Somatic Awareness is the foundation of Somatic IFS. All four practices flow from the foundation of Somatic Awareness and lead to an experience of Embodied Self. In Somatic Awareness we cultivate being conscious of our breath, connecting with our body to promote resonance, integrated movement to promote openness and increased sensitivity to communicate within ourselves. We become in tuned, tolerant, and grounded in our body sensations.

When we are cut off from our sensory experiences we are cut off from our inner deepest knowing. Somatic Awareness promotes intimacy and understanding with out bodies.

Through this awareness we can begin to “unearth” from our somas, the trauma, trapped emotions, forgotten memories, as well as our joys, our creativity, the capacity to love ourselves and extend that love to others.

Conscious Breathing helps to uncover and develop our innate capacity to be present and aware of our bodies. The act of breathing is largely outside of our awareness, however, it is a bodily function we can alter and regulate when brought into our awareness. Brining consciousness to the breathe awakens our bodies, nourishes and energies and creates spaciousness for calm. We use the breath as a tool to help unburden bodily sensations, behaviors, memories, and troublesome part, but also we use the breath to breathe life into the parts of ourselves long forgotten, who long for revival.

Try it out now. Just simply notice that you are breathing. Does anything change for you in your body and mind. Continue to notice the breath as you scroll.

Radical Resonance is a phenomenon which bodies impact one another at a vibrational and energetic frequency. It brings forth empath, attunement and kinesthetic sensations. We begin to physiologically witness the nonverbal implicit stories within our parts and begin to move them to integrated into a state of Embodied Self Energy. Not only do with listen with our bodies, but we listen to our body.

Mindful movement brings self awareness to spontaneous gestures and movement to witness, access, and unburden parts within our system. This involves re-embodying early developmental movement patterns that may be associated with trauma and attachment patterns, and incorporates movement practices that stabilize and encourage self energy.

Movement can access the parts, help them unbend and enhance your inner relationship and knowing between your self and these parts. This can include spontaneous movement, habitual gestures, protective stances, and frozen or blocked impulses. We invite awareness, exploration and mirroring to help move through the IFS process.

Attuned Touch brings forth the importance of touch for human development and healing. Touch is our first language, the first sense to develop in the womb, and all other sense are derived from it. It maintains itself as a important conductor for communication and understanding. Attuned Touch is used for healing, through being guided by the therapist to which part wants or needs the kind of touch the part wants. The client embodied in self, connects with the body through touch. This can be a simple hand over the heart or as complex as an entire movement sequence.

Self energy is an embodied state that an be desribed as a state of sensation in the chest, and abdomen, a vibrating vibrant energy that flows through the body. Calm, spacious, clear, these are experienced in and with the body. It promotes full embodiment into our body experience and discourages dissociation and dislodgment from within the body.

The term embodied Self accentuates the understanding that Self is not an idea but rather a lived experience. The kind of knowing, understanding, and compassion that arises from a full-bodied resonant listening has an authentic immediacy that is transformative.