What is Earth-Based Somatic Release

Mental Clarity

As we step into healing practices, awareness of impeding factors in our lives can bring a sense of clear knowing. This can help us become clear in our thinking. We can begin to work through the mental fog, weaving wisdom into our thoughts, words, and actions. We can see what has conditioned us and often left us dissatisfied with the status quo. This clarity creates spaciousness between our experience and our circumstances.

Stress Reduction

By learning to see through our conditioning and tune into what our bodies and hearts have to say we can embody ways of being that are life affirming. And with practice this reduces stress, so instead of feeling reactivity and burnout, we can expand our skills to face life with more resilience and renewal.

Aliveness & Freedom

When we learn to access the present moment and develop a mindful approach to daily life, our tasks of work, play, and our experiences in relationship enliven! Our sensory awareness begins to expand and we naturally begin to be more aware of and sensitive to the goodness that is around us. By connecting with elements found easily in the natural world, a sense of aliveness returns alongside our interconnectedness. This often provides a sense of expanded freedom. What can emerge in the present moment is pure potential because we are not caught up in rehashing a past moment or predicting or planning the future. This inner freedom opens us to joy, awe and connectedness.

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Spritual Growth

Regardless of whether we are secular or religious within a specific belief system, our healing can support our inner sense of wellness and exploration in meaningful ways. Often we naturally find more connection to that which carries a sense of wonder or awe in this life. We can find it in nature, or through a lense of science, with God, in the Universe, or the imaginal field, state of non-ordinary reality & energetic or quantum realms.

All of this is found in the unseen aspects of the physical world. Connecting to the inherent power within each of us reminds us of our place in the cosmos and it is much more than we previously have been led to believe. This work of healing, or you could say returning to wholeness, happens in its own unique pace and brings us to our growth edge, which is the only position from which we actually grow for we don't grow in our comfort zone.

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Physical Wellness

The work of healing is a returning to our state of wholeness, it is an embodiment practice.  It helps us be-in-body in an aligned and harmonious way.

Somatic and Shamanic practices are effective at helping our whole being heal: mind, body, and spirit. Modern research is proving that practices of mindfulness can help us reduce blood pressure as well as navigate inflammation and physical pain and illness with agency. When we identify and learn to work with stored up emotional tension, we can then release the emotion and story held within our subconscious and in our body tissues. The human body's ability to recover and regenerate is astounding! Modern allopathic medicine is a great pathway to treating acute trauma or illness, but somatic and shamanic practice can help us get to the root cause of a weakness or propensity towards (name your issue). These are things the body has either inherited (DNA) or taken on over time (conditioning). 

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Emotional Intelligence

With guidance, we can become more aware and clearly get to know the unique nature of our own thought habits and how they impact our emotional reactions which give way to our moods. We gain capacity to better identify and navigate our challenging emotions in order to find compassion and peace in our relationship with ourself and others.