SOMATIC or Focalising Therapy

Focalizing is a healing technology that enables participants to completely reinvent their lives by resolving the barriers that prevent them from experiencing their fullest potential of well-being and joy. These barriers can be in the form of conditioned thinking, traumatic experiences, stress, depression, sexual and intimacy barriers and more. Once these blocks have been brought to resolution, Focalizing takes on the form of a creative tool that supports participants to access levels of awareness that allow them to act and make decisions that are deeply informed by their body and whole being.

The Focalising Process

From an observer’s perspective, Focalising looks similar to meditation whereby participants may choose to close their eyes to aid bringing their conscious attention inward. Once a person is grounded and focusing on the felt senses of their body, a facilitator guides the Focalizer through a unique process that allows the body’s innate healing capabilities to turn on and flow into the blocks that are preventing them from experiencing life more fully. This maybe in the form of sensations, visualisations or any other way the body wants to show us. As a session progresses, the Focalizer brings attention deeper into their body’s inner senses, simultaneously quietening the thinking mind while powering the healing process.

How does the session Start

A Focalising session starts with intention. An intention can be big or small and usually pertains to a challenge that’s present for the participant. An intention can be freedom from anxiety, understanding it’s time to leave a job or to simply feel less stress.

From there, the facilitator leads the Focalizer to ground into their body. What we can observe is that when we set an intention and hold a space of complete non-judgement, our bodies naturally bring our attention to the sources of our blocks. As a person grounds, they simply with the felt senses of their body. The feeling of their breath, their heartbeat, a momentary twitch in their eyelid and so on. Along the way, a trained facilitator helps in suggesting specific pathways to further the connection with the body.

After a few minutes of going deeper into the body’s felt senses, focusing on the body’s activity part by part as if our attention was a searchlight, a powerful healing mechanism comes online. Our body begins to release the stored shock of trauma, the tension of years of anxiety, and the emotions that once felt hopelessly entangled around the painful parts of our past story

Perhaps unsurprisingly, we share this very same healing mechanism with the animal kingdom. Mammals that suffer death experiences and survive engage in a common ritual of entering a state of frozen stillness and then allowing for a period of shaking and releasing stored energy from their bodies. Focalising owes this particular foundation of its process to the work of Dr. Peter Levine and the momentous discoveries he made when he searched for an answer to the question

“Why do humans stay traumatised and animals in the wild do not?”

Why Focalize?

In the past it's been said that Focalizing is a technology that "transcends talk therapy" and "goes beyond our past stories." What is meant by this is that for those who suffer from barriers associated with anxiety, trauma or other blocks to a joyful life, many have experienced that retelling their stories only provides momentary relief. For some, the thought of retelling their story of a traumatic experience is already too much to bear and they refuse to talk about it. There's a reason for this. The thinking part of our mind, the magnificent part of our mind that has engineered planes, created advanced pharmaceuticals

and built our modern civilization has a weakness: It's not well equipped for human healing. And the signs are everywhere. Focalizing is founded on the understanding that deep, meaningful healing rarely comes from re-living the story or brainstorming solutions to complex emotional issues. It comes from accessing a part of our mind and body that many have lost touch with. Focalizing provides anyone with the ability to fundamentally change their life without the need to revisit how they think they got here.

Through the Focalizing process and its ability to tap into the innate healing capability of the body, Focalizers have experienced

Transformation of conditioned thinking, the ideas people hold about how they should or should not act, into deeper understandings of who they are and how they find purpose in life

Release from stored traumatic experiences, often frozen in the body, to allow them to move more freely with less or none of the recurring physical symptoms of the past trauma

Resolution of blocks around sex to allow them to experience the creative energy of sex and intimacy free from shame or other conditioned beliefs

And countless other experiences of healing and transformation for a variety of challenges