Somatic therapy and Grinberg Method sessions in Lisbon and Obidos

Real change happens when emotions are touched at their source — in the body.

There's a feeling, a mood, that comes with you wherever you go. It's been there for a long time. You’d like it gone.

You know and understand your feelings and your patterns, and you know why they are there. And still you keep experiencing it: the same feeling in the body, the same reaction, and the same outcomes in your life or with your loved ones. Some things live deeper than thoughts. They live in the body, and that's where they can be felt and also changed.

This work is about learning to feel what's there and how to respond to it in a new way, creating a new outcome. You don't need to go back into the past — the change happens now, in your body, by choosing differently.

If this is you, I'm glad you have discovered my work. I welcome you to share with me what you’d like to change, and we might be able to work on it together.

What happens in a somatic bodywork session?

Each session begins with a reading of your feet, which shows how stress, fear, anger and old patterns are held in your body. It shows the connection between the emotional pattern and the physical pattern (to me they are both the same, both something that the body does), and it gives us a clear place to start and a clear aim for your process. From there we work with touch and breath under my guidance. You don't need to relive a specific past event or to understand it in order to change the pattern that is imprinted in you — the change happens in the present, in the body, regardless of the past. A successful process is when you have learned how to do something differently by stopping that past automatic pattern. Then, outcomes change too, together with how you feel and your ability to bring your true potential forward.

About the Grinberg Method

Body-based personal sessions, teaching you through direct experience how to stop what stands between you and your goals and vitality. In emotional or physical difficulties, your presence in your body is the key to allowing a change. This is a powerful somatic coaching that’s aimed at reaching a result in your life by untangling what stand in your way.

Allowing body work

Tingling, heat, flows, shaking or other sensations: body work is experienced in many ways. Sometimes a cry or a laughter might move you during a session. All body work is welcome and unexpected.

The sessions are designed to allow natural flows to move through the body. Those are flows of your own energy that you will learn to physically feel. We follow the lead of the body, and it communicates very clearly when we listen.

Join us for somatic workshops and group sessions.
Workshops and events run monthly in Lisbon and Silver Coast.

Meet Itai

I like to keep the atmosphere in my clinic personal and informal.
I enjoy working with and feeling with people of all kinds, and that amazing satisfaction of supporting them on their path towards change.

In my life I have experienced a profound shift through this work multiple times, and I wish to make it accessible to anyone who’s in need for a change or clarity in their lives.

Discover more about me here

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What people say

  • " I was able to stay in my body in a way that I usually couldn't. This presence taught me that my body could hold anything and so could I. I was also able to learn other things about myself that I didn't know. The sessions represented a safe place in times of storm in my life and the memories of them and Itai will surely continue present in my heart for a long time "

  • " An amazing experience, complementary method to 'traditional' therapy and working with the subconscious. The connection and deep work with the body has revealed patterns that I had no idea manifested in such ways, and were not possible to track in other methods I tested before. So I could recommend the sessions and especially with Itai "

  • " I appreciate our sessions and it’s given me a lot of good guidance in situations where I feel tension build up and I’ve been able to think back at your guidance and the breathing and the sensations of releasing tensions in the body which has been very nice "

  • " Thank you so much, you are very attentive to my needs and you immediately see the source of things, and your hands are healing "

Supported by

They are my talented teachers in Italy, to whom I’m forever thankful to have guided me into the concepts, ways, and magic of the Grinberg Method — being a body. With this Italian school I have spent 3 amazing years training body attention and discipline, and they are still today my family and professional support. We share similar visions of teaching others how to fully be themselves and reach their life goals. Discover them here