About Somatic Therapy
“Our body holds memories, stress, grief, and trauma—as well as the wisdom and energy to release, heal, and return to vitality.”
Alma Valenzuela
Somatic therapy honors the body in healing. Emotions are not just in the mind—they live in the body and subtle energy. Unprocessed emotional energy can build over time, and when it becomes too much, it shows up as trauma responses.
Frequently, these experiences surface as mood disorders, eating disorders, anxiety, mysterious physical symptoms, or an ongoing feeling of being unwell.
Somatic therapy focuses on re-building sense of safety and support from a no-cognitive level but a sensory experience.
Attunement - somatic skill that enhances self-awareness -
Through somatic work, attunement grows as we learn to notice how emotions are felt in the body. For example, happiness may be felt like as lightness in the upper body, expansion in the chest, and a natural desire for movement and flow.
Naming emotions can bring understanding, but lasting change comes from gently staying with the body’s felt experience, where true integration occurs
Attunement plays an important role in relational development.
As social beings, we are wired for connection. Co-regulation happens through our relationships with others.
When we develop the capacity to sense and understand another person’s emotional experience, relationships rooted in safety, mutuality, and trust can begin to form.
Somatic therapy focuses on re-building sense of safety and support from a no-cognitive level but a sensory experience.
From Disconnection to Connection: Rebuilding safety in the Nervous System.
For over 10 years, Alun has guided clients in connecting body, mind, and subtle energy. Through somatic practice, the nervous system learns true felt safety, helping the body release unprocessed emotions and old patterns. Healing unfolds as the body feels supported, contained, and able to reconnect with itself—a process Alun calls the Three Bodies Healing Path— achieved through consistency, repetition, and prediction of positive sensations in the brain.