Soma Medicine, LLC is a group practice that provides services that are trauma informed and trauma trained in manual osteopathy, Rolf method of structural integration, craniosacral, education, indvidual counseling and coaching practices.
Somatic Touch © 2023 by Kirstie Segarra is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Coming Soon Somatic Touch: An Integrative Approach to Physical and Psychosomatic Trauma
Somatic Touch is a groundbreaking exploration of trauma-informed healing through the lens of manual osteopathy, embodied practice, ecology, feminism, neurodiversity, and ancestral wisdom. Drawing from decades of clinical experience, research, teaching, and personal lived experience, the author invites readers into a radically relational understanding of healing—one that moves beyond the isolated individual and reconnects body, community, ancestry, and land.
At the heart of the book is the understanding that trauma is not merely psychological, but deeply physiological, cultural, and intergenerational. Through the modality of somatic touch, the book examines how therapeutic touch can support nervous system regulation, connective tissue health, emotional integration, and embodied safety for individuals experiencing PTSD, Complex PTSD, developmental trauma, and neurodivergence.
Weaving together personal ancestral storytelling, osteopathic science, neurobiology, mythology, and indigenous-informed perspectives, the introduction challenges dominant Western models of healthcare that often commodify healing and place the burden of recovery solely on the individual. Instead, it proposes a new paradigm of healing rooted in relationship, reciprocity, ecology, and community care.
The book also offers an important feminist and neurodivergent perspective on trauma and healing professions, addressing how systems of colonization, capitalism, gender bias, and medical exclusion shape both practitioners and clients. Through this lens, Somatic Touch reclaims bodywork as both an art and a deeply ethical practice grounded in listening, consent, precision, and presence.
Blending research with practical clinical insight, the author explains the neurophysiology of touch, mechanotransduction, autonomic regulation, and the biological mechanisms through which compassionate touch supports healing. Readers are introduced to distinctions between somatic therapies, osteopathy in the cranial field, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and trauma-informed manual practice.
Ultimately, Somatic Touch is both a professional guide and a philosophical call to action. It invites practitioners, healers, educators, and seekers alike to participate in a more holistic, inclusive, and ecologically connected model of healing—one rooted not in fixing individuals, but in restoring relationship within the greater web of life.
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Release Date end of 2026
MYOFASCIAL YOGA THERAPY
Myofascial Yoga is an alignment based yoga that follows the myofascial meridians as influenced by Thomas Meyers and his development of the Anatomy Trains™.
This body of work was developed by Dr. Kirstie with their 30 years of experience as a practitioner, teacher and bodyworker.
Kirstie considers themself a functional and structural yoga therapist. They teach regular classes at the University of New Mexico-Taos.
Kirstie teaches continuing education courses and UNM-Taos 200 Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Training Program. The core curriculum of the UNM-Taos program includes Yoga Therapy and Myofascial Yoga™. Offering a deep understanding of anatomy and physiology as well as how to change fascial patterns in the body.
The goal of Myofascial Yoga: A Movement and Yoga Therapists Guide to Asana is to show how teaching asana should include fascia, connective tissue, as an integrative and necessary step to bring yoga asana fully into movement therapies in the West. This approach integrates Eastern and Western techniques and is truly a unique opportunity to explore ourselves from a somatic level of awareness while moving through and changing patterns that keep us from living more freely in joy and health.
Tom Myers, Author writes "In the book you hold, Kirstie Segarra has laid out clearly, concisely, and usefully how the asanas relate to the Anatomy Trains, and how to take up and teach (whether teaching yourself or others) the anatomy of asana in a way that makes sense to the body and to the person. Enjoy the ride.
Intuition and scientific knowledge are not opposed, they are simply two different ways of knowing. This book allows you to blend both ways of knowing in mutual service to each other to develop your inner and your outer knowledge of yoga in your own living body."
The book is sold at amazon.com.
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