Portland, Oregon · 1:1 Somatic Practice
Seeded Somatics is a 1:1 somatic practice for people who are cognitively clear but still tense, reactive, or numb — and ready for something that actually shifts.
Who this is for
Chronic tension that won't release despite stretching, massage, or PT.
Anxiety that lives in your body, not just your mind.
The low-grade sense that you've been living someone else's life.
Identity rupture — divorce, career loss, burnout, becoming a parent.
You know what's wrong. You just can't seem to feel your way through it.
That gap — between insight and embodiment — is exactly where this work begins.
"I can name the pattern.
I just can't seem to step out of it."
The Work
Therapy names the pattern. Massage temporarily releases it. Yoga builds awareness around it. Seeded Somatics works inside the pattern — tracking the nervous system signal underneath behavior, posture, and tension, and helping it reorganize.
Your body stores what your mind can't process. That's not metaphor. That's physiology. The fascia, the diaphragm, the jaw, the hip flexors — these are where unresolved experience lives, the soil this work tends.
The goal isn't relaxation. It's signal literacy — then propagation. Once we've mapped your particular somatic signature, we tend it the way a gardener tends a perennial: bedding it in, letting it root, then transplanting those exact patterns into the moments where you most need them. The decision before you regret it. The breath before you brace. The way home, before you reach for the thing that distracts you from yourself.
What you carry home
We don't hand you a worksheet and wish you luck. Together we map your somatic signature, propagate it into a practice rooted in your body, then transplant those exact patterns into the ground of your actual day — the conversations, mornings, decisions where real change has to live.
A written record of your particular somatic signature — where you brace, where you go quiet, what your nervous system is asking for under the noise. Yours to keep, return to, and revise as you change.
Not a generic protocol. A small, daily tending practice grown from your specific signature — short enough to actually do, precise enough to actually move something.
Two or three transplantable cues you can drop into a hard conversation, a hard morning, a hard year — the exact patterns we propagated in session, ready for daily ground.
Real, tangible steps and check-ins between sessions. A garden is judged by what keeps growing once the gardener is gone — so we make sure what we planted has roots before we step back.
Tend the body like a garden until it moves like a horse. Then take the garden with you.
Featured story · Three-year client
“Sometimes the easiest way to convey the value of the intangible is with a visual.”
We all carry a heavy toolbox through life — disorganized, full of redundant or half-understood tools jangling around as we dig through the mess. A rusty one you haven’t touched in years but swear used to work. An overcomplicated one you bought online, never quite figured out, and definitely never knew when to use.
Working with Obi changed that for me. Over three years, he helped me develop a toolbox that’s lighter, stripped down to the essentials — tools that are actually accessible, quick at hand, and built specifically for the person wielding them. From somatic check-ins and quick releases to breath-assisted integrative movement, I’ve developed, tested, and refined a set of tools curated to my own particular somatic signature.
That’s the work. A toolbox that actually fits your hand.
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In Practice
Not stretching with feelings. Not posture correction. A nervous system relearning its shape.
From the practice
A garden is judged by what keeps growing once the gardener is gone. So is this work.
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Portland, OR
“Working with Obi is immensely gratifying and enriching — a real companion on the path of healing, of knowing yourself, of inner growth. He draws from a wide range of experience and approaches this work with curiosity and a real reverence for where you're at.”
Signal Mapping Session
[Client Name]
Portland, OR
“I came in for shoulder pain that nothing else had touched — PT, massage, the whole list. Six weeks with Obi and the pain was gone. The harder thing to describe is what came with it. The first time in maybe a decade I haven't woken up already braced for the day.”
3-Session Arc
[Client Name]
Seattle, WA
“My therapist could explain why I was anxious. My yoga teacher could help me breathe through it. Obi was the first person who could actually meet me in my body while it was happening. Hard to describe. Easier to feel.”
Signal Mapping Session
[Client Name]
Bend, OR
“I was skeptical. I'd done the workshops, the books, the apps. I gave Obi 75 minutes because a friend wouldn't stop talking about him. I left the session and immediately texted that friend a very long string of grateful expletives.”
Signal Mapping Session
[Client Name]
San Francisco, CA
“Three sessions in, my partner asked me what I was doing differently. I didn't have an answer yet. I do now.”
3-Session Arc
[Add client name]
Portland, OR
“Working with Obi is immensely gratifying and enriching — a real companion on the path of healing, of knowing yourself, of inner growth. He draws from a wide range of experience and approaches this work with curiosity and a real reverence for where you're at.”
Signal Mapping Session
[Client Name]
Portland, OR
“I came in for shoulder pain that nothing else had touched — PT, massage, the whole list. Six weeks with Obi and the pain was gone. The harder thing to describe is what came with it. The first time in maybe a decade I haven't woken up already braced for the day.”
3-Session Arc
[Client Name]
Seattle, WA
“My therapist could explain why I was anxious. My yoga teacher could help me breathe through it. Obi was the first person who could actually meet me in my body while it was happening. Hard to describe. Easier to feel.”
Signal Mapping Session
[Client Name]
Bend, OR
“I was skeptical. I'd done the workshops, the books, the apps. I gave Obi 75 minutes because a friend wouldn't stop talking about him. I left the session and immediately texted that friend a very long string of grateful expletives.”
Signal Mapping Session
[Client Name]
San Francisco, CA
“Three sessions in, my partner asked me what I was doing differently. I didn't have an answer yet. I do now.”
3-Session Arc
The Offer
6 sessions over 8 weeks. 1:1. Limited to 8 people.
This is not a course. Not a program with modules. It's a guided, relational arc — built around your nervous system, your history, and the specific places your body is holding what your life has asked of it.
We begin by mapping your Somatic Signature — the particular pattern of tension, signal, and compensation that is uniquely yours. From there, we work session by session through release, reorganization, and integration.
By the end of 8 weeks, most clients report: sleeping differently, moving with less bracing, making decisions from a quieter internal state, and feeling — for the first time in years — like they're actually inhabiting their body.
Entry
Single somatic assessment session. Complete in itself. A natural starting point.
Full Arc
The full Somatic Signature arc. Most transformation. Founding cohort capped at 8.
Bridge
Three focused sessions around one specific pattern or transition.
All sessions are conducted via secure video or in-person in Portland, OR.
The founding rate reflects an early-access invitation. I'm building something and I want the first cohort to be part of shaping it.
MA Counseling/Psychology · CDAC I · 20+ Years Youth-Serving Practice · Portland, OR
The Practitioner
I've spent over two decades working in youth-serving settings — residential, outreach, leadership — holding space for people whose bodies had absorbed what their circumstances never gave them permission to process. I hold an MA in Counseling/Psychology and a CDAC I credential.
Seeded Somatics grew from the intersection of that clinical background, two decades of land-based observation through my landscaping and stewardship work, and my own long arc of learning to live in my body rather than around it.
I work with people who are done with surface-level solutions. I'm not interested in helping you manage your symptoms. I'm interested in helping you reorganize at the level where the symptoms originate.
Soft Exit
Get the Somatic Signal Letter — occasional writing on nervous system literacy, body-based awareness, and what it actually means to feel at home in your body.
No sales sequences. No weekly blasts. Just depth, when there's something worth saying.
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