For the woman who has already done the work
You have most likely done a great deal of it already. The therapy, the somatic courses, the reading. You can describe your nervous system with precision and trace the pattern with something close to accuracy.
And still, when you try to drop into the body, something is not quite there.
That gap is not a failure of understanding. It is the specific limit of what understanding alone can reach. The body does not release because the mind has produced a correct explanation. It releases when it no longer has to keep protecting the gate. If you have arrived here after careful research, that care is welcome. This work rewards it rather than rushing it.
What somatic bodywork is, and what it is not
Somatic bodywork is slow, attentive, full-body contact, held in a frame of explicit consent, in service of the nervous system settling and the body's capacity to receive. You are professionally draped throughout. The work follows your body, not a routine.
It is for women, and only women.
It is not psychotherapy, not Somatic Experiencing, and not somatic coaching, though it sits in the same family of body-aware work and can stand alongside them. It is not medical care, and it is not a sexual service in any form. The simplest description is the accurate one: it is somatic bodywork, and its depth comes from presence, not ambiguity.
What happens in a session
Before any touch, there is a conversation, over tea, without hurry. You say what brought you here and what you would like the space to hold. When you are ready, you move to the table, professionally draped throughout. The touch is slow and responsive, and the pace is set by your body, not a timer. Around midway, the jaw tends to release. After the jaw, the breath begins to reach the belly. Not before. After. The body keeps its own sequence, and the work follows it.
A space held by a man, on consent
The work is held by a man. For many women that is the first and most important question, so it is answered directly.
What makes closeness safe is not the absence of it. It is complete clarity about what the closeness is for. Nothing is assumed. Nothing continues without your willingness. Your no is received as information, never as resistance, and it never has to be justified. For the depth behind this, read a safe, consent-led space and the vow this practice is held by. Sacred Touch is not a replacement for psychotherapy or medical care.
Who comes to this work
Women arrive here from different doors. Some come after a long season of holding everything, with competence intact and nothing left for themselves. Some because they have been looking for something they could not quite name, and the available words did not fit. You do not need to know which door is yours. You only need to sense that the body is asking for something it has not yet been given.
Sessions, and how to begin
The studio is private, in Vienna's 13th district (Hietzing). The full address is shared once a session is confirmed. Sessions are held in English or German.
You can see the three sessions and how they differ, and read how the work unfolds before you decide. Thomas's background sits in a Polynesian bodywork tradition and in Eastern somatic and energy lineages, both of which he continues to deepen under active teachers. (Auf Deutsch lesen: zur deutschen Seite.)
Frequently Asked Questions
Somatic bodywork for women is a one-to-one, body-centred practice that works with slow, consent-led, full-body touch to help the nervous system settle and restore the body's capacity to receive. At Sacred Touch it is held for women only, in a private studio in Vienna's 13th district, in sessions of 90 to 150 minutes. It is not therapy or medical care.
Not in the clinical sense. People often search for "somatic bodywork therapy", and the work does belong to the wider family of body-aware, nervous-system-informed practice. But at Sacred Touch it is bodywork, not psychotherapy and not medical treatment. It does not diagnose, interpret, or process your history. It can sit alongside the work you do with a therapist, offering the body a steady, consent-led experience of being met. If you need clinical support, a licensed therapist is the right place for that.
No. Somatic bodywork at Sacred Touch is not a sexual service in any form. The work involves attentive, full-body contact with professional draping throughout, in service of nervous system safety and embodied presence. The scope is clear and does not change between sessions.
Yes, when the frame is right. The practice is built on explicit consent, clear boundaries, and stop-safety at any moment, which is what allows the nervous system to settle in the presence of a male practitioner. Many women find that being met by a steady, boundaried presence is precisely the new reference point their body was looking for.
Yes. Sessions are held in English or German, including the conversation beforehand and the consent throughout. The studio is in Vienna's 13th district, and the practice is well suited to expats and internationally mobile women looking for somatic bodywork near them in Vienna.