I TEACH PEOPLE WHAT TO DO WITH STRESS ONCE IT'S ALREADY IN THE BODY.
I'm Denise R-Stone, a somatic practitioner specializing in body-based stress regulation and recovery.
My work is built around a simple observation:
Most people know when they're stressed. Very few have been taught what to do with the physical stress they're carrying.
We learn to keep going.
We work through tight shoulders, shallow breathing, clenched muscles, poor sleep and exhaustion. Eventually, these signals can become so familiar that we stop noticing them.
My work helps people notice those signals again and gives them practical ways to respond.
MY APPROACH
Stress isn't only something we think about.
We experience it physically.
That's why my work starts with the body.
I use guided breath, movement, body awareness and tension-release techniques to help people recognize where they're holding stress and support the body in coming down from pressure.
The approach changes depending on the setting.
In workplace sessions, the work is practical, controlled and designed to fit comfortably into the working day.
In small groups and private sessions, there is more space to work at greater depth.
The aim is never to force an experience.
It's to help people become better at noticing what their body is communicating and responding to it.
EXPERIENCE WHERE PRESSURE IS REAL
My work has taken me into environments where stress isn't an abstract concept.
I've delivered body-based stress regulation sessions with resident physicians and healthcare professionals in NYC hospital settings.
I've also worked with incarcerated men and women at Rikers Island, using life coaching and somatic practices in an environment shaped by significant pressure and stress.
These experiences have strongly influenced how I work today.
People don't always need another explanation of why they're stressed.
Sometimes they need to experience what it feels like to stop holding so much of it.
TRAINING
I have completed more than 500 hours of specialist practitioner training in somatic and body-based work, including direct training in the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS).
My wider training includes life coaching and continued study of breath, movement and body-based regulation practices.
Rather than applying one technique to everyone, I draw from this training according to the individual, group and environment I'm working with.
THE PRINCIPLE BEHIND MY WORK
Your body communicates with you constantly.
Tension. Changes in breathing. Restlessness. Fatigue. Tightness. The inability to switch off.
These signals are easy to override when life demands that we keep performing.
But noticing them isn't weakness.
It's information.
And when you learn how to respond to that information, stress doesn't have to keep accumulating unchecked.
That's what I teach.
WORK WITH ME
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Practical stress-regulation sessions for teams working under pressure.
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Deeper individual somatic work for people who want to work with accumulated stress and their own patterns of tension and regulation.
New York City · In-person
“Delivering structured nervous system regulation training to resident physicians in hospital settings.”
