What are polarity and somatic therapy?

In polarity therapy the body is understood as a field of energy. We work with the powerful field of life force energy emanating from the hands to balance energy, release tension and energy blocks, and bring the body back into harmony with nature and the universe. Polarity therapy offers techniques for energy balancing and healing through loving touch and caring intention. Everything in creation is vibrating. The fundamental feature of vibration is that it always exists as an expression of cycles. All of nature is an expression of cycles: of birth and death, summer and winter, night and day, inhalation and exhalation. In nature there is always a dynamic between centrifugal and centripetal, expanding and contracting, pushing and pulling, building and cleansing, active and receptive, electric and magnetic, male and female, acid and alkaline, positive and negative, spirit and matter. This dynamic is best known as Yin and Yang. Polarity Therapy utilizes the five elemental forces of Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth in conjunction with the energy currents of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas to create balance within the body and mind.

Soma means body. The purpose of Somatic Therapy is to aid in the release of resistance in the body so that the energy fields can resonate with the finer forces of spiritual attunement. The essence of Somatic Therapy is facilitating the experience for the client that it is safe to be feeling, safe to be present, safe to be fully alive in his or her body. An energy block is the inability to have an expressed feeling. Release may involve consciously processing and releasing past issues and fears through movement, drumming, and/or vocal toning.