What is Somatic Healing? A Body-Based Approach To Deep Healing
Understanding Somatic Healing Through the Body
In a few words, it simply means a form of healing that happens through the body.
In traditional therapy, a client would be guided to understand their challenges, become able to name where it comes from, and notice what impact it has had on their life.
In Somatic Healing, a client is guided to explore the emotions, sensations, and memories that are held in the body to experience healing at the level of the felt senses.
This body-based approach is particularly interesting in the light of recent studies that have shown that trauma is held in the body. This means that when we experience pain that we are unable to process in the moment, it gets stored in our felt senses, in our nervous system.
Trauma Is Held in the Body
When we work with Somatic Healing, we are not just understanding our challenges; we are diving deeper inside of ourselves to heal at the root of our experience.
One of the reason why this approach is so rich is that it allows us to feel the parts of us that the mind cannot understand.
Because of the nature of it, the pain that is held in the body is not logical. It doesn’t make sense. So to a certain degree, the mind is limited in trying to understand it.
These feelings that are held are often rooted in fear or hurt.
A Gentle Path to Healing Through Felt Sensations
When we work with Somatic Healing, we travel slowly and gently inside of our felt senses to meet these parts of us. We begin to understand what they feel like, what they need.
Sometimes they are younger parts of us, sometimes they are beliefs or patterns. The root of our pain changes, but one thing remains, and it’s the fact that it is all held in the body.
Being guided to explore our felt senses allows us to see our internal world more clearly and heal past experiences at their root.
If you are interested in exploring this kind of work, I invite you to book an Initial Connection Call where we can take the time to discuss your experience and answer any questions you may have.
I offer 1:1 Somatic Healing sessions for women in Toronto and online.
