The S.O.M.A Processing Method
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
Learn to NeuroMap™ and Somatically Process Trauma and adaptive patterns.
The S.O.M.A Method provides a powerful training for therapists in Somatic Psychotherapy
Join our 4-Week Training & Learn:
- - S.O.M.A Processing: A four-part somatic processing sequence. Learn to support the unfolding of emotional experience
- - The S.O.M.A NeuroMap™: A map of personality traits and states based on the nervous system
- - The S.O.M.A Practice®. A Breathwork based daily recharge
- - How to integrate S.O.M.A into EMDR, Parts Work, and Breathwork
S.O.M.A
A 4-Part Somatic Processing Sequence
The S.O.M.A Method™ draws on sensory awareness, bilateral stimulation, inner-child work, breathwork, tapping, yoga therapy, and more to support somatic processing and repatterning.
Using four core somatic interventions, this method helps clients attune to emotion and process trauma exactly where it’s held—in the intricate pathways of the nervous system.
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
S.O.M.A Processing
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken
Sense
Attune to the felt-sense of your soma. Discover parts, patterns, images, memories and emotions present in the roots of your psyche.
Somatically sense the emotions suppressed during trauma and the contractions in the body keeping them stuck.
Notice how you are controlling, tensing and defending against feelings.
Open
Open space and permission for whatever emerges -- for what has been unwelcome. invite emotion. Let love unearth your emotion.
Provide affectionate attention and resourcing to younger parts.
Offer and internalize support so patterns of bracing soften.
Move
Attune to mobilization instincts.
Begin to move body and breathe to express survival responses,
Move emotions with shaking, sighing, sounding, humming, and various forms of expression.
Engage in physicalizing practices to instinctively express what was at one time uninvited.
Awaken
Attune to the emergence of a more integrated authentic state; an awakened state of presence, ease and connection.
Rooted in nurture, Remember your empowered self, deeply creative, benevolent and balanced.
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