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Somatic Therapy: A Mini Guide

Somatic therapy is a type of alternative mental health treatment designed to address trauma and stress-related disorders like post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by exploring how the body impacts the mind.

This body-centric approach is predicated on the notion that profoundly painful experiences are tangibly manifested in the body, and that individuals can alleviate stress, trauma, and tension from the body by addressing these symptoms. This form of treatment aims to modify your trauma-related responses in order to eliminate their triggering effects.

In order to reduce the body's reaction to stressors, therapists who are trained in this modality typically employ breathing exercises, meditation, massage, visualization, and a variety of physical or visceral techniques.

What Somatic Therapy Is For

Somatic therapy may be beneficial if you are affected by trauma, PTSD, or another mental health condition such as anxiety or depression and wish to alleviate bodily tension. In addition to enhancing the mind-body connection, this practice can foster resilience and instruct individuals on how to effectively manage and confront negative emotions and thoughts.

How It Works

Somatic therapy is still a developing form of therapy. As a consequence, the therapy is likely to incorporate a wide range of techniques and approaches. The subsequent methods are frequently employed to assist individuals in recognizing and establishing connections between their thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and feelings.

Breathwork: This technique involves breathing intentionally to boost awareness of your body so that you can learn self regulation. Additionally, it establishes a connection between the mind and body by requiring both the mental and physical actions of concentrating on respiration.

Body awareness: As one of the first steps in releasing tension from the body, you learn to recognize and identify areas of tension as well as calming thoughts and feelings.

Grounding: This is the act of connecting deeply to your body and the earth. By connecting your body to the earth through grounding, you direct your attention to the sensation of your feet on the ground. It is believed that this technique will calm the nervous system.

Titration: With this technique, you will be asked to recall a traumatic memory and as you do so, you will note any physical changes taking place in your body. Subsequently, you respond to these modifications as they transpire.

Pendulation: When using pendulation, a therapist will guide you from a relaxed state to one that feels similar to the trauma you experienced. They will then assist you in returning to a state of relaxation. This strategy is designed to instruct you on how to achieve that state of relaxation independently.

Touch or massage: This technique is designed to directly stimulate the autonomic nervous system. Consequently, this expedites the process of bodily healing in areas where tension and traumatic experiences have been accumulated.

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About: With these 44 Somatic therapy Coping Skills cards, you will have access to a variety of tools and techniques to process trauma that is stored in the body and help manage difficult emotions. The flashcards include mind-body techniques to release the pent-up tension that's weighing on your emotional and physical well-being. These techniques involve breathing and grounding exercises, meditation, stretching, dance, and other forms of body movement. These cards include Trauma Releasing Exercises. These are a pre-programmed series of movements that often engage the body's natural mechanisms for the release of traumatic stress. Trauma and Tension Release Exercises are a somatic body-based practice for people suffering from stress, anxiety, trauma or PTSD. It doesn't require talking about an event, feeling, or issue, therefore it overcomes the language barriers that can bring up added stress.

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Types of Somatic Therapy

Somatic Experiencing: This form of therapy concentrates on resolving stress, trauma, and shock-related bodily symptoms. During this therapy, you will learn to release built-up bodily sensations in a safe space so that it no longer becomes a trigger for you.

Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): In the context of EMDR therapy, participants are encouraged to briefly recall traumatic events while directing their attention to an external stimulus, such as lateral eye movements. Allowing the mind to recover from psychological trauma in the same way that the body recovers from physical trauma is the objective of this method.

Hakomi: This therapeutic approach heals the body and mind through the practice of mindfulness, which involves being aware of one's internal state and surroundings. Throughout the entire session, you remain in a state of mindfulness to help you recognize and work with emotionally-charged material.

Neurosomatic Therapy: With neurosomatic therapy, the hidden sources of tension and physical pain in the nervous system, skeletal system, and soft tissues are identified. The tension and discomfort are subsequently alleviated and resolved through the implementation of posture work, massage, and exercises.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: By integrating psychotherapeutic principles with Hakomi method techniques, sensorimotor therapy aims to facilitate a re-experiencing of a particular traumatic event while subsequently altering its resolution. The objective is to provide you with a sense of closure.

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Side Plank Pose (Vasishtasana)

What is Side Plank Pose?

Side plank pose, or vasishtasana in Sanskrit, is both a balancing and strengthening posture. From plank pose, the yogi shifts their weight to one hand and reaches the other toward the sky. The pose is dedicated to the sage, Vasishta, who represents dignity and power.

Instructions

• Begin in plank pose.

• Exhale and shift the bodyweight to the right hand and edge of the right foot, stacking the left foot on top of the right.

• Inhale and reach the left hand to the sky. Keep the hips in line with the knees and shoulders.

• Breathe while holding the pose.

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