Somatic release Work
Learn how to release pent-up tension and emotions in your body in a safe & trauma-informed way
Free online class
World Mental Health Day 10/10/24
Try out Somatic Release at this free online workshop for anyone who has struggled with any mental health condition. You’ll learn how to allow your body to literally shake off past stories and trauma to help you rediscover yourself anew.
4pm PST/ 5pm MDT Trauma & Tension Release Exercises (TRE)
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
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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
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Breathwork
Trauma, Tension Release Exercises (TRE)
Yoga
Embodiment Practices
Tapping
Meditation
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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.
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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.
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Amabel Narvaez (they, she) is a trauma-informed, integrative healing artist, peer specialist trainer, and Certified Holistic Wellness Coach.
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Ryan Bemis, (he, him) is a Doctor Oriental Medicine, certified TRE provider, NADA acudetox trainer and yoga and meditation teacher.
In-person group classes
@ Downtown Las Cruces
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This breath-centered vinyasa 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.
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At this election time in the USA, anxiety is high, and the growing fear of violence in our world can leave us isolated from community. Crossroads Acupuncture in partnership with the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership and Dwell Yoga will offer this free community acupuncture for you to find your refuge amidst election anxiety, and for people to come together as a community and bring our focus of peace within, and around the world.
No matter who you vote for, we will offer this space free, no cost, for anyone that votes, plans to vote, or would like to vote. Acupuncture is just optional, and and you are welcome to come sit alongside us without receiving the acupuncture as well. Treatments will be offered by Dr. Ryan Bemis alongside local acudetox community workers. We will offer a gentle placement of tiny needles around points on the body to help you find your inner calm and your grounded self, so you can leave more present during these chaotic times.
(NOTES: If you don’t want the acupuncture, you can still come and join us for the meditation. If you cannot vote, but would like to vote, you are welcome as well!).
Dr. Bemis introduces our TRE workshop 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.
