NeuroAffective Touch®

I am currently deepening my practise and training with NeuroAffective Touch®, training with the founder Dr. Aline LaPierre.
NeuroAffective® Touch is a therapeutic practise which works to bridge the body-mind integration through touch. Touch informs our earliest experiences and an attuned, caring touch is of the greatest importance to our brains development and our emotional and cognitive maturation.

‘Touch defines our sense of reality….we are always touching something’

NeuroAffective Touch® is a therapeutic method that looks to heal the relational matrix. It is a polyvagal - informed somatic approach that integrates relational and psychodynamic psychotherapy with the therapeutic use of touch and bodywork. This method addresses emotional , relational and cognitive developmental deficits that cannot be reached by verbal means alone.

In the sessions we might also work with heated and weighted pillows. These pillows are specifically designed for NeuroAffective Touch® and can be molded to support the body to awaken the touch receptors and enliven the body-mind heat connection.
NeuroAffective Touch® is most commonly practised on a massage table with a memory foam mattress. However the work can also be done sitting up with support from a chair.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke