The S.O.M.A Method
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken®
NeuroSomatic Re-Patterning
The S.O.M.A Method will arise and awaken your subconscious and support the processing of what was once unsafe to feel.
About the S.O.M.A Method
The S.O.M.A Method
The Method is grounded in the science of the somatic nervous system (Polyvagel Theory) and includes four experiential somatic interventions, when combined, re-pattern nervous system based adaptive patterns.
Sensing
Learn to drop down into the roots; into the implicit felt sense through sensory activation, awareness and interoceptive somatic tracking.
Opening
Learn to open ventral vagel relational felt states of safety. Expand ones neuroception of safety by attuning to sensory grounding, relational compassionate connection and non-resistance. With the neuroception of safety, an opening of protective defenses naturally occurs.
Moving
Suppressed mobilization is activated using movement, tapping, gentle shaking, sighing, sounding, humming, bi-lateral stimulation, yoga poses, and breathwork.
Awakening
To integrate is to awaken to ones wholeness. The brain reorganizes and uploads new neural-pathways and ventral vagel states of social engagement and ease emerge.
Personality adaptive patterns reorganize and return to authenticity.
The S.O.M.A Method Integrates
Parts Work & Mindfulness
Use guided inner-child meditation to access present moment awareness of protective, shadow, and adult "parts' (IFS).
Neuro-Linguistic-Programing
Include activating phrases to take you deeper into processing.
Somatic Practices
Learn tapping, qi-gong, bi-lateral stimulation, shaking, sounding and release practices.
Breathwork
Use rhythmic breathing and breath-holds to calm, elevate, and integrate emotions.
Personality & Polyvagel Theory
Discover the connection between protective personality patterns, trauma, attachment styles and the nervous system.
Sensory Tracking
Use Gendlin’s Felt Sense protocol to deepen interoceptive awareness.
Buy the S.O.M.A Method Course - $39
Enjoy 8 Video lessons combined with written experiential guidance. Learn how to apply each phase of the S.O.M.A Method 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.
Online Group Session -$29
Last Sunday of each Month. 4:00 pm cst
Join Dr. Kutsko for a guided group S.O.M.A Method session. Includes identifying and shaping personality patterns, inner-child dialogue, breath-work, meditation, and embodied re-shaping of personality adaptations.
Experience Individual Session -$225
Join Dr. Kutsko for a one-on-one Somatic Psychotherapy session using the S.O.M.A Method.
Client testimonial: "This felt like psychedelics without drugs! I felt like something deep within me shifted." --Cam S.
S.O.M.A
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken®
The Method will teach 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, and communication occurs through sound, breath, emotion, gesture.
The S.O.M.A Method invites surrendering into deep states of belonging, inviting the emergence of suppressed emotion, the softening of protective survival patterns, and the awakening of authentic (ventral vagel) states of belonging and relating.
The S.O.M.A Method
Sense - Embodied Awareness
Open - Embodied Compassion
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, neuroscience studies as well as contemplative traditions.
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