Who are the sessions suitable for?
The sessions are suitable for anyone with trauma, including PTSD and CPTSD.
What does ‘Somatic’ mean?
The term comes from the Greek word “somatikos” meaning “of the body”. Somatic is the experience of sensing the body from the inside – ie the felt sense of it. All human beings have the ability to sense their own body from within and be guided by that felt sense towards a healing state.
What happens in a Somatic Therapy Session?
Sessions are trauma informed and client-centred, according to individual needs. Suzanne Ellis uses trauma informed somatic yoga therapy, Somatic Experiencing™ and NeuroAffective Touch™ in her sessions, as well as breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques.
Somatic Yoga Therapy
Somatic Yoga works directly with the felt sense of the body rather than the mind to release deep muscular tightness, stress and trauma.
In a somatic yoga session we are repatterning tight muscles by working with the somatic sensory cortex of the brain. At the same time as we are releasing tight muscles we are also releasing accumulated stress.
This is quite a deep and empowering healing process where the you get to know your own body on a deeper level..
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing™ was developed in the 1970s by Dr Peter Levine and is now considered a leading therapy for treating PTSD, trauma and chronic stress.
It is body-centred, or ‘bottom up’ approach acknowledging that all trauma is located in the body. Therapy focuses on recognising and exploring the sensations of trauma in the body, rather than just thoughts, feelings and memories..
NeuroAffective Touch
NeuroAffective Touch ™, developed by Dr Aline LaPierre is a somatic therapy that uses gentle touch to address emotional, relational, and developmental deficits, particularly those stemming from early developmental trauma and attachment issues. To understand what happens in a NeuroAffectiveTouch™ session – read here.
Private Sessions: – Zoom or in person sessions available.
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