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   The S.O.M.A Practice 

 Sense.Open.Move.Awaken® 

 

 The S.O.M.A Practice™ 

 A Daily 10 minute breathwork and movement practice integrating the 4 phases of S.O.M.A. 

While using SOMA in therapy sessions is essential to heal trauma and re-pattern survival strategies, this practice is a daily 10 minute routine to sense, open, move and release daily stressors and emotional tension. 

Sense  

Begin with 10 deep breaths combined with gentle qi gong movements

Pause and notice sensations.

Body scan; live in each part.

Notice: temperature, tingling,tension emotions in throat, chest, belly.

Open 

While breathing deeply, open up chest, throat, belly, pelvic region and hips

Haven arms while offering inner-child dialogue

Surrender, soften and receive loving-kindness.

Move 

Notice any energy that wants to shake, sound, stomp, or sigh.

Allow somatic impulses to make sounds, gestures or to shake or express emotion.

Rock, shake and stomp.

Awaken 

Slow down and take deep inhale even longer exhale. in for 4 out for 8.

Listen deeply 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.

The S.O.M.A Practice

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.

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The S.O.M.A Practice®

 

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.

Buy the S.O.M.A Method Course

$29.00 USD
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Nick L.

Dr. Kutsko’s S.O.M.A Method™ training was both extremely informative and also engaging. She provided a mixture of interesting didactic education and experiential exercises demonstrating how to get clients unstuck and able to express what has been held inside. I feel I have lerned a whole new language.

Peter McDonald 

"The dyad partner practices cycling protector and exiled parts (she calls them protective shapes and shadow parts) was so helpful. I can’t wait to experiment with my clients. The language of opening is so transformative."

Jess Thomas

I am so excited about the Soma Method Foundations course provided for my clients to help prepare them for this powerful work. An incredible bonus to becoming a S.O.M.A  Practitioner.

Susan Gallagher, LMFT 

"This therapeutic method has been unbelievably effective at interrruping stuck patterns and emotonal suffering."

Susan Gallagher, LMFT 

"This therapeutic method has been unbelievably effective at interrruping stuck patterns and emotonal suffering."