somatic parts work practice
Become the Safe Adult You Always Needed
A practice for clients and practitioners. Learn how to stabilize, tend to the most vulnerable parts of you, and live with more safety, choice & self-trust.
Each of us has a multiplicity of parts that pull us into threat responses or younger versions of ourselves under stress. We have ‘controlling’ parts, ‘shame’ parts, ‘unloveable’ parts. We carry these fragmented survival adaptations into adulthood.
The more complex our personal history, the more split off these parts are from one another. For some of us, being hijacked by our young parts is a painful and frequent reality.
By prioritizing the role and functionality of the nervous system, Somatic Parts Work helps us heal fragmentation and tend to our younger selves. This practice uses body-based tools like orienting, co-regulation, and attunement to help these parts of ourselves come into communication, connection, and healthy relationship with one another.
AS A PRACTITIONER OF 10 YEARS (AND A CLIENT FOR MUCH LONGER), I KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO BE RUN BY THESE YOUNG PARTS:
A feeling of being emotionally out of control, oscillating between unsustainable highs and lows
Struggling with disorganized/anxious or avoidant attachment
Difficulty maintaining close relationships
Feeling like you’re not living up to your full potential
Turning repeatedly towards coping mechanisms that hurt you (social media addiction, overworking, people pleasing, etc)
A lack of capacity for long-term stability; regularly choosing short-term relief over long-term priorities
Feeling like you’re at war with yourself, caught in cycles of shame
YOU DESERVE A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE
In order to interrupt the cycle of living from these young ones, we need strong, practiced neural pathways into a steady internal Adult. An Adult that can feel the intensity of the child’s experience without getting overwhelmed. An Adult that has developed self-compassion, understanding of survival strategies, and a willingness to seek support.
READY TO GROW THIS STEADY ADULT (OR HELP YOUR CLIENTS TO?)
Meet your new Practice
Become the Safe Adult You Always Needed
A potent six-part instructional guide and somatic parts work audio practice to learn how to stabilize, tend to any young parts running the show, and move from choice rather than reactivity/dysregulation.
Developed over ten years, distilled into one doable practice. Created for both daily use and when you feel triggered.
“Varia is incredibly skilled at honing in on the most important aspects of very complex ideas. Using this practice makes the power of somatic parts work very accessible and doable - what a gift!”
AS A CLIENT, THIS PRACTICE WILL HELP YOU:
Track when you become dysregulated and when a young one/threat response has taken the wheel
Meet your young parts and threat responses with less likelihood of overwhelm and shutdown
Create an intentional, steady internal Adult, and learn how to live from that place with greater agency and choice
Use neuroplasticity to shift old patterns of thinking and behaviour that no longer serve you
Feel more whole and safe, experience greater connection to yourself and be more present in your daily life
AS A PRACTITIONER, THIS PRACTICE WILL GIVE YOU:
An accessible tool for your clients to use between sessions
For IFS practitioners: Somatic tools to use in your IFS work with clients
For Somatic Practitioners: The language and metaphor of parts work to help your clients conceptualize and relate more compassionately towards their chronic threat responses and coping strategies
A clear and detailed example of how somatics and parts work can work together to support clients with regulation and healing fragmentation
A practice to meet and work with your own parts and threat responses, because you deserve to feel better too
“Varia is able to convey clarity, warmth, and a deep respect for our young parts through their approach to somatic parts work. Building our capacity to be with the protected, disowned, and frightened parts of ourselves is not only powerful in our individual lives, but expands our capacity to be more fully present and available in our relationships, communities, and the work we devote ourselves to. Varia weaves all these threads together in their approach to this practice. ”
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Step One: Stabilization
Somatic work takes us into the internal landscape, which can be overwhelming. Stabilization creates the possibility of connecting with or beginning to develop an internal adult.
Step Two:
Unblend & Listen
Most of the time, we are blended with a young part. Once we have some stabilization in our felt sense experience, the next step is to begin to differentiate and unblend from younger parts.
Step Three: Attunement
Feeling towards vs. about our parts creates the possibility for both your Adult self and younger part to exist at the same time, allowing the young part to feel less alone, and the adult to feel more stable and less flooded.
Step Four:
Finding Wisdom
Shifting from a Power Over to a Power With relational dynamic reframes our struggles into survival adaptations and connects us to the wisdom of our young parts and threat responses, which leads to greater compassion.
Step Five:
Meeting Needs
Here, our young parts get to practice asking a steady Adult to meet their needs, reducing the need for them to hijack the entire system and scramble for control as a path to safety/protection.
Step Six:
Closing the practice
A central part of secure attachment is knowing we can leave and come back, trusting that safety and connection will be there upon our return. We close the practice by doing a final check-in with the young one.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Two Instructional
Videos
A 40 min intro and a 55 min instructional video to help you learn the audio practice. Transcribed for ease of accessibility and learning style diversity.
3 Short Stabilization Audios
Three 5 min audio practices. Choose one to use repeatedly and utilize at the beginning of the parts work practice. Downloadable and transcribed.
1 Somatic Parts Work Audio Practice
A 12 min audio practice to return to again and again. Downloadable, transcribed, and comes with a one page PDF guide for visual learners.
“Varia’s support has been instrumental in helping me finally begin to heal from Complex PTSD and inhabit my adult self in my day-to-day life. Their somatic parts work in particular has been an essential piece of this support, and I am thrilled to have a Varia-style guided practice to use on my own! Varia’s clear and thorough instruction makes it easy to understand the basis for somatic parts work, and the guided audios support me to practice regularly so that I can continue to develop my own capacity and skill to relate to myself and meet my needs in the context of my daily life. Highly Recommend! ”
PRICING
Somatic Parts Work Practice is on sliding scale pricing, which offers financial accessibility to those who need it and a chance for those with financial stability to share from it. A great big thanks to Alexis J. Cunningfolk for their writing on sliding scale pricing. When selecting a price on the sliding scale, please keep in mind your access to generational wealth and/or a steady income in order to support the financial sustainability of this offering.
Individual Price
$50-$150 USD upfront
For clients of somatic/parts work and practitioners
purchasing the practice for their own personal use only
Practitioner Price
$200- $500 USD upfront
For somatic/parts work practitioners purchasing
for their own use and to share with their clients
FINANCIAL ACCESSIBILITY AND REDISTRIBUTION
If the lowest amount of sliding scale pricing isn’t financially feasible for you, please be in touch with me at contact@bewith.org to request a payment plan or PWYC (pay what you can) access. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Got privilege that’s lead to financial stability? Here’s a chance to redistribute: contribute to the Be With Scholarship Fund here!
As a way to practice redistribution, 5% of this project’s first year profits will go to ACORN Canada, a multi-issue, membership-based community union of low- and moderate-income people organizing for social and economic justice.
“Varia’s somatic parts practice helped me to build upon and integrate parts work within a trauma-informed somatics framework. Their teaching style is warm, accessible and personal. It felt like they were journeying alongside me in my practice.”
ABOUT tHE INSTRUCTOR
Varia Erochina is a somatic teacher and practitioner of ten years dedicated to personal and collective healing. Queerness, immigration, neurodiversity, class struggle, and lived experience of complex trauma orient their work towards access for all. Varia takes an integrated approach to long-term healing, combining their training in Alchemical Alignment trauma resolution, Gestalt psychotherapy, spirituality and somatic parts work.
Their popular course, How to Feel, offers practical education and embodied practice for feeling your feelings. Varia is the creator of Cards for Self-Care and has offered 1-1 and group support, led workshops, retreats, classes and more over the last 10 years of Be With. Varia lives with their wife and cat as a settler on Dish With One Spoon treaty territory (Toronto), and spends their free time making ceramics, taking road trips, walking in nature, and pulling tarot cards. Learn more about their training here.
WHO THIS PRACTICE IS FOR:
Clients and practitioners of somatics and various forms of parts work such as Internal Family Systems
Those who have “all the information”, but still find an everyday capacity to use the work out of reach
Anyone looking to deepen their work with a practitioner
Those existentially exhausted from the crises we are living through and ready to develop more internal stability to ride the waves of emotion that come with being alive right now
Anyone looking to use somatic tools for self-regulation and a parts oriented approach more often, but find it hard to actually do so
“Somatic Parts Work has transformed every aspect of my life, from the relationship with my partner to friendships and my work. This practice is a doable way to engage with it, even on my busiest days.”
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
CAN I USE THIS PRACTICE AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THERAPY?
No, this practice is not a replacement for therapy or medical advice. It is for the purposes of psychoeducation only. We recommend using this practice either in addition to your current work with a practitioner (or in group therapy), or to deepen the work you have done with a practitioner in the past.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PRACTITIONER & INDIVIDUAL VERSION?
There is no difference. We ask that practitioners who will use this with their clients in perpetuity pay more to account for multiple users.
CAN I GET A REFUND IF I DON’T LIKE THE PRACTICE?
There are no refunds or exchanges on this course other than under exceptional circumstances.
WILL THERE BE A ‘LIVE’ ONLINE COMPONENT WITH YOU TEACHING?
No. Unlike other courses I have taught, this practice is entirely recorded.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO LEARN & START USING THE AUDIO PRACTICE?
The six-step instructional videos should take about 2 hours to complete. Practicing the 3 stabilization audios should take about 15 mins (5 mins each). You are encouraged to go at your own pace and watch and listen as many times as needed. Once you feel comfortable with this material, the audio practice will be guided by my voice, and includes an instructional .pdf for you to follow.
HOW LONG DO I HAVE ACCESS TO THE MATERIAL?
You will have lifetime access to all materials purchased. All the audio practices are downloadable, as are all video and audio transcripts.
WHAT DOES “SOMATIC PARTS WORK” MEAN?
Somatic Parts Work is a blend of two modalities: Parts Work and Somatics. Parts work helps our younger, wounded parts and a core self (a steady internal Adult in my work) build a healthy relationship with one another. Somatic Parts Work refers to Parts Work that is deeply informed by the body’s experience. It prioritizes the role and functionality of the nervous system alongside our emotions and energy, tracking (dys)regulation and incorporating a variety of body-based tools.
WHAT MAKES THIS PRACTICE SO EFFECTIVE?
Most of the coping mechanisms and young responses we struggle with are the result of our brain following decades-old neural pathways. They are deeply grooved and rooted in our nervous system. To create new neural pathways, we have to make new synaptic connections, and then go over those connections again and again, until they become stronger and more efficient than the neural pathways we are trying to outgrow. This audio practice, if used repeatedly over time, will help do just that. It’s not a quick fix, but it’s worth it.
“After listening to Varia’s thoughtful and detailed presentation on working somatically with younger parts, I feel confident recommending it as a resource. That level of endorsement is not given lightly. Thank you, Varia, for such deeply supportive work.”
