Conceived and developed by Sônia Gomes, PhD, SOMA Embodiment® offers diagnostic skills, touch and movement tools, and haptic awakening to transform
emotional, developmental and shock trauma.
The SOMA Embodiment® training program re-envisioned from its predecessor SOMA. It includes technical aspects of the Structural and Movement Integration of Dr. Ida Rolf, as well as Tonic Function and Movement Analysis from Hubert Godard. SOMA Embodiment® is infused with psycho-physiologic understanding of trauma from Dr. Peter A. Levine, supported by the Polyvagal Theory of Dr. Stephen Porges and the contributions from Ecological Psychology as set forth by Dr. James Gibson. The work of Henri Wallon, Donald Winnicott and André Bullinger also shape the program.
In any type of trauma there is a rupture of sensorimotor coordination, this can happen at any stage of human development. Therefore, before renegotiating emotional trauma, the body needs to find physical stability.
SOMA Embodiment® practitioners help clients re-navigate trauma territory through attention to the Social Nervous System (Porges) and Movement Re-education (Godard, Rolf) to restore physical stability, perception and proprioception.
Practitioners titrate the release of bound trauma energetics and patterns to optimize client physiologic function, orientation and resilience (Levine) which reflects in a greater capacity for personal agency, appropriate relationship, ease and joy.
The program involves the understanding of the functional dynamics of the Perceptual System, which includes the haptic activity in order to identify the body and emotional defenses in traumatized people.
In summary, using the basic principles of SETM, Sônia helps her clients
and students, through touch and movement, to find a way out for blockages in the body, mind and brain caused by different traumatic events.
With SOMA, Sônia Gomes adopts an integrative approach with a clinical
practice recognized by students and clients. Her commitment is to deepen your practice of SETM and thereby provide to the clients and students the relief of suffering resulting from trauma and an improvement in personal development
