EMPOWERMENT
BODY AWARENESS
STRESS MANAGEMENT
MINDFULNESS
SOMATIC EDUCATION
Your body's talking, are you listening?
FINDING YOUR PLACE TO STAND & THE POWER TO MOVE
Richard E Sims
RSME, RSMT
Hi, I’m Rich Sims. I use a body based approach to empower adults, children and teens to improve and enhance their emotional and physical wellbeing.
Some of my specialties include helping people with their fear, stress, anxiety, resilience, depression and trauma. I also work with people who need a hand getting over a hurdle they can’t seem to move past or to reach that next level they are trying to achieve. We begin wherever you are, moving forward at a speed that’s right for you.
I combine the connection between our minds, bodies, emotions and our distress responses with various methods including Body Awareness, Breathing, Meditation, Embodiment, Somatic Education, Mindfulness, and the principles of the non-violent art of Aikido.
With practice, you’ll learn BodyMind tools and approaches helping you become more centered, with a calm, caring power. From here you’ll achieve a powerful place stand and, more importantly, learn to move forward from, ready to face and enjoy all the moments life brings. Simply put, “Empowered.” Scroll down to learn more!
Richard E Sims
RSME, RSMT
Hi, I’m Rich Sims. I use a body based approach to empower adults, children and teens to improve and enhance their emotional and physical wellbeing.
Some of my specialties include helping people with their fear, stress, anxiety, resilience, depression and trauma. I also work with people who need a hand getting over a hurdle they can’t seem to move past or to reach that next level they are trying to achieve. We begin wherever you are, moving forward at a speed that’s right for you.
I combine the connection between our minds, bodies, emotions and our distress responses with various methods including Body Awareness, Breathing, Meditation, Embodiment, Somatic Education, Mindfulness, and the principles of the non-violent art of Aikido.
With practice, you’ll learn BodyMind tools and approaches helping you become more centered, with a calm, caring power. From here you’ll achieve a powerful place stand and, more importantly, learn to move forward from, ready to face and enjoy all the moments life brings. Simply put, “Empowered.” Scroll down to learn more!
What is Empowerment?
To become empowered you need to understand what “Power” is and how it’s created. From there you’ll learn to cultivate your own power and use it confidently and wisely.
Personal Power
“Personal power” is the ability to control your environment, maintaining your safety while achieving your goals, needs and desires. When you have it, you’re stable, energized and secure. Then, “Life Happens!” You may feel lost, or at the mercy of others. So, how do you regain your power or achieve a power you may never have had?
Attaining a Caring Open Power
Many believe power is about by being larger and stronger or being able to intimidate and harm. But these are understandings born from bullying, dominance and abuse.
People forget about the loving power a mother or father holds to calm their hysterical child? How can the relaxed power some athletes command be explained or most impressively the love shared from a child wholeheartedly helping a friend? These aren’t lilting poses or cute memes, these are examples of true emotional and physical Power.
But how’s such calm, confident, loving power attained? This is the heart of my work.
Some Abilities you'll Achieve
A powerful, stable place to stand and work from to achieve your goals, needs and desires.
The Power to be calmly present in each moment to choose the appropriate action without freezing, or later questioning or doubting your actions.
To truly know you have choices, with the ability and confidence to act upon them in a calm, respecting, loving way.
Learn to embrace conflict or challenges as an opportunity for improvement.
To not be overwhelmed by physical or mental hardships.
To understand that power and control are neither good nor bad but neutral and are given their purpose by how we decide to use them.
A friend, mentor and teacher sums things up perfectly.
Love without power is ineffective. Power without love is brutality.
– Paul Linden
Getting there from here.
Most people believe their bodies simply obey their mind’s commands. They never dream their bodies are also leading their minds!
I’m certainly not suggesting we do whatever our bodies say. I am suggesting there’s a balanced point, where the mind and body speak and work together, to form a whole, more balanced, you!
Getting there from here.
Most people believe their bodies simply obey their mind’s commands. They never stop to think their bodies can also lead their minds!
I’m certainly not suggesting we do whatever our bodies say. I am suggesting there’s a balanced point, where the mind and body speak and work together, to form a whole, more balanced, you!
Some areas of my work.
My tools fit into the categories of
Mindfulness
(Trauma Sensitive & Wider Scope Approaches)
The skillful use of attention to become non-judgmentally and curiously aware of your thoughts and feelings, in the present moment, to help work with and expand your physical and mental well-being.
Somatic Education & Embodiment
An approach that studies the body as a physical and biological machine. A machine where the mind and body are one and how through this BodyMind approach you can work with and increase your physical and mental well-being.
Somatic Education & Embodiment
An approach that studies the body as a physical and biological machine. A machine where the mind and body are one and how through this BodyMind approach you can work with and increase your physical and mental well-being.
Then Some
The truth is, life’s hard and not always fair. It can also be open, caring and loving. Because it’s important to have fun along the way, especially with things that help, I always mix in a good balance of play and open accepting joy.
Somatic Education
The body has more to say then most realize. Learn the language of the body to increase your physical and mental well-being.
Empowerment
Empowered is the opposite of being helpless, shut down and frozen. Gain the power to be with, embrace and enjoy the many moments to come!
Mindfulness
By approaching mindfulness in a general and trauma sensitive way this powerful approach becomes accessible when it’s most needed.
Stress Management
Through a variety of body based approaches learn to bring down, recognize and work with life’s biggest stressors.
Centering Grounding
These techniques teach you how to achieve a stable, calm, caring, power filled life. Ready for whatever’s thrown your way.
Relaxation
Relaxed is not limp. We’re more efficient and powerful when relaxed. Move away from our normal bracing or focused reactions to a calmer more efficient state.
Gratitude
From helping achieve better sleep to deeper more meaningful relationships, the simple act of truly being grateful can profoundly effect your physical and mental health.
Aikido
Through the “Art of Peace” achieve increased body awareness, confidence and as it’s creator, stated, Masakatsu Agatsu or “True Victory is Victory Over Oneself.”
Personal Defense
Most of us don’t face punches and kicks. Achieve the skills to defeat the verbal and emotional attacks we all face.
Emotional & Self Regulation
Gain the ability to manage disruptive emotions, behaviors, thoughts and impulses.
Caregiving & Resilience Training
Who’s caring for you? Care for yourself and others more deeply, openly and freely while going, and going, and going…
Depression
Learn the crucial role the body can play alongside the many traditional therapeutic modes in dealing with the hopelessness and anxiety depression can bring.
Trauma
Gain tools to move out of the “Stuckness” and “Collapse” often brought on through traumatic events. Learn new open, loving, empowered ways forward.
Survivorship
Body based ways of opening and reclaiming your power to bring love and joy back to your body, spirit and mind.
Performance
Learn to use your body and mind as one, making Proffessional, Educational, Athletic, and personal challenges more easily achieved.
Somatic Education
The body has more to say then most realize. Learn the language of the body to increase your physical and mental well-being.
Empowerment
Empowered is the opposite of being helpless, shut down and frozen. Gain the power to be with, embrace and enjoy the many moments to come!
Mindfulness
By approaching mindfulness in a general and trauma sensitive way this powerful approach becomes accessible when it’s most needed.
Stress Management
Through a variety of body based approaches learn to bring down, recognize and work with life’s biggest stressors.
Centering Grounding
These techniques teach you how to achieve a stable, calm, caring, power filled life. Ready for whatever’s thrown your way.
Relaxation
Relaxed is not limp. We’re more efficient and powerful when relaxed. Move away from our normal bracing or focused reactions to a calmer more efficient state.
Gratitude
From helping achieve better sleep to deeper more meaningful relationships, the simple act of truly being grateful can profoundly effect your physical and mental health.
Aikido
Through the “Art of Peace” achieve increased body awareness, confidence and as it’s creator, stated, Masakatsu Agatsu or “True Victory is Victory Over Oneself.”
Personal Defense
Most of us don’t face punches and kicks. Achieve the skills to defeat the verbal and emotional attacks we all face.
Emotional & Self Regulation
Gain the ability to manage disruptive emotions, behaviors, thoughts and impulses.
Caregiving & Resilience Training
Who’s caring for you? Care for yourself and others more deeply, openly and freely while going, and going, and going…
Depression
Learn the crucial role the body can play alongside the many traditional therapeutic modes in dealing with the hopelessness and anxiety depression can bring.
Trauma
Gain tools to move out of the “Stuckness” and “Collapse” often brought on through traumatic events. Learn new open, loving, empowered ways forward.
Survivorship
Body based ways of opening and reclaiming your power to bring love and joy back to your body, spirit and mind.
Performance
Learn to use your body and mind as one, making Proffessional, Educational, Athletic, and personal challenges more easily achieved.
Somatic Education
The body has more to say then most realize. Learn the language of the body to increase your physical and mental well-being.
Empowerment
Empowered is the opposite of being helpless, shut down and frozen. Gain the power to be with, embrace and enjoy the many moments to come!
Mindfulness
By approaching mindfulness in a general and trauma sensitive way this powerful approach becomes accessible when it’s most needed.
Stress Management
Through a variety of body based approaches learn to bring down, recognize and work with life’s biggest stressors.
Centering Grounding
These techniques teach you how to achieve a stable, calm, caring, power filled life. Ready for whatever’s thrown your way.
Relaxation
Relaxed is not limp. We’re more efficient and powerful when relaxed. Move away from our normal bracing or focused reactions to a calmer more efficient state.
Gratitude
From helping achieve better sleep to deeper more meaningful relationships, the simple act of truly being grateful can profoundly effect your physical and mental health.
Aikido
Through the “Art of Peace” achieve increased body awareness, confidence and as it’s creator, stated, Masakatsu Agatsu or “True Victory is Victory Over Oneself.”
Personal Defense
Most of us don’t face punches and kicks. Achieve the skills to defeat the verbal and emotional attacks we all face.
Emotional & Self Regulation
Gain the ability to manage disruptive emotions, behaviors, thoughts and impulses.
Caregiving & Resilience Training
Who’s caring for you? Care for yourself and others more deeply, openly and freely while going, and going, and going…
Depression
Learn the crucial role the body can play alongside the many traditional therapeutic modes in dealing with the hopelessness and anxiety depression can bring.
Trauma
Gain tools to move out of the “Stuckness” and “Collapse” often brought on through traumatic events. Learn new open, loving, empowered ways forward.
Survivorship
Body based ways of opening and reclaiming your power to bring love and joy back to your body, spirit and mind.
Performance
Learn to use your body and mind as one, making Proffessional, Educational, Athletic, and personal challenges more easily achieved.
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