REBECCA TRUSSELL, MS, C-IAYT

Rebecca Trussell is a somatic yoga therapist certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). She holds a master’s degree in yoga therapy from the Maryland University of Integrative Health and has studied meditation and contemplative living through the Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation. She is also an experienced yoga teacher.

Rebecca works with individuals whose needs range from musculoskeletal to mental health. Using techniques of Somatic Experiencing^®(SE), meditation, breath-work, postural analysis, muscle testing, myofascial release, and somatic movement, she develops and implements a plan of care based on your personal goals and needs. Somatic Experiencing and somatic yoga therapy can be stand-alone practices or complementary treatments that support psychotherapy, physical therapy, and other medical modalities.

WHAT IS SOMATIC EXPERIENCING?

Somatic Experiencing is a body-oriented approach to trauma and stress disorders that is based on stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

When your nervous system perceives a threat, it typically responds in a fight, flight, or freeze response. Whether that perceived threat is a sudden event or a result of exposure to long-term stress, your nervous system can get stuck in the threat response. SE provides a framework to assess where you’re stuck and then offers techniques and clinical tools to resolve the body’s stress and trauma symptoms and get you unstuck.

WOULD SOMATIC EXPERIENCING BE BENEFICIAL FOR ME?

Many people experience symptoms that present like trauma symptoms, but they don’t feel they have been through something that qualifies as “traumatic”. Not all trauma is the result of a life-threatening event. Accidents, medical procedures, assault, emotional abuse and neglect, discrimination and oppression, loss – all of these affect our ability to function. With SE, the actual cause matters less than the symptoms.