Integral Somatic Psychotherapy (ISP)

According to Dr. Raja Selvam

Working with ISP captures and heals the following human facets:

• the physical body, including the nervous system and other phenomena of the physiological body
• the subtle body (energetic phenomena) or
• the absolute body (human consciousness - our perception - our consciousness).

The human experiences, which consist of our thinking, feeling, imagining, remembering, acting, etc. are based on these bodies and their interaction with each other.

ISP helps us gain more insight:

• to what extent the interplay of the physical, the fine and the absolute body is the starting point for all our experiences;
• how the regulation of these three levels proceeds when we experience difficulties and thereby stall lifelong processes;
• what needs to be done to create more openness, accessibility, regulation and balance to these three levels and to improve their relationships.

ISP focuses on the muscular system (controlled by the somatic nervous system), the internal organs (controlled by the autonomic nervous system) and the central nervous system.