Touch has always been the way. The way into a person’s heart, mind-body and soul. It’s what makes us innately human; what colours our experience in having this physical body!
I recently gave a Soma Face Therapy session for a new client. She had never had any therapeutic healing on the face except for a beauty facial. She did not know anything about the therapy, nor what to expect, except a relaxing massage on the face with no beauty products. Just embodied touch.
Even after my 20 + years of experience and dedication in the field of manual therapy, I am still amazed at the body-wide healing power of intentional, heart-based touch. I’d like to punctuate the following: intentional and heart-based.
Here is where the touch therapies shine: where touch becomes the medicine; the sensory elixir that soothes, heals and connects; the touch quality that goes past the superficial, beyond the face – the kind of touch that sends electric impulses throughout the physical, emotional and energetic body. Something that AI will never do because it requires heart + soul. Needless to say, within a short time, my client lost track of time and space, as she entered a deeply restorative state, allowing a whole body experience of calm and nervous system reset – all via the face.
Embodied heart-centred touch is where every tiny stroke, small stretch, tissue torque, fascia release, gentle pressure, rhythmic tap– becomes an experience; where touch becomes the medicine. Let us redefine what true medicine is by clarifying what it is not. It is not pills, it is not drugs or chemicals that go against nature. These are the alternatives, options for emergencies. True medicine is alchemy by natural law – with, through, and of nature. Touch: a part of our innate nature, our essence – becomes the medicine.
To learn about Soma Face Therapy, head on over to the Soma Series page .