Somatic release therapy
You can learn how to release pent-up tension and emotions in your body in a safe, gentle & trauma-informed way.
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
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
Affordable group classes:
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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.
“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
FAQ’s
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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.