Somato Respiratory Integration

What is SRI?

“We wear our stress response in our bodies as ‘defense postures.’ The
structural distortions and tension patterns are a testimony to, and physical
anchor for, events that overwhelm our body-minds.”

- Dr. Donald Epstein, Founder & Developer,
Network Spinal Analysis & Somato Respiratory Integration

Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) allows you to explore, at your own pace, by using your hands, your body’s rhythms, and where you place your attention. This empowers you to facilitate your healing and growth outside the chiropractic office. The same, underlying principles guiding NSA chiropractic are used in SRI. Like learning to ride a bike, the skills you acquire through this simple practice will last throughout your life. With just a little practice, even just a few seconds here and there on a regular basis, this skill develops naturally as a result of your NSA care at Easy Spine Wellness Center.

As we have learned, pain, stress, and trauma can cause us to disconnect from parts of our body, creating the environment for loss of wellness, sickness, or disease. Often times it is said we use our bodies to “somatize” hurtful experiences, creating spasm, organic dysfunction, or other dis-ease as a way to wall off further discomfort.

After observing thousands of people in both private practice and public seminars, Dr. Epstein discovered 12 basic healing rhythms, or stages, consistent with each individual’s path to healing.

Each stage of healing has it own distinct “rite of passage”- accompanied by a chaotic experience, healing crisis, or event which helps us to reunite with aspects of ourselves that are traumatized, forgotten, abused, shamed, or unforgiven.

Each stage also has a characteristic pattern of breath, movement, and touch, that can help us to reconnect with the natural, internal rhythms of our body, and experience a greater sense of joy and well-being.

Somato Respiratory Integration, (SRI), based on the Twelve Stages of Healing, appears to consistently reverse the process of defense physiology, spinal distortions, and disconnection that hinders the expression of life.

As we become safe to feel and experience the reconnection to our physical selves, it becomes easier to release traumatic events from our past, and allow for:

• A more flexible, integrated experience of the spine and body-mind
• Easier release of structural distortions/”anchors” to our past
• Increased sense of peace and ease
• Improved posture and deeper breathing
• New options to deal with life stress
• Empowering oneself to heal and transform their life experience
  

SRI is an invaluable tool used during an NSA chiropractic adjustment session to further promote the evolution of spine and nervous system strategies.

SRI exercises can also be used at home between NSA chiropractic adjustment sessions to relieve acute stress, and as part of one’s regular wellness routine, as thousands of people around the world have discovered.

“Donny Epstein’s methodologies produce embodied and empowered strategies
that are both sustainable and enjoyable for enhanced human
resourcefulness and wellness.”

- Tony Robbins, Peak Performance Coach,
Best Selling Author, “Unlimited Power”