The Road to Trauma Informed Bodywork

Lauren pursued education in trauma informed massage therapy at the Pacific Center for Awareness and Bodywork (PCAB) in Kauai, HI. She completed her education in May 2020 and became a licensed practitioner in the states of Alaska and Washington in the Summer of 2021.

Lauren has a Bachelors Degree in Social Work (graduated in 2009). She also received her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training through Pamela Higley Yoga in June 2017. Since then, Lauren has taught yoga in and out of the studio, leading students of all ages through movement, breathwork, meditation, and play. She loves to combine the art of breath and movement alongside massage sessions.

Lauren’s other roles and interests include being a toddler-Mama, walking alongside newborn families as a Peps facilitator, providing doula support, working in special education and youth development, and connecting with creativity through writing, gardening, painting, banjo-strumming, and being in the woods or by the water.

What does it mean to be trauma informed?

Trauma centered work is grief work… is heart work…

It means learning a new language.

It’s listening, not just in the auditory sense… it’s to hear through visual experience, to read facial cues, body movements, tiny shifts. The ability to sense another’s energy, or to listen through touch. To hear the words that are being spoken, and also to detect the words not being said.

Being trauma informed is to possess these skills and to move forward with loving awareness- to allow someone to feel safe, heard, met.

Lauren currently practices massage and movement in Seattle, WA (Wallingford).

(WA License #61093266)