You are not broken.
Your body doesn’t want to be fixed or analyzed. It wants to be felt.
Listened to. Trusted. Held with reverence.
A regulated nervous system does not equal calmness.
Regulation is aliveness, rooted in capacity, not stillness or stoicism.
I work with the nervous system so survival-driven contortion can soften and authenticity can emerge. This work supports emotional range, capacity, and the ability to live with more aliveness and choice.
This work is a reclamation;
a sacred remembering of your body’s innate intelligence.
An invitation for every part of you to be met, felt, and welcomed back into wholeness and belonging.
As we do, change begins at a cellular level.
This isn’t ideology.
It’s somatic healing.
Welcome.
Let’s walk each other home.
Somatics is a body-based therapeutic approach grounded in neuroscience and the understanding that the nervous system, not the mind, determines how safe, connected, and resourced we feel. Somatic work engages the languages of the body (sensation, emotion, impulse, movement, imagery) and thought to access the physiological patterns shaped by our lived history. This process helps resolve what the body continues to hold long after the mind believes it has “moved on.” Where talk therapy names the story, somatic work transforms the pattern. Both can be profoundly liberating.
It’s through our animal body that we learn trust, belonging, and presence.
Animals move their feelings rather than think about them. In this work, we return to that wisdom, shaking when we need to shake, resting when we need to rest, and listening for the impulses that tell the truth before the mind ever catches up.
The animal body is the first place our truth appears.
It orients before it analyzes.
It sets a boundary before a word is spoken.
It knows the difference between collapse, appeasement, and an authentic yes.
Somatic healing calls us back to that instinct, the instinct that lives beneath the trauma, adaptations, and projections that run the show. When we return to that innate animal body wisdom, we step into embodied consciousness, a way of being that moves from instinct, coherence, and trust. It reminds us that consciousness is not separate from the body, and that what we embody shapes both our perception and our lived experience.
You deserve to move through the world with wisdom and embodied truth dripping from your veins.
Our deepest healing is animal in nature.
Talk therapy opens the door.
Somatic work takes you through it
into the places the mind cannot reach,
beneath the stories we repeat.
Why Is Somatic Therapy Different Than Talk Therapy?
Both serve as great guides on our journey.
Somatic therapy invites the body to become an active partner in the healing process, not just the mind. The mind analyzes; the body responds. While traditional talk therapy focuses on understanding thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through conversation, somatic therapy works directly with the nervous system, using thought, image, movement, emotion, and sensation as pathways to change.
We don’t have to remember an experience cognitively for it to impact us. The body stores patterns of protection and survival long after the mind has moved on. Somatic work supports the completion and repatterning of these physiological responses, creating safety and capacity from the inside out.
Rather than simply understanding our pain, we learn to feel and tend to it, allowing transformation to occur on an embodied and cellular level.
○ Somatic therapy pays close attention to what’s happening in the body, like tightness, tension, breath, posture, rather than focusing solely on intellectual insight or storytelling, though those are welcome here too and can serve as great guides.
○ It supports the body in recognizing that every state (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn) carries wisdom and protection. Through exploration and somatic practices, we create enough safety for these responses to soften, express, or complete when they’re ready, restoring the body’s sense of rhythm and flow.
○ Many traumatic experiences are stored in the body as implicit (nonverbal) memory, and somatic work can help tend to and alchemize these in ways that talk therapy alone may not reach. Insight without nervous system support can sometimes retraumatize, while somatic work allows trauma energy to move in diverse and supported ways.
○ Somatic therapy encourages clients to stay in the here and now with their bodily sensations, which helps foster deeper truth and emotional integration and mitigates retraumatization.
○ Techniques include a variety of practices, guided movement, touch (when appropriate), breathwork, or visualization (just a few examples), all aimed at helping the body complete interrupted survival responses.
What is the primordial medicine Way?
The Primordial Medicine Way is a journey from demure, delicate, docile to fierce, free, and fully alive: a reclamation of the wild, untamed self that has been silenced and repressed by the demands and projections of society. It is a path where somatic therapy, archetypal work, ritual, animal wisdom, and spiritual practice blend to awaken the whole self: body, mind, and spirit.
In this work, we give space for what was once frozen to find movement again, for the body to alchemize what it could not before. Through embodied exploration, animal connection, somatic exercises, and archetypal practice, we support the nervous system in repatterning old pathways of protection and survival, moving toward coherence and relational capacity. This is how we restore raw authenticity and how power and truth return to their rightful places within us.
The Primordial Medicine Way is liberation. It’s joy reclamation, and it’s stepping into your fullness. It honors your emotional depth, the wisdom of your body, and the sacredness of your spirit. It’s moving beyond social conditioning to embrace your own truth, finding freedom in your fierce, feral, fully alive self.
I was initiated onto this path by Penelope, my 3 legged, club foot rescue dog, whose presence and guidance opened the doorway into remembering that our deepest healing is animal in nature. It is through the gaze of animals, their raw honesty, their instinct, their attunement, that we are reminded of our own innate belonging and our own unconditional love. Healing alongside horses will eventually become part of this medicine work, as their power and sensitivity mirror our nervous systems in ways that invite profound transformation. Primordial Medicine holds animals as equal partners in this work, respecting, cherishing, and treating them with the same gentleness, presence, and reverence as every human who steps into this space. They are our teachers and healers, offered the same care, freedom, and grace we extend to one another, and honored as sacred co-facilitators in the healing that unfolds. Here, we come into relationship with animals, never power or domination over them. We recognize them as sentient beings and sacred partners in the healing process, not as work animals, but as partners on the journey. This work is about connection, not control.
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Meet Alli Fischenich
Somatic Practitioner
Before I had a name for it, I knew the “medicine” lived in the silence between words, in the rhythm of the natural world, in the crevices of my body. My path began not in a clinic, but in the “wild,” listening to what my body, the land, and the animals were teaching me.
I created Primordial Medicine as a response to the disconnection I saw all around me. Disconnection from our bodies, from the earth, from animals, from spirit, from truth. My work weaves spiritual practices with somatic work to help people remember what they’ve forgotten and to use their innate body wisdom to reckon with, heal, and alchemize the parts of themselves that are holding them back from experiencing true joy, love, and embodied authenticity.
I am trained in trauma-informed somatic work, ritual healing, rites of passage work, yoga, reiki, and earth-based practices. I am also about to enter my final year of Somatic Therapy school. But more than anything, I am a witness to true, profound healing. I hold space for the traumatized, messy, chaotic, painful, mystical, and magnificent parts of the collective. I am able to do so after healing a staggering amount of pain, trauma, addiction, and abuse that my system was holding on to.
I am not a service, but IN SERVICE to the divine and collective healing. Primordial Medicine is a revolutionary remembering. If your soul is tugging at you, if your body is asking to be heard, if the ancient ways are whispering, then you're already halfway here, and I can't wait to walk alongside you.
I reside on Northern Paiute land. I am an archetypal mother. A daughter. A land stewardess. Animal lover. Sober. Advocate. Capricorn Sun. Leo Rising. Gemini Moon.
