![]() “Titration is the most essential somatic-related skill,” Yokers says. ![]() If you are someone who has dealt with trauma, she explains that a trauma-informed practitioner will titrate a client’s experience to slowly move them through this work so as not to flood or overwhelm the nervous system. This is where somatics comes in.Īccording to Yokers, somatics is for everyone. While dissociation can be a protective measure when trauma occurs however, after the event has subsided, Yokers says it can become a danger to ourselves when lived in a perpetual state. “I needed a break from feeling the chronic stress and anxiety that overwhelmed my senses in the haze of this new reality. “When I think back to the height of the pandemic, I recall my sense of self disappearing as I spent endless hours vacillating between the latest news and Netflix,” Yokers shares. Yokers calls it “antithetical” to embodiment since dissociation is an involuntary detachment from reality, one of the ways your brain protects you from chronic stress or reliving a traumatic event. Your thoughts, actions, and feelings are expressed through your body and, thus, display a certain quality (like confidence or power).” So why would we need to practice somatics?įor many people, dissociation is a natural response to trauma that they can’t control. “To embody something means that your entire self takes on that shape. “Embodiment is about living in your own skin and letting that aliveness be fully expressed in how you talk, move, act, respond, and take up space,” she says. Why is this important? Yokers refers to “embodiment,” which is another term you hear a lot these days. One crucial key to somatics is awareness of the internal body (interoception) and awareness of how the body moves in space (proprioception).” Used in dance, movement, body rehabilitation, therapy, and more, somatics is “a mind-body practice encompassing bodywork, movement, and mindful strategies that call you into experiencing what it’s like to be in your body,” Yokers explained. Somatics, then, is the study and practice of soma through a growing internal awareness. It’s what we experience from within, from sensations to emotions your soma holds your thoughts, emotions, and expression.” ![]() Certified breathwork facilitator and somatic life coach, Kiesha Yokers of Lindywell, tells SheKnows she describes it to people this way: “Our soma is our first-person experience and intelligence of our body. ![]() Well, first it might be helpful to know that “soma” is the Greek word for the living body. ![]()
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