this week i'm researching somatic trauma therapies! what methods do you know that use movement/somatic approaches to calm the autonomic nervous system and teach the body-mind that it is safe after trauma
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Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine) & Hakomi Therapy come to mind - both modalities mentioned in passing by Reggie. Van der Kolk is another name I recall, but I think he was the chap whose trauma centre was the source of abuse allegations....so I dunno how useful that is.
Personally, I've never worked with those systems, I just use some of the somatic meditation protocols taught by Reggie, in tandem with my standard mediation practice. I hope that helps.
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it does, thank you! i did a few sessions of somatic experiencing with an old therapist and it was really interesting / fruitful. I was thinking about doing Reggie's intro somatic meditation online class in Sept but then the Shambhala news hit and I decided to take a break
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But if it's really useful in this context maybe I should do it anyway? Let me know what you think. I'm really trying to disentangle my own practice from Shambhala influence right now so I might just need a break.
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