Private Sessions

Ruby conducts personal Somatic Archaeology™ Sessions by appointment. Please call 303-670-7300 to schedule your appointment. All sessions are held at her office in the Buffalo Building on Lookout Mountain Road in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado (click here for directions). Appointments are 75-90 minutes long and the cost is a sliding scale: $125.00 – $140.00. Please pay by check or cash. No credit cards accepted for private sessions.

Each private, individual session is designed to address your personal inheritance and concerns about generational patterns. Concerns you may want to focus on:

  • Creativity, abundance, empowerment and manifestation
  • Birth issues: adoption, miscarriage, c-section, abortion
  • Chronic pain, headaches and repetitive injuries
  • Disease patterns: predispositions and prevention
  • Relief from depression, anxiety and addictions
  • Heal emotional imprints: anger, grief, despair, regret
  • Remedy relational dynamics and struggles
  • Resolve traumatic experiences: surgery, auto accidents, spiritual loss, etc.
  • Self care skills for stress syndromes and neurological overwhelm
  • Techniques for solving insomnia and sleep disorders
  • Excavate unhealthy touch history, violent experiences and sexual concerns
  • Identify seven-generation cycles: familial, ethnic, cultural, spiritual,
  • Reconcile historical grief, loss of homeland, and spiritual sovereignty

I work with adults, teens and children to assist them to create an empowered relationship with their body, and to unwind generational or personal patterns that prohibit a joyful, creative, prosperous life.

Interpreting your body’s symptoms and reconciling your past allows you to build bridges to a future bright with possibility.

Somatic therapy stands alone as a therapeutic recovery model, or it can be used to enhance other types of treatment modalities or healing methods. Free consultations are available.

Somatic Archaeology™ is a therapeutic intervention that teaches us how to excavate our body in order to unearth our history and embody our joy. Through breath work, sensation, movement, dreamwork, somatic visualization and symbolic imagery, clients learn skills to encourage independence in their healing movement. I typically give homework to continue the process between sessions. We can develop an individual recovery strategy  utilizing affirmations, self care, empowerment exercises and spiritual exploration.

For those who need support during transformative times in their lives, Somatic Archaeology™ assists with integration, stability, and change. This innovative work enables you to discover the gift within the wound. Somatic Archaeology™  deepens your relationship to your body and gives you practical tools to access inner knowledge, while allowing you to release the need for suffering and recognize joy as your teacher. By creating peaceful resolution internally, you will then have the opportunity to authenticate peace externally.

Somatic Archaeology™ sets the stage for you to both personally and collectively re-invent your future.

Pam
“Emotional incest, molestation, rape, abuse – these words have such power. From me, they have taken away my sense of control, safety and power. In replacement, I have been given hurt, anger and shame, and I am silenced by them. These words have power over family, friends, peers. I believe they would make people I know and trust physically recoil from me, look away or just blush. It’s all hurtful, so hurtful that it silences me. Talking about my rape and molestation is incredibly difficult for me, so the reactions of the people I tell can be wonderfully healing, or horribly wounding. Healing is a continuous process – sometimes a struggle. Rape affects all parts of my life and being, and I have to work continually to become whole and intact. Pieces of myself are slowly coming together. The flashbacks, from all facets of abuse, I need strategies for handling them, to gain control over my life. Flashbacks can be a terribly frightening experience, involving all of the senses. A forgotten memory, banished from consciousness resurfacing to tell me that the trauma is waiting to be resolved, needing a safe place to think and talk it. I have been feeling a fury of emotions and I wonder if I will ever make it completely out of the darkness. Sometimes, people have told me that I am strong and courageous, but I can not understand why for there are times I have been such a mess – full of fear and doubt, about rape and life. I think I am beginning to understand though, that strength in not without absence of confusion, fear or doubt. Feeling despair, anger and all of the confusing emotions after a rape or any life crisis is natural and to be expected. Strength does not come from not feeling these emotions. Instead strength comes in facing my feelings and sitting with them to truly experience and understand them. I am redefining my thoughts on courage. Courage, is not without fear. It is following my healing path, even if it fills me with trepidation. Healing is a huge task and it can seem nearly impossible at times. Trying to heal despite those fears exemplifies courage. Recovering is very difficult, and it is true that some parts may be irretrievably changed, but I will be able to feel whole again – moving beyond survivor, remembering the past and knowing how it has affected me, but also realizing it does not define who I am or who I am becoming. Ruby, I thank you with so much gratitude for holding such precious space for me from the beginning. This journey has been much easier with you. With great love and blessings.”

Testimonials From Clients

Tom Whitaker, First Disabled Ascent of Mt Everest, 1998
“To climb to the summit of Mount Everest was the culmination of a life full of adventure that has taken me to the ends of this planet and deep within myself. The highlight of my inner journey was being guided through a therapeutic process by Ruby Gibson and Reynel Martinez called Somatic Archaeology™. They opened places in my body previously closed to me. I healed past traumas, re-examined relationships, and resolved areas of stress and conflict. This profound intervention uncovered my past and created a roadmap for the future.

R.M. - Veteran
“Somatic Archaeology™ has had a huge impact on my life. Personally I have been able to go into my body and see, feel and reconcile some personal problems that have plagued me emotionally for a very long time. As a person that has been diagnosed by the VA with 100% PTSD from combat experiences, SA helped me to turn my life around, to heal some deeply seated trauma that couldn’t be touched by VA therapists and medications. Ruby is an amazing person as a healer and teacher. She embodies her work and I feel strongly that she has a gift from the Creator in leading and teaching people. To have developed Somatic Archaeology on her own speaks volumes. My best and blessings.”

Pamela - Denver
“I first saw Ruby in May 2007 for chronic pain, which I have had for years. I had been to massage, chiropractors, and acupuncturists to try to elevate what seemed to be something that I would have to just live with. After my first Somatic Archaeology™ session, which was subtle, I was totally relieved from my pain. I am to this day pain-free. I was so impressed that I went back for another session and although the outcome took some days, my second concern began to dissipate. I believe that Ruby has had a profound effect on my journey as she is intuitive, provides a safe place, and has guided me through my own healing as can only happen when true openness occurs. The connection that she has access to and the unspoken allowance of that which can take place during a session is all that matters. I have only gratitude to Ruby and the forces that guide her. I will continue on my path and seek the guidance that Ruby has to offer in my journey.”

Rey Martinez - Vietnam Veteran
“Walking the path of PTSD for many years, I did not get the healing I needed from conventional veteran treatment, so I turned to indigenous wisdom. It was thirty years of learning and healing before I experienced my first Somatic Archaeology™ session. It transformed my world . . . I unearthed generational trauma memory capsules rooted in my emotional body that were the foundation and building blocks of my PTSD. The beauty of Somatic Archaeology™ is that it empowers a human being with the opportunity to experience the reconciliation of a traumatic event.”

Allen TeddyBear Gaskell, M.A.
“As a mental health and addictions treatment professional with over 25 years of clinical experience, I have carefully followed current research of the evolving field of mind/body treatment methodologies. When a “new” method or treatment emerges, I am apt to approach it with a degree of clinical skepticism. I found myself truly surprised by my own experience during a single session of Somatic Archaeology. This powerful, transformative modality needs to be experienced by anyone questing healing for themselves, or for clinicans seeking a powerful tool to be added to their professional repertoire. Ruby Gibson is a true somatic artist. Her work will doubtlessly become a healing classic of the 21st century and it is safe to say her name will become known as a pioneer of somatic healing techniques. I heartily endorse Somatic Archaeology™ and urge anyone seeking a powerful recovery tool for themselves, or someone else, to check it out. SA changes lives.”