An overview of our articles about Armoring, the Body Armor, and Body De-Armoring practices, also called Muscular De-Armoring, Somatic De-Armoring, or Emotional De-Armoring.
Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) is the use of dance and movement as a somatic therapeutic tool, based on the idea that the body and the mind are inseparable. It’s thought that gesture, posture and movements [ Read more … ]
The term Body Mapping — sometimes also called Somatic Mapping — can relate to various practices. We’ll discuss these different practices here further below. Body Mapping may be the act of creating (or having) one’s [ Read more … ]
Abdominal massages can play an important role in resolving genital and sexual health conditions such as erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, low libido (low sex drive), pain during intercourse, vaginismus, genital numbness, orgasmic disorders, and so [ Read more … ]
Somatic Intimacy is an emerging field that’s gaining attention as a therapeutic modality, and in this article we’ll explore what it’s all about. In its core meaning one could say that Somatic Intimacy is about [ Read more … ]
Trauma-Informed Yoga, sometimes also called Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, is an emerging discipline within Yoga as Therapy, the latter defined as the explicit use of Yoga to alleviate or cure health conditions in the physical, emotional, and [ Read more … ]
Of course, intentional Body De-Armouring work with a client speaks for itself. That is, it’s a conscious, deliberate effort by which a therapist works with an individual on a somatic level to achieve emotional and/or [ Read more … ]
In the context of Body De-Armouring (in American English written as Body De-Armoring or Body Dearmoring) you’ll often see that the term is equated with Muscular De-Armouring, Somatic De-Armouring, or even Emotional De-Armouring. We’ve already [ Read more … ]
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that’s caused by witnessing or experiencing a deeply distressing and shocking event (trauma), or series of events (repeated trauma) happening over a longer period of time. [ Read more … ]
Members of the LGBTQ+ community often face particular challenges with regard to prejudice, stigma, bias, bullying, discrimination, hate crimes, rejection, and marginalization, which can lead to psychologically damaging phenomena such as emotional distress, trauma, stress, [ Read more … ]
The term somatic, derived from the Greek word soma (meaning body), is usually defined as “affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit.” The word as used in Somatic Therapy [ Read more … ]