Client exploring with somatic inquiry

Somatic inquiry exploring and integrating body & Mind

Somatic inquiry supports processing overwhelm and trauma resolution by integrating mind and body.

I guide clients to explore what is arising in the moment, and help them make links between thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. This strengthens the unfolding process and supports integration.

Connecting mind, body and emotional experiences together is powerful. Touch is a powerful way to open up the door to the unconscious patterns held in the body.

Using somatic inquiry and therapeutic touch together is a powerful way to resolve overwhelm

About somatic inquiry

Somatic inquiry is a trauma informed approach, based on exploring what’s unfolding for you in the moment.

I provide support and guidance to help you make connections that are hard to do on our own. This can have a powerful effect on supporting what your body is in the process of resolving.

My approach to somatic inquiry integrates:

  • Open ended inquiry

  • Realisation process

  • Compassionate inquiry

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Open ended inquiry

Open ended inquiry is anchored in the present moment. It connects you to different layers of your experience which includes: your concepts, body sensations, emotions and a palpable immediacy and aliveness.

My approach to open-ended inquiry is based on 10 years of intensive study of Diamond Approach, a psycho-spiritual path to awakening and realisation. This study taught me how the mind obscures the present moment and how to come into my felt sense of the ever changing present moment.

Realisation Process

The Realisation Process is a unique approach to psychological and relational healing by applying fundamental consciousness to the release of psychological holding patterns.

Releasing limiting patterns enables you to embody your authentic nature - it frees you to more fully love, understand, create, and speak. It also opens you to an innate source of calm and joy within your body.

I am a fully qualified Realisation Process Teacher and incorporate this approach into somatic inquiry.

Compassionate Inquiry

Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr Gabor Maté.

Compassionate inquiry reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world. It involved exploring beliefs, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.

I participated in the year-long CI programme.

Somatic inquiry happens on and off the table

client engaged in somatic inquiry

Sessions begin by setting intentions.

This can be a process of refining what the key thread is that’s alive in your process right now, today.

When that’s been established, it’s time to take the work to the table and get the bodies perspective on what’s happening.

Then the mind is weaved into the process, making connections, becoming aware of what’s trying to resolve, and being with any emotions or discharge that’s needed.

Finally it’s time to stand, to feel what’s happening and complete by sharing and asking questions.

My approach to Somatic Inquiry

Using somatic inquiry with therapeutic touch

The magic of using somatic inquiry and therapeutic touch together is that it supports an integrated healing process. The body holds the unconscious. Working directly with the body and mind at the same time helps to make the unconscious, conscious in a safe and transformative manner.

A body lead process

My approach is truly a body-led process. The body has a different intelligence and language to the mind and works at a slower pace. Really great things happen when the mind learns to let the body lead, join in and partner with the body.

Being with what is

Being supported to be deeply present to what is happening in real-time, naturally leads to releasing held emotions, letting go of beliefs that no longer serve you, and transforms your body’s adaptive strategies.

Coming into real time

The body only lives in real-time - overwhelm responses activate the mind into the past. Learning to be in real-time, is learning to be with what is happening in your body. Somatic Inquiry helps the mind partner with the body and orientate to what’s here now.

Letting go of a ballon

Transformation is a letting deep letting go

Somatic inquiry is an active process

Exploring what is alive in the moment is at the heart of somatic inquiry. The body can only communicate in the present moment. It’s your mind that can live in the past or the future.

Developing a partnership with your body and mind, where each is seen as an equal and valid aspect of self, is radical. It means learning to deeply listen, slowing down the mind to connect & learn the body’s wisdom.

A trained therapeutic touch can strengthen the mind body partnership because it gives direct feedback about what is happening that is not yet conscious. It’s like shining a light on the inside and listening to what’s being revealed and moving.

  • Somatic inquiry exploring

    What’s the body showing and holding? Discovering what pattern is present, connecting any thoughts, emotions to feelings that are weaved into the body.

  • Somatic inquiry releasing

    When patterns are truly met, they let go - their job has been completed. This can be emotional, physically uncomfortable, and it can also be a celebration.

  • Somatic Inquiry sharing

    Being seen and your story heard is part of the transformation.