Benefits of Somatic Therapy include: decreased stress, reduction in aggression/ irritability, improved concentration, increased resiliency, improvement in sleep quality, higher self-esteem and improved confidence, increase in feelings of positivity and hope.
This group meeting 1 time per week for 90 minutes
4 week course outline
This course will be a mix of psychoeducation, breathing, and movement meditation to release trapped energy and embody present moment cultivation. Somatic exercises have been used to alleviate trauma, anxiety, depression. Each lesson is an introduction of different forms of somatic exercise. Each class will start with an introduction of the class topic, guidance in experiential practice, and end with meditation.
Current research with leading experts such as psychotherapist Peter Levine and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk have written books on how trauma gets stored in the physical body. The nervous system holds onto a state of dysregulation, affecting cognition, behaviors, and mood. Somatic exercises serve to help the body experience a regulated nervous system which in turn serve to heal the automatic trauma responses that have been held onto by the body.
Healing the nervous system from trauma through somatic experiencing: https://youtu.be/dMmEdsuPRiU?si=Wp2gmpV07mtAWQNh
Recommended readings: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine