From Sonoma to Cotati: why people make the thirty-seven minute drive

It takes about thirty-seven minutes to get from Sonoma to my studio in Cotati.

People from Sonoma make that trip, and they keep making it, and the reason has very little to do with convenience.

The work I do combines hands-on bodywork, somatic coaching and a long study of the nervous system, and I have been doing it since 2003. Plenty of places offer bodywork. Far fewer offer all of it in one session with someone who has spent two decades on it.

When you cannot find what you need nearby, the drive is the price of finding it.

From Sonoma and the surrounding valley, the reasons I hear most are emotional, spiritual and body-based: loss or change that has not finished moving through, a feeling of being disconnected from yourself, a body that has held on for a long time.

None of that needs a label. We start with what you notice, and we work from there.

Thirty-seven minutes gives you time to shift out of the day. Turn the phone off, let the road be quiet, and arrive a little early. On the way home, leave the radio off for a while.

Treat the trip as the first and last part of the session, and it will serve you better than rushing in from something else.

When you walk in, the first thing you will notice is the space. High ceilings, wood floors, big paintings, tall teal curtains, deep armchairs, a table, bowls and gongs, all arranged as one calm room rather than squeezed into the corner of a shared suite.

It was designed so that you can stop managing yourself the moment you arrive.

A free 15-minute consult is the best first step. You can ask about the Capacity for Self Method™ or about anything else, and we will work out together whether a first session makes sense.

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