About Somatic and Therapeutic Touch in Edmonton
Somatic and Therapeutic Touch at Sana Soma Integrative Centre is a body-based, trauma-informed approach that may include therapeutic touch when appropriate and with consent. Sessions focus on safety, pacing, and nervous system regulation, integrating body awareness, gentle movement, dialogue, and relational presence. This work helps release tension, deepen embodiment, and support emotional regulation. Somatic and Therapeutic Touch also fosters grounding, connection, attachment repair when needed, and increased resilience, allowing the nervous system to restore balance naturally, safely, and in alignment with each client’s readiness and capacity.
The Benefits They Have Gained From Using It
Clients experience greater self-trust, emotional stability, and body awareness through Somatic and Therapeutic Touch. Sessions are collaborative and consent-based, allowing the body to guide the pace. This approach supports lasting nervous system regulation, safe connection, and integrated healing without forcing movement or verbal processing.
Frequently Asked Questions?
What is somatic therapy?
Somatic therapy works with the nervous system through body awareness, sensation, breath, and movement, helping release stress patterns that talking alone often cannot shift safely over time with support.
What happens in a somatic therapy session?
Sessions are collaborative and paced for safety, combining conversation with body tracking to help you feel regulated, grounded, and more connected to yourself in daily life without overwhelm pressure.
What is Somatic and Therapeutic Touch?
Somatic and Therapeutic Touch may include therapeutic touch only with consent, supporting nervous system safety, embodiment, and repair of holding patterns when appropriate and clinically supportive within sessions, carefully paced.
Who can benefit from somatic therapy?
This approach is helpful for anxiety, trauma responses, chronic stress, overwhelm, and patterns that feel stuck, supporting resilience, emotional regulation, boundaries, and healthier relationships over time gently, safely, sustainably.