Embodied

 A 6-Month Applied Somatic Medicine™ Immersion

For the woman who has tried everything — and whose body is still waiting to be heard.

Application-only. Only 2 women accepted per quarter.

Katerina Baratta, LAc, MS | Creator and Practitioner of Embodied 

None of this is random.

What you’re experiencing has a name: Chronic Somatic Override™.

CSO™ is not a diagnosis. It’s a behavior — one our culture actively rewards.

It’s what happens when a woman spends years prioritizing the demands of her mind, her calendar, and everyone around her over the signals her body is sending. When she learns to push past discomfort, suppress sensation, and treat her body as a vehicle to be managed rather than a system to be listened to.

The mind and body are in constant conversation. When we stop listening to one side of that conversation, the body finds other ways to speak. Loudly.

Stress that isn’t moved through the body doesn’t disappear — it gets stored. In the fascia. In the muscles. In the nervous system’s threat-detection patterns. In hormonal signaling. Over time, those stored patterns become your baseline. And your baseline becomes your life.

This isn’t weakness. It’s what happens when an intelligent, capable woman is given no roadmap for her body.

Your symptoms are not the problem. They’re the message.

Your body has not betrayed you. It has been trying to reach you.

The anxiety, the tension, the exhaustion, the symptoms — these are your nervous system doing exactly what it’s designed to do: protect you, alert you, and try to restore balance. The problem isn’t that your body is broken. The problem is that the override has been running so long, you’ve lost the thread back to yourself.

And here’s what matters:

The nervous system is not fixed. It learns.

This is not a metaphor — it is neuroscience. Through consistent, repeated experience, the nervous system builds new patterns. New neural pathways. A new baseline. What once felt like bracing and vigilance can become steadiness and ease — not because you worked harder at it, but because your body was given the conditions it needed to rewire.

That is exactly what Embodied is designed to create.

How Embodied Works

Consistency is not a preference in this program — it is the mechanism.

Neuroplasticity — the brain and nervous system’s capacity to form new patterns — requires repetition. Not insight. Not intention. Repetition in a body that feels safe enough to change. This is why weekly hands-on care in the early phases of Embodied is non-negotiable, and why the program is structured the way it is: front-loaded with intensive support, then carefully tapered to allow integration as your system establishes a new baseline.

This is how the body learns something new — not all at once, but steadily, over time, with the right conditions.

Six months from now:

You feel lighter. Not because your life got easier, but because you’re no longer carrying it in your body the way you were.

Stress moves through you differently now. You know how to work with your nervous system instead of against it — so tension doesn’t accumulate the way it used to, and when it does, you know how to move it through.

You feel safe enough to feel things. Emotions arrive and pass. They don’t derail you.

You show up for your life — for your relationships, your work, your people — with presence instead of performance. You have something left over at the end of the day, because you’ve learned to stop spending energy bracing against yourself.

You make choices that support your body — what you eat, how you move, how you rest — and it doesn’t feel like discipline anymore. It feels like something you do because you know what happens when you don’t. Because your body told you. And you listened.

You know how to ask for help. You know how to honor your limits. You don’t push past them the way you used to, and you don’t punish yourself when you need to stop.

You give yourself grace. Not perfectly, not always — but more than before, and it’s becoming more natural.

You cultivate joy. Ease. Space. And because of that, you’re more generous — with your energy, your presence, your love — not less.

You showed up for yourself. And now you can really show up for everyone else.

Embodied is intentionally structured to meet your nervous system where it is — and walk it somewhere new.

The arc of this program follows the arc of nervous system repatterning: intensive early support to interrupt survival-mode patterns, steady weekly care to build a new baseline, and gradually tapering sessions that create space for integration — so what you experience in the treatment room becomes the way you live.

THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM

Personalized clinical guidance woven into every phase:

Beyond hands-on sessions, your care in Embodied includes:

Movement & Rhythm Guidance — Somatic practices, qigong, yoga, and movement recommendations calibrated to your nervous system’s current capacity. Exercise as regulation, not discipline.

Herbal & Supplement Support — Chinese herbal formulas, Western botanicals, and targeted supplements introduced thoughtfully and refined as your body responds. Not to create dependence, but to give your system the biochemical support it needs to change.

Nutrition & Seasonal Nourishment — Personalized guidance rooted in Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic seasonal principles. Food as information for your nervous system, hormones, digestion, and energy — not as another thing to perfect.

Between-Session Support — Healing doesn’t pause between appointments. You’ll have access to between-session support via text message for questions, symptom shifts, and clarity around your care — so you’re never navigating a significant change alone.

Protected Session Time — Your sessions are scheduled at the start of the program and held for you throughout. Your care is protected.

10% Discount on Additional Services — Massage therapy and any treatments outside the scope of the program are available to you at a 10% discount for the duration of Embodied.

WHO THIS IS FOR

This program is not the right fit if:

• You’re looking for a quick fix or a one-time reset. This work requires time, repetition, and presence.

• You want someone to fix you from the outside. Embodied supports your body’s own capacity to heal — it works with you, not on you.

• You’re not ready to slow down, feel sensation, or meet what arises in the body. This work requires a willingness to be present.

• You’re looking for a purely talk-based or cognitive approach. Our focus is the body — and what lives there that words haven’t reached.

INVESTMENT

Your Investment in Embodied

Embodied is offered by application only and limited to two women per quarter. This is not a policy — it is a reflection of what this level of care actually requires.

Over six months, your program includes 8 extended 105-minute Applied Somatic Medicine™ sessions with coaching and 24 hands-on somatic sessions — 32 treatments in total, plus personalized herbal, nutritional, and movement guidance and between-session support throughout.

Booked individually, that care totals $10,650.

Pay in Full: $9,600 Save over $1,000 — and commit to the work fully from the start.

Payment Plan: $10,650 Six monthly payments of $1,775. You pay exactly the à la carte value — nothing more.

All payments processed securely through Jane App. Payment plan enrollment confirmed upon application acceptance.

You don’t need to feel certain before applying. The application is a conversation, not a commitment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this worth the investment?

That depends on what you’re comparing it to.

If you’re comparing it to a single acupuncture session or a massage — no, it’s a different category of thing entirely. Embodied is a six-month clinical relationship built around a comprehensive treatment arc. It includes hands-on care at a frequency that creates real neurological change, personalized herbal and nutritional guidance, between-session support, and a practitioner who knows your system deeply and adjusts your care as you evolve.

The women who find this program most valuable are the ones who have already spent years — and often significant money — on individual sessions, supplements, programs, and approaches that helped somewhat but never shifted the underlying pattern. For those women, Embodied is often the most efficient investment they’ve made. Not because it’s cheap, but because it actually works at the level the problem lives.

Why is consistency so important? Can I do this with fewer sessions?

Consistency is not a preference in this program — it is the clinical mechanism.

The nervous system changes through repetition, not insight. You can understand everything about why you override your body’s signals, and that understanding will not change the pattern. What changes the pattern is repeated experience — in a body that feels safe, with a practitioner who knows how to create those conditions — over time.

This is why the first two months are structured at twice-weekly sessions. We are interrupting a long-standing pattern and beginning to lay the conditions for a new one. The increased frequency means your nervous system doesn’t have time to fully default back between sessions — the new pattern gets reinforced before the old one reasserts itself. Spacing sessions too far apart in this phase is like starting a new language and then not practicing for two weeks. The nervous system defaults back to what it knows.

The shift in months three through six — to weekly sessions with one extended session anchoring each month — is equally intentional. By then your system has built enough of a new baseline that the deeper work can be held and integrated between sessions. The frequency reduces. What stays consistent is the weekly contact and the clinical thread running through all of it.

None of this is arbitrary. Every element of the structure exists because that’s how the body learns something new.

Is this therapy? Do I need to already be in therapy?

Embodied is not psychotherapy. It does not replace mental health treatment, and if you are currently working with a therapist, this program is designed to run alongside that work — not compete with it.

What Embodied addresses is the body side of the mind-body relationship. Many women find that talk therapy helps them understand why they feel and respond the way they do — and that Applied Somatic Medicine™ helps their body actually change those patterns at a physiological level. The two approaches support each other deeply.

You do not need to be in therapy to participate in Embodied.

What if I’ve never done acupuncture or somatic bodywork before?

You don’t need prior experience. The program is designed to meet you where you are. Your first sessions include a thorough intake and orientation — we go at your body’s pace, not a predetermined protocol.

Many women who come to Embodied have never experienced somatic work before. That is often an advantage: there are no prior expectations to unlearn.

What if I need to miss a session?

Consistency matters, and we also understand that life is real.

Missed sessions may be rescheduled within 60 days of the original appointment based on availability. Sessions not rescheduled within that window are forfeited and cannot be carried forward or refunded. This policy exists to protect the integrity of the program arc — not to be rigid, but because spacing matters.

Can I use insurance?

Embodied is not eligible for insurance reimbursement. This program is designed at a scope and depth that insurance does not recognize or cover — including extended sessions, somatic bodywork, coaching integration, herbal guidance, between-session support, and the coordinated clinical arc over six months.

The acupuncture component of sessions may be partially eligible for HSA/FSA reimbursement depending on your plan. We recommend checking with your provider.

How do I know if I’m ready?

You’re probably ready if:

• Your body has been sending signals you’ve been overriding for a while
• You’ve tried things that helped — but nothing has shifted the underlying pattern
• You’re willing to commit to consistent in-person care
• You’re ready to stop managing symptoms and start addressing the system underneath them

You don’t need to feel certain. The application is a conversation. If it’s not the right fit, we’ll tell you — and point you toward what might be.

How do I apply?

Complete the short application below. If it looks like a good fit, we’ll schedule a brief conversation to answer your questions and explore your goals before any commitment is made.

Only two women are accepted per quarter. If you’re considering it, don’t wait.

Your body has been asking for this for a long time.

Not a quick fix. Not another thing to manage. A real, sustained relationship with someone who knows how to listen to what your body is actually saying — and who has the clinical depth to respond to it.

You’ve held it together for long enough.

You’re allowed to put some of that down now.

Application only · 2 women accepted per quarter · Tigard, Oregon