SOMA HEALING CENTER

SUPPORTING AND RESOURCING FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS WITH EMBODIED SELF-REGULATION

Soma Center is now offering a variety of online services for individuals and families. Contact us to learn more.

SERVING CLIENTS IN-PERSON & ONLINE

Children

Children who have difficulty digesting their external world often feel a lack of safety and trust in their environment. This can hinder a child’s ability to relate and access empathy, feel comfortable with transition, surrender into meal times and sleep, track internal body rhythms, and engage imagination in play. A child experiencing dysregulation may also have challenges with social connections in groups, focusing in school, and changing schedules and routines. We work to build resilience by guiding children to have a greater awareness of their own internal experience and how to connect with embodied self-regulation and resourcing.

Professionals

If you are a special education teacher, a nurse, a physical or occupational therapist, a psychotherapist or a psychologist , a body or energy worker working with trauma, you can benefit from one of our trainings. Our trauma-informed trainings offer a trajectory with the utilization of multisensory tools to incorporate into your work. We offer a series of online consultations, webinars and courses that will provide you with the skills to address your clients needs in a multi-sensory and creative way.

WORKSHOPS and SERVICES

SEGAN Sensory Mosaic of Healing Workshops

The SEGAN MODEL allows the client and therapist to develop a narrative that supports the essence of a felt sense-based intention that integrates the implicit memory, thereby guiding each individual to co-create their own Mosaic of Healing. When adopting the SEGAN MODEL (Sensation, Emotion, Gesture in colors, Action, and Narrative), your sessions are supported by artistic, creative activities and gestures that encourages expression, embodiment, coherence and empowerment. This model enlivens our awareness and understanding of life patterns. It supports the somatic "bottom-up" approach of creating the opportunity for subtle shifts in arousal, inviting imagination, inspiration and intuition, to strengthen our capacity to become present with ourselves and each other. This process is a Healing algorithm itself, that allows you and your client to access creativity by embodying the Twelve Human Senses and mobilize the client's Healing Pathway.

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Safe and Sound Protocol Groups For Adults

The Soma Healing Center offers live and virtual support for the Safe and Sound Protocol Program (SSP), adopting SEGAN The Sensory Mosaic of Healing Model (integration of the experience). The SSP is a non-invasive application of Polyvagal Theory. It has been developed by Dr. Steven Porges, consisting of an auditory intervention designed to reduce stress and auditory sensitivity while enhancing social engagement and resilience. SEGAN The Sensory Mosaic of Healing model, developed by Ana do Valle invites you to embody the listening process. By tracking your own experience, you will be able to get in touch with your intention, internal sensations (interoception), create stone mosaics and a personal mandala. You will participate in a series of expressive arts activities to restore your sense of presence, coherence and empowerment during this healing journey. After completing the SSP, you will be offered five integrative sessions to support your relationship with the Self and the Other.

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Somatic Experiencing Sessions

We are offering live and virtual Somatic Experiencing (SE) sessions for individuals who are seeking embodiment, grounding and resilience. SE Sessions are focused on increasing capacity for exploring awareness of internal states, orientation, titration and regulating activation in the system. Somatic therapy relieves emotional and bodily stress which has become trapped within the autonomic nervous system following a traumatic experience. Online sessions provide the opportunity to work from the privacy and familiarity of your own home. SE is a body-oriented approach to trauma treatment, developed by Dr. Peter Levine after more than 45 years of multidisciplinary study and clinical practice. Somatic therapy techniques transform traumatic shock, empowers the body’s innate healing abilities, and restores a sense of vibrance, intuition and inspiration to individuals.

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Parenting Coaching Sessions

Parenting Coaching for helping families understand sensory processing differences and how it impacts routines, family and social life. Sessions are focused on creating a sensory profile for the child and a Daily Sensory Routine for regulation. Together, the therapist and the family will create a sequence of sensorial experiences for the child in order to balance the nervous system and foster attunement. Parents will meet with the therapist weekly to receive concrete tools for home implementation and support / language on how to best create a relationship with their child. Areas usually covered are boundaries, relationship with impulse, transitions, bedtime routines, language of regulation, visual charts and supports for the child to learn how to track their own nervous system.

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Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Individual Sessions for Adults & Teens

When resistance, overwhelm and worry impact participation in daily activities, it’s important to develop strategies for self-awareness. Through somatic therapeutic interventions, we guide adults to slow down and develop routines that inspire a deeper connection with their life’s narrative and purpose. Each unique life path presents obstacles, and we guide individuals to navigate their journey with awareness and curiosity.

TESTIMONIALS

"Ana Do Valle’s work in Sensory Integration provides important tools to help stabilize and 'ground' children and adults with deep attachment and regulation problems. In this way she offers essential tools for Somatic Experiencing® therapists. Ana shares her rich knowledge and wisdom drawn from her thirty years background as an Occupational Therapist specializing in Sensory Integration. She empowers practitioners to do more effective therapy with some of their most challenging clients. Ana is both a gifted healer and an inspiring teacher, willing to share her knowledge and breadth of experience. I hope that you will avail yourself of her talents, her enthusiasm and her generosity of spirit."

Peter A Levine, PhD

www.somaticexperiencing.com

"By incorporating the Safe and Sound Protocol within her innovative SEGAN treatment model, Ana Do Valle has created an efficient portal to stimulate and enhance the internal dialog between feelings and narrative. Through insightful and nuanced therapist-client interactions, the treatment model leads to a more optimal state of embodiment in which the client expresses more optimal autonomic, emotional, and behavioral regulation."

Dr. Stephen Porges https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/

“I have worked with and shared patients with Ana for over 10 years. Ana provides a unique combination of skills in Occupational Therapy with the technique of Sensory Integration, and in trauma therapy with the technique of Somatic Experiencing. Along with a deep intuitive sense in the treatment of children, Ana has achieved amazing results in healing many deeply troubled children."

Robert Scaer, MD

www.traumasoma.com

SEGAN Sensory Mosaic of Healing Workshop Testimonials

I have been struck throughout these 5 days how I have been more landed in my heart (I am often in my head). Was so surprised how emotion arose suddenly while drawing, asking Who am I? process of drawing, of seeing others’ mandalas, images/color gestures, and then listening to soothing sounds of others, wow, changing my state immediately, and beyond words with Patrick’s work/sharing. All case studies are so powerful. Every person, grateful. Thank you, Ana.

The training was a deeply personal journey for me. I was struck and surprised by some of the insights I've gained, not even sure how it happened... I am grateful. Thank you, Ana, and all the participants 🙏

I found the course fascinating and had the most wonderful experience doing the mandala I have already arranged to do the mandala with three clients next week. The course gave me the confidence and go with my gut regarding working with people and their energy and animal spirits I have had some amazing things happen this week with clients already! I feel I have a like minded tribe!! We are so much in our heads over here sadly.

Thank you Ana for this teaching! And thank you everyone for holding space for me during my Mandala that we shared. I too was so surprised by the personal journey this took me on. So grateful to pull this into practice with others.

It was a true privilege to be part of the Sensory Mosaic of Healing Workshop. My initial intent was to amass more activities for clients listening to the SSP. Although that goal was actualized, I learned so much more about transformation & healing. Throughout the workshop I felt I was reconnecting with parts of myself that were buried. It was such a joy to hear language that resonates with my higher self. I didn’t expect to be so moved and inspired.

This approach is so amazing. I had high expectations, and they have been exceeded in the course.

Ana do Valle’s SEGAN protocol has beautifully woven together the SSP (Safe & Sound Protocol) of Dr. Stephen Porges with selected aspects from the healing wisdom of Anthroposophic Psychology (e.g. 12 senses; 4-fold human being; the importance of the warmth ether; the power of eurythmy gestures in supporting the etheric/life body; color as “language of the soul”) to create a durable tapestry which can lovingly and respectfully hold and accompany an individual in their journey toward wholeness. Viewed from the SEGAN perspective, new possibilities arise for implementation in any therapeutic practice.

Studying with Ana is integrating, grounding and altogether fascinating. I can only describe her work as somehow magical yet fully grounded in modern science. She pulls on ancient wisdom and inner knowing to create space and techniques for deep healing. I have witnessed Ana work firsthand and it always amazes me to see how she is able to weave her intuition into her practice to delve deep into the layers of healing and consciousness. This workshop was powerful in many ways both in my own journey and as a support and resource for my work with clients. I have already begun to use her techniques and my clients can feel the shift. I highly recommend any of her trainings.

Thank you ever so much for your intense and informative seminar on SSP practices and the SEGAN model. It was a whirlwind course and opened my inner eyes to newer techniques of inner change, especially for unresolved trauma. I am a kinesthetic learner and trust myself in this way of learning so the drawing/poetry resounded with me. I have used it once with a client- another therapist so far and we achieved greater awareness on both of our parts. (He is someone deeply saddened with a lack of connection to himself and his husband). I hope we meet again Ana. I also was completely mesmerized by Daniel the horse/human whisperer. Amazing! Yes Bonnie is beyond words.

I highly recommend Ana’s excellent course. It took me on a deep 5-day journey from which I emerged with a new sense of luminosity and self-understanding. Her teachings are powerful, heartful, and profoundly integrative, weaving together the SSP and sensory and somatic practices, and always with an expansive soul-spirit framework. I can’t wait to start offering this work to clients! Thank you, Ana!

I live in the Saitama area next to Tokyo. By the way, I have really enjoyed watching your SEGAN training. Last week I attended SE training as an assistant(I am an intermediate session provider), so I could only watch Day 4. I will continue to watch. Anthroposophy was really new to me, It is quite interesting. And your warm and gentle lectures are very easy to understand.

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