Somatic Psychology - Dr. Charles Martin Therapy

Being Grounded Is Being in Contact with Your Experience – Not Resisting It

Being fully present depends on your capacity to be grounded directly in your actual experience – in what is happening now. Grounding consists of contact. Contact with the body, the earth, the psyche, and with your energy, your pleasures, your pains, your sexuality. It’s about being in your senses, over and over. Being with what is really there. […]

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Somatic Psychotherapy Exercises, Self-Expression – and Emotional Release

“Does all that sound and movement in somatic psychotherapy really help me heal? Doesn’t that kind of dramatic self-expression just teach people it’s OK to blow up or break down?” Yes and no. To both questions. Here’s the deal. Bodily exercises are indeed an important aspect of bioenergetic therapy and development work. These exercises include

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The Body Knows – Even If “We” Don’t

Body, feeling, thought, the unconscious, and what is essential in us are all connected. If you’ve ever had a massage, you may have had the experience of registering – in a flash – that you were having surprisingly strong feelings – perhaps of fear, anger, sadness, or joy. Maybe a concrete memory came up with

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The Role of the Body in Bioenergetic Psychotherapy

Body-mind psychotherapy stands in contrast to purely verbal psychotherapies by including your bodily self in the therapy session. This can take many different forms. At the most fundamental level, body-mind and somatic psychotherapy operate on the continuity of mind, body, feeling, relationship and environment. As an example, if we feel an (unconscious) conflict about reaching

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Grounding: Embodied Presence

Settled. Solid. Full. Here. It’s a feeling – an experience – that sometimes comes our way. It can settle upon us by grace, perhaps in a moment when we’re sitting on a beach looking out at an ocean or hiking and taking in a mountain vista. Or it may come upon us by our setting

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Dis-ease, Grace, Body, and Spirit

Performance vs alive movement We’ve seen how someone can be technically perfect in a performance (say on a musical instrument, in a dance, or in sports) but not only is the passion missing – the life – but we ourselves don’t rise and fall in pleasure in seeing or hearing the performance. We ourselves are not

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