Embodied Self Awakening - Somatic Practices for Trauma Healing and Spiritual Evolution

We have learned how to suppress our pain and deny its presence but when we fight against our internal turmoil, glimmers of peace are short-lived. Rejecting our suffering is not a sustainable solution because trauma is held in the body. In this book, Nityda Gessel invites readers on a journey towards lasting freedom with insights and experiential practices that marry the wisdom of Buddhist psychology, yogic teachings, and Indigenous understanding with somatic psychotherapy and neuroscience.

When we heal, our actions and attitudes are not hijacked by our nervous systems as easily. We begin to feel more comfortable in our bodies; more at peace, awake and free. With Gessel's invitation readers will learn to look out into the world and see more than their own trauma reflected back.

About the author

Nityda Gessel, LCSW, E-RYT, is a somatic psychotherapist, trauma specialist, yoga teacher, speaker, writer, and heart-centered activist. Gessel has devoted her life to uplifting others, working at the intersection of Eastern spirituality, holistic mental health, and embodied activism.

Summary

An offering to be with, and to turn towards, the feelings from which we instinctively recoil

Product details

• Authors: Nitdya Gessel, Nityda Gessel
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2023
• EAN: 9781324020059
• ISBN: 978-1-324-02005-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 391 g
• Illustrations: 15 black-and-white figures
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Relaxation, yoga, meditation, autogenic training; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Psychotherapy, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Abnormal psychology, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Psychotherapy: counselling, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias