Practitioners

Understanding

Stress leaves us feeling powerless and overwhelmed. SRT sheds light on the complex and evolutionary force of stress. By applying SRT to everyday situations you will be equipped to understand stress and the way it makes you feel; not only that, but you’ll learn to control your stress response and use this energy in a proactive way.

Control

Grappling for control in a stressful situation leads to fatigue and failure. Learning how to use your body’s movement naturally will relieve tension and allow you to focus on controlling your response. Movement training taught through SRT reprograms the nervous system and allows you to master its response to stress.

SRT therapy

Transformation

Exercises such as meditation and yoga offer short-term management of stress. There are many therapies that can be adapted to deal with stress-related issues, but there aren’t that many therapies that are made with the sole purpose of addressing stress. SRT offers lifelong transformation by addressing the root causes of the stress response. Learning the basics of SRT will help you maintain a calm response to virtually any situation.

The Basics of SRT?

We all have that strange, unsettling feeling: it’s as if someone has just turned a switch in your brain and you become apprehensive about everything. “Why is she looking at me that way?” , “Oh God I’m going to be late again due to heavy traffic! I cannot bear this!”, “God I’m so tired but I have a lot of work to do.” What do all these statements have in common? 

They are all interpretations of external events that increase your stress levels. These are things that happen on a daily basis and which you can hardly control. What you can control is your reaction to such stress-related events.

Usually people try to get rid of these thoughts by engaging in rationalisation, trying to find some logical explanations. But stress isn’t logical. Quite the contrary, it’s very irrational, and most importantly it’s very much related to your physiology, the way your body acts in reaction to stressors.

SRT, unlike many other therapies, brings stress back to its physiological realm, and solves the issue of stress by engaging both your body and your mind. Within SRT, we’re battling stress in its own ballpark, in the ballpark of physiology and body, we’re not bringing it to the cognitive realm where stress has a tendency to become stronger and more pernicious. This is why SRT can be referred to as somatic therapy (soma= the body).

This doesn’t mean that SRT ignores the cognitive aspect of stress. Quite the contrary, there is a lot of discussion within SRT about how stress makes you think in certain ways; but crucially, SRT first addresses the physiological aspect of stress and only then brings the cognitive aspect of stress into focus.

People who join this course often have some experience with attempting to control stress using things such as medication, yoga or meditation. After finding these techniques inefficient they are often seeking a more reliable and robust way to manage stress in the long term. SRT is that way.