SomatoEmotional Release™ (SER) is a therapeutic process that uses and expands on the principles of CST to help a person rid their body of the residual effects of past injuries and negative experiences. SER is a holistic modality of CranioSacral Therapy that takes into consideration how one's emotional state may affect the physical body, and vice versa. It allows us to explore the emotional, mental, or spiritual aspects of pain, disease, or dysfunction in the body and mind. It can provide an amazing opportunity to achieve deeper levels of self-awareness.

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• SER is based on university research conducted by osteopathic physician John E. Upledger and biophysicist Zvi Karni.

• Physical forces enter a person's body at the time of an accident or injury. The injured body may immediately begin dissipating these forces and the natural healing process will follow, or the physical forces imposed upon the person's body may be retained rather than dissipated.

• Doctors Upledger and Karni came to realize that very often the body retained the emotional energy along with the physical force, and called this localized and concentrated area that formed, an "energy cyst."

• Initially the body accommodates to the presence of the energy cyst, but over time the body weakens or tires of this accommodation, and can develop symptoms of pain, dysfunction, or emotional stress.

• SER facilitates a gentle process for releasing tissue memory, thereby helping the person to decrease the adverse effects of past traumas.

• There is vast research to show that a change in physical health is accompanied by a change in mental health, and it is equally documented that the reverse is apparent.

• SER is a holistic mind-body somatic approach that may also assist a person in gaining insight as to how that held trauma is influencing their physical and emotional health.

• SER can support the personal transition from dysfunction and unresolved issues towards wellness and optimal function.