Somatic practices featured in PhillyVoice

Earlier this summer, I was featured in an article about somatic practices in the PhillyVoice! The article outlines how a somatic approach to healing draws on the mind-body connection.

Here are some excerpts of what I shared:

"In somatic work, we're really prioritizing, in a bottom up way, how the body communicates and what it might be communicating," Mariana Pardes, a Philly-based somatics practitioner, said. "And so first and foremost, (we're) just learning its language. Sensation, physical sensation, movement of energy, bodily posture and gestures, imagery."

"I was a client first," Pardes said. "I had been in talk therapy long enough to really know the general themes of what I struggled with... (but) I couldn't do the thing that I now understand you can't do, which is talk yourself out of really ingrained patterns of injury, of wounding, of trauma. So participating as a client in somatic work, it was really just very profound and powerful in my own system."

Click here to read the entire article!

key words: somatics, somatic healing, mind-body connection, holistic healing, trauma, nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, complex trauma, developmental trauma