Frequently Asked Questions
What is Viasomatic?
The Viasomatic Method™ is a neuroscience-backed, evidence-based approach rooted in somatic practices. It’s designed to help you break the stress cycle, self-regulate, and recover your nervous system so you can finally feel, think, sleep, connect, and live like yourself again.
Who is Viasomatic for?
- Trauma Survivors (in conjunction with a psychotherapist or mental health specialist): Individuals recovering from emotionally or psychologically traumatic events that have created nervous system injury.
- Individuals Experiencing Stress: Those facing everyday stressors from work, relationships, or other life challenges.
- Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) (in conjunction with a psychotherapist or mental health specialist): People working with nervous system injury and triggers.
- Chronic Pain Patients (in conjunction with medical care): People managing chronic pain conditions seeking to reduce stress to manage pain.
- Insomnia and Sleep Issues: Individuals seeking better sleep quality through nervous system regulation.
- Burnout and Fatigue: Those experiencing physical and emotional exhaustion from prolonged chronic stress.
- Individuals with Chronic Illness (in conjunction with medical care): People managing chronic health conditions seeking to improve their well-being through stress recovery.
- Addiction Recovery (in conjunction with a psychotherapist, mental health, or recovery specialist): Individuals on the path of recovery seeking support in working with stress, trauma and emotions related to substance use. Viasomatic offers long-term practices to replace short term self-soothing through substance use.
- Students and Professionals: Individuals facing academic or work-related pressures and seeking stress relief.
- Caregivers: Those providing care for others who need support to navigate their own stress, anxiety and grief.
- Expectant and New Parents: Individuals navigating the challenges of pregnancy, childbirth, or parenting or those wanting to lear to self-regulate to model those skills for their children.
- Athletes: Sports professionals seeking to improve performance and manage pre-competition nerves and post-competition recovery.
- Individuals Seeking Self-Care: People looking to prioritize their mental and physical well-being.
- Individuals Seeking Mind-Body Connection: Those interested in cultivating a deeper mind-body awareness
How does the Viasomatic Method work?
The Viasomatic method uses yoga therapy, specifically yoga-based movements and breath patterns that mimic defensive stress responses to complete the stress cycle and move your nervous system back into equilibrium. Viasomatic trains the nervous system to respond actively to stressors and build resilience — which leads to better mental health.
The Viasomatic method is a bottom-up approach to working with stress, trauma, and mental health. A bottom-up approach works with the information traveling up from the body via the interoceptive senses. The Viasomatic Method creates nervous system equilibrium by connecting the body’s information with the brain and giving you tools to move through a stress response, big or small.
Doesn't stress resolve naturally in the body?
What are the benefits of the Viasomatic Method?
- Stress management — Viasomatic is an active, body based approach to working with your body’s stress response. You will learn to recognize your stress patterns and respond in a way that shifts your physiology in the moment.
- Emotional Regulation — Viasomatic offers approaches to help navigate emotions skillfully by responding with body based self-soothing practices. Emotions have great value and can guide us into growth and compassion when we can regulate the nervous system.
- Self-Agency — The Viasomatic method helps us recognize triggers and respond mindfully rather than reactively. The goal of Viasomatic is to help you learn to have a stress response while keeping your full human brain online (especially the prefrontal cortex) so you can respond to life’s challenges and triggers in alignment with your goals and values.
- Physical Relaxation — Our body based approach to stress recovery moves stuck tension in the body and supports you in feeling relaxed and at ease in the body.
- Better Sleep — Stress disrupts sleep. Completing a stress response can help you drift off into a restful sleep that supports physical restoration, the immune response, and hormone regulation.
- Long-Term Coping Strategies — Viasomatic gives you healthy tools to respond to stress that you can use for a lifetime.
- Better Relationships — Learning to regulate your own nervous system supports your ability to connect, communicate and grow in your relationships. Or as one of our clients said “Viasomatic helps me human better.”
Will Viasomatic make me calmer?
Can Viasomatic replace talk therapy?
That’s where we come in. Learning to self-regulate helps you get back into your “thinking and talking brain,” so you can have those big breakthroughs in your life and relationships.
Is Viasomatic for complex or relational trauma?
Is Viasomatic for relational or attachment trauma?
Our programs take a bottom-up approach, helping you work with your stress responses. They’re designed to support the work you’re doing with a relational or attachment trauma therapist and can help you build the foundation for the secure, meaningful connections you’re looking for.
Who are Viasomatic Practitioners?
Viasomatic practitioners are nervous system coaches and yoga therapists certified at the highest level by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). They’re trained in the Viasomatic Method, with expertise in polyvagal theory (the science of how your body handles stress) and how it supports nervous system recovery.
We’re a compassionate team who’ve experienced firsthand how movement can heal, and we’re here to help you do the same.
How is Viasomatic different than other yoga classes or programs?
Science shows that yoga is a game-changer for mental health and stress management. Research consistently highlights how yoga can reduce anxiety and depression, boost your mood, and improve overall well-being. Most yoga practices are great for your mind and body.
What makes Viasomatic different? We focus on your nervous system and completing the stress cycle. Our programs target the body’s stress responses using evidence-based practices that improve vagal tone and build nervous system resilience —helping your body recover and relax more quickly after stress.
How can I use Viasomatic?
- Self-Paced Coaching: Move through nervous system recovery at your own speed.
- Group Coaching: Heal and grow your nervous system with the support of a like-minded community.
- Individual Coaching: Get a personalized plan to recover and build lifelong resilience.
Is Viasomatic the answer for everything?
What we can do is provide coaching for nervous system recovery, and we hope that by doing so, we can be part of the solution.
What about accessibility?
At Viasomatic, we know that somatics and nervous system health can be game-changers for personal and collective healing. Mental health and wellness resources aren’t just nice to have—they’re essential for communities to thrive.
That’s why we offer sliding-scale options for students, veterans, BIPOC individuals, and anyone dealing with financial challenges or limited resources. Plus, we’ve got programs you can do right from your chair if mobility is an issue.
Don’t let barriers hold you back—connect with us and let’s find a way. Healing should be accessible for everyone.
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Jenn Wooten
Welcome to Viasomatic! I’m a certified yoga therapist, nervous system coach, trauma-informed educator, and founder of Viasomatic. I specialize in nervous system health and recovery from stress and trauma. Over the years, I’ve worked with Olympic athletes, medical professionals, energy healers, mental health specialists, and individuals navigating complex trauma and chronic illness to help them find balance and resilience in their nervous systems.
What I really care about is helping you learn how to self-regulate, build resilience, release chronic stress, and restore balance in a way that makes sense for your life.
After years of diving deep into somatic practices, I realized that trauma is an inseparable part of working with the body. That understanding led me to study the nervous system and trauma-informed approaches with Somatic Experiencing teachers Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell. These teachings allowed me to bring a clinician’s perspective to my work as a yoga therapist, blending somatic wisdom with a trauma-informed lens.
Now, with 20+ years of professional experience, my work focuses on teaching somatic practitioners, mental health specialists, and medical professionals how to use movement to support recovery from stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation. Through Viasomatic, I share tools that have transformed my own life, offering accessible ways to regulate your nervous system, manage anxiety, and recover from trauma.
I know life isn’t easy—no one gets through without challenges. But here’s the thing: your nervous system can be your biggest ally. I do this work because I believe in the power of post-traumatic growth—the ability to come out stronger, more resilient, and more aligned with who you are after life’s upheavals.
Sam Pullen
I'm Sam Pullen, a Louisiana native who now calls Austin home. I'm a 500-hour RYT Yoga Teacher and a certified Yoga Therapist specializing in helping individuals and groups navigate the challenges of stress, trauma, anxiety, and depression.
My heart is deeply connected to the world of yoga and I'm on a mission to share its incredible benefits with all who cross my path. My main goal is to provide a safe, nurturing space where you can explore asanas, discover the power of breathwork, find stillness in meditation, and even embrace the soothing tones of sound therapy and guided meditation. I'm here to guide you as we explore what works best for your own nervous system regulation.
My passion extends to helping you cultivate a balanced relationship between your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Together, we'll create harmony in your unique ecosystem, fostering a sense of peace and resilience.
Ultimately, I'm more than a yoga nerd and enthusiast, I'm also a curious learner who thrives on conversations and insights from others who share my love for this beautiful practice. I'm here with an open heart and open arms to be your trusted companion on your journey to wellness.