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Arrabella Schippers founder of ARVAmethod Chicago smiling in natural light

I have spent over twenty years learning the body's language.

ARVAmethod is how I teach it to you.

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Arrabella Schippers founder of ARVAmethod Chicago somatic bodywork and depth health coaching.

I Did Not Plan This Practice.

I Lived My Way Into It.

I spent the first decade of my career convinced that everything could be solved with the right technique, program, or approach. I was good at it.

Then my own life stopped cooperating.

What I found on the other side of that was not a new method. It was a different relationship with the body entirely — one where challenge is not a problem to solve but a path to walk more consciously. Where everything that shakes us is asking for integration, not management. That is when the real work began. For me first. Then for everyone I work with.

Arrabella Schippers founder of ARVAmethod Chicago in kitchen studio.

What I Have Come To Understand

The people who find their way here are not struggling because they lack self-awareness. Most have more of it than anyone they know. They can describe their patterns with precision. They have done the reading, the therapy, the programs.

And they are still stuck.

Self-awareness without a somatic foundation does not become self-trust. You can understand a pattern completely and still be unable to shift it — because understanding lives in the mind and the pattern lives in the body.

That gap is not a personal failing. It is a missing piece. This work addresses it.

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Arrabella Schippers founder of ARVAmethod Chicago Bodyworker, coaching, lifestyle

ARVAmethod is built around four principles the body already understands — Action, Rest, Vitality, and Alignment. Not as a wellness checklist but as a living system that works at depth. Deeper layers of tissue, habit, emotion, and expression.

This is where nervous system regulation and embodiment actually live. Not as concepts but as felt experiences. The moment the body stops bracing. The breath that comes without effort. The calm that radiates outward. Sleep that actually restores.

Real release is not a loss of control. It is not wild sobbing or shouting into a pillow. It is the moment the nervous system finally lets down — when you can say exactly what you mean, hold space for yourself, and feel at home in your own body because for once, you are actually in it.

What It Feels Like When It All Connects

Arrabella Schippers founder of ARVAmethod Chicago Holistic and Jungian health and personal development coach.

Ready To Begin

The quiz is the clearest first step — free, precise, and designed to give you immediate language for what you have been sensing but couldn't name.

If you are ready to work directly, reach out. I will get back to you personally.

Arrabella Schippers

Want to talk first?

If you’d like talk first about how we can work together, you’re welcome to schedule a brief conversation or send me a message.