You are not broken.
Your body doesn’t want to be fixed or analyzed.
It wants to be felt. Listened to. Trusted.
A regulated nervous system does not equal calmness.
Regulation is aliveness. Rooted in capacity, not stillness and stoicism.
There is an innate intelligence within you. A knowing that pulsates through every cell. It’s the same force that has always carried you, even when you forgot how to listen.
This work is about returning to that. Remembering your body’s language. Letting what has been held finally be tended to. Calling all parts of you home. By doing so, you begin to change on a cellular level. This isn’t ideology, it’s somatic healing.
Welcome. Let’s walk each other home.
It’s through our animal body that we learn trust, belonging, and presence. Animals move their feelings rather than thinking about them. In this work, we follow that same wisdom: shaking when we need to shake, resting when we need to rest, returning to the body’s original way of knowing. This work calls us back to instinct, to the rhythm and intelligence that have always lived within us. Through somatic healing, we remember that consciousness is never separate from the body.
What we embody shapes both our perception and our lived experience. When we return to our innate body wisdom, we step into authentic, embodied consciousness, a way of being that moves from presence and authenticity.
You deserve to move through the world with wisdom and embodied truth dripping from your veins.
Our deepest healing is animal in nature.
What is the primordial medicine Way?
The Primordial Medicine Way is a journey from demure, delicate, docile to fierce, free, and fully alive: a reclamation of the wild, untamed self that has been silenced or hardened by the demands of society. It is a path where somatic therapy, archetypal work, ritual, animal wisdom, and spiritual practice blend to awaken the whole self: body, mind, and spirit.
In this work, we give space for what was once frozen to find movement again, for the body to alchemize what it could not before. Through embodied exploration, animal connection, corrective exercises, and archetypal practice, we repattern old pathways of protection into new patterns of presence. This is how we remember our raw authenticity and how power and tenderness return to their rightful places within us.
The Primordial Medicine Way is liberation. It’s joy reclamation, and it’s stepping into your fullness. It honors your emotional depth, the wisdom of your body, and the sacredness of your spirit. Here, you move beyond social conditioning to embrace your own truth, finding freedom in your fierce, feral, fully alive self.
For those seeking deep healing, embodiment, and transformation, the Primordial Medicine Way offers a radical invitation: to awaken, to release, and to live as your authentic, untamed self.
I was initiated onto this path by Penelope, my 3 legged, club foot rescue dog, whose presence and guidance opened the doorway into remembering that our deepest healing is animal in nature. It is through the gaze of animals, their raw honesty, their instinct, their attunement, that we are reminded of our own innate belonging and our own unconditional love. Healing alongside horses will eventually become part of this medicine work, as their power and sensitivity mirror our nervous systems in ways that invite profound transformation. Primordial Medicine holds animals as equal partners in this work, respecting, cherishing, and treating them with the same gentleness, presence, and reverence as every human who steps into this space. They are our teachers and healers, offered the same care, freedom, and grace we extend to one another, and honored as sacred co-facilitators in the healing that unfolds. Here, we come into relationship with animals, never power or domination over them. We recognize them as sentient beings and sacred partners in the healing process, not as work animals, but as partners on the journey. This work is about connection, not control.
Why Is Somatic Therapy Different Than Talk Therapy?
Somatic therapy invites the body to become an active partner in the healing process, not just the mind. While traditional talk therapy focuses on analyzing thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through conversation, somatic therapy integrates the wisdom of the body by using thought, image, movement, emotion and sensation as pathways to healing. Rather than simply understanding our pain, we learn to feel and tend to it, allowing transformation to occur on a deeper, cellular, and embodied level.
Here are some differences between somatic therapy and talk therapy:
○ Somatic therapy pays close attention to what’s happening in the body, like tightness, tension, breath, posture, rather than focusing solely on intellectual insight or storytelling, though those are welcome here too and can serve as great guides.
○ It supports the body in remembering that every state (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn) carries wisdom and protection. Through somatic practices, we create enough safety for these responses to soften, express, or complete when they’re ready, restoring the body’s sense of rhythm and flow.
○ Many traumatic experiences are stored in the body as implicit (nonverbal) memory, and somatic work can help tend to and alchemize these in ways talk therapy may not reach. Oftentimes, talk therapy can retraumatize, whereas somatic therapy helps trauma move in more diverse ways.
○ Somatic therapy encourages clients to stay in the here and now with their bodily sensations, which helps foster deeper truth and emotional integration and mitigates retraumatization.
○ Techniques include a variety of practices, guided movement, touch (when appropriate), breathwork, or visualization (just a few examples), all aimed at helping the body complete interrupted survival responses.
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Meet Alli Fischenich, Creator, Artist, Founder of Primordial Medicine
Before I had a name for it, I knew the “medicine” lived in the silence between words, in the rhythm of the natural world, in the crevices of my body. My path began not in a clinic, but in the “wild,” listening to what my body, the land, and the animals were teaching me.
I created Primordial Medicine as a response to the disconnection I saw all around me. Disconnection from our bodies, from the earth, from animals, from spirit, from truth. My work weaves spiritual practices with somatic work to help people remember what they’ve forgotten and to use their innate body wisdom to reckon with, heal, and alchemize the parts of themselves that are holding them back from experiencing true joy, love, and embodied authenticity.
I am trained in trauma-informed somatic work, ritual healing, rites of passage work, yoga, reiki, and earth-based practices. I am also about to enter my final year of Somatic Therapy school. But more than anything, I am a witness to true, profound healing. I hold space for the traumatized, messy, chaotic, painful, mystical, and magnificent parts of the collective. I am able to do so after healing a staggering amount of pain, trauma, addiction, and abuse that my system was holding on to.
I am not a service, but IN SERVICE to the divine and collective healing. Primordial Medicine is a revolutionary remembering. If your soul is tugging at you, if your body is asking to be heard, if the ancient ways are whispering, then you're already halfway here, and I can't wait to walk alongside you.
I reside on Northern Paiute land. I am an archetypal mother. A daughter. A land stewardess. Animal lover. Sober. Advocate. Capricorn Sun. Leo Rising. Gemini Moon.
