The Portrait Experience
One shoot made as ceremony, shaped around you from the first conversation to the moment your images are in your hands. By inquiry.
Somatic, Archetypal & Photographic Work · Glenwood Springs, Colorado
This is the threshold. You have been standing here long enough.
Something in you is ready to move.
Somatic sessions give your body the time and safety to release what it has been carrying and to express what it has kept quiet. Myth and ceremony give that change its shape and meaning. And when something surfaces that asks to be seen, I create the portrait that witnesses it.
The body knows.
The image remembers.
Most inner work is invisible. You do it, something changes, and you are left holding nothing. Sovereign Splendor is built so the work moves through the body and you have something in your hands to return to.
The heart of the practice
Embodied Alchemy
Six months of body, myth, and image worked together.
Somatic sessions every two weeks, archetypal and mythic work, and one consistent relationship from beginning to end. Three portraits are made as the work unfolds: who you were, who is emerging, and who you became.
Founding rate $10,000 until the spring equinox, March 20, or until its four places fill; $15,000 after that. By invitation or application.
The way in
Threshold is where the work begins: four sessions to meet it in your own body, and to decide together whether going deeper makes sense for you now.
Open now · Autumn round · 4 spots open
Threshold
The work goes deep. Starting doesn’t have to.
Four sessions over about six weeks, for anyone new to somatic work or ready for a fresh step in: a chance to experience it for yourself and find out together whether it’s right for you now.
- Four sessions · 75 minutes each
- Practices and reflection tools between sessions
- Available online
$600
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Other ways to work with me
The Muse Atelier
An invitation into my art: fine-art portrait sessions that start from a concept of my own and take shape with you as the muse. New concepts open as inspiration strikes.
Group immersions are on the way. Workshops run occasionally.
In their words
These are from years of portrait work — before the deeper container existed. The six-month practice is new. The seeing is not.
After my session, a whole new journey began. I saw myself through someone else’s lens.
Revisiting my images has been a beautiful journey of self-reflection. Each time I look at them, I notice new facets of my beauty and strength.
She doesn’t crowd you with her ego. She directs gently, but with a clear goal in mind.
It felt like a self-love ritual more than anything else. I felt empowered afterwards — not just sexy or creative.
I cried reviewing the photos. They marked a tremendous growth for me — in how I saw myself as a woman.
Meet Alicia
I’m Alicia: somatic practitioner, archetypal guide, and portrait photographer, based out of the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, in Glenwood Springs. My somatic training comes from the Phoenix Path at Jessica Benstock’s Institute of Transformational Arts: advanced trauma resolution, energetic tracking, shadow and parts work, and nervous-system regulation. Around it sit anthropology, permaculture, archetypal and mythic study, ritual, and a decade of portrait work.
More about me
Begin
You already know this is yours.
If something in you moved while reading this, that is worth trusting.
Threshold and Embodied Alchemy each have their own application. For anything else, or if you would simply like to talk first, write to me here.