Please welcome Efu Nyaki to Lifeyness!
Efu is a seasoned a therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with Dr. Peter Levine's Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. We are talking about overcoming personal trauma and anxiety to live a happier and more joyful life.
- SE® is a healing modality that takes a more holistic approach to mental health, a psychologicaltherapy that takes the body into consideration. Soma means body. This mind/body approach comes in different forms but one of its guiding principles is that trauma can be trapped in the body and expressed in posture, facial expressions, tone of voice, and even muscular pain.
- Invented by renowned psychologist Dr. Peter Levine, "The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, psychology, and indigenous healing practices, together with over 50 years of successful clinical application."
- Today's episode is all about embracing playfulness, healing from trauma, and the transformative power of embodiment. Efu, originally from Tanzania, is a legacy faculty member of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Experiencing and a co-founder of AFYA, a women's holistic healing center where she now lives in Brazil. Efu has dedicated her life to helping people reconnect with their bodies and find healing from trauma, especially women from war-torn areas and underserved communities through her work with the Maryknoll sisters.
Somatic Experiencing focuses on the body's innate ability to heal itself from trauma, allowing individuals to restore their sense of safety, resilience, and aliveness.
- One of the key goals in healing trauma, as Efu will explain, is to get back to a state of playful curiosity, the same way that animals in the wild can quickly return to equilibrium after surviving a would-be predator. Humans seem to hold onto trauma more so than other animals.
- So listen up for tips on how to overcome everyday stress and trauma such as anxiety and become more functional in your own life!
To find more information about Efu's practice check out this link, and to see the website for Dr. Peter Levine's Ergos Institute of Somatic Education please click here
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