"We are the culmination of everything that has happened to us: physically, emotionally and spiritually."
photo: Susan Sentler
Forms of somatic therapy have been used in the East for centuries to heal both physical and mental disorders. If you suffer from stress, trauma, depression or abuse, your body (and all its systems) respond to it. Somatic therapy helps to release that tension and bring the body back into homeostasis. Together with the therapist, you learn to tune into your physical being and to listen to the signs your body is already giving you. These signs are usually expressed as muscular pain, stiffness, limited movement range, indigestion, irritability and fatigue.
Benefits of Somatic Therapy
- Facilitates deep relaxation and calms the nervous system
- Reduces stress (psychological and emotional)
- Improves the immune system
- Teaches awareness and noticing techniques leading to deeper self-understanding
- Encourages the resolution of imbalances through realignment work
- Softens stiffness in the fascia and connective tissue.
- Increases muscle flexibility
- Creates mobility in the joints (increasing synovial fluid and alleviating symptoms of arthritis and osteoporosis)
- Improves blood and lymph circulation
- Increases vitality
- Restores body alignment and balances major muscle groups
- Opens blockages in the musculoskeletal, respiratory, endocrine and other body systems
- Rebalances the body' s energy
- Encourages mindfullness in daily life
- Empowers you in your personal healing process through knowledge about your body, awareness techniques and self-care routines
Particularly benefitial for: sports injuries, lower back pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, arthritis, migraines, fatigue, depression, digestive problems, menstrual irregularities and pain as well as degenerative conditions.
- Reduces stress (psychological and emotional)
- Improves the immune system
- Teaches awareness and noticing techniques leading to deeper self-understanding
- Encourages the resolution of imbalances through realignment work
- Softens stiffness in the fascia and connective tissue.
- Increases muscle flexibility
- Creates mobility in the joints (increasing synovial fluid and alleviating symptoms of arthritis and osteoporosis)
- Improves blood and lymph circulation
- Increases vitality
- Restores body alignment and balances major muscle groups
- Opens blockages in the musculoskeletal, respiratory, endocrine and other body systems
- Rebalances the body' s energy
- Encourages mindfullness in daily life
- Empowers you in your personal healing process through knowledge about your body, awareness techniques and self-care routines
Particularly benefitial for: sports injuries, lower back pain, shoulder pain, sciatica, arthritis, migraines, fatigue, depression, digestive problems, menstrual irregularities and pain as well as degenerative conditions.
What should I expect?
Somatic therapy includes somatic bodywork and movement care. Each treatment is tailor made to your needs and is attentive to your specific processes.
During the first session we will discuss your concerns and together draw up a therapy plan. Each treatment package consists of a minimum of 5 sessions over a period of 10 weeks. Once the initial treatment is over, you discuss your process with the therapist and together decide how to proceed. With more complex concerns another 5 sessions will most likely be recommended. With simpler concerns resolution may be found after the initial treatment package is complete.
You can expect:
- to be listened to with attentiveness and genuine care
- to be in continued, open dialogue with the therapist about your process during the entire treatment period
- to 'check in' with the therapist each week about how you are feeling physically and emotionally.
- to receive feedback about what the therapist notices throughout the therapy session
- to receive tips on what to do between sessions to help the healing process
One sessions may include a blend of the following:
1. awareness exercises to notice patterns (postural as well as thought) and learn to recognise physical sensations
2. hands-on somatic bodywork to release muscular and psychophysical tension
3. movement excercises using imagery to attain specific somatic experiences
4. rehabilitation exercises and movement re-education
5. alignment and postural work
During the first session we will discuss your concerns and together draw up a therapy plan. Each treatment package consists of a minimum of 5 sessions over a period of 10 weeks. Once the initial treatment is over, you discuss your process with the therapist and together decide how to proceed. With more complex concerns another 5 sessions will most likely be recommended. With simpler concerns resolution may be found after the initial treatment package is complete.
You can expect:
- to be listened to with attentiveness and genuine care
- to be in continued, open dialogue with the therapist about your process during the entire treatment period
- to 'check in' with the therapist each week about how you are feeling physically and emotionally.
- to receive feedback about what the therapist notices throughout the therapy session
- to receive tips on what to do between sessions to help the healing process
One sessions may include a blend of the following:
1. awareness exercises to notice patterns (postural as well as thought) and learn to recognise physical sensations
2. hands-on somatic bodywork to release muscular and psychophysical tension
3. movement excercises using imagery to attain specific somatic experiences
4. rehabilitation exercises and movement re-education
5. alignment and postural work
Somatic movement care
Somatic movement care begins with awareness excercises to help you learn to read the signs your body is already giving you. You learn to differentiate physical sensations, recognise pain-inducing postural habits and become aware of tension. Together we create a movement plan which you can follow on your own at home, to sustain the wellbeing you experience during the therapy sessions. The movements are simple and will allow you to find a sense of relaxation and empowerment in your own healing process. These sessions are a step towards independence from the therapy. We work with cues and imagery, triggering the nervous system to remember sensations you experienced during the treatment. When required we may include gentle stretching and strengthening work.
Somatic movement care begins with awareness excercises to help you learn to read the signs your body is already giving you. You learn to differentiate physical sensations, recognise pain-inducing postural habits and become aware of tension. Together we create a movement plan which you can follow on your own at home, to sustain the wellbeing you experience during the therapy sessions. The movements are simple and will allow you to find a sense of relaxation and empowerment in your own healing process. These sessions are a step towards independence from the therapy. We work with cues and imagery, triggering the nervous system to remember sensations you experienced during the treatment. When required we may include gentle stretching and strengthening work.
Somatic body-work
Somatic body-work is a healing technique, which uses a blend of massage therapy techniques to release muscular, nervous and energetic tension. It is practiced on the floor in full clothing. The therapist uses his/her body weight in order to help release tension and work the Zen Energy Lines. It has been likened to a fusion between reflexology, acupressure and assisted yoga stretching.
Somatic body-work is a healing technique, which uses a blend of massage therapy techniques to release muscular, nervous and energetic tension. It is practiced on the floor in full clothing. The therapist uses his/her body weight in order to help release tension and work the Zen Energy Lines. It has been likened to a fusion between reflexology, acupressure and assisted yoga stretching.
Practical information:
€ 75 for 60 minutes
€ 115 for 90 minutes
€ 15 every additional 15 minutes thereafter.
Cancelations policy: full reimbursement is provided if you cancel your session 24 hours in advance. Otherwise, you are charged for the session. Please note that during the Covid-19 pandemic last minute cancellations are fully reimbursed.
Feel free to contact us for a no-obligation introductory meeting.
It is crutial that you feel comfortable in your treatment plan and with your therapist. I encourage open dialogue throughout the process.
€ 75 for 60 minutes
€ 115 for 90 minutes
€ 15 every additional 15 minutes thereafter.
Cancelations policy: full reimbursement is provided if you cancel your session 24 hours in advance. Otherwise, you are charged for the session. Please note that during the Covid-19 pandemic last minute cancellations are fully reimbursed.
Feel free to contact us for a no-obligation introductory meeting.
It is crutial that you feel comfortable in your treatment plan and with your therapist. I encourage open dialogue throughout the process.
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