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S.O.M.A
A 4-Part Healing Framework
Sense
Discover in the body what the mind can't reveal. Learn to drop down into the implicit intricacy of the felt-sense through sensory tracking.
Open
Open the contracted body with practices of supportive attention, posture expansion and breathwork. Help the body feel, soften & surrender defenses.
Move
Suppressed mobilization is activated and releases through movement, shaking, sighing, sounding, humming, and breathwork.
Awaken
Learn to access your awake "adult self" grounded in stillness and wholeness. Awaken new patterns rooted in safety and nurture.
S.O.M.A. -- The Embodied Nervous System
Soma is a living interaction
always adapting to the perception of threat or safety, always pruning old neuronal networks and growing new ones.
Use the method for the treatment of trauma, to repattern survival strategies and as a daily practice.
S.O.M.A Modalities
Sensing
- Gendlin's Felt Sense Protocol
- Personality posture sensing
Opening
- Non-Resistance - greet what emerges.
- Loving kindness practices soften the body
- Parts-work dialogue
Moving
- Rhythmic breathing and breath-holds
- Tapping, qi-gong, bi-lateral stimulation, shaking, sounding, and emotional voicing.
Awakening
- Meditation to access adult self and inner-belonging.
- Access Healing messages
Buy the S.O.M.A Method Course - $29
Enjoy 8 Video lessons combined with written experiential guidance. Learn how to apply each phase of S.O.M.A in addition to developing a deeper understanding of several common adaptive personality patterns (control, perfectionism, manipulation, addiction, codapendency, and collapse). Special attention and explanation is given to the nervous system and how ones neuroception of threat or safety underlies each pattern.
We mobilize, collapse and flourish based upon biological survival instincts— these Neuro-somatic patterns are responses to trauma and our environment; they are instinctive choices to stay safe and regulated.
Client testimonial: "This felt like psychedelics without drugs! I felt like something deep within me shifted." --Cam S.
The S.O.M.A. Method
Sense - Embodied Awareness
Open - Embodied Surrender
Move - Embodied Expression
Awaken- Embodied Self-Possession
The S.O.M.A Method™ draws on the wisdom found in psychoanalytic and depth psychologies, polyvagel theory, IFS, attachment theory, neuroscience studies as well as contemplative traditions.
MEET
Carolyn Kutsko, PhD
Dr. Kutsko created the S.O.M.A Method from hundreds of her own client sessions. She is a licensed therapist and holds her PhD in Somatic and Clinical Psychology with certificates in EMDR, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, BodyWay Emotional Eating Recovery, The Daring Way, Thai Massage, and Somatic Breathwork.
She wrote her dissertation on “Full Emotional Expression,” an exploration in relational support within catharsis, where she challenges theories cautioning expressive emoting and demonstrates through a phenomenological study the efficacy of relationally supported catharsis and the often miss-used and miss-understood use of "window of tolerance".
She describes the S.O.M.A Method as a powerful processing sequence unwinding the contractions of the adaptive self.
Dr. Kutsko’s S.O.M.A Method™ training was both extremely informative and also engaging. She provided a mixture of interesting didactic education and experiential exercises demonstrating how to get clients unstuck and able to express what has been held inside. I feel I have lerned a whole new language.
Nick L.
I am so excited about the Soma Method Foundations course provided for my clients to help prepare them for this powerful work. An incredible bonus to becoming a S.O.M.A Practitioner.
Jess Thomas
