Somato Emotional Release NYC
Somato Emotional release (SER) means, a letting go, releasing, getting over, unwinding and neutralizing negative experiences of your particular life, both emotional and physical. Experiences that are stuck in your body’s tissues (soma). Negative, emotionally unpleasant experiences and traumas become stuck energetically in the body’s own tissues, disturbing the mind-body connection and creating physical pain patterns and physiological common symptoms. Often unrealized emotion you have felt from unpleasant life experiences literally become trapped in the body. These unresolved, unprocessed emotions, some of which you may have forgotten about, are compromising, disrupting your body’s ability to function at optimal homeostasis. Your ability, unbeknownst and subconscious to you, are not allowing your physiology to function at 100%.
The mind-body’s inability of letting go, processing fully of unpleasant emotions, bad experiences, events, or physical injuries, often become stuck in the body as a negative charge. This can cause you to have unproductive, unhealthy thoughts, body aches, anxiety, mood swings, uneasy physical or emotional feeling of imbalance and ill-health. Including recurring pain, muscle spasm, unexplained stress, depression, and many other unpleasant, debilitating ailments. All of which impact your daily physical and mental health and your ability to have productive, enjoyable days. A somatic healing session can help you resolve all of this and help you get your joyful life back.
What Causes a Negative Charge in the Body?
For example, a break-up with a significant other, scary car-accident, argument with a colleague or family member, bullying and other hundreds of likely negative interactions we live through in our daily lives. These interactions create in the human body, soma, a disruption of your energy flow and healthy physiology.
How is a Somato Emotional Release Achieved?
Somato Emotional Release (SER) is the process that takes place during a Craniosacral Therapy (CST) session, whereby the hands of the practitioner are placed on specific areas of the body to facilitate the patient’s body tissues (soma) to unwind and release these negatively charged life experiences / energies. Somato Emotional Release was developed by Dr. John Upledger, developer of Craniosacral Therapy.
There are a few ways to achieve a SER of emotions from the body. Dr. Kaminsky combines the art of specific / intuitive hand placement on the patient’s body, as per CST protocols, with a diaphragmatic breathing technique right on the therapy table. Guiding the patient to actively achieve a SER via a meditative / guided session. Producing immediate results by facilitating the patient to achieve a Somato Emotional Release.
Stuck, unprocessed, unresolved traumas and experiences are released from the physical body during the session and the processing is activated. Which can last a few days after the session.
Often during the hands-on session patients feel soothing, smooth, pleasant sensations throughout the body as the releasing occurs. Less frequently there may be unpleasant temporary sensations and emotional processes such as crying, laughing, shaking, body vibration, and other processes.
What Happens After SER Session?
CST is meant to facilitate releases in the body during the session and then there is processing time which is usually one to two days after the session but can last up to a week. This is where the Central Nervous System recognizes that the body released some (one or two, or three, or more) emotional energies, and your system will make a correction in the physical body and the mind-body connection. A noticeable improvement in your mental and / or physical state / condition will take place, and it will be noticeable to you.
The Mind Body Connection
The mind and body are linked. Unprocessed, unresolved experiences, negatively charged memories effect the health and relationship between the physical body, mind and spirit. One has major dependency on the state of health of the other, and vice versa. Mind and body are interdependent on each other for healthy living.
Decreased neck and back pain, improved quality of sleep, diminished levels of stress, much less anxiety, happy life, etc., are all results of the body’s SER response, processing and healing. How the body works is something very important to understand.
How Many Sessions Does One Need?
That all depends on how much is stuck in the soma and what your personal goals are. It may take one session to produce the results you are looking for, and for some people it will take multiple sessions to fully achieve a satisfactory level of a noticeable physical and or emotional improvement.
SER is Scientifically Documented
Doctors Zvi Karni and John Upledger, through their joint research in the1970’s, discovered that the body does not always dissipate the negative emotional energy from emotional experiences, but rather retains the energetic charge within the tissue and muscles (soma). As the body physically adapts to this unwelcome energy, it emotionally and energetically isolates this negative energy into what the founders termed, “Energy Cysts”, essentially, pockets of unprocessed, unresolved negative energy in the body that starts to accumulate and cause muscle tightness, pain, common symptoms and many conditions we experience in our lives.
The body will begin to adapt to these energy cysts, and with this energy compromise, it will begin to have deteriorating consequences on the physical body, mental clarity and overall health.
Craniosacral Therapy Facilitates the SER
During a CranioSacral Therapy session, a trained practitioner will help facilitate your body to release these trapped / stuck energies and energy cysts. A disintegration of negative energies stuck in the human body tied to a particular emotion gets released and a correlating past experience from some point in life gets processed by the Central Nervous System and mind-body. You are now freed of this negative energetic charge.
During a session the patient should expect to enter a relaxed state brought on through the hands of an experienced craniosacral therapy practitioner, a mind – body connection occurs, and the Somato Emotional Release occurs. More sessions may be necessary depending on individual needs.
The Somato Emotional Release
Some patients may experience subtle sensations in their bodies on the treatment table during the session. It is natural and allows the negative energies to be released from the body, the muscular tension changes away from the stress the body was carrying, and the muscles will become soft and relaxed again. Other functions improve and dis-ease in the heart, soul, mind-body start to become minimized.
The experiences of a SER session vary greatly from one person to the next. Some people may experience spontaneous memories, certain emotions, and afterwards, possible nighttime vivid dreams, all are positive processing of the body and is the body’s way of processing what has been released. It is your body’s way of letting go, and often results in a sense of calm, muscle relaxation, relief of pain and other distinct beneficial healthy results.
Anyone suffering from chronic symptoms should consider a visit to an SER trained CranioSacral Therapy practitioner. You can find research articles here.
CranioSacral Therapy works by effecting every aspect of human nature, physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional in order to bring about healing and balance to the body.
Dr. Kaminsky is an advanced and certified practitioner of Craniosacral Therapy as well as other healing modalities.
He has helped hundreds of people achieve a SER process with Craniosacral Therapy.
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Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.
After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.
At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.
At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.
In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.
Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.
And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.
Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.