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Helping the body heal itself
We specialize in trauma-informed Somatic Chiropractic care in Oakland. Our approach focuses on helping you access your innate healing abilities through attuned touch and deep somatic listening.
Whether you’re experiencing stress at work or at home, dealing with an injury, suffering from a chronic condition, training for your next marathon, or simply dealing with more than you can handle alone, Somatic Chiropractic care can help you find ease, restore balance, and change the way your body responds to stress.
You don’t have to be symptomatic to benefit from it. Many people come in without pain to work on their relationship with their body and the stories it holds.
Somatic Chiropractic
Somatic Chiropractic is a unique blend of Bio-Geometric Integration (BGI), Network Spinal Analysis (NSA), Osteopathic manual therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral therapy, and somatic trauma work. These frameworks and techniques allow the body to gently unwind holding patterns and release tension from the whole system.
What makes our Oakland practice unique is the depth of somatic listening that guides every session. Using attuned touch, Dr. Myles reads your body to understand what you're holding, feeling for where tension lives, how it's organized, and what it's protecting.
The work might involve visceral manipulation with your organs, craniosacral holds, precise manual tissue therapy or scar work, or simply attuned presence as an experience moves through your system. Your body guides what's needed, which can shift moment to moment. The common thread is presence, attunement, and trust in your body's wisdom.
Your body experiences all kinds of stress: physical, chemical, mental, and emotional. When you can't process stress in the moment it occurs, you store the physical tensions, emotions, and overall charge in your tissues, skeletal system, and nervous system. Every injury, every painful experience, every overwhelming moment—it all builds up throughout your life and distorts your physical form. This blocks the natural flow of energy and prevents different parts of your body from communicating, resulting in symptoms like pain, anxiety, depression, and digestive issues.
Bio-Geometric Integration (BGI) is the energetic map of how your body stores these experiences. Through this work, I help you learn to read your internal terrain—to become aware of what you're holding, where it lives, and how to let it integrate. When these stored experiences become part of the whole instead of creating interference, your body's self-healing mechanisms can finally do their job, and symptoms often resolve on their own.
When you receive a somatic chiropractic session, your body gets a second chance to process these stored experiences. Through touch and contacts along the spine, organs, and tissues, we cue your nervous system to notice and resolve the tension it's holding.
What experts are saying
“Somatic opening works through the body to access and transform survival reactions, experiences that have shaped us, and emotions or numbing that has become automatic. Our bodies tell stories. Our muscles hold memories. Somatic opening allows us to listen to, somatically process, and transform these stories. Somatic opening allows more aliveness, purpose, love, and power.”
Staci Haines; Co-Founder of Generative Somatics and Author of “The Politics of Trauma”
“Suppressed energy doesn’t go away, and even dark or disowned energy cannot be destroyed. It needs to move, to become, to transmute; it must find an expression. In this way, unconscious material rises again and again to the surface, seeking to be met, detoxed, and clarified. Until trauma has been acknowledged, felt, and released, it will be experienced from without in the form of repetition compulsion and projection and from within as tension and contraction, reduction of life flow, illness or disease.”
Thomas Hübl; Collective trauma expert and author of “Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World”
