SomatoEmotional Release

From many strands of mind and body work, drawing on both conventional science and traditional wisdom, Dr John Upledger developed SomatoEmotional Release®. It is a framework and toolkit for facilitating personal growth, away from illness and lack of potential and towards health and fulfilment.

Many of us are underliving our potential because of the retained effects of early life trauma, whether mental, emotional or physical. This shows itself most obviously as chronic physical illness which prevents us from freely exercising choices, but more insidiously in sub-clinical dysfunctional patterns such as poor immunity, lack of energy, lack of confidence, anxiety and fearfulness.

Illness, rather than being viewed entirely negatively, can become a creative tool for sorting out our lives and redesigning our futures. To achieve this, we need an approach which enables us to listen to and learn from both mind and body. Most healthcare approaches separate mind and body — either physical therapy or psychotherapy, the body hospital or the mind hospital.

A radical change in physical health, whether for the better or worse, is invariably accompanied by profound mental change. Studies of behaviour and body language show the reverse is equally true — a major change in mental perspective is always accompanied by a change in body activity, posture and movement. SomatoEmotional Release® combines all aspects of human nature — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual — into one approach that can facilitate tremendous change and growth in a person's life.