Working Somatically with Trauma

Natasha de Grunwald

by Natasha de Grunwald

The body holds a detailed and complete account of all of our past experiences, so we must turn toward it to find a pathway to healing.  

It is no secret that the breath is a powerful Somatic tool which is intrinsically linked to emotions and can be utilised to bring up and release them.   

When we are emotional our breathing pattern changes, equally when we consciously work with the breath, it becomes a gateway.  It can influence our emotional states and access the stored, repressed and suppressed emotions more readily. 

In fact every time in life there is a painful experience or a traumatic event, our breathing rhythm changes in that moment. We hold the breath, it speeds up and becomes more shallow.  

When we use the breath, knowing it was impacted at the initial time of the challenge or trauma it can take us to that place again, but this time to release the suppressed emotions to create change and heal.

By consciously creating altered breathing rhythms and with an invitation to also use touch, movement and sound the body is supported to express what it was unable to in a time of trauma or challenge.  

The body is waiting for that opportunity and when we give the cues, support and guidance with clients we can support their deep healing and cathartic process and help them move through. 

It is common that the suppression of emotions started in childhood and we quickly become adept at holding in our feelings our creating strategies or coping mechanisms for our survival.  On the outside we can look as though we are managing and functioning, yet on the inside there is a huge amount of physical energy needed to ‘hold it all together’.  The body knows this and starts to communicate it on a physical level, showing up eventually as tension, illness, pain and ailments.

Our nervous systems are constantly adjusting to the environment we inhabit and by working with the wisdom of this we can learn to create resilience where we once felt unable or overwhelmed. 

The Somatic approach with Trauma Release Method integrates the moving parts that most benefit the nervous system whilst being trauma aware. 

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Natasha de Grunwald

Natasha de Grunwald

Natasha is a published author (Handspring Publishing) of the book ’Thai Massage Dissected’. Over the years she has spent many hours in the dissection lab with her friend and colleague Gil Hedley. She has a very popular podcast (The dissected woman/art of alchemy). She has taught and mentored for the two leading global Breathwork schools, before starting her own to ensure greater safety and a therapeutic approach to Breathing.

Natasha de Grunwald is a published author, international Breathwork, Trauma and Somatic expert. She is the founder of the Trauma Release Method. Based in London and Brighton she travels internationally to facilitate Breathwork events and to teach healing methods for mind, body and soul. As a powerful speaker and advocate for trauma and somatic healing, she runs events, workshops and retreats along with 1:1 client work. With four decades of experience as a leader practising and teaching holistic and complimentary therapies, her passion and expertise centres around breathwork, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, somatic modalities, inner child and shadow work, myofascial touch, ancient healing practices, nutrition and powerful coaching.

Natasha believes the breath is one of the most empowering, simple and natural tools for health, vitality, joy and self-actualisation. She is on a mission to empower people around the world to lead joyful lives with improved mental, physical and spiritual health. Natasha has dedicated her life to researching and studying the body-mind connection which has led her into human dissection labs to explore anatomy from the inside and with shamans and midwives in Thailand. She has been taught by teachers from Serbia to New York, New Zealand to Burma in her quest to bring the most powerful healing modalities to her work and teachings.

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