Introducing the Helios Body Reset. Release tension. Feel more like yourself.
Karina Hoog, CMT combines somatic awareness practices with intuitive, targeted myofascial bodywork to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and develop a deeper awareness of how stress and tension show up physically. Her approach is gentle, personalized, and collaborative—meeting you where you are and adapting to what your body needs in the moment.
What is Somatic Counseling?
A different way to listen to your body.
Our bodies communicate constantly—through breath, posture, muscle tension, movement, energy, and sensation. Somatic work helps you become more aware of those signals rather than simply thinking about how you feel.
In a somatic session with Karina, you’ll be guided through gentle practices involving breath, movement, sensation, and body awareness. The goal isn’t to force a particular outcome, but to create the space to notice what is happening in your body and develop greater capacity to respond to it.
This work can be particularly valuable when life feels overwhelming, when you’re carrying persistent tension, or when you simply want a deeper connection between your mind and body.
Initial Somatic Consultation
Your first session begins with a conversation about you—your experience, your goals, and what you’d like to get from somatic work. Karina will take time to understand your history, explore patterns of stress and tension, and establish a comfortable framework for future sessions. You’ll also begin with simple body-awareness practices so you can experience the approach firsthand.
There is no need to arrive knowing what you need. Together, you’ll discover where to begin.
Somatic Embodiment Session
A somatic embodiment session is an opportunity to slow down and pay attention to what’s happening beneath the surface. Through guided breathing, gentle movement, grounding and awareness of physical sensation, Karina helps you develop a more nuanced relationship with your body.
Sessions are individualized and always paced around your comfort level. Over time, this practice can help you recognize patterns of tension and stress earlier, become more present in your body, and develop practical tools for self-regulation.
Myofascial Targeted Bodywork
Skilled hands-on work for the places that hold tension.
Myofascial bodywork is a focused, hands-on approach that works with the connective tissues surrounding your muscles and throughout your body. Karina uses sustained pressure, stretching, movement and other hands-on techniques to work with areas of restriction and tension. Rather than following a predetermined routine, she pays attention to how your body responds and adjusts the session accordingly.
The result is a deeply personalized bodywork experience designed to help you move more freely, feel less restricted, and leave with a greater sense of ease in your body.
Nervous System Regulation Massage
A guided descent into your body’s own signals.
Nervous system regulation massage brings together structural bodywork with a deeper somatic and psychological lens. Our practitioner’s training spans structural body integration alongside the somatic and psychological sides of this work, so sessions can move fluidly between precise, hands-on technique and a closer attention to how your nervous system holds and releases tension. It works well as a stand-alone session or alongside our other bodywork offerings.
Sessions may incorporate binaural and vibrational sound, red light, and layered soundscapes alongside the massage itself, tools chosen to support your body in settling out of a stress response and into rest. Rather than a fixed protocol, [Practitioner] reads how your body responds in the moment and works with brief guided pauses to help you notice your own internal state — the aim, over time, is for you to be able to find that awareness on your own.
This work can stand alone as a restorative session, or grow into a longer-form Nervous System Journey for those who want more time and space to build their own capacity for internal awareness and self-regulation.
Meet the Expert:
Our bodies communicate profoundly through movement and posture. Bodywork when performed by an expert, is a therapeutic dialogue with the body like no other. Our therapist-in-residence, Karina Hoog is a certified CMT specializing in myofascial alignment, Asian therapies, posture and breath-work. Karina’s techniques help drive systematic pain release and to jump start the body’s own healing energies. Her focus includes myofascial-release, a full array of circulatory system work, acupressure, stress release and regular massage.
Clients of Helios have uniques access to a range of programs focused on alignment, pain management, breath and stress-reduction. We hope you’ll experience the incredible knowledge and technique of one of the area’s most experienced practitioners.