Individual Symphonic Touch® Sessions
Symphonic Touch® Integrative Movement Massage Process developed by Sabine during the last 30 years.
A holistic healing touch and movement process as well as Somatic Experiencing [SE -Trauma release work] that honors the BODY as the source of all human experience. Feel the fresh curiosity for life, love and relationship as you let go of tension, pain and trauma. Expand your awareness of yourself as relaxed open and grounded allowing old habits to change and awaken your body and brain for new possibilities.
For available dates and locations, see Schedule
- "Sabine Grandke-Taft's unique services and her vast knowledge of literally dozens of bodywork and healing modalities, she is naturally well equipped to understand the body, energy, and emotions from many different perspectives at once. What is so marvelous about Sabine's work is that she has integrated all this so deeply that she doesn't have to think about any of it to serve you. In my experience she just instinctively touches me, moves my body, and when her mouth opens to speak about what's happening in me, the words are coming from her heart and her own tissues, sinews, and cells, deep below the rational mind yet also using it as fully as she needs to. Sabine's touch is one of the most remarkable healing modalities I have ever encountered and I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone who's ailing at all in this challenging journey of being alive."
- ~Saniel Bonder, spiritual awakener, author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split, www.extraordinaryempowerments.com
- "Through my individual embodiment sessions and attending Sabine’s workshops, I have been able to drop more fully into my feminine essence. I feel open, loving, relaxed and centered in my own body. I highly recommend this work to any woman wanting to embody the radiant feminine energy within."
- ~Helen Attridge Green, Personal and Professional Coach, Inner Wisdom Coaching
INDIVIDUAL FELDENKRAIS LESSONS $100, 1 hr
For Women - 1.5 hr $145 - [$160 in other locations]
Symphonic Touch(R) helps you to:
- heal physical pain and trauma
- feel self acceptance with deep nurturing touch
- allow yourself to soften and embody your specific flavor of the feminine
- find/regain your bodies ability for pleasure and sensuality
- live from a sense of self trust and safety
- attract one and deepen with your appropriate partner
- find your specific voice to express your needs
- reconnect to your divine being, relax and open your heart
For men - 1.5 hr $145 - [$160 in other locations]
Symphonic Touch(R) helps you to:
- feel your physical body and allow new levels of consciousness
- improve your body's health and energy
- eliminate trauma, pain and movement restriction with intelligence not force
- minimize stress reactions
- deepen your relationship to yourself as an aspect of the divine through awareness
- find out who you are in your masculine
- attract one and deepen with your appropriate partner
For Couples - 1.5 hr $145 - [$160 in other locations]
- bring your relationship issues fearlessly - learn to listen/feel/allow
- discover which old pattern hook you so perfectly into each others pattern
- learn nurturing and breathing methods to harmonize your energies
- practice to develop your naturally fulfilling polarities
- explore SYMPHONIC TOUCH massage techniques to open all of your partner
- find the necessary Trust and Safety within and with each other
- reconnect in true intimacy
Phone Consultations for women, men and couples 30min $50
- embody feminine radiance/ masculine presence
- be trustable to yourself and others
- keep your relationship alive and fulfilling
- have choices in your emotions and behavior
- create more pleasure in your life
- make your sensuality and sexuality sacred
BODY SOURCE INTENSIVE $80/hr
come to San Rafael for a week of 1 or 2, 2-hour Symphonic Touch Sessions daily including deeply opening Advanced Massage, Awareness through Movement/Feldenkrais Lessons, Bodycounseling, Somatic Experiencing - Trauma release work, Home Play Practices, and dive deep!
some more feedback
Although I trusted my therapist's referral of a body worker to help with my healing, I had no idea what the work would entail. The term 'body work' was new to me. It sounded a little vague. I was certainly open to something new. Early on in my first session with Sabine, she told me that she truly loves her work and that she considers each session with a client a miracle. It shows ...
As she draws from her training in up to 25 body modalities in her Symphonic TouchTM to help me tip the balance in favor of the sensation of feeling from the act of thinking, I begin to soften up and drop into my body. In a typical session, she'll work on my feet for a while, then perhaps move to my shoulders and arms. The next thing I know, her hand is below my nostrils, as she is inviting my olfactory sense to experience an essential oil of her choosing. In Winter, hot stones are used in the massage. Tuning forks are another weapon in her arsenal of ways to help me shift my perception to my senses, their vibrations being another type of sensation to feel. I would very much like Sabine's Symphonic TouchTM to become a body work standard in the future. It's the most highly evolved body work that I've encountered (of many).
Somatic Experiencing ... I trust Sabine and our work together, and yet my mind remains in the deeply ingrained habit of sometimes making me feel 'unsafe'. Sometimes during a session she'll ask "Lewie, what's happening now ?", perhaps sensing (usually correctly) my mind beginning to reassert itself. At these times I have learned it is best to "out" my thoughts as best I can. A tangible somatic release then follows as the 'charge' of mental activity dissipates.
I always leave our sessions feeling embodied. There's a deep sense of well-being to feeling this way, so it's a real treat.
I saw a bumper sticker on a car the other day that said "Pleasure heals". Naturally, I wondered if Sabine was driving. The scandalous concept of learning and healing through pleasure is of immeasurable value to myself, and I believe to all of us !
Sabine,Thank you for being such a major part of my 'year of healing'. I'm grateful to you - you are the best !
Lewie - posted June 09
My life changed the day I walked into my first appointment with Sabine Grandke-Taft. I had been through numerous traumas over the course of my life, including being stalked, raped, and a herniated disc resulting in an unsuccessful back surgery and leaving me in a lot of pain. Needless to say, my physical body was only a source of great discomfort for me, both emotionally in the form of pain that was trapped somatically, and physical pain from my back injury. My therapist had sent me to Sabine as it had become clear that I needed to have some somatic work done in order to get in touch again with my body and begin to heal.
I have had a lot of bodywork done in my life; physical therapists, massage therapists, myo-facial release work, and myo-skeletal therapy, to name some. Every one of these therapists, while expertly trained at what they did and highly recommended by physicians or peers, never once took the time to establish a sense of trust before laying their hands on me. I didn’t realize how important that fact was until I met Sabine. She took painstaking care to talk to me at length about my body, how I felt things in my body and beginning the bodywork that we did in a very slow manner. I actually believe that it took 6 sessions of discussion and working simply on my feet in order for me to begin to trust Sabine enough to work on other parts of my body. It was through Sabine that I realized that before, when other bodyworkers began to touch me, I simply shut down and divorced myself from my physical experience. She explained how to feel the physical sensation of trust and it allowed me to open up and feel safe in that environment and with her. From there, Sabine was able to slowly re-introduce me to my body. I have been seeing Sabine for over 2 years now, and I find her work invaluable when it comes to my progression not only through my physical pain, but also in being able to recognize and register how emotions feel somatically. I am so in touch with my body now, that I have been able to escape from the fear that gripped me for so long when it came to back pain, and speak my authentic truth, because at this point if I don’t interact with absolute honesty, it hits my heart and registers as almost a feeling of disgust. It’s difficult to describe how actually “feeling” into one’s body works, but my life has been forever changed because of it, all due to what I have learned from working with Sabine.
Sabine is also an expert at guiding women on how to get in touch with their feminine. I separated myself completely from my feminine for a number of reasons. Obviously, the trauma that I had experienced led me to divorce myself from most feminine traits as I felt like it was my “feminine” that had betrayed me. Also, however, I believe that women of my generation are products of women who took part in the Women’s Revolution, and, with that, were raised to be strong, independent, firm, and driven toward successful careers. The art of being and embracing the feminine was something that somehow got lost in our upbringing, and while it was important to take on the masculine traits I learned growing up to be the financially independent and successful woman I am today, I didn’t realized how sorely I lacked a feeling of being complete. Sabine helped me to find this part of me and to embrace it fully. Because of her work, I have finally been able to find and feel love for the first time, embrace and take part in that relationship like I’ve never been able to before, and I have found an inner peace that I didn’t realize was possible – a lot of which comes from my ability to let go of the pressures I’ve put on myself for so long to use my masculine energy.
I wouldn’t even know how to recommend Sabine any higher. Truly, of all of the therapists I have seen, both physical and mental, I have never seen the kind of results I have from my work with her. She is not only highly skilled at what she does, but she delivers her work with integrity and honesty, and, on top of which, she is one of the kindest healers I’ve ever known. I am blessed that she was sent into my life.
-Sarah -posted May 2008
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