THE S.O.M.A COURSE
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken
Buy the S.O.M.A Method Course - $29
Enjoy 8 Video lessons combined with written experiential guidance. Learn how to apply each phase of S.O.M.A in addition to developing a deeper understanding of several common adaptive personality patterns (control, perfectionism, manipulation, addiction, codapendency, and collapse). Special attention and explanation is given to Stephen Porges Poylyvagel Theory, focusing on how ones neuroception of threat or safety underlies each pattern.
We mobilize, collapse and flourish based upon biological survival instincts— these Neuro-somatic patterns are responses to trauma and our environment; they are instinctive choices to stay safe and regulated.
The course includes a musically guided breathwork S.O.M.A practice™ which can be used anytime to regulate or relieve stress.
The S.O.M.A Practice®
A Daily 10 minute breathwork and movement practice integrateing the phases of S.O.M.A
While using SOMA in therapy sessions is essential to heal trauma and repattern survival strategies, the practice is a daily 10 min routine to sense move and release daily stressors and emotional tension.
Sense
begin with 10 deep breaths
begin gentle shaking
pause and notice any sensations.
Body scan; live in each part
Notice
temperature, tingling, tension emotions in throat, chest, belly
Notice: images, impulses
do breath hold
Open
while breathing deeply open up chest, throat, belly, pelvic region and hips
haven arms while offering inner child dialoge
surrender and receive loving-kindness
Move
Notice any energy that wants to shake, sound, stomp, sigh
listen to impulses to make sounds, gestures or to shake or express emotion.
rock and cry/shake and stomp
deep breath hold. exhale
Awaken
slow down and take deep inhale even longer exhale. in for 4 out for 8.
Listen deep;y for message of truth from the heart.
Integrate and visualize
Watch full S.O.M.A Practice Video in the SOMA Method Course. Using music, guided breathwork and movement, Dr. Kutsko will guide you through each phase of the practice.
S.O.M.A
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken®
The Practice will guide you to Cycle from mind into body through the felt sense, where adaptive patterns and emotions begin to awaken.
Words transition to somatic listening and expression; the nervous system attunes to safety as communication occurs through sound, breath, emotion, gesture.
S.O.M.A invites surrendering into deep states of belonging, inviting the organic emergence of suppressed emotion, the softening of protective survival patterns, and the awakening of authentic states of belonging, benevolence and innovation.
The brain reorganizes and uploads new neural-pathways and new patterns rooted in ventral vagel states of social engagement.
The S.O.M.A Method
Sense - Embodied Awareness
Open - Embodied Surrender
Move - Embodied Expression
Awaken- Embodied Self-Possession
The S.O.M.A Method™ draws on the wisdom found in psychoanalytic and depth psychologies, polyvagel theory, IFS, attachment theory, neuroscience studies as well as contemplative traditions.
