Jenna is passionate about helping her clients explore and establish mindfulness and meditation practices as a part of their daily life. She also loves collaborating with health and other allied professionals who are interested in growing an understanding of Somatics and would like help integrating these principles into their own practices.
Sessions explore what is showing up in the physical and emotional bodies. We bring awareness to our symptoms as information, and work to restore the body-mind to its inner state of resiliency. Somatic Therapy may be especially helpful if you have not been successful in using allopathic medical approaches or mechanical models for treating chronic pain, digestive disorders and other chronic disorders. In a typical session, you can expect the following:
*Somatic Therapy is not a substitute for medical care or clinical mental health support. However, it will support and enhance any form of treatment.*
When we have an experience that we are not able to process at the time, it may become an imprint that gets stuck in the body. When left frozen and undigested, trauma leaves us continuously, actively and without conscious awareness, constructing our current experiences to match the imprint of the past. 80 per cent of signals move from body to brain (bottom-up), Somatic Therapy focuses on allowing the body to speak, cultivating observation and description of body experiences. When stress increases, old traumas and wounds may become aggravated, bringing up feelings and thoughts of inadequacy, and cutting us off from our intrinsic belonging. Somatic Therapy works to restore the natural state of your body, which is the inner-resiliency that is your human birthright.
Today we see unresolved trauma is showing up as:
● Chronic illness/pain
● Anxiety/depression
● PTSD-related behaviors that alienate you from others
● Relationship conflict
● Confusion about life purpose
● Dissatisfaction with work
● Addiction/alcoholism
Want to know more? Connect with me for a free virtual call during my office hours; every other Tuesday
Jenna is shining a light on the power of somatic or body-based therapies for achieving inner freedom, strength and resilience. Customize a session based on your preference (floor work, verbalizing, yoga therapy, somatics) and personal needs. Somatic is a term meaning your first person, subjective, lived experience in the present moment. The etymology of the word is the root word soma, meaning body. It is pointing toward the experience of your bodyfrom within.
Jenna’s path in the healing arts began with her first Yoga Teacher training in 2011 at Yandara Yoga Institute. It was there that she first learned about Somatic Psychotherapy. Her first teacher in the field of Somatic Psychotherapy was a Buddhist teacher, yoga innovator and psychotherapist from Toronto named Michael Stone. She went on to complete a professional counselling program in Somatic Trauma Therapy (Relational Somatic Therapy) from 2017-2018. Some of her other areas of study and specialization include: Therapeutic Bodywork and Yoga, Tibetan Usui-Reiki energy healing, Yin Yoga, Trauma-Informed Yoga and Hanna Somatics. Currently, Jenna is studying therapeutic Qigong and continues her zen practice with the Mountain Rain Zen community.
Learn more about our Pathways to Healing event from one of our guests who attended. Meet Jenna (Somatic Therapist) & Lehla (Wellness Coach).
By appointment only*
We require a 24 hour cancellation, to avoid a cancellation fee.
Join us for our upcoming event hosted by Salt Wellness Centre - Facilitated by Jenna De Seta (Somatic Therapist)
Together we will explore the transformative power of the body-mind connection through somatic movement, body-scanning and breath work.
Perfect for beginners, and experienced practitioners alike, this is a small group workshop that provides healing and self-discovery.
Please reach us at jennadeseta@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
That is up to you. Some people feel they get what they need from one session. Others enjoy setting intentions together for the long term, and having me walk alongside them as they move towards those intentions. If youare new to Somatic Therapy and/or Yoga Therapy, I recommend eight sessions to start, to get a feel for howthese modalities can work for you and help you heal.
If you suspect you have had one or more painful experiences that has been left unattended to, and that thismay be causing conflict and tension for you in your current life, it may be that there is stuff going on for you onan unconscious level. In time, somatic work can help you thaw out those frozen experiences and access thehealth in your underlying system. We can do this by using tools such as tracking body sensations, movement,gesture, sound and meditation, among others.
Even if we grew up in a great home in a safe environment with loving parents, the vast majority of us will still end up with some kind of trauma by the time we’re 18. If left unprocessed, this can end up causing havoc in our bodies and our lives. We can be traumatized indirectly, such as when we witness someone close to us going through a painful experience. Furthermore, complex trauma can happen as a result of “smaller”, yet just as impactful events that compound over time. Rather than the “big T” Traumas we typically think of like a weather disaster, war or acts of terrorism, small “t” trauma can be things like emotional or psychological abuse, or having a traumatized parent when we are young.
Somatic work is about coming home to the lived experience of the body with curiosity and gentleness in orderto bring awareness to old habits and harmful unconscious patterns. When we can become embodied with loveand acceptance for ourselves, we are equipped to begin to take care of our thoughts, feelings and emotions.In Somatic work, we come from the understanding that we as human beings live with a body and nervous system, and that how we relate to and take care of our bodies, for example with movement is incredibly important for how we are able to heal and progress.
Yes, talking is one layer in our healing, and it can be very freeing to talk about what happened as we heal ourtrauma. I tend to work with clients who are interested in exploring body-based approaches for healing trauma.We don’t just talk our way into the trauma, so we won’t be able to talk our way out of it. As you become morecomfortable with accessing your soma, we can work towards you being able to come back to your embodiedexperience and what is really going on inside more and more. There may be days we spend more time together with “What Happened”, and other days you may feel you want to drop the story and talk less, in which case there are many different tools and practices we can explore.
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