“Somatics introduces us to an embodied life. It reminds us that we are organic and changing people. There are vast amounts of information within our bodies and sensations. When we learn to listen to the language of sensations, impulses and an embodied knowing. Through the body we can access ourselves, develop self-knowledge and change.”
- Staci Haines, The Politics of Trauma
Online & In-Person (North County San Diego)
1:1 Somatic
Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing is a place for those stories that you have told time and time again, which you are finally ready to feel some change around.
The reason that Somatic Experiencing is so effective is because it gives us a channel to understand the language of the body, which speaks through sensation, imagery, impulse and emotion.
Through integrating a body-up perspective, we come to understand how the meaning the mind makes is shaped by all of these layers of experience happening in the body.
Every single one of us spoke the language of the body before we spoke the language of the mind. Much of the memory that your body holds exists beyond and before the verbal.
Through increasing our fluency to speak this mother-tongue, we gain access to an important part of who we are, and why we do what we do.
🫂 the process of
befriending the body 🫂
Trauma can make it feel like we can’t safely be in our bodies. This often perpetuates a feeling of being unsafe, because being disconnected from our bodies disconnects from our instincts as well as true feelings and desires.
Your relationship with your body is the longest one that you will ever have.
It is never too late to begin to work on such a vital and important relationship.
Our bodies, like all of the other bodies we are in relationship with, don’t like to be controlled, told what to do, or who they are.
Our bodies want to be experienced and related to.
While the mind can create any narrative it wants, the body cannot lie about what we are truly feeling.
Traumatic experiences were moments where what was happening in the body was overwhelming.
So, we learn to avoid the connection to the perceived scene of the crime—the body.
We retreat to the mind where it feels much more safe, where we can attempt to anticipate the threat before it comes and brace against it, physically, energetically and emotionally.
The sad thing is, we keep doing this, even after the threat has passed.
But only because we haven’t yet fully recognized that the event has passed.
Through working with rather than against the adaptive intelligence of your nervous system, your nervous system gets to slowly relearn that it is safe to feel, to be with your experience in real-time.
This opens up a world of possibility and constitutes a return to your most natural birthright—being in embodied relationship to yourself and to life.
🫀 SOMA:
“THE LIVING ORGANISM
IN ITS WHOLENESS” 🫀
Our wholeness exists in relationship, the relationship we have with ourselves, with our bodies, with each other and all living things.
Who we are cannot be understood outside of the context connection. Yet we have become profoundly disconnected and no where is this more obvious than the chasm between mind, heart and body.
At the same time, whether we embody and acknowledge it or not, this connection remains intact, regardless of how much we may feel like walking and talking heads.
When this connection is nurtured, the coherent and connected living organism that we are can return to its innate drive towards wholeness and relational health.
When we disrupt the habitual jump from the body up to the brain, we reroute well-worn neural pathways and carve out new grooves of connection and growth. Overtime we transform how it feels to be in the terrain of our bodies and the landscapes of our lives.
Some Ways Somatic Experiencing Can Support You…
Healing from difficult or traumatic past experiences (like accidents, injuries, or abuse)
Managing anxiety, worry, or feeling on edge all the time
Easing that stuck, overwhelmed feeling after panic attacks
Finding relief from stress that seems to never go away
Shifting out of sadness or low energy that feels tied to past events
Easing physical pain that lingers with no clear cause (like tension headaches or body aches)
Balancing the nervous system when it feels overactive or shut down (like feeling wired or numb)
Getting better sleep and releasing patterns of insomnia or nightmares
Building deeper connections and trust in relationships
Feeling safer and more secure in close relationships
Letting go of built-up or unexpressed emotions
Handling strong emotions without getting overwhelmed
Learning how to feel safer in your body
Feeling more resilient and better able to bounce back from stress
Strengthening your ability to cope with everyday challenges
Becoming more connected and aware of sensations in your body
Releasing feelings of disconnect or zoning out
Processing grief, loss, or heartbreak in a way that feels supportive
Becoming more present and focused in your daily life
Feeling more grounded and centered during stressful situations
Developing mindfulness and being able to enjoy the moment more fully
Creating and maintaining healthier boundaries with others, and feeling more confident in saying “no” when needed
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5 Weekly Sessions
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Learn More:
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Trauma is any experience that our nervous systems did not have the resource or support to successfully respond to, integrate and complete.
Trauma is not the event itself, but rather the after-effect of the event in our systems based on this incompletion.
This could be due to our developmental stage at the time ,the emotional or relational context we were in, or the lack of support that we received.
Trauma is not something that we get rid of or clear from our bodies. It is billions of years of evolution driving our nervous system into a protective state.
When the nervous system can recognize that the threat has passed and that we now have new choices, contexts, resources and supports, the need for protection can recede and the natural drive to thrive can be restored.
From the Somatic Experiencing International Institute:"Somatic Experiencing facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions and working to complete defensive responses previously thwarted from bringing resolution to the nervous system and, therefore, to the individual."
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A resilient nervous system is one that has enough flexibility to respond effectively and in resonance with the present-moment, whatever that may ask of us.
And then, to return to a baseline of center with effort relative to what has occurred.
It does not mean being calm, cool and collected all of the time and that is not the goal.
The goal is to have more agency and range of motion throughout the range of your nervous system which allows you to express and experience the full spectrum of life.
There is intelligence and value in all of our nervous system responses, we need the ability to embody all of them.
Being stuck in a state of chronic fight/flight/freeze creates a world in black and white.
Gently restoring the innate capacity to move fluidly through different states reawakens full prismatic aliveness.
Often we aim to control our nervous systems so that they behave correctly, but we are working against billions of years of adaptive evolution which is geared towards keeping us alive. It is a powerful force and one that has much to teach us when understood, integrated and embodied. -
Trauma work is always pleasure work because trauma is less about the trauma itself and more about what it makes less accessible and available in our lives.
When we are constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, pleasure feels not only unattainable, but also feels like a threat to our sense of safety, as it takes out of that state of being alert.Just as important as working with the trauma itself, is slowly growing capacity for pleasure and goodness in the body.
As Staci Haines says, "the body learns on yes" and we can support our system's natural tendency towards wholeness through reengaging the pleasure pathways that we are born with.
We do this through gently orienting towards what's not wrong, and increasing tolerance for pleasant sensations in the body.
Trauma work is not about being perfectly healed, it is about becoming more of ourselves, of who we have always been. Embodied pleasure is a playful and gentle way to get there. -
Somatic Womb Work is a radical transdisciplinary modality that weaves together somatics, mindfulness, traditional earth-based wisdom and womb-pelvic bowl healing for whole being transformation.
Somatic Womb Work supports clients in cultivating greater womb and pelvic bowl embodiment. It guides us to the womb space as a place of reclaimed safety, as the seat of our creativity and vitality, where healing is possible multi-directionally.
By returning us to our connection with inner and outer cycles in nature, Somatic Womb Work reminds us that pleasure work is grief work, that death is the doorway to birth and that rest is the grandmother of joy.
In Somatic Womb Work, we explore:
· Womb stories + current & desired relationship to your womb & pelvic organs.
· Relevant themes that arise in relationship to your womb & pelvic bowl.
· Somatic practices for developing a felt sense of safety, grounding, agency & connection, to name a few.
· Embodiment exercises to bridge connection to the womb, root and pelvic bowl.
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Initial Session | 75-90 Minutes $200
Session | 60 Minutes $150
❣️ in-person sessions are available in north county, san diego
on mondays and fridays. ❣️
FAQ
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Our sessions are guided by the material that you bring in and the present-moment capacity of your nervous system. You may bring a specific theme, experience or pattern to the session that you want to work with. We might also sit with the body and see what arises. While we may use specific practices and tools throughout the session, the sessions themselves are not practice-based. Our time together is completely tailored to following and listening to you and your body.
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That is totally up to you. I generally recommend booking sessions either weekly or every other week at the beginning. We can discuss frequency of session, and find a rhythm that works for you.
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Yes! There are give and takes to working together online, but I find that there is actually some benefit to you getting to be in the comfort of your own space. It's pretty remarkable how our nervous systems can sync up, even through distance.
Cancellation & Reschedule Policy
You are welcome to reschedule at any time as long as you provide 24 hours notice. If you cancel with less than 24 hour notice, or fail to show up, you will be charged the full session fee for the appointment. The only time this will be waived is in the case serious illness, extreme weather or other unavoidable circumstances. Thank you for understanding. There will be a $50 cancellation fee for packages canceled within 48 hours of purchase. After that, a 75% refund will be issued. The only time this will be waived is in the case serious illness, extreme weather or other unavoidable circumstances.