Feeling disconnected from your body?

Body-oriented therapies can ease you back into connection

Our body and breath are the most accessible resource available for wellbeing

Somatic Therapy


Body-oriented psychotherapy offers a bottom-up approach to processing trauma, releasing tension, and moving through emotions. Explore how bodily sensations can shift emotional states and change our perception of pain. When paired with storytelling or psychodrama, it becomes a way to step back into the body.

When we embody a character and tune in to the felt-sense experience of the body, we get a moment that the feeling becomes accessible; perhaps sparking a glimmer of hope or learning it is possible to feel again. In the sample video, we see how pairing music with movements can e a way of embodying the firey energy needed to spark passion moving into the year of the Fire Horse (2026).

Integrative somatic parts work tunes into the body experience using awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch. It offers a path to the embodied self. Body sensations offer moments to tune in to feeling and shift out of thinking. To feel our feelings, we have to reconnect to our bodies.

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Mind-Body Connection


Body-Based Approaches

When the body becomes home, the brain has a place to rest

For some, yes. It can feel vulnerable to be witnessed freely exploring movement. However, it also provides a here-and-now experience to assist with working through a fear of being perceived or need for perfectionism. Movements are first introduced through demonstration with permission to simply observe. When you're ready to explore movements, we mirror the movements and fully engage with you every step of the way.
Somatic work can be soft, focusing on breath, gentle movements, and guided body awareness. It may also be more physically focused integrating the use of movement, breath, and sound (yoga, tai chi, dance, organic flow) to enhance somatic release and sense of flow.
Somatic therapy focuses on the body sensations that emerge. Rather than getting stuck in the story of the pain or distress, the focus shifts to identifying body sensations, nervous system responses, and finding regulation through intentional body-based practices.
When we're disconnected from our bodies, we're more prone to dissociation and detached experiences. This pulls us out of rhythm with ourselves, creating a disconnect between the mind and body. For those that struggle to recognize internal body cues like hunger, thirst, hot, cold, bathroom cues, etc., somatic therapy can help build interoceptive awareness. Interoception is the sensory system that cues us in to internal body needs. It is known that neurodivergent individuals often have difficulty noticing body cues. By improving body-awareness, we can better recognize bodily needs and learn how to tune in when feeling disconnected.


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Elemental Expressive Arts
Phone: 757-524-1357
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