Somatic Trauma Release Breathwork
Emotions live in the body. When they’re not fully expressed, they can get stuck, showing up as tension, stress, reactivity, or a sense of disconnection.
This practice blends somatic healing and conscious connected breath to gently release stored trauma, soften fight–flight–freeze patterns, and restore flow in the nervous system.
My focus is on real trauma healing and not overactivation or a temporary cathartic high often seen in most breathwork or even in many psychedelic journeys. My approach is grounded in trauma science, somatic experiencing, relational attunement, energy system attunement, and compassionate presence.
Through rhythmic breath, the body can complete what was once interrupted, often accessing preverbal layers of experience. This opens space for presence, creativity, and deeper connection with yourself—helping you feel lighter and more alive in your body.
True healing happens from a place much deeper than just analysis alone, and that’s this work.
This work is for you if:
You feel stuck in patterns of stress, tension, or overwhelm
Old emotions resurface but don’t seem to resolve
You want to soften fight–flight–freeze responses in your nervous system
You’re navigating grief, trauma, or big life transitions
You long to feel more present, connected, and alive in your body
Traditional methods may have helped but still leave you feeling stuck
Psychedelic journeys or other altered-state work were profound but not integrated or lasting
Breathwork FAQ
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My breathwork is not about a temporary cathartic high or performative style release. Most breathwork can overstimulate the nervous system or bring us to profound transpersonal awareness but without the support for true integration.
My approach is grounded in presence, safety, and real trauma resolution science, while woven together with deep transpersonal integration.
These sessions are rooted both in extensive training in integrative somatics and trauma healing, along with a personal, intuitive attunement to the subtle body’s energy system. I draw from a wide range of modalities, always with deep respect for the individual’s own unique experience.
I prioritize careful pacing, containment building, and relational dynamics.
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Breathwork refers to intentional breathing techniques used to support regulation, presence, or healing. The breath is a mirror of the nervous system and functions as a way of meeting what is otherwise unconscious but alive in the body.
Breathwork can be understood across various categories, but this offering uses conscious connected breath which is an intentionally activated breathing style. When paired with somatic healing, trauma science, and relational attunement, it offers not just temporary catharsis but lasting transformation.
The rhythmic, connected breathing brings forward stored or stuck emotional patterns. Gentle and oscillated, but deep release helps the body complete unfinished responses to past overwhelm or trauma. It’s somatically powerful and taps into pre-verbal layers of transformation: often awakening pre- and peri-natal root patterns. This type of breathwork is also helpful for more deeply connecting with your physical body and becoming more confident in it.
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Somatic healing works with the nervous system, where experience is organized beyond conscious thought. Through bottom-up, felt experience, unfinished survival responses can complete, restoring safety, integration, and the capacity for presence and choice, so change becomes embodied,
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Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive survival response.
When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the nervous system organizes around protection rather than presence. Healing trauma means restoring safety so unfinished responses can complete, allowing the system to return to regulation, connection, compassion, and choice. This restores the capacity to be intimately present with oneself and life.
Not everyone has necessarily experienced explicit trauma, yet similar protective patterns can form through unresolved memories, repressed emotion, developmental adaptation, relational imprinting, and the natural shaping of identity over time. These patterns shape how the nervous system relates to safety and belonging, often outside our conscious awareness.
For this reason, my work does not separate trauma resolution from developmental integration. Survival responses, attachment patterns, and sense of self co-develop, and healing involves restoring nervous system safety while also integrating how identity and perception formed around our lived experience. As unfinished responses complete, presence, agency, and authentic expression emerge naturally.
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Sessions are either online from anywhere in the world via live Zoom, or in-person in NYC.
In-person sessions are in Midtown Manhattan and carry a small additional fee.
Private groups as well as couples’ sessions are also available.
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About Susan Reis
As a Somatic Practitioner, I weave real somatic training with conscious breathwork, and trauma science with energy healing & attunement to support deep release and integration. My approach is grounded yet compassionate, blending nervous system work with the present moment experience so the body’s inner systems can complete what was left unresolved and open into new capacity. I’d be honored to support you on your journey.