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Somatic​ Touch​

“Touch is as vital to our existence as food. It is the first sense we develop, our first and most primal communication, and the only sense without which we cannot survive.” -Alaine Duncan, Tao of Trauma

When clinically helpful, and only if the client is fully comfortable with doing so, we may integrate Somatic Experiencing​ Touch into our sessions. SE Touch is not a massage and is done fully clothed either sitting in a chair or lying on a massage table. SE Touch can be a very effective way to help the body find its way into more ease and build the client’s capacity to track sensations. Clients develop their ability to resource and differentiate through a variety of forms of simple contact.  

Developed in part by Kathy Kain, SE Touch supports the restoration, stabilization, and integration of sustainable states of wellbeing. The goal of SE Touch is to support clients in stabilizing the restorative physiology in the body so that the full range of the human condition can be experienced. 

SE Touch utilizes the attention and intention of mindful attuned contact to support a safe and relational container in which the client can integrate movement from stress, overwhelm, or fright towards regulation and resiliency. 

SE Touch can be especially supportive in working with symptoms of early childhood, developmental and relational trauma. Oftentimes, these symptoms occurred from adverse experiences pre-verbally; before we learned to talk. SE Touch offers a safe and relational way to make sense of sensations, symptoms, pain and injury, that might have happened when we were very young and still wiring neurologically.

Many of the traumas that live in our bodies derive from relational wounding, either in our lifetimes and immediate family systems, or intergenerationally, or in our larger socio-cultural system that oppressed or abused us.

Often these adverse experiences leave us feeling relationally disconnected or dissatisfied; feeling too close, too far away or both.

If you’d like to schedule a session, please contact us. We have two Somatic Experiencing Practitioners trained in SE Touch.
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​It is important to recognize that relative safety in our modern environment is not universally accessible due to legacies of power and oppression. Histories of marginalization and colonization, systemic oppression such as racism, classism, ableism, and queer/trans phobia, and the continued legacies of patriarchy create conditions whereby our social and physiological survival capacities are misused to maintain oppression. We work to recognize that oppression is trauma. We practice in service of healing trauma on individual and collective levels so that we may all be free, and work toward responsibly stewarding right relationship to our planet, our times, and one another.

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  • Start Here
    • What is Somatic Experiencing
    • What is Somatic Touch
    • What is EASE: Equine Assisted Somatic Experiencing
    • Offerings >
      • OFFERINGS FOR ALL
      • OFFERINGS FOR SE STUDENTS & PRACTITIONERS
  • Offerings
    • Offerings For All
    • Offerings for SE Students & Practitioners
  • About
    • About Equinimity
    • Meet Our Team >
      • Barbara Collier
      • Jeanie Shepherd
      • Kathy Sawyer
      • Heidi Landon
      • Patricia Repolda
      • Anna Ramsey
      • Liz Dampsey
      • Susan Vose
      • Our Volunteers
    • Our Horses
    • Resources
    • About our Business Practices
    • Testimonials
  • Join Our Community
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    • Contact Us
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