Book a somatic mindfulness session in Geelong today

While children learn mindfulness techniques at school and adults use it to kick start their day, less is known about somatic mindfulness in Geelong.

But somatic mindfulness carries with it real and lasting benefits, especially for people living with past trauma.

Somatic mindfulness teaches you to tune into your body and actively seek a purposeful relationship with your embodied experience. It pulls together elements including breathing techniques, meditation, metabolic fitness and mind-body integration.

With guidance from experienced psychologist Helen Handsjuk, you can learn to use your body’s responses as an information source as opposed to letting hair-trigger reactions take over. For some people with traumatic pasts, their nervous systems can ramp up swiftly to perceived threats, even when none exist.

But somatic mindfulness sessions in Geelong can bring about change. You begin to tune into your body, understand your nervous system and the way you react to triggers of past trauma and stress. And then, with guidance and training, you make conscious decisions instead of subconsciously reacting to your nervous system’s boosted threat response and deep-seated patterns of behaviour.

A mindful, positive approach

It helps you to live in the now, the present, rather than letting past traumas and stresses shape your daily life

Somatic mindfulness sessions can help people to shrink their levels of tension, pain, stress, anger and frustration.

Helen Handsjuk teaches people how to observe their nervous system and decide an appropriate response. Their response becomes a deliberate action, rather than a knee-jerk reaction. And it can be a truly liberating experience.

Instead of constant fears and worries dictating your reactions, somatic mindfulness teaches you to process embodied trauma. This, in turn, allows you to lower your hyper-vigilant threat response. It’s about giving you back control and assisting you to put potential burnout on the backburner.

So take control of your life and add somatic mindfulness to your day.

To benefit from somatic mindfulness Geelong people can contact Helen Handsjuk to organise a session.