
About me
Jurga Bliss
Somatic therapist, certIBMT
As a somatic therapist I apply the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) approach and methods in my work.
The IBMT approach is based on and integrates principles from three core areas of practice and theory: The Discipline of Authentic Movement; Body-Mind Centering® and Somatic Psychology. Read more at https://ibmt.co.uk/about/
I apply a bottom-up process and invite verbal dialogue, movement, associations, imagery, sounding and intuitive touch (bodywork) as necessary, in attunement with your specific needs and following your pace and progress.
My goal in working with you is to create a compassionate and safe space for you to explore your personal path towards embodiment, healing and wholeness. I trust in the inner wisdom of the body and it's ability to hold, protect and nurture us in ways it knows best. Through entering a respectful and compassionate dialogue with our living body, our soma, we can find that, what skillfully guides us if we listen.
Clients approach me when looking for personal growth and ways to find inner resources, more balanced and wholesome coping mechanisms, transformation and re-patterning. I often work with clients facing hardships in stress management, looking into inner family work (subpersonalities), dealing with attachment struggles, boundaries' and other relationship issues (family, partnerships, including LGBTQ+, ENM/polyam and other non-normative relationship structures), experiencing psychosomatic symptoms, autoimmune processes, having concerns in regards to sexuality, struggles of life abroad, in multicultural environments and etc.
I live in Southern Portugal and work both online and in person. Apart from working with individual clients, I facilitate Authentic Movement and Somatic Movement exploration groups.
I have multicultural experience, and am a mother of four children, two of whom are already adults.
Education and Experience
Professional Background
Somatic therapy practitioner
Holistic Bodyworker
2016 - now
Private practice. Individual somatic therapy sessions online and F2F.
Holistic Pulsing sessions.
Facilitating somatic movement and meditation groups.
HRM Consultant
Project Manager
2000 - 2013
Working as a Project Manager and Human Resources Management Consultant in business consulting and market research industries.
Education and professional development
2017 - 2020
Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy programme, Cert IBMT
The Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy, London, UK
1998 - 2003
Bachelor of Political Science
The Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania
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2022
Family Constellation Basic Module
The Constellation's Path Institute for the Study of Systemic Constellations
2022
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Peer-to-peer learning program, Lithuania
2020
Somatic Resourcing. Body Presence, Movement Resourcing.
Jane Okondo private practice www.continuumteachers.com
2017
Tibetan medicine and Western medicine approach. Digestive system.
International Academy for Traditional Tibetan Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016
Introduction to Psychology.
2016
Ku-Nye Tibetan massage, Level I.
International Academy for Traditional Tibetan Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016
Holistic pulsing and bodywork.
“Zinija” Society, Vilnius, Lithuania