SomatoEmotional Release & SER Training

SomatoEmotional Release (SER) is a therapy that heals through the links between the body’s physical and emotional components. SER helps the patient release the damaging residual effects of past trauma from the body, whether they were physical or emotional in nature. (Trauma is serious physical or emotional injury or shock to the body, which creates substantial, lasting harm to the psychological development of a person.)

After the body has undergone trauma it does not always heal completely. Often, it retains an “energy cyst,” which is an isolated concentration of inertial energy. A normal body can work around the cyst and carry on its daily functions. However, the cyst will continue to drain energy out of the system, preventing the body from reaching optimal health. Oftentimes, as the body ages or weakens, it can no longer afford the cyst’s demands for extra energy, and other health problems will begin to surface.
SER is a method that helps patients identify and supports the release of an energy cyst “encapsulated energy” by resolving past traumas. After a patient has experienced SER, other symptoms will heal much more quickly than before, as the body’s healing power is restored to full capacity.

SER is a development that came out of research into craniosacral therapy. Dr. John Upledger, a pioneer in the application of Craniosacral Therapy, came to realize that very often the body retains, suppresses and isolates the negative emotional energy and/or physical force of an injury that penetrated into its tissues, rather than dissipating it.