Meet Me

April Fortes - Somatic Healing & Breathwork Facilitator

Hello Dear Soul,

I am so happy you landed here!

Whether your intuition led you here or you heard about me through a friend, you’re here for a reason.

Maybe you have built up stress or trauma that needs to be released.

Maybe you are realizing that you have been disconnected to your body for quite some time.

Maybe you deal with anxiety, depression and/or overwhelm, and the route of fixing the mind hasn’t fully worked well.

And maybe, like me, you are a highly sensitive and/or a highly empathic person, and you are looking for ways to self regulate while still honoring the beauty of your sensitivity.

Whatever the reason, know that you are seen and that it is possible to come back home and feel safe in your body again.

I know because I suffer from anxiety and am prone to depression – all because I learned that I am a highly sensitive/empathic person. Which means, I absorb other people's energy very easily.

Getting connected to my body was the only way that helped me overcome these obstacles.

Massage therapy is a tactile practice that I really connected to because I could use my gifts as an empath toward helping others, and managing all the energies that I absorb through this work has been something I struggled with for a while - until I found Somatic healing.

Through bodywork, I learned so much about the body, how it holds tension and trauma, and the human condition. It was only natural that somatics came next because bodywork was already a somatic practice.

Somatic movement came to me intuitively while I was in deep meditation years ago. My body had the urge to move, and instead of letting my ego take over to "keep still", I followed the instinct to move freely. I moved from a space of allowing my body to take the lead, and it was the most freeing feeling that I had ever felt up until that point.

Most recently, I found breathwork, and again I felt that liberation!

Finding all of these tools have been life saving for me, and for this reason, I feel called to share them all with you.

They all have something in common - they all connect you to the wisdom of your body.

As you wander throughout the pages of my site, my hope is that you find that I have made it my life's work to help a dissociated world become connected again. Because, when we are fully embodied and connected within, we are capable of moving through life liberated and as the most authentic version of ourselves. We are sovereign and in our power.

If any of this resonates with you, I invite you to connect with me. Send me a message and say hello! Especially if you are wondering where to start in all of this, or what service suits your needs best. I am a completely transparent and open book.

I look forward to holding space for you and meeting you exactly where you are.

Love & Blessings,

April

GET IN TOUCH

Who I Serve

• Anyone looking to connect with their body more

• Highly Sensitive People looking for a practice to help regulate themselves

• Those who suffer from anxiety and/or depression and traditional talk therapy hasn’t fully helped

• Those who suffer from chronic pain that keeps coming back even if you massage it out over and over again

• If you are just looking for something different, that can help you dive deeper into your inner work

• Self healers who are looking for more tools to use to self regulate and connect deeper into their bodies

• Overthinkers and over-analyzers looking to calm their minds – but traditional meditation doesn’t work

• People stuck in a pattern of lack of self confidence, feeling unworthy and not enough

My Approach

My approach is simple – we communicate in the realm of the body.

It’s all Somatic: Bodywork, Breathwork, Movement.

The approach will always be an inquiring within – asking the body, connecting to the body, and listening to the body.

If that sounds foreign to you, that’s okay! It only means that you were meant to be here, doing this work, so you can start to find the connection again.