Personal Geometry®
A somatic approach to accessing the unconscious body maps that drive our relationships, patterns, and addictions
Personal Geometry utilizes the body’s innate felt-sense understanding of the meanings of spatial relationships, bypassing psychological defense mechanisms and going straight to how we stand in relationship to anyone and anything – our “personal geometry.” This technique is rooted in the body, first, connecting to non-verbal intelligence and providing a way to create a visual representation of a client’s inner world and relational schemas.
“I can’t begin to tell you how helpful that was! I am sitting here reflecting, and above all, I feel that a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders already. It is bringing a tear to my eye as I write to you. Quite simply, that was the best two hours I’ve spent in a long time!” – Michael K
What is Personal Geometry?
Personal Geometry® applies our natural capacity to navigate and understand the world through our innate spatial relationships, visually and viscerally.
All our relationships are embodied through the ever-changing matrix of body maps (aka our personal geometry), unique to every individual. Personal Geometry externalises the shape of living meaning within, giving us diagrams to see and explore our relational dynamics. Once externalized, we feel meaning and shift the internal schemas by which we relate to self, others and the world.
By bypassing story and verbal intelligence, this method can show you previously subconscious and pivotal information within minutes. Where have you been standing in relation to an addiction, a sexual challenge or compulsivity, a difficult partnership, or an aspect of self – and what can you do about it?
Your body has insights that your thinking mind doesn’t have access to.
By consciously engaging the body, sub and unconscious insights are externalized through spatial mapping and the magic of mat work.
I developed Personal Geometry® to meet the demands of working in time-sensitive clinical environments as part of a therapeutic team. Having facilitated Constellation Work for years, I was invited to apply my experience in that modality to working with addiction in renowned rehab centers in Los Angeles. I quickly found myself needing a streamlined, effective way to identify and transform a client’s relationship to their addiction or any painful challenge – one that could get to the heart of meaning in as little as 30 minute sessions. By reducing the specifics and complexity of representations (Constellation Work cornerstone), we get closer to the personal meaning of the issue, and a healthier, happier path forward.
Personal Geometry is a modality that can be applied to… well, pretty much anything! (My particular expertise is in working with sexuality and addiction issues of all kinds.)
Whatever the issue, Personal Geometry can help give you a new perspective – quickly, effectively and enduringly.
If you (or your organization) are looking to catalyze life-changing insights using Personal Geometry®, I’d love to speak with you!
What is Constellation Work?
Constellation Work is a brilliant method and systemic way of perceiving how the unfinished business of your ancestors may be contributing to problems in your life, your family’s lives, and those of your children.
Science is now corroborating that trauma is passed through the generations epigenetically. We are each a part of a web of our family system. Trauma, tragedy, destructive secrets, premature deaths (or other significant events like war and domestic violence) that have not been resolved can become the burden of subsequent generations. Constellation Work identifies and clears those previously hidden loyalties so they no longer need to be carried and lived out. Otherwise, transgenerational traumas will continue to be expressed through personal difficulties with relationships, finances, career success, health, addictions, or sexual issues.
As with Personal Geometry, conscious and subconscious issues are represented by objects, colored mats, and/or other participants. By using Constellation Work’s “Orders of Love,” spatial relationships are given a philosophical framework for translation into meaning inclusive of and beyond the individual.
There are so many benefits to Personal Geometry & Constellation Work!
gain pivotal insight and relinquish hidden loyalties behind addictions
receive healing insight on health issues and personal traumas
shift dysfunctional patterns with loved ones including children or animals
disentangle yourself from the origins of your shame, self-punishment, and self-sabotage
clear ancestral trauma for the benefit of all generations
improve your business decisions and creative projects (even gaining insight on how to write characters in your script)
easily access and develop your intuition and empathic abilities
Ali facilitates private, one-to-one Personal Geometry or blended Personal Geometry both online and in-person, and is available for group facilitation by request. Ali works with all addictions but specializes in working with sexual compulsivity, victim-perpetrator trauma, gender journeys, and body issues. She also facilitates successful sobriety work with those grappling with other addictions such as drug, alcohol, and food addictions. For more on how she works with addiction, pop over here.
Ali teaches Personal Geometry Foundations as well as classes specializing in addiction and sexuality throughout the calendar year. If you’re looking to bring in a brilliant, somatic-focused modality to your healing practice, you can learn more and sign up here.
Ali is a trained facilitator of Family Constellation Work with more than 12 years of experience facilitating individual and group sessions.
Restore and heal the flow of love, support and success in any area of your life and body!
Ali shares distinct results from Constellation Work
Ali talks particularly impactful personal example
Client Testimonials
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I was recently privileged to have Ali open the doors of Constellation Work to me, and I have to say it was one of the most effective and profound facilitated insights I have had into my dynamics for quite some time. Throughout the process, facilitated via Skype video, and across the ‘pond’ Ali maintained the ability to connect with me and create a space where I felt entirely open and able to access some deeply personal experiences and feelings. She has a deeply healing soul and a caring that pervades her entire being. This is rare in today’s mindbodyspirit industry where many therapists are subtly insistent that you experience what they think you should experience…! Ali’s ability to encourage empowerment in others and acknowledge your strengths is exceptional. I found the Constellation Work to be a wonderfully physical and symbolic way of relating to my psyche. I highly recommend Ali to those looking to shift their perspective on a situation and gain valuable insights into their own operating system!” -Sarah McAllister, Cotswolds, UK, Director, Feng Shui Agency Ltd
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“Ali is an extraordinarily intuitive, empathic and gifted practitioner. She combines both tenderness and strength to create a very safe and holding therapeutic space where clients can explore and dig deeply. Ali approaches each session with boundless curiosity, offering a number of methods to help clients access their psyches and recognize the powerful roles we each inhabit in our family constellations. I would not hesitate to recommend her and feel confident in her abilities to work with a wide spectrum of issues and difficulties.”
-Rory Green, MA, Integrative Arts Therapy Founder of Write To Be You
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“Ali’s work incorporates a deep intuitive gift for assisting her clients to access both emotional and spiritual blockages that can lead to physical and emotional challenges. Her 30 years as a somatic practitioner, commitment to consistently integrating further professional trainings, and her pursuit of her own very deep emotional clearing work make her capable of guiding her clients through some of the most challenging emotional territory. This was immediately evident as soon as I experienced her work. I feel very confident in referring my patients to Alison and always receive excellent feedback regarding her work.”
-Nancy Greenfield, PhD, Pre and Peri-natal Psychologist
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“I’ve had multiple body therapy and constellation sessions with Ali and each time her combined insight, intuition, and experience created transformative ‘a-ha’ moments about me, my life, my story(ies), my body, and my empowerment. What a joy she is, as well, to work with and receive from. Highly recommended in every way.”
-Robert Bengtson, Photographer
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“I am extremely satisfied with the results of my Constellation Work with Ali; I have been on a years-long journey resolving deep grief & wounding, but finding Ali presented a massive leap forward in my process. I cannot emphasize enough the magnitude of the shift I feel after a session with Ali. Due to my circumstances, I pushed my budget significantly at the time I booked my first session, and it paid such good dividends in healing that I made room for further sessions very quickly. It is a blessing to find a healing modality that "works," facilitated by a competent & experienced professional - Ali was, and continues to be, one of these skilled healers in my journey. It is truly a relief to lay the burden down with the help of someone gifted in their craft! Ali's intelligence & skill has unleashed so much for me in this regard. I recommend her with full confidence, but only to those who are willing & ready to witness themselves and discover deeper truths, past deeper layers of pain, within themselves. Gratefully, working with Ali makes this courage more easily available - she knows exactly what she is doing, and confidence begets confidence. Thank you, Ali, for your light, your genius, and the generosity you have to share your gifts!” - Vivian D.
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“Ali is one of the most brilliant energy practitioners I've worked with. I can say that with confidence after working with many over 20 years. Within the first few sessions my OCD and severe PTSD calmed down. She lazered in on the root cause using Constellation Work and by the end of each session, I felt clearer, confident, and relieved of my past. With each session a new aspect of myself opened up that I knew was there but couldn't access because of the trauma. To be free of the burdens that we carry so we can express our authentic self with no fear is priceless. Ali has given me that gift. I have referred friends and family to her and will continue to do so.”
To learn more about Constellation Work, visit ConstellationArts™, my media company to explore and purchase my five-film documentary series on world-renowned facilitator Stephan Hausner’s masterful work on transgenerational influences on illness.