SANDRINE HARRIS (she/her)
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP)
Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP)
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist / Educator (RSMT/E)
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Meditation Facilitator
Embodiment & Kinesoma Dance Movement Guide
Emergent Nature represents the collective offerings of Sandrine Harris, a trauma-sensitive embodiment practitioner and meditation facilitator.
Sandrine shares dynamic experiences of embodied presence, co-creation, healing, and connection internationally. Her process, Emergent Nature, grows through private sessions, group experiences and training programs.
Sandrine is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) collaborating in integrating lived experience, healing trauma, stress and chronic pain patterns. As a Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP) and former professional dancer, she offers sensory- and awareness-based movement to awaken curiosity, relate with environment and expand self-learning.
A meditation facilitator and trainer, Sandrine's personal journey with meditation began in 2006. Her training and orientation is trauma-sensitive, earth-connected, and inclusive of bodily and lived experience. In the recent past, she co-authored/facilitated an annual 200-hour mindfulness facilitator training (concluded in 2022).
MARROW, her current international offering (since 2023), is a confluence of decades of learning brought into an integrative process of unearthing, unlearning and embodied repatterning. It is comprised of somatics, embodiment and meditation, and includes creative and contemplative practices to awaken curiosity and self-learning. MARROW honors the lives of our bodies and the sensory pathways that meet our conscious fields of awareness.
Sandrine has spent over a decade in process with adults healing from violence, incarceration, cycles of addiction, illness, mental health challenges, and more. She has accompanied several humans in their end-of-life journey, and supports the spiralic process of grief. As a consultant, she regularly serves organizations in becoming trauma-educated. She is a member of the US Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and is a somatic movement therapist-educator (RSMT/E).
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Sandrine lives close with nature through the stewardship of unceded Stockbridge Munsee Mohican land (Massachusetts, USA), where she is heartened to continue her own healing.
TRAINING
Sandrine continues to deepen her learning through consistent training, case consults and professional peer groups. In recent years, she has learned about the somatics of shame with Peter Levine; attachment traumas with Diane Poole Heller; social justice through somatic transformation with Staci Haines; neuroplastic pain syndromes with Dr. Howard Schubiner; the impact of systems of oppression with Nyaunu Stevens (NCCJ); trauma-sensitive mindfulness with David Treleaven; meditation with Sharon Salzberg; and so many others along this continuum of growth.
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Professional Memberships:
United States Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP)
Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI)
International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)
Feldenkrais® Guild of North America (FGNA)
Sandrine enjoys working with adults (ages 20+). With performing artists, she has toured with Japanese pop stars (Dreams Come True) as their private somatic practitioner and explored the presence of silence with members of New York City Ballet (Grace Farms Foundation, Practicing Silence project). As a community trauma facilitator, she spent 5 years offering weekly circles in sober houses, safe houses, and recovery centers, for individuals recovering from abuse, violence, addiction, incarceration and more. For two years, Sandrine engaged with non-verbal individuals in a dementia facility, through weekly connective experiences. She has had the honor of accompanying several hearts through their dying process, and continues to offer this through private session visits.
As the former Wellness Director at a New York State hospitality space, Sandrine’s sessions and classes have been mentioned in the NYT ‘T’ List and Wallpaper* and Departures magazines.
She continues to offer internationally, with a focus in somatics and healing trauma, mindful listening and meditation, and movement for wellbeing.
Movement Workshops: incl. in Brazil, Hong Kong, the UK, Scotland, Japan, Austria, Germany, throughout the US, Russia, Czech Republic, NYC
Retreats at OMEGA, Grace Farms Foundation, Copper Beech Institute
Trainings to Clinicians & Care Providers at Laurel House (CT), McCall Center for Behavioral Health (CT), Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) Berkshires (MA)
Educational Programs to Students at NYU Dept of Psychology (undergrad); The Hotchkiss School; Millbrook School; Bard College at Simon’s Rock; Railroad Street Youth Project (MA)
Conference Experiences for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW-CT); CT Psychological Association; CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS); CT Women’s Consortium.
A complete CV with Sandrine’s training + recent programs is available upon request.
Testimonials
“I had no idea a process like this, and a practitioner like Sandrine existed! I feel held and deeply supported in living my life. Sandrine shares so much that I can carry directly into my daily life, and I have worked with her long term because there is always something in me to integrate and discover, and take care of compassionately. My sessions with Sandrine have changed my relationship with myself in ways I could never have gotten from a book or from traditional talk therapy. I am forever grateful.” J. S.
Dr. Vanessa Taback
School Psychologist
"Traditional talk therapy wasn't really getting to the heart of what I really wanted to look at...The process of Somatic Experiencing® with Sandrine helped to fine tune the relationship between my conscious, intellectual self, and my feeling self...
This work with Sandrine has kickstarted a gigantic change for me, in how I connect with my body, and therefore changes the lens in which I function in the world. It has been an amazing experience."
Patty
“I feel deeply grateful for who Sandrine is and what she knows and how she shares that. Her nurturing guidance in Awareness Through Movement® classes, and especially in Functional Integration® sessions, have truly been a transformative experience for me… I didn’t know a thing about Feldenkrais® and was skeptical, but was quickly hooked by moments of joy, surprise, and relief at being able to slow down, explore movement and let go of habitual and self-critical ways of thinking about my body. I still do not understand why such a subtle and gentle system of intervention can facilitate such dramatic change in the way I move in and experience my body … I now feel childlike playfulness and pleasure in movement again.”
Christina
"In working with Sandrine, I have finally found ease in meeting significant childhood trauma and subsequent difficult life circumstances.
She kindly and compassionately guides me through each session, helping me to connect with the inherent wisdom of my body; to acknowledge and release a lifetime's worth of emotion and pain and bring awareness to the strength and stability that is present.
I appreciate the embodied wisdom and grace that Sandrine offers."
David Darling, Grammy-winning cellist
“Sandrine is magical and the way she guides me through is like a mix of meditation and artistry. This work is deep and full of meaning.”
K.V.
“The process of working with Sandrine over 10 years, through Feldenkrais®, KINESOMA, meditation, and somatic awareness has changed how I inhabit my body, and how I show up in my life. It is my touchpoint where I keep learning, keep on healing, and discover.”
J.J.B., MD
"I have ALS, and in spite of the damage done by the neurologic degeneration as well as the fact that it is incurable, Sandrine took me as a client and has been working with me to to be present in my life and to preserve function in my body to live as well as I can.
Sandrine's concern and care certainly improve my quality of life in many ways."