Somatic and Body Oriented Therapy

The use of the body is fundamental for all deep therapeutic processes  because it offers a very strong containment to work from and a direct access to our emotional memory and nervous system. For instance, a very simple exercise which consists of making your body as small as you can and then as big as you can, will take you to two very different inner worlds with its different sensations, memories, and emotions. This shows us how it is possible to change the way we feel by changing the way we move, and, also, how working through the body creatively can facilitate the person to access their own healing process. 

Engaging in talk therapy can be extremely helpful in order to find clarity, have your story heard and acknowledged, and re-signify  your past. But there is another layer of experience which lives in the body and  the unconscious mind, and which cannot be accessed through cognitive processes such as language. Preverbal experiences, embryo memory and early trauma all live in the body, in the memory of the cells, in the vibration of our waters. Through gentle, well guided somatic movement practices and conscious awareness of our body moving, we can begin to open up a new path of communication to our unconscious mind, transcend our cognitive beliefs and limitations, and surrender to the body wisdom. 

The body is the vehicle through which we experience the world. Each experience gets recorded there, it is our ocean, the place where our mind, soul and spirit lie while we are alive. it is how we can connect to each other and feel alive. Our body wisdom can take us too to those places where healing is needed, it can guide us and shows us the effects of trauma —both personal and intergenerational, so that we can begin to feel and then release.