Somatic release Work

You can learn how to release pent-up tension and emotions in your body in a safe, gentle & 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.

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.  You deserve the chance to release old stories and stigma, and become the best version of you.

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.

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.

Join us in Guatemala

Feb 8-15 2026

Roots and Bridges

A Weeklong Immersion into Grassroots Healing, Acupuncture, and Cultural Solidarity in Guatemala

Online group classes

  • with Lynea Gillen, Jozef Mihališin & Ryan Bemis

    Recover Our Humanity as Men

    These are hard times for all of us to trust.  When working with men and TRE, we have an opportunity to confront our deepest shadows and reclaim our humanity as men.  When we step into a space of vulnerability with men, an opportunity arises to step out of the shame cycle and back into connection. We may be tempted to run away from this challenging and courageous road, but as TRE providers, we all know the benefits of doing our personal work.

    In this workshop, we would like to invite men and women into an honest conversation about working with men.   We will explore how our TRE practices open us up to a deep truth-telling with ourselves and with each other.

    To change the world, we need to look inside and be courageous enough to look into our mirror and shake off the defenses that keep us from living. Doing this challenging work calls upon our deepest longing, and our goal is to co-create a space for us to have clarity around how we can deepen our work with men.

    In this session, Jozef, Lynea and Ryan will share what they have learned in their work with men and TRE. Then there will be a group discussion and a TRE session. If it is a large group, we will tremor and have discussions in small breakout groups.

    Other topics we will be exploring:

    • Creating a container for safe exploration during TRE

    • Women’s role in supporting men

    • The power of our intimacy when it is aligned with dignity and respect

    • Deeper knowledge that emerges from our pain/wounds

    • Releasing shame and guilt

    • Shaking off our defense mechanisms/shields

    “If a man does not know the wounds of his own soul, he can deny not just his own pain but also be unmoved by the suffering of other people. More than that, he will tend to put his wound onto others. He may only be able to see the wound that secretly troubles him when he forcefully projects it into someone else, in forms of abuse or violence.”   ― Michael Meade

    Please join us on August 9th for this important conversation!

our vision

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