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.
It’s difficult to give consistent information of how a Body De-Armoring session (or sessions) will take place, because it basically depends on the type of De-Armoring modality applied, and the background, training, and lineage of [ Read more … ]
Grounding, also called Earthing, is the belief and practice that it’s necessary to restore direct contact between one’s body and the Earth to maintain or restore health and happiness. The practice of Grounding involves sensing [ Read more … ]
Genital De-Armoring is a specialization within Sexual De-Armoring, which again is part of Body De-Armoring. As a rule, in Genital De-Armoring the therapist or practitioner will work with the genitals and erogenous zones, which include [ Read more … ]
Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™ was developed by Ratha Chek, and is a body-centered therapy that focuses on enhancing the body’s own capacity to heal from body-stored trauma by freeing the body, breath, and energy [ Read more … ]
Movement, dance, and posture influence emotional or psychological states (and vice versa), and hence they can be therapeutically used to increase body awareness and better understand the relationships between one’s emotions and physiological experiences. It [ Read more … ]
In relation to the Body Armor, the psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich postulated the theory of Segmental Armouring. In this theory, there are seven segments of the body where Armoring (muscular tensions, contractions, and/or numbness) and subsequent [ Read more … ]
There are different Body De-Armoring approaches and techniques, and in a general sense we could say that it depends on the training, background, and lineage of the De-Armoring practitioner or therapist what techniques they will [ Read more … ]
The word 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.” However, the term Somatics was coined by [ Read more … ]
Full-Body De-Armoring, or Whole-Body De-Armoring, simply means that the entire body will be subject to De-Armoring work. This may be done in just one treatment session, but it’s very likely that it will need several [ Read more … ]
Massage therapy is an important and abundantly used treatment modality in Body De-Armoring practices. Giving sustained pressure and acupressure or applying stretches to tensed, contracted, or numbed bodily areas that are associated with repressed or [ Read more … ]