The SOMA Method
Somatic Inquiry
Inquire into your SOMA -- the whole of your livingness --and discover the rich terrain of your implicit, interactive, adaptive being. This is the place beneath words, rich with the organic matter of your implicit self. Somatic Inquiry explores and transforms the personas and patterns of suffering.
The S.O.M.A Method
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken
Using four core experiential somatic interventions, inquire deeply into your adaptive organismic self; into sensation, capacity, emotion, and movement - into the interactions that shape your patterned personas.
S-O-M-A processes trauma, attachment and survival strategies exactly where they are held—in the intricate pathways of the embodied nervous system.
Somatic Inquiry
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken
"Implicit imprints of survival are held within your nervous system. S-O-M-A gently reaches and nurtures the imprint." Dr. Kutsko
Somatically inquire into the depths of your terrain
Sense
Attune to the felt-sense of your body. Discover parts, patterns, images, memories and emotions present in your living system.
Open
Open space and permission for whatever emerges -- welcome what has been unwelcomed. Invite all that is there. Let love unearth your emotion.
Move
Attune to autonomic mobilization instincts. Begin to move survival states with shaking, sighing, sounding, humming, and various forms of expression.
Awaken
Attune to the emergence of a more integrated authentic state. Rooted in nurture, remember dignity, creativity, playfulness, and benevolence.
The Persona Tree™
The Terrain of Somatic Inquiry
The Persona Tree™ represents the landscape of your entire living terrain; an embodied, sensing and feeling nervous system that organizes around survival interactions. Discover the parts, adaptive patterns, emotions, attachment styles, and trauma imprints within your suffering persona.
Your organismic persona is an adaptive interactive system.
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Our inquiry method explores the landscape of your intuitive, interactive and regulatory nervous system.
Our protective nervous system attunes and adapts to all signals of threat or safety. It actively scans environment, relationships, physical states, stress, trauma history, and attachment style.
Life experiences and childhood dynamics leave survival imprints that become patterned biological pathways. Some childhood imprints create sympathetically geared systems (these are fighting for control), some create collapse (these have given up) and some connection (these are present and relational).
Your patterns of mobilization or immobilization are the ways your living organism has learned to interact.
Learn to notice autonomic states
Use S-O-M-A as a pathway towards regulation.
S.O.M.A Method™ Modalities
Our somatic Inquiry method draws on sensory awareness, bilateral stimulation, inner-child work, breathwork, tapping, yoga therapy and more.
Yoga Therapy
Visualize, embody and sense the postures and patterns of the adaptive self.
Breathwork
Rhythmic breathing, slow breathing and breath-holds support expression and regulation.
Parts Work
Learn to incorporate SOMA into Internal Family Systems. Process any manager, firefighter or exiled part using S.O.M.A.
Bi-Lateral Stimulation
Use SOMA as an interweave within the 6 phases of EMDR. Move clients out of states of freeze into mobilization.
Felt-Sense Inquiry
Use Gendlin's Felt Sense inquiry protocol and awaken the felt sense.
EFT - Tapping
Soften the body's contractions using meridians and nerurolinguistic programming.
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The S.O.M.A Method™ draws on the wisdom found in psychoanalytic and depth psychologies, polyvagel theory, IFS, focusing, attachment theory, neuroscience studies, as well as contemplative traditions.
MEET
Carolyn Kutsko, PhD
Dr. Kutsko created the S.O.M.A Method from hundreds of her own client sessions. She is a licensed therapist and holds her PhD in Somatic and Clinical Psychology with certificates in EMDR, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, BodyWay Emotional Eating Recovery, The Daring Way, Thai Massage, and Somatic Breathwork.
She wrote her dissertation on “Full Emotional Expression,” an exploration in relational support within catharsis, where she challenges theories cautioning expressive emoting and demonstrates through a phenomenological study the efficacy of relationally supported catharsis and the often miss-understood use of "window of tolerance".
She describes The S.O.M.A Method as an experiential form of therapy, waking up the body's natural organismic healing capacity.
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