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Grounding in Somatic Therapy | Techniques and Health Benefits
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 main [ ... ]

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice™ | Body-Centered Emotional and Trauma Healing
Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™ was developed by Ratha Chek, and is a body-centered therapy that focuses on enhancing the body’s own [ ... ]

Movement, Posture, and Dance in Body De-Armoring Practices
Movement, dance, and posture influence emotional or psychological states (and vice versa), and hence they can be therapeutically used to increase body [ ... ]

Segmental Body De-Armoring | Wilhelm Reich
In relation to the Body Armor, the psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich postulated the theory of Segmental Armouring. In this theory, there are seven segment [ ... ]

Soma, Somatics, and Somatic Therapy
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 [ ... ]

Attachment Theory, Emotional Armor, and Body De-Armoring
Attachment Theory, pioneered by the psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907–1990), is a theory about the relationships between humans. An important premise [ ... ]

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy | Resolving Traumatic Experiences
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ is a form of Somatic Psychotherapy that was developed by Pat Ogden. The modality is influenced by neuroscience, attachme [ ... ]

Self-Dearmoring | Is it Possible?
Body De-Armoring, which depending on the focus is also called Emotional De-Armoring, Sexual De-Armoring, or Genital De-Armoring, has become a popular [ ... ]

Somatic Stress Release™ | Increased Body Awareness and Completing Stress Responses
Somatic Stress Release™ was developed by Dr. Scott Lyon, and is a holistic system to enhance body awareness and increase capacity to complete biolog [ ... ]

Breathwork and De-Armoring | Techniques, Goals, and Benefits
Breathwork is an important tool in Body De-Armoring practices — aka Emotional De-Armoring — and widely used by bodywork practitioners and [ ... ]