Somatic release therapy

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

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  • "After an absolute horror story involving western medicine, I truly lost myself and was thrown into a world of pain. I felt like a new person after the first appointment. Dr Ryan Bemis has been a huge factor on helping me get my life back."

    Cyrus

  • "Dr. Bemis has brought peacefulness into my iner being that I would not have otherwise."

    —Dana

  • “I recently participated in a trauma-focused breathwork and acupuncture session with Ryan Bemis, and it was a powerful and meaningful experience. As a psychologist who works with trauma survivors, mindfulness, meditation, and breathing practices, I was surprised by how different Ryan’s approach felt from what I have practiced or taught. His guidance helped me move beyond my usual cognitive analysis and connect more directly with emotions and memories from different periods of my life. I was genuinely surprised by what emerged, and even more surprised by the sense that I was able to set down things I had been carrying for many years. I now relate to those past experiences with more acceptance and less anxiety, panic, anger, and avoidance.”

    —Corey J. Vas, PhD

  • "The best decision I made at the beginning of 2025 was to begin working with Ryan Bemis At Crossroads Acupuncture. I originally sought his services for acupuncture, but soon found I’ve also benefited from his depth of knowledge in other modalities that open doors to releasing stress and feeling peace in these uncertain times.”

    —Catherine

  • "I took the trauma- informed breath work + acupuncture treatment session with Ryan at Crossroads Acupuncture. I was surprised at how deep I went using only the breath! It kind of blew my mind how good it was. Then the acupuncture follow up allowed for deep reflection and emotional excavation. Just Wow! I highly recommend this treatment."

    —Jaguar Reow

  • "Ryan brings me into each session at a comfortable pace while (sometimes literally) pinpointing the areas where my mental and physical health can improve, opening a pathway of healing for the body to follow. He makes space for your existing experience with the practice and helps you expand into new ways of thinking, moving and meditating.”

    —Tamir

  • "Absolutely amazing! Always leave feeling relaxed!"

    —Paul

  • "“From my first visit until now, this has been one of the best medical. The experiences that I was ever had. I am terrified of needles, but my first treatment proved to be a different experience. I went in with pain in most of my body, bearly able to climb stairs. I left feeling energized and free from pain. Ryan's calm demeanor and attention to my specific needs has kept me from needing any medication to control my previously chronic pain."

    Hope

Common Experiences Somatic Release Work Supports

  • Releasing held tension and stress

  • Easing overwhelming emotions

  • Building emotional resilience

  • Navigating life challenges with greater ease

  • Fostering inner calm and security

  • Supporting personal growth and renewal

Somatic release work is only used as one component in addressing psycho-emotional challenges, and it is recommended you seek out professional help as well.

Problems that somatic release work can help with

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What somatic release feels like

  • Deep relaxation

  • Feeling grounded and free

  • Mental clarity

  • More confidence

  • Calm power within

  • Feeling at home with yourself

  • Energetic flow in your body and mind

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Affordable group classes:

  • Come drop into a space of resilience, release, and restoration.

    In this special workshop, we’ll use meditation, trauma-informed breathwork, and acupuncture to help you let go of stress, soften old patterns, and reconnect with yourself in a deeper way. This is an opportunity to slow down, breathe, feel, and rest — so you can leave more grounded, open, and renewed.

    We’ll begin with guided meditation, continue with a somatic breathwork experience, and close with a restorative acupuncture integration led by Ryan Bemis, Doctor of Oriental Medicine.

    Suggested donation: $50 or more
    This fundraiser supports Crossroads Acupuncture’s nonprofit grassroots work with community health promoters and survivors of trauma in Guatemala and Latin America.

    Please bring: warm clothes, an eye mask, a blanket, and a notebook/pen.

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“I have found yoga, somatic healing, meditation, and acupuncture to be some of the best ways to heal myself and support people in my community as we all face trauma, injustice and increasing social isolation. We’re all searching for freedom. We don’t have to do it alone. There are so many tools that can help us build resilience even in the darkest of times and places. My intention is to create safe space for you to cultivate your own inner connection, put these tools into your hands, and help you step back into your power. ” 

-Ryan Bemis, Doctor Oriental Medicine, Certified TRE provider, Heroic Coach and Yoga & Meditation teacher.

Meet Dr. Bemis

Meet Dr. Ryan

FAQ’s

  • Rooted in psychosomatic healing, our somatic release work addresses how emotional and psychological stress manifests physically—supporting integrated nervous system regulation and mind-body harmony.

  • Dr. Bemis brings 25 years of trauma-informed community health experience and has provided more than 40,000 treatments working with refugees, veterans, incarcerated and everyday people of the borderlands,

    Dr. Bemis brings 25 years of trauma-informed community health experience and has provided more than 40,000 treatments working with refugees, veterans, incarcerated and everyday people of the borderlands,

    His past experience as an acupuncturist includes working with active military soldiers at the PTSD Warrior Resilience Center and the Interdisciplinary Pain Management Clinic at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, TX. Prior to working as an acupuncturist, Ryan worked as an addictions counselor at Hooper Detox Center in Portland. He completed internships in Portland at Project Quest, and Outside In.

  • Dr. Bemis will teach you how to gently learn from, hold space, and move through your "extreme" or “intense” feelings. This form of psychosomatic healing 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.

  • 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

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Support our work to train indigenous groups in Latin America in somatic healing / TRE and acupuncture.

Your donation goes to support the work of everyday people aiding survivors of trauma, violence and poverty in Guatemala

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

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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.

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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. 

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Learn more about Resilience Coaching

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.

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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.

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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.

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