What Is Somatic Personal Resonance (SPRe®)?
SPRe® is the acronym for Somatic Personal Resonance Education.
“Your body is your story...animated!”
We use the word, SOMATIC, because it means from the body, without being separate from the mind. PERSONAL reflects that the information is already yours and unique to you. RESONANCE refers to the quality of being alive, vibrational, and relational.
We are all about the reconnection of mind and body!
SPRe is two processes happening simultaneously:
Listening to and responding to the somatic language of your body through structurally informed bodywork techniques,
Exploring your cognitive and emotional awareness and encouraging discovery through our attuned conversation.
You and I are working together to restore balance and movement; both in your body, and in your life.
I’ve had great success working with clients who are navigating an array of challenges, ranging from stubborn and chronic pain, ADHD-like symptoms and difficulty focusing, to chronic anxiety or illness.
You can get relief from your symptoms and identify the underlying causes; so you can feel better!
SPRe bodywork focuses on helping you feel more comfortable within your body, and allows you to use your body more efficiently. I don’t just do it to you, I include you in the discovery of your unnecessary tension patterns.
SPRe’s focus is not to “release tension.” After all, what if you’re relying on that tension to get up, or to go to work, or to take care of your kids of parents? Like the taut ropes that hold up a tent, or the perfectly balanced cables that support a bridge, the right kind of tension supports and moves your body. Unnecessary tension is what is read as neck or back pain, compensation, muscle tightness, and “stress.”
I see you as a complete structure that shows the ease and struggle of being in a human form. Just “taking things out” can lead to an unstable situation. I discern what healthy tension is and where unnecessary tension is no longer wanted.
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/12/our-obsession-with-releasing-letting-go-is-hurting-us/
SPRe sees the body as an aggregate system - a person’s history in total, and not disparate or compartmentalized parts – body and mind connected.
SPRe holds that the body is an embodied record of a person's life and experiences, healthy and unhealthy, traumatic and otherwise. We all hold a certain amount of tension in our bodies; tension patterns that are healthy are how we remain upright, move around and function.
Architect Buckminster Fuller coined the term, “tensegrity” to describe how the integrity of a system depends on this balance of tension.
Find a great description of tensegrity here: https://vimeo.com/49052724
“The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing.”
Physical and emotional wellness, ease, and transformation begins with the bodymind. Pain, unnecessary tension, or illness are signals from the body that something isn’t right, that the nervous system is under stress and may be struggling.
It is empowering to recognize how your tension patterns shift with activities or life experiences, and then identify how to restore more organic movement.
Once we’ve discovered that the way we were doing things in our bodies (or our lives) isn’t the only way we have to do things, we can change those ways - we can potentially have more freedom and less pain. The path to change lies in having options; having different experiences to compare!
“One can make choices when one becomes aware and awake, not before.”
I engage with:
Dr. Gabor Mate’s work on stress-related disease, attachment and ADHD-related disorders.
Stanley Keleman’s Emotional Anatomy.
Dr. Candace Pert’s work on psychoneuroimmunology.
Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory, and attunement/attachment theories.
Kathrin Stauffer’s work on emotional neglect and the adult.
“The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion, and that says to me that we’d better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health.”
SPRe engages with your unique tension patterns, using collaborative, structurally-informed bodywork and attuned dialogue; renegotiating a more balanced, healthy bodymind connection that can move you forward into more easeful living.
For more detailed information, please visit the SPRe website, www.sprebodywork.com
“There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.”