The S.O.M.A Practice®
S.O.M.A Practice will awaken what was once unsafe to feel so the adaptive patterns created to self-protect can let go.
The S.O.M.A Practice®
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.
S.O.M.A
The Method includes four experiential somatic practices which both facilite states of embodied presence and unwind the subconscious clenching of trauma and corresponding nervous system based adaptive survival patterns.
Sense
Learn to drop down into the roots; into the implicit intricacy of the felt-sense through interoceptive sensory tracking.
Open
Learn to open and receive relationally felt experiences of safety and loving-kindness. Experience a natural softening of protective defenses.
Move
Suppressed mobilization is activated using movement, tapping, shaking, sighing, sounding, humming, bi-lateral stimulation, and breathwork.
Awaken
Remember and recognize your most natural state of stillness and wholeness. Here there is non-attachment to ego and patterns of defense.
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S.O.M.A
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken®
The Process 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.
