Safely Explore Your Inner World with Sandtray
What is Sandtray?
Sandtray is an expressive process for all ages that incorporates symbolism with a sensory experience to safely explore your inner world within a safe container. This experimental method integrates principles from attachment and trauma-informed practices; polyvagal theory; whole-brain integration; mindfulness and play. Sandtray therapy works to increase the flexibility of your nervous system while addressing the stress and dysregulation that emerge within your nervous system during challenging and/or traumatic experiences.
Megan has had the honor and privilege to expand her knowledge, skills and practice by receiving Level 1- 4 sandtray training (over 60 hours) with InnerResources Training, which holds a reciprocity with the New Mexico Sandtray Training Institute, and continues to develop through ongoing consultation and training. Megan’s training is based on a relational approach utilizing Interpersonal Neurobiology and develops from the teachings of Margaret Lowenfeld, Dora Kalff, neuroscientists, and other creative and cultural studies leaders.
“Sand tray can be an embodied conversation between our inner world and outer awareness, held and witnessed by another. Because of the tactile experiences of the sand and miniatures and the symbolic nature of the figures, we have the opportunity to make contact with implicit memories that have no words. We follow our body's guidance in arranging the sand and allowing the miniatures to choose us. It is a right-centric process that allows us to let go of meaning-making in favor of following our felt sense and behavioral impulses. Meaning may arrive later, but we at least begin, as best we can, without expectation to give our inner world the most freedom we can.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships