Somatic release Work

Learn how to release pent-up tension and emotions in your body in a safe & trauma-informed way

Problems that somatic release work can help with

  • Addiction and impulsivity

  • Fear and insecurity

  • Pain and angst

  • Overthinking

  • Anxiety and paranoia

  • Depression

  • Psychosis

  • Hearing voices

  • Mania

  • Difficulty focusing

  • Hyperactivity

  • Grief and sadness

  • Loneliness

  • Trauma

  • Burnout and compassion fatigue

  • Stress and tension

*Somatic release work is only used as one component in addressing these health problems, and it is recommended you seek out professional help as well.

What somatic release feels like

  • Deep relaxation

  • Feeling grounded and free

  • Reduction in pain

  • Mental clarity

  • More confidence

  • Calm power within

  • Feeling at home with yourself

  • Energetic flow in your body and mind

FAQ’s

  • Tension and trauma can lurk deep within our muscles and nervous system muscles, and can contribute to our emotional highs and lows, or as some people experience them as “extreme states.”  This can look like pain, depression, anxiety, overthinking, hyperactivity, difficulty focusing, psychosis or altered and neurodivergent states

  • Breathwork

    Trauma, Tension Release Exercises (TRE)

    Yoga

    Embodiment Practices

    Tapping

    Meditation

  • Ryan Bemis, (he, him) is a Doctor Oriental Medicine, certified TRE provider, and yoga and meditation teacher.

    Amabel Narvaez, (they, she) is a trauma-informed, integrative healing artist, peer specialist trainer, and Certified Holistic Wellness Coach.

  • Our facilitators will teach you how to gently learn from, hold space, and move through your "extreme" feelings, and release pent-up tension in a safe and trauma-informed way. This will offer one tool for you to use to hold space for yourself as you move through “extreme” states of up and down, and all the intense and subtle, sometimes even overwhelming energetic, mood, mental and emotional states in between.

Learn a new tool for your mental wellness

We walk with you as you learn how to safely co-regulate your nervous system through movement, breathing, and stillness on your own, on a regular basis.

transcending the stigma

We create a trauma-informed, non judgemental space for you to take a step towards transcending the stigma of mental illness and taking a step towards mental wellness.  For our online workshop, you may log in anonymously if you choose to do so, or keep your camera turned off during the exercises. You deserve the chance to release old stories and stigma, and become the best version of you.

Our Group facilitators

Our hope is to create a trauma-informed, safe space for you to explore your inner world. We bring to every session our personal experience to share with you along with our professional training in a down-to-earth style.

  • Amabel Narvaez (they, she) is a trauma-informed, integrative healing artist, peer specialist trainer, and Certified Holistic Wellness Coach.

  • Ryan Bemis, (he, him) is a Doctor Oriental Medicine, certified TRE provider, NADA acudetox trainer and yoga and meditation teacher.

Affordable group class

FRIDAYS @ DWELL YOGA 424 N MAIN

8:30AM Somatic Release Class + Acu

9:15AM Drop In Community Acupuncture

  • [Fridays 8:30am @ 424 N Main Las Cruces NM]

    This breath-centered flow is designed to prepare the mind and body to let go into a gentle somatic and myofascial release. Also known as Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE), this is designed to help you heal from trauma, chronic stress, and injury. You’ll also get a chance to experience the “group qi” of community acupuncture, with calming and grounding acupuncture points applied by Ryan Bemis, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, to support your integration and shavasana experience. All levels of experience in yoga and physical ability are welcome. Dr. Bemis will be available to offer you a free consult, as well, if you are interested in learning more about getting acupuncture.

Dr. Bemis explains our somatic release workshops in a short video

Tools we teach you how to do on your own

We have seen that everyone has more capacity within them to manage mental illness and emotional distress. We will empower you with simple but powerful wellness activities for you to take your healthcare back into your own hands. 

Meditation, breathwork & Yoga

Targeting your needs and tuning into your limitations, you will learn how to incorporate breathwork, movement, and simple meditation and mindfulness and embodiment exercises into your daily life.

Tapping, self acu pressure & embodiment tools

Your body holds an incredible amount of wisdom and capacity to heal itself. We teach you how to work with and use your body to generate inner forces of self-compassion and empowerment.

Trauma & Tension Release Exercises(TRE)

Learn how to activate reflexes deep inside your nervous system and fascial system, which will allow your body to literally shake off past stories, trauma and help you rediscover yourself anew.

our vision

​A world where people have the tools and capacity to care for themselves and for their own communities.