Imagine waking up pain-free, moving with confidence, and reclaiming the life you love.
There are seven Pain Patterns, based on how your body responds to stress. Knowing yours is the first step to lasting relief.
Like many of my clients, you’ve likely invested time and energy in medications and standard therapies, but these conventional methods have fallen short of providing the lasting relief you’ve been seeking.
You deserve more than pain management.
You deserve transformation.
Alchemēna is Somatic Alchemy for Healing.
Somatic means "of the body" – because transformative healing requires being present with and connecting to the sensations of the body.
Alchemy is about transformation – turning the "lead" of chronic pain into the "gold" of vitality.
I’ve spent decades studying fascial patterns and working with thousands of bodies in chronic pain. You're not failing at healing. You've just been treating symptoms instead of addressing the structural and emotional roots of your pain.
Whether you're seeking hands-on healing, personalized guidance, or comprehensive self-directed change, I offer three distinct approaches designed to meet you exactly where you are.
Each pathway honors the profound connection between your body, mind, and emotions while providing the specific support your healing requires.
• In-person Bodywork: Hellerwork Structural Integration - Experience the profound release of fascial restrictions and emotional patterns held deep in your tissues, through expert touch combined with therapeutic dialogue.
• Body-Mind-Emotion Integrative Coaching - One-on-one remote personalized sessions that deepen your intuition and cultivate the body-mind-emotion connection that becomes your foundation for lasting change and pain relief.
• Self-Directed Transformation Programs - A range of comprehensive online programs that unite body, mind, emotional, and spiritual healing in one integrated, hands-free approach. Experience 25+ years of manual therapy expertise distilled into detailed video instructions and specialized protocols you can practice in the comfort of your own home—at your own pace, on your own schedule.
You didn't create this pain on purpose. But you can choose to transform it.
Your body is holding onto patterns created by old injuries, unresolved stress, emotional armor, and the compensations you've made to get through each day.
These patterns live in your fascia, the intricate web of connective tissue that wraps every muscle, bone, and organ in your body.
When fascia stiffens from injury, chronic stress, or trauma, it doesn't just affect one area. It creates a cascade. Layers adhere. Structures pull out of alignment. One area compensates for another. Your body, brilliant as it is, adapts—but those adaptations create new problems.
I came to Anne-Marie in the hopes that she could get to the root of my physical pain—and she miraculously did just that. Each session felt like a physical and spiritual tune-up, providing relief and allowing for increased mobility. Anne-Marie's work was unlike anything I've ever felt.
Sojourner Truth Parsons
Artist
Most pain treatments focus solely on the physical—but your body doesn't work in isolation. Lasting transformation requires addressing all four dimensions where pain lives: the physical patterns held in your tissues, the mental stories that keep you stuck, the emotional armor your body carries, and the spiritual disconnection from your inner wisdom. This integrated approach is what creates lasting change—addressing one element while ignoring the others is why you can’t find the lasting relief you so desperately want.
Precise fascial release and structural realignment restore your body's natural balance, dissolving the physical restrictions of chronic pain.
Trauma and stress patterns live in your tissues. Through somatic awareness and mindful dialogue, emotional blocks that contribute to physical restrictions are removed.
Using neuroplasticity principles, your brain's pain processing systems are rewired, creating new neural pathways that support pain-free functioning.
True transformation occurs when your healing journey aligns with your deeper sense of meaning, personal values, and contribution to something beyond yourself.
Session by session, class by class —whether in-person or through my online programs — your body’s natural alignment is systematically restored. As fascial restrictions release and your body returns to balance, pain diminishes because we're eliminating the cause, not masking symptoms.
Most clients experience significant improvement within the first few sessions. Many achieve complete pain relief as their body learns to maintain better alignment.
As we restore flow and connection through your fascial system, your body remembers how to move with ease. You'll experience:
Relief from long-held tension and pain patterns
Improved mobility, posture, and structural alignment
Deeper connection to your body's wisdom
Greater emotional resilience and stress capacity
Enhanced overall vitality and well-being
This transformation happens gradually, layer by layer. Each session builds on the previous work, allowing your system to integrate changes naturally and sustainably.
Through guided conversation and somatic practices in my online programs, you'll develop an intimate relationship with the communication between your body, mind, and heart. Using meditation, focusing, mindful communication, non-violent language, and conscious breathing techniques, you'll learn to decode the sophisticated dialogue your nervous system offers in every moment.
Most clients experience greater clarity and presence within the first few sessions. Many discover how attuning to the body-mind-heart connection elevates their internal dialogue and transforms how they communicate with themselves and others.
This work deepens your capacity to:
Navigate difficult conversations with authenticity and compassion
Make decisions from your whole intelligence, not just your thinking mind
Recognize and respond to your body's signals with confidence
Cultivate emotional resilience and nervous system regulation
Live with greater alignment between your values and your actions
You're not broken. You're learning to listen more consciously.
Because of the work I do, I kept having repetitive injuries in my shoulder, arm, and lower back… Obviously, the most effective way to create something extraordinary is to not be in pain while you’re creating it. Anne-Marie has helped me establish ease, as well as opening up creative pathways and channels for my mind.
Julie Mehretu
Artist/MacArthur “Genius” Award Recipient; Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020
After one session with Anne-Marie I knew that her work was something special… Her combination of mind-body alignment & healing is something you will not find in traditional [work]. I learned how intertwined my physical, mental & emotional states are. She gave me the tools to navigate very rough waters.
Chris Cimino
WPIX 11 News Meteorologist & Co-host of New York Living
I started seeing Anne-Marie because of long-term pain in my lower back and right sciatic nerve impingement. Her work has aligned my shoulders and hips as well as reducing sciatic and hip pain. I would recommend her because it is more than a “quick fix”.
Shauna Sorensen
Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer
I integrate modern science with ancient wisdom
I address the root cause, not just symptoms
I work with your whole being, not just the part that hurts
I work with your body's natural wisdom to restore balance
I equip you with tools for lasting transformation
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