Lucienne Sabel

Traumatic events, unspoken needs and unprocessed emotional wounds will all eventually show up in the physical body. Any recurrent pain, sensation or symptom is often masking an unresolved emotional event that is asking to be released. This could be in the form of tightness or tension, headaches, body pains, gut issues, menstrual cycle issues or pms, anxiety, insomnia, numbness or fatigue.

Let's start with what is the 'soma'? This is your body, as distinct from your soul, mind or psyche. The body as a living, breathing, thinking, feeling entity all and of its own. Somatic centred therapy recognises that the felt senses of our human physiology matter, that they hold an innate wisdom that can be tuned into to reveal the deepest truths that the mind could not possibly produce. Somatic therapy involves a mirage of tools to help your body process, including movement, sound, breath, tapping and sometimes stillness.

Our bodies are the great receivers of life. They take in and digest our experiences, memories, preferences and perceptions and use this to generate our reactions and responses. It's a primal mechanism of survival. When we don't have the in-the-moment capacity to digest an event or express an emotional need, the imprint doesn't disappear but rather becomes stored for later processing. Overtime, the more we suppress our emotions, the more dense this storage becomes, creating blockages in our physical and energetic bodies. This could show up as pain, numbness, chronic health symptoms, fatigue, anxiety, tension or any other number of bodily symptoms and sensations. This is the language of the body. When something is felt on the physical plane, it is almost always asking for a deeper level of understanding, processing and release.