Somatic healing from trauma is usually linked with yoga or certain types of therapy – but I invite you to consider how plant medicine offers similar practices for emotional healing.
What is somatics?
Somatics comes from the Greek word for body, transliterated as soma. These practices encourage you to reconnect with your body in order to be more aware of your needs. Some practices help to process trauma through the nervous system. Others are focused on connection and relearning the ways your nervous system speaks.
How does plant medicine work with somatics?
Many plant medicines can be used alongside somatics. Herbalism, aromatherapy, and flower essences can be easily adapted to support somatic healing. You will hear them collectively called somatic herbalism. Most of these practices are also mindful in nature, creating a blend of complementary practices to bring you back into connection with your body.
What if I struggle to feel physical sensation?
Not everyone feels somatic sensation when they first start. Especially after long term stress, difficult trauma, or other events where you have to ignore your needs in order to survive – it may be nearly impossible at first to reconnect to what your body is asking you to do. There are techniques that are easy and relatively quick to implement that can help you begin to listen to your body even without a felt sense.
Somatic herbalism as a healing modality from trauma is possible!
Complementary practices such as herbalism, aromatherapy, yoga, and mindfulness can be combined with somatic healing techniques to create the perfect environment for you to heal.
That is what I have done with my healing system, Herbal SomaticsTM.
Herbal SomaticsTM
My work as a trauma informed practitioner has led me to create a system known as Herbal SomaticsTM. While somatic herbalism describes general practices that many different herbalists and other practitioners use, my specific system of Herbal SomaticsTM helps you reconnect with your body, become closer to plants, and eventually find the inner awakening that leads beyond healing and into a place where you can thrive!
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