Somatic Experiencing

What is Somatic experiencing?

We integrate principles and practices from Somatic Experiencing in our EMBER classes. Throughout the series, we offer our students ways to access feelings of groundedness and ease and also offer movements that can help complete their natural nervous system defense cycles (flight, fight, freeze & fawn).

From the SE Website: Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.

The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.