Somatic Experiencing March 23, 2010

Feeling shaky as a result of a car accident , surgery or other stressful event?
Join Brian LeSage, at New Frontiers Natural Marketplace,
Tuesday, March 23 at 6 pm and learn how your body regains
balance and wholeness from common events in our lives. Somatic
Experiencing® is a naturalistic body-centered perspective
which will give you a fascinating understanding of our bodies’
innate capacity to heal from stress and trauma.
“Trauma is an internal straitjacket created when a
devastating moment is frozen in time. It stifles the
unfolding of being, strangling our attempts to move
forward with our lives. It disconnects us from ourselves,
others, nature and spirit. When people are overwhelmed by
threat, we become frozen in fear. It is as if our instinctive
survival energies are ''all dressed up with no place to go.''
Trauma is a fact of life, but it doesn't have to be a life sentence.
We humans have the natural capacity to ''thaw'' these frozen
moments, and move on with our lives. By understanding why
animals in the wild are rarely traumatized-though their lives
are threatened routinely, we find the key to healing trauma.
We do not have to cling to the past, reliving devastating events
again and again. By gently awakening this innate capacity for
resilience that we share with all living organisms, the straitjacket
is loosened. As we are unbound from the past, a future
abundant with new possibilities unfolds. Our ability to be in the
present expands, revealing the timeless essence of the ''now.''
Trauma can be hell on earth; transformed, it is a divine gift.”
- Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.