Sensorimotor Practices for Tumultuous Times
Finding ways to navigate emotional turbulence is essential in challenging and unpredictable times. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute is committed to offering resources supporting resilience, healing, and connection. This page is designed to guide you through SP practices, principles, and tools to help you cultivate stability and agency during life’s most difficult moments.
How to Use our PEACE Resource Protocol
This 5-step protocol is a vital tool in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for fostering presence, emotional regulation, and inner stability. Discover how this accessible protocol can help you navigate turbulence with greater ease and connection to yourself and your world.
Sensorimotor Practice: Alignment
Under stress, our posture often changes. We may slump, round our shoulders, or compress our spines, all of which can impact our confidence, mood, and sense of agency. Mindfully lengthening the spine can reduce stress, boost confidence, improve our mood and even our health. This exercise will guide you to consciously practice an uplifted posture.
Sensorimotor Practice: Grounding
When we feel alarmed or distressed, our energy often rises upward in our bodies, causing us to feel floaty, anxious, or distracted. Grounding is the sensation of the body settling downward, much as the water in a pitcher sinks to the bottom. This exercise will focus on the feet to support a sense of stability and internal security that comes from feeling grounded.