Frequently Asked Questions
At Viasomatic we believe when we listen to the wisdom of our bodies we heal our mind. Our mission to help people evolve their relationship with their whole self.
Viasomatic is a yoga therapy method that brings together yoga, movement, breath, and mindfulness practices with the neuroscience of the stress response. Our nervous system assessment helps you gauge your nervous system responses and deliver the tools to support you exactly where you are.
Nervous system recovery practices and yoga therapy can be beneficial for a wide range of individuals.*
- 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
*For those with mental health diagnoses and disorders or medical diagnoses: Viasomatic should be used in conjunction with medical and mental health professionals. Viasomatic is not psychotherapy, a replacement for a long-term therapeutic relationship, a substitute for mental health or for medical care.
The stress response is kinetic. It is designed to move us.
When the stress cycle is not completed it can become locked in as bodily
tension. This can either keep our 'fight or flight' system too active, flooded with too much excitatory information, or it can shut down our 'rest and digest' system, leaving us with not enough activation for proper functioning. And stress cycle that is not completed can become trauma.
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.
Yes, in most cases, your body has a mechanism (via a negative
feedback loop) to naturally resolve stress, but these mechanisms are not
always efficient in the face of persistent or ongoing stressors (long-term stress) or with
the nervous system overwhelm that comes with post traumatic stress. This is where
Viasomatic will help you complete a stress response and
restore a resilient natural stress cycle.
The benefits are many and may include the following (and more):
- 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.”
