Ahimsa Therapy

Ahimsa Therapy Offering Somatic Psychotherapy and Yoga Therapy to support embodiment and integration. Hello and welcome! From this awareness comes the power to transform.
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I am a somatic psychotherapist, yoga therapist and breathwork guide Frederick, MD. I offer an integrated approach with the intention of helping you expand your awareness with compassion. Together, we will explore the thoughts and feelings that create your reality, and with care and humor uncover new possibilities that can help you face the challenges in your life. I see many of our struggles as sy

mptoms of living in a stressful, fast-paced world. Therapy is an opportunity to slow down and tune in. My intention is to offer a soft place to land in a crazy world. I work with people who are interested in being more gentle with themselves. Some have survived trauma, loss and addiction. Others are attempting to quiet guilt, anxiety and insecurity. While others are exploring questions of sexual orientation, gender and relationship. My approach is individualized, positioning you as the expert of your life and using your strengths to navigate life's struggles. As a yoga instructor and bodyworker, I offer a mind-body-spirit perspective that helps you connect to, trust and manifest your wisdom. I encourage my clients to take what works and leave what doesn't. I am deeply honored when people open up to me and share their struggles and I am committed to supporting people in their process.

03/31/2024

If you need a trauma therapist, I highly recommend this resource!

I am no longer active on this page...you can find me under Alicia Barmon on FB and IG. Here is my new website:
02/15/2024

I am no longer active on this page...you can find me under Alicia Barmon on FB and IG. Here is my new website:

Mother :: mentor :: WEAVER OF INTERBEING Liberation is in the compassionate space between our selves and our conditioning. In that space we can see that nothing is fixed, that everything is connected and that the healing is relational.It’s not that we suffer. It’s how we hold it...with the weath...

Equanimity, for me, is a resting into neutral, neutral in the way of the pacifist, articulating themselves with a gravit...
12/28/2023

Equanimity, for me, is a resting into neutral, neutral in the way of the pacifist, articulating themselves with a gravity that softens horizons.

Equanimity roots me into emptiness as I sit on the precipice of my own skin inhabiting the cilia in my lungs and the rim of my pores at the same time.

Equanimity is a straddling of worlds or maybe through them...weaving them into the fabric of the ocean between us, each wave an invitation to come back to the midline through micromovements and breath.

Equanimity is a practice of opening the bubbling spring at the sole of the foot and having a conversation with my wider body. Soul to sole.

It’s a soft paddle in the center of the lake in my heart. Nowhere to go. Already here.

Paddle.
Paddle
Breathe.

Photo by Machelle Lee
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Join us on Zoom:

Daily Breathwork practice emerging from the intersection of Buddhist and Vedic philosophy, Somatic Experiencing and the direct experience of breathing in community. 7:30 - 8 AM EST

First Saturday RAINN practice: a community breath & compassion practice. 8 - 9 AM EST

Experiential Breathwork Apprenticeship September 2024

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Welcome...I am no longer active on this page. If you would like to know more about my work, you can click below. I also ...
08/16/2023

Welcome...I am no longer active on this page. If you would like to know more about my work, you can click below. I also have active FB and IG pages under my name.

Alicia Barmon, LCPC, C-IAYT, SEP, ERYT 500, YACEP offers Breathwork for Trauma, Somatic Psychotherapy, Yoga Therapy online and in Frederick Maryland.

03/28/2023

What if the revolution is dropping out of the callous rigidity of capitalist linearity into a rhythm born of breathing sangha - a confluence of voices and presence so deep it births a singularity- an unrepeatable uniqueness, alive in its lacework of bird song and breath, the base note of bullfrogs and yellow of daffodils latticing through Om shanti Om - its uniqueness breathing life into the ordinary reminding us that the revolution is only right here in this very moment, this woven breath, a rip in the space time continuum, a worm hole back home to the slowness that only holiness knows.

Sensate focused breathwork for couples uses this phenomena to create safety and practice pleasure and connection. https:...
07/07/2022

Sensate focused breathwork for couples uses this phenomena to create safety and practice pleasure and connection.

https://breathwork.ahimsatherapy.com/sensate-focused-breathwork

How important is being close to your romantic partner? A study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests that spatial proximity can have implications for the dynamics of the relationship. ...

06/29/2022

F**k everything up!

06/24/2022
Breathing with you. ♥️
06/21/2022

Breathing with you. ♥️

"If we are brave enough to listen, our children tell us exactly what they need. And it’s simple.They need us. They need ...
06/16/2022

"If we are brave enough to listen, our children tell us exactly what they need. And it’s simple.

They need us. They need connection. They need contact. They need security."

Don't let our sleep training culture sabotage your relationship with your child. Nighttime parenting is about so much more than sleep, here's why.

So grateful for those of you who are not willing to pass on the trauma. It’s a HUGE project.
06/14/2022

So grateful for those of you who are not willing to pass on the trauma. It’s a HUGE project.

And, if it sneaks in and grips you…take some time to connect to the pain it touched and the younger part that holds the ...
06/12/2022

And, if it sneaks in and grips you…

take some time to connect to the pain it touched and the younger part that holds the injury. Bless this part with a tender breath and let them know that they are no longer alone with the pain. ♥️

Inhale, I’ve got you little one.
Exhale, I’m with you now.

Inhale, it’s okay to feel scared.
Exhale, breathe out the fear.

And, repeat until the pain becomes bearable again.

Thank you to the conscious parents. You are changing the world.
06/05/2022

Thank you to the conscious parents. You are changing the world.

Responding to our inner child with care is the renegotiation. Responding with care is the healing.
05/24/2022

Responding to our inner child with care is the renegotiation. Responding with care is the healing.

The science of attachment research (not the same thing as attachment parenting) points to responsive care as the key ingredient to building strong relationships. This means when a baby cries, we try to soothe and help them, while trying to figure out what they need. We can't be perfect at this, because it's a learning process! That’s okay, & how we form an attachment❣️

This is the gift that changed the world.
05/10/2022

This is the gift that changed the world.

I want to be real.
05/09/2022

I want to be real.

I want to travel. I want to laugh. I want to live and love and be happy. I want to spend time with my favourite human beings. I want to dance and dance and dance. I want to encounter strangers as if they are friends I do not know yet. I want to see people like they really are. I want deep talk. I want depth. I want to swim through the dark waters in fearlessness. I want to let go of the anger, fear, and hatred that's still remaining in my heart. I want to have a pure soul, to speak only words of truth, and to live that truth in everything I think and feel and do. I want to show the people I love that I love them and oh, how I love them they ought to know. I want to show my own inner self. I want the world to see who I am. I want to show the colours, all the colours of my soul and my heart that got rid of all the blackness of the past. I want to be heartfelt emotion, and vulnerability, and strength. I want to be fearlessness. I want to be a rainbow. I want to be a golden queen. I want to be the maze you never ever want to leave.
A fairy. A goddess. A woman.
I want to be real.

― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry prose

art credit:
Take Up Space
by Kat Kissick

Be gentle, go easy, get support.
05/09/2022

Be gentle, go easy, get support.

Everything takes time.

Words matter.
05/04/2022

Words matter.

Sesnsate focused breathwork to build safety and coherence through pleasure and connection. A conversation oriented aroun...
04/22/2022

Sesnsate focused breathwork to build safety and coherence through pleasure and connection.

A conversation oriented around non-verbal attachment needs.

A place to practice slowness; pleasure without performance and arousal without demand.

Guided breathwork practices centered on sensual touch experiences and tender attunement to the needs that arise.

https://ahimsatherapy.com/links/

Alicia Barmon, LCPC, C-IAYT, SEP offers Breathwork for Trauma, Somatic Psychotherapy, Yoga Therapy online and in Frederick Maryland.

04/14/2022

Some people ask me to design breath practices that help with falling asleep, quieting anxiety and overwhelm, self compassion, grief and the complexities of being human.

Breath is medicine.

The nervous system doesn't speak English - it speaks tone of voice, touch, and breath. When we change our breath, we change our nervous system state. We can bring the system up, we can bring it down, we can stabilize it and we can shift our perspective from gripped to expansive and receptive.

It is an honor and a privilege to design an individualized breath practice.

May we all know the precious gift of a responsive, dynamic, co-regulating breath.

Individualized Breath Practices for:
falling asleep
averting a panic attack
managing anxiety
cultivating relational capacity between partners
working with traumatic grief
chronic pain
loneliness
confusion
overwhelm
interdependence: remembering we are connected
cultivating energy and inspiration
whatever is moving your spirit and needing support

04/06/2022
Breathing with you.
04/04/2022

Breathing with you.

S I S T E R H O O D

By : Tanya Markul 🌿

Feeling/Needs focused parenting IS changing the world.
03/30/2022

Feeling/Needs focused parenting IS changing the world.

Breathing with you.
03/27/2022

Breathing with you.

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

~Washington Irving Karchmar

Photograph by Barbara Ezell

03/17/2022

Today’s reminder ❤️

Are you having trouble soothing yourself so you can soothe your children? Reach out for support. I’m Lisa Howe, MSW, Certified Peaceful Parenting Coach. Schedule a free 15 minute consultation on my website: www.becomingpeaceful.com

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271 W Patrick Street
Frederick, MD
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Thursday 10am - 6pm
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