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Somatic Healing versus Somatic Education | What Is the Difference?
An important distinction between somatic therapies is that of somatic healing and somatic education. Most somatic treatment modalities, and this also [ ... ]

Proprioception, Interoception, Body Awareness, and De-Armoring
We all know about the five human senses, that is, our taste (gustatory sensory system), hearing (auditory sensory system), smell (olfactory sensory sy [ ... ]

Postural Integration® | Bodywork, Emotional De-Armoring, and Integration
Postural Integration® is a type of holistic bodywork created by Jack Painter (1933 – 2010) in the 1960s. It’s usually practiced by profession [ ... ]

De-Armoring Session | How Does it Work?
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 t [ ... ]

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 [ ... ]