WHAT IS S.E.A.®?
Somatic Emotional Acupressure (S.E.A.®) uses a combination of muscle monitoring, acupressure, energy kinesiology and energy rebalancing techniques to pinpoint and release specific pathways of emotional stress and trauma. S.E.A.® specifically addresses the early moments of emotional overwhelm that may be causing loss of brain-body-emotional balance and coherence. S.E.A.® was developed by
The S.E.A.® practitioner tracks emotional stress and trauma through the physical, emotional, mental and energetic systems, moving through time and levels of consciousness, through the body and the brain, journeying on visceral and emotional currents to find the original repressed emotional charge. Finding the imprint moment means finding the first time the body/system had to survive a moment of overwhelming shock. To survive, it created a strategy. Until we can disconnect it, that survival strategy remains a functional part of our approach to life, triggered each time we encounter a situational experience that hits the same or similar energetic frequency of image, flavor, pitch, tone or volume.
S.E.A.® allows the practitioner to connect with these unconscious survival strategies and release them deep in the unconscious system. If left unaddressed long enough, these survival strategies or patterns of resistance, may ultimately be expressed as pain, dysfunction and/or disease at one or multiple levels. We do not need the conscious memory or the details of the event itself to release the referencing charge that is still held within the nervous system. The system is allowed to retain its secrets, if needed, honoring the inherent wisdom within each of us.
Wherever there is fear within us there is a moment connected to it where we lost our power, or gave it up to survive. The moment we were overwhelmed is like an energetically frozen file left open on our desktop, still requiring and drawing energy even though we may be unaware of its existence. We lose energy, strength, and ultimately health due to our past, unfinished business. When another wounding event occurs, such as an accident or health issue, the somatic system may have little or no energy left in reserve and can lose its ability to heal itself.
Closing the energetic files allows us to bring the distorted and distracted energy that has been routed into survival, back to our now, and we are able to live from a more centered and satisfying place, responding to our daily life, instead of responding from our remembered past.
For more about the premises underlying S.E.A.®.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A SESSION?
Sessions are done face up on a massage table, fully clothed, removing only your shoes. Sessions are gentle, non-invasive, and involve light touch acupressure on top of clothing. During the session, the practitioner might use a tei-shin, which is a painless, spring-loaded acupressure tool. Adult sessions are an hour and a half, and children (less than 14) are an hour.
Your practitioner will invite you to tune in to the bits of somatic sensory information that come up from your body memory as it comes up, noticing energy movement and physical sensations. You may feel suddenly hot or cold as energy releases, you may feel electrical charges, or tightening of muscles or releases. You may feel movement of energy as well as autonomic responses such as changes in breathing, heart rate, pulse. As survival strategies are accessed and then released you may find yourself suddenly sleepy, dizzy, hungry, or any number of physical sensations, and noticing equally swiftly that it is gone as the old data is released. You will remain conscious and lucid, usually easily maintaining a relaxed state that deepens as your body releases old tensions and patterns.
Fragments of memory may or may not come up, feeling disjointed or random as if your mind is wandering, but you will begin to see the pattern that the system has constellated together. Because S.E.A.® is working in the subtle energy and in somatic emotional frequencies, the 'story' is not important. The goal is to calm, release and clear the repressed energy and the survival strategies that no longer serve.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A SESSION?
After the session most feel surprisingly light and calm, more centered and present in their own body. You will want to do some light walking, drink water, and often will need a nap surprisingly quickly. The brain trims off what it no longer needs when we sleep, and sleep helps the system to more deeply integrate the work.
Physical shifts deepen over the next 24-48 hours, and some people report continuing to feel improvements for one to two weeks following deep work, giving us more response choices in our day-to-day life. What many people report is that when again faced with a situation that would have caused the old reactive response, it no longer does. We are able to choose how we wish to respond to our life.
Family constellations are fields of energy that can re-imprint old patterns without a deeper understanding and release. Often the best and most lasting work is when the parent is willing to also have sessions, removing resistance patterns between parent and child, allowing all to move forward into new behaviors and attitudes.
HOW MANY SESSIONS WILL IT TAKE?
Most issues can be addressed with 2-4 sessions. The longer an issue has been with us however, the more complicated and intricate the compensation pathways, and the longer it will take to unwind and recode. The more intelligent the brain, the more intelligent and complicated the survival strategies may be. A life long response pattern may be more rigid, with secondary gain in maintaining the pattern, so everyone is different.
Usually it takes a number of sessions that build on each other. Most find this work so gentle and comfortable that children will ask their parents for more, and adults walk away pleasantly surprised, relaxed and calm.
WHO BENEFITS FROM SESSIONS?
Children and adults with:
HOW DO WE KNOW IT WORKS?
We know it is working by our reactions to the world. When we are able to move forward and do what was formerly stopping us we know it has worked. When we are living our life instead of waiting to, we know it is working. When we are happy instead of sad, when we are curious instead of cautious, we know it is working. When we realize in the moment that we have a choice instead of the old reactive pattern, we know we are shifting and embracing more of our own truth.
Often parents, watching the shifts in their children, will schedule sessions for themselves, recognizing that it just might actually be possible to change the patterns of their own lives! Most of us vividly remember the teacher that terrified us, and the moments that dimmed our own light. And there are even more moments we have forgotten, but that still trigger in our unconscious and cause us to clench, flinch or recoil from responding to life in a positive manner.
The S.E.A.® practitioner tracks emotional stress and trauma through the physical, emotional, mental and energetic systems, moving through time and levels of consciousness, through the body and the brain, journeying on visceral and emotional currents to find the original repressed emotional charge. Finding the imprint moment means finding the first time the body/system had to survive a moment of overwhelming shock. To survive, it created a strategy. Until we can disconnect it, that survival strategy remains a functional part of our approach to life, triggered each time we encounter a situational experience that hits the same or similar energetic frequency of image, flavor, pitch, tone or volume.
S.E.A.® allows the practitioner to connect with these unconscious survival strategies and release them deep in the unconscious system. If left unaddressed long enough, these survival strategies or patterns of resistance, may ultimately be expressed as pain, dysfunction and/or disease at one or multiple levels. We do not need the conscious memory or the details of the event itself to release the referencing charge that is still held within the nervous system. The system is allowed to retain its secrets, if needed, honoring the inherent wisdom within each of us.
Wherever there is fear within us there is a moment connected to it where we lost our power, or gave it up to survive. The moment we were overwhelmed is like an energetically frozen file left open on our desktop, still requiring and drawing energy even though we may be unaware of its existence. We lose energy, strength, and ultimately health due to our past, unfinished business. When another wounding event occurs, such as an accident or health issue, the somatic system may have little or no energy left in reserve and can lose its ability to heal itself.
Closing the energetic files allows us to bring the distorted and distracted energy that has been routed into survival, back to our now, and we are able to live from a more centered and satisfying place, responding to our daily life, instead of responding from our remembered past.
For more about the premises underlying S.E.A.®.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A SESSION?
Sessions are done face up on a massage table, fully clothed, removing only your shoes. Sessions are gentle, non-invasive, and involve light touch acupressure on top of clothing. During the session, the practitioner might use a tei-shin, which is a painless, spring-loaded acupressure tool. Adult sessions are an hour and a half, and children (less than 14) are an hour.
Your practitioner will invite you to tune in to the bits of somatic sensory information that come up from your body memory as it comes up, noticing energy movement and physical sensations. You may feel suddenly hot or cold as energy releases, you may feel electrical charges, or tightening of muscles or releases. You may feel movement of energy as well as autonomic responses such as changes in breathing, heart rate, pulse. As survival strategies are accessed and then released you may find yourself suddenly sleepy, dizzy, hungry, or any number of physical sensations, and noticing equally swiftly that it is gone as the old data is released. You will remain conscious and lucid, usually easily maintaining a relaxed state that deepens as your body releases old tensions and patterns.
Fragments of memory may or may not come up, feeling disjointed or random as if your mind is wandering, but you will begin to see the pattern that the system has constellated together. Because S.E.A.® is working in the subtle energy and in somatic emotional frequencies, the 'story' is not important. The goal is to calm, release and clear the repressed energy and the survival strategies that no longer serve.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A SESSION?
After the session most feel surprisingly light and calm, more centered and present in their own body. You will want to do some light walking, drink water, and often will need a nap surprisingly quickly. The brain trims off what it no longer needs when we sleep, and sleep helps the system to more deeply integrate the work.
Physical shifts deepen over the next 24-48 hours, and some people report continuing to feel improvements for one to two weeks following deep work, giving us more response choices in our day-to-day life. What many people report is that when again faced with a situation that would have caused the old reactive response, it no longer does. We are able to choose how we wish to respond to our life.
Family constellations are fields of energy that can re-imprint old patterns without a deeper understanding and release. Often the best and most lasting work is when the parent is willing to also have sessions, removing resistance patterns between parent and child, allowing all to move forward into new behaviors and attitudes.
HOW MANY SESSIONS WILL IT TAKE?
Most issues can be addressed with 2-4 sessions. The longer an issue has been with us however, the more complicated and intricate the compensation pathways, and the longer it will take to unwind and recode. The more intelligent the brain, the more intelligent and complicated the survival strategies may be. A life long response pattern may be more rigid, with secondary gain in maintaining the pattern, so everyone is different.
Usually it takes a number of sessions that build on each other. Most find this work so gentle and comfortable that children will ask their parents for more, and adults walk away pleasantly surprised, relaxed and calm.
WHO BENEFITS FROM SESSIONS?
Children and adults with:
- Birth trauma, early medical treatments, high fevers, accidents, drug allergies or negative responses.
- School traumas from bullies, teachers, and/or peers.
- Clashes with a parent or authority issues.
- Adoptions, divorces, deaths.
- Major life events that were not adequately understood in the moment.
- Behaviors that appear to be self-sabotaging, running counter to what we want to do.
- Sleep issues, nightmares, sleep cycle disturbances.
- Behavior issues, anger issues, academic issues.
- Any number of issues that appear to cause an emotional limitation to living life the way we want to.
HOW DO WE KNOW IT WORKS?
We know it is working by our reactions to the world. When we are able to move forward and do what was formerly stopping us we know it has worked. When we are living our life instead of waiting to, we know it is working. When we are happy instead of sad, when we are curious instead of cautious, we know it is working. When we realize in the moment that we have a choice instead of the old reactive pattern, we know we are shifting and embracing more of our own truth.
Often parents, watching the shifts in their children, will schedule sessions for themselves, recognizing that it just might actually be possible to change the patterns of their own lives! Most of us vividly remember the teacher that terrified us, and the moments that dimmed our own light. And there are even more moments we have forgotten, but that still trigger in our unconscious and cause us to clench, flinch or recoil from responding to life in a positive manner.
