body.
Embody Alchemy offers somatic bodywork, movement therapy, and integrative sessions for people navigating pain, trauma patterns, burnout, identity shifts, life transitions, or the quiet sense that something needs to change.
This work does not begin by asking you to explain everything again. It begins by listening to the body.
Three Pathways Into The Work
THE WORK
Therapeutic Tui Na Bodywork
Gentle, precise, hands-on bodywork rooted in Chinese medicine. These sessions support pain relief, circulation, Qi flow, organ health, and nervous system regulation through acupressure, stretching, and rhythmic movement.
Best for: focused body-based care, physical tension, restoration, and support without deeper therapeutic dialogue.
Somatic Movement Therapy & Education
Body-centered sessions using breath, developmental movement, felt sense awareness, and somatic tracking. This work supports emotional regulation, pattern recognition, trauma integration, and life transitions.
Best for: people who feel disconnected from their bodies, stuck in old patterns, or ready to explore change through lived experience rather than analysis alone.
Embody Alchemy Sessions
Custom integrative sessions that may weave together bodywork, movement therapy, energy clearing, ritual, creative practice, or plant-medicine integration support when explicitly requested and appropriate.
Best for: clients seeking a deeper, more personalized process that honors the body as a place of healing, imagination, and transformation.
Learn more about how somatic therapy and bodywork work in practice.
When Talking About It Isn’t Enough
Many people arrive here after years of thinking, processing, analyzing, and trying to make sense of their experience. Insight can be meaningful. It can also have limits.
The Body Often Carries What the Mind Already Understands
Somatic work creates another pathway for change through sensation, movement, touch, breath, rhythm, and awareness. Instead of forcing a breakthrough, sessions are shaped around what your system can safely meet, feel, and integrate.
The goal is not to fix you. It is to support a more honest relationship with your body, your nervous system, and the parts of you that have been working hard to protect, adapt, and survive.
Client Reflections
★★★★★
“As a fellow bodyworker, I am pretty picky about quality of experience. Brae, owner of Embody Alchemy, is a true professional-she had a lovely “bedside manner”. She is attentive and her touch is confident and caring. I came away from my first session feeling better than I had in a long time. It’s wonderful to find a practitioner who is as skilled and caring as Brae. I will be recommending some of my own clients to see her as well as scheduling another session for myself. Her office is easy to get to, on the ground floor and a lovely, healing environment. I highly recommend working with Brae.”
— Anya
★★★★★
“I felt better, physically and emotionally, than I had in years after one hour with Brae... Make an appointment if you need healing touch from a loving, compassionate, and wise healer/ teacher.”
— Jada-Simone
★★★★★
“Amazing knowledge she touched exactly the base of the painful spots ...I was a few days unable to walk from lower back pain and she relieved energy blockage now I can walk almost without any pain.... Worth every buck....”
— Rafi
SUPPORT
What This Work Supports
Move Beyond Intellectual Understanding
You don’t have to explain your way into change. These sessions help you work with the patterns that live beneath words: breath, posture, sensation, impulse, contraction, and movement.
Build More Capacity in Your Nervous System
Rather than pushing past your limits, somatic work helps you notice what’s happening in real time and practice new responses at a pace your body can actually integrate.
Choose the Level of Support That Fits
Some clients want therapeutic bodywork. Some want movement-based inquiry. Some want a layered, alchemical process. The work is individualized so you’re not forced into a one-size-fits-all approach.
Return to the body with more trust
The body is not treated as a problem to overcome. It becomes a source of information, regulation, expression, and possibility.
Begin Where You Are
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Book a Discovery Call
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Begin Where You Are · Book a Discovery Call ·
Begin With The Body
If you aren’t sure which pathway fits, start with a discovery call.
You can share what you’re seeking, ask questions, and explore whether this work is the right next step.
BEGIN WITH
THE BODY
