Finding Flow: Somatic Stress Relief

In today's fast-paced world, stress can take a toll on our mental and physical well-being. At Heart Body Therapy, we believe that somatic resources are essential for building resilience and cultivating mental health fitness. By integrating core integration, body/breath practices, and expressive experiential therapies, we empower you to tap into your body's innate wisdom and find your flow.

Somatic resources offer a powerful way to take care of stress and promote well-being. Core integration, which focuses on empowered alignment, the body's structure and energy for stability, strength, coordination, mobility, ease, and endurance, helps you cultivate a sense of grounded centeredness. Body/breath practices, such as yoga, Pilates, dance, and martial arts, enhance your awareness of your body kinesthetics to promote relaxation and flow. These contemplative practices can also help you release pain of excess tension and cultivate a sense of calm in everyday activities.

We also emphasize the importance of dynamic adaptive stress, in channeling flow through satisfying activities like play processes, physical training, rehabilitative skills, functional exercise, and energy work. These rewarding activities help you rewire the pathways of your brain, body, and behaviors to adapt to life's challenges and opportunities. Expressive experiential therapies, such as writing, art, dance, and music, provide creative outlets for processing emotionally complex experiences, and rehumanizing self-expression.

Our approach also incorporates nature-based therapeutics, recognizing the healing power of connecting with the natural world. Environments of sensory soothing, such as forests, gardens, and beaches, can promote connection, relaxation, and reduce stress. We encourage co-regulation with nature, helping you find resources and support in the land around you.