What is Somatic Therapy?
Regular talk therapy focusses on thoughts in the mind where Somatic Therapy creates a curiosity of how thoughts, feelings and sensations are experienced within the body. Just as Bessel Van Der Kolk describes in his best-selling book, “The Body Keeps the Score”; memories, experiences and traumas are stored within the body. It is by becoming aware of these internal sensations that we are then able to move traumas from within for deeper healing and understanding to take place.
Regular talk therapy focusses on thoughts in the mind where Somatic Therapy creates a curiosity of how thoughts, feelings and sensations are experienced within the body. Just as Bessel Van Der Kolk describes in his best-selling book, “The Body Keeps the Score”; memories, experiences and traumas are stored within the body. It is by becoming aware of these internal sensations that we are then able to move traumas from within for deeper healing and understanding to take place.
Looking For A Calgary Somatic Therapy?
The work we do together is about creating lasting healing and the most effective way for this to happen is for you to feel that coming from within, not from outside of yourself; this is what Somatic Therapy supports. By tapping into inner strength through meditation, mindfulness and noticing the present moment, one is then able to access this inner strength, the felt sense, intuition, and part of self that is beyond physical form when it is needed most. By developing a relationship to where your inner power lives, what it looks like and the way it feels, a stronger sense of self emerges where we can move deeper into healing with a sense of safety.
Life can be harsh and over time chip away at our sense of self and inner strength. Through Somatic Therapy, a sense of control (which has often been taken), over conscious and unconscious memories from our past, supports a deeper and lasting healing for one to move from surviving, into thriving. Once we tap into these inner sensations and feeling within, we move into creating representations of them in the art. This is where the magic can happen with this process speeding up therapy and recovery.
Life can be harsh and over time chip away at our sense of self and inner strength. Through Somatic Therapy, a sense of control (which has often been taken), over conscious and unconscious memories from our past, supports a deeper and lasting healing for one to move from surviving, into thriving. Once we tap into these inner sensations and feeling within, we move into creating representations of them in the art. This is where the magic can happen with this process speeding up therapy and recovery.
