When people experience stress, anxiety, anger, or are not being able to speak out or express themselves and feel restrained, it’s very common that they clench their jaw or grind their teeth; over time this [ Read more … ]
It’s thought that Body Armoring (tensions, contractions, or numbness of muscles and fascia) in people happens to protect themselves from extremely painful emotions and thoughts, that is, as a means to cope with an experience [ Read more … ]
An important distinction in somatic therapies is that between somatic healing and somatic education. Most somatic treatment modalities, and this also counts for Body De-Armoring treatments, consist of a mix of somatic healing and somatic [ Read more … ]
We all know about the five human senses, that is, our taste (gustatory sensory system), hearing (auditory sensory system), smell (olfactory sensory system), touch (somatosensory system), and sight (visual sensory system). In relation to somatic [ Read more … ]
Postural Integration® is a type of holistic bodywork created by Jack Painter (1933 – 2010) in the 1960s. It’s usually practiced by professional health practitioners working with both bodywork and Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. The treatment is [ Read more … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]