Somato Emotional Release

Have you ever had a physical injury that seemed to plague you long after the site had healed? Even when Cranio Sacral Therapy releases restrictions in body tissues, sometimes a release of emotional energy is needed to fully discharge a trauma. In those cases, the Cranio Sacral Therapist may gently encourage a Somato Emotional release. Research by Dr. John E. Upleder and biophysicist Dr. Zvi Karni done in the late 70’s led to the discovery that the body often retains the emotional imprint of physical trauma. These imprints, especially of intense feelings that may have occurred at the time of injury – anger, fear, resentment,– leave residues in the body in areas called ‘energy cysts’. Although your body can adapt to energy cysts, over time your body needs extra energy to continue performing its day to day duties. Then as the years pass and the body becomes more stressed, it can lose its ability to adapt. That’s when symptoms and dysfunctions begin to appear and become difficult to suppress or ignore.

Through Somato Emotional Release, the therapist engages in imaging and dialoguing techniques that guide you through an otherwise challenging encounter with long held emotions. You do not need to analyze the problem to release it. Often the body will return to the same position it was in when the injury was first sustained. As this occurs, the therapist can feel the tissues of the body relax as the energy cyst is expelled. The body is free to return to its optimal levels of functioning.