Group Healing vs Individual Sessions: Which Is Right for You?
When you're considering Spinal Energetics for the first time, one of the questions that might arise is whether to start with an individual session or explore a group healing experience. Both offer powerful opportunities for transformation, but they create quite different experiences and serve different purposes in your healing journey.
Understanding the unique benefits of each can help you choose the approach that feels most aligned with where you are right now and what you're seeking.
Individual Sessions: Deep, Personalised Healing
Individual sessions are exactly what they sound like; dedicated one-on-one time where the entire focus is on you, your body, and your unique healing journey.
What Makes Individual Sessions Unique:
Personalised attention and care – The entire session is tailored to what your body needs in that moment. There's space to address your specific concerns, questions, and experiences.
Privacy and safety – For many people, especially when working with trauma, anxiety, or vulnerable emotions, the privacy of an individual session creates the safety needed to fully let go and allow deep release.
Deeper exploration – With more time and focused attention, individual sessions often allow for deeper work and more nuanced responses to what your body is expressing.
Customised pacing – We can move at exactly the pace your nervous system needs. Slower if you need more gentle support, or deeper if your body is ready for more intensive work.
Space for dialogue – Before and after the session, there's time to discuss what you're experiencing, ask questions, and receive guidance specific to your journey.
Consistent relationship – Working with the same practitioner over time builds trust and allows for continuity in your healing process. Your practitioner gets to know your patterns, your progress, and what approaches work best for you.
Who Individual Sessions Are Best For:
People new to Spinal Energetics who want thorough explanation and support
Those working with specific trauma, anxiety, or emotional patterns
Anyone who prefers privacy and one-on-one attention
People seeking consistent, ongoing healing work
Those who want to explore deeper layers over time
Anyone who feels more comfortable in private, one-on-one settings
The Individual Session Experience:
Individual sessions typically run for 45 minutes to one hour. You'll have time at the beginning to connect, share what's present for you, and ask any questions. The hands-on work receives full attention, and afterwards there's space to debrief, integrate, and discuss what you experienced.
Most clients find that sessions every two weeks create a sustainable rhythm for healing, allowing time for integration between appointments while maintaining momentum in their progress.
Group Healing Sessions: Collective Energy and Shared Experience
Group healing sessions bring together multiple people in a shared healing space. These can range from small, intimate gatherings to larger sessions facilitated by a couple of practitioners, or even expansive events with multiple practitioners working together. While each person has their own individual experience, there's something uniquely powerful about healing in community.
What Makes Group Sessions Unique:
Amplified collective energy – When multiple people are engaged in healing work simultaneously, the energy in the room becomes palpable. Many people find that the collective intention and openness creates a powerful container that supports deeper release.
Witnessing and being witnessed – There's something profound about being in a space where others are also doing their healing work. It normalises the process, reduces feelings of isolation, and reminds us we're not alone in our struggles.
Accessible entry point – Group sessions are often more affordable than individual sessions, making them an accessible way to experience Spinal Energetics for the first time.
Community connection – Healing in a group setting can help you feel part of something larger than yourself. The shared experience often creates a sense of connection and belonging.
Permission to release – Seeing and hearing others move, shake, breathe, and release can give you permission to do the same. It normalises the physical expressions of healing that might feel vulnerable in isolation.
Expansive experience – Some people find that group settings allow them to access states of consciousness and release that feel different from individual work. More expansive, more connected to something universal.
Who Group Sessions Are Best For:
People curious about Spinal Energetics who want a lower-commitment introduction
Those who feel energised and supported by community settings
Anyone seeking connection with others on a healing journey
People who want to experience the amplified energy of collective healing
Those looking for a more accessible price point
Anyone who feels comfortable processing in a shared space
The Group Session Experience:
Group sessions vary in size and format, but typically involve a brief introduction and explanation of the process, followed by facilitated group healing work. Participants usually lie on treatment tables or mats while the practitioner (or multiple practitioners) work with the group's collective energy.
You'll have your own individual experience within the group container. Your body will respond to what it needs, just as it would in a private session. The difference is the collective energy and shared space.
Key Differences to Consider
Privacy vs Community
Individual sessions offer complete privacy, which can be essential when working with sensitive material or if you feel more comfortable in intimate settings. Group sessions involve healing in the presence of others, which some people find supportive and others find less conducive to deep release.
Depth vs Breadth
Individual sessions typically allow for deeper, more sustained work on specific patterns and issues. Group sessions offer a broader, more expansive experience that can be powerful in different ways but may not address specific concerns as directly.
Consistency vs Exploration
Individual sessions create continuity and allow your practitioner to track your progress over time, adjusting the approach as needed. Group sessions are often one-off experiences that offer powerful moments of healing but without the ongoing relationship and customisation.
Investment
Individual sessions require a larger financial investment per session but offer personalised, focused attention. Group sessions are typically more affordable, making them accessible for people exploring the modality or supplementing their individual work.
Can You Do Both?
Absolutely. Many people find that a combination of individual and group sessions serves their healing journey beautifully. You might:
Attend a group session to experience Spinal Energetics for the first time, then book individual sessions for ongoing work
Maintain regular individual sessions while occasionally joining group events for the collective energy experience
Use individual sessions for deep, specific work and group sessions for maintenance and community connection
Start with individual sessions to build trust and familiarity, then explore group settings once you feel more comfortable
There's no rule that says you must choose one or the other. Your healing journey is unique, and the approaches that serve you might change over time.
How to Decide What's Right for You Right Now
Ask yourself these questions:
What am I seeking?
Specific healing work on trauma, anxiety, or patterns → Individual sessions
Introduction to the modality or community experience → Group sessions
How do I feel about privacy?
I need private space to feel safe and open → Individual sessions
I feel supported and energised by community → Group sessions
What's my budget?
I can invest in personalised, ongoing work → Individual sessions
I'm looking for an accessible entry point → Group sessions
What's my comfort level?
I'm new and want thorough explanation and support → Individual sessions
I'm comfortable exploring in a group setting → Group sessions
What's my intention?
Deep, sustained healing work over time → Individual sessions
Exploration, expansion, or supplementing my practice → Group sessions
Trust Your Intuition
Ultimately, the "right" choice is the one that feels most aligned with what your body and intuition are telling you. If you're drawn to the intimacy and depth of individual work, honour that. If you're curious about the collective energy of group healing, explore that.
You can always start with one approach and shift to another if you find it's not quite what you need. Healing isn't linear, and neither is the path you take to get there.
Both individual and group sessions offer genuine opportunities for transformation. The question isn't which is objectively better. It's which serves your unique needs, comfort level, and healing journey right now.
Your body knows what it needs. Whether that's the focused attention of individual work or the collective energy of group healing, trust that knowing and take the step that feels most true for you.