Scot Nichols  

Welcome to Somatic Integrity
Soma is Greek for the “lived experience.”  Somatics is a growing movement concerned with the development of holistic approaches to integrating body, mind, & spirit into healing, and education.  Somatics recognizes that body and mind have distinct functions, yet through our “lived experience” we can see that they are integrally connected aspects of a greater whole.  Somatics is the field developing ways to support the dynamic balance of our greater whole. 
   

Also unique to this field is the understanding that we are inherently and intimately linked to our social and family contexts.  Our social communication streams throughour nervous system, so the environment and context that we are part of effect every aspect our embodied experience.  Somatics is a way to increase our mental, emotional, and embodied integrity and to increase our range of responses in a rapidly changing world.
   

Somatic approaches to Psychotherapy and Education are not new, though research is rapidly supporting our understanding of its profound effectiveness.  I invite you to join me in a range of options to support the integrity of your embodied life.  I offer both education and psychotherapy.

 Somatic Education is cutting edge framework that includes the body in knowledge acquisition.  Both the mind and the body metabolize content.  When this process is supported, natural whole & integrated intelligence is the by-product.  I offer a wide range of classes that flow on a continuum between therapeutic education to pure knowledge based learning.  These are essential skills for our time.  My courses address the growing need for new learning approaches meeting the needs of a world  transforming.

Somatic Psychotherapy is much like other psychotherapies, yet included in the session is your embodied experience.  Using your body’s cues and training to read your nervous system, we work together to draw out, accentuate, and understand what is present in your life’s experience right now.  Working with both verbal processing and with your embodied experience, I will help you find energy and resources available in your body.  This will support your integrity and help to metabolize past experience.  I consider our history to be the soil from which we grow; sometimes we need some help composting and cultivating our gardens.