Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always open you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding. The two are as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.
Rumi
"I originally went to see Yuri Zelez as I was suffering from a combination of Fibromyalgia and CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome) symptoms which were very painful and debilitating. I had tried a variety of different treatments prior to this, but always felt something was missing and I never really got any better.
Somatic Therapy is actually hard to explain in words, as it is something that really needs to be experienced, and to have the trust to allow the work to evolve as it needs to. I found that through the Somatic Therapy treatment I received from Yuri, I was able to physically sustain handling stress better, which reduced the frequent flare up of symptoms I had been experiencing, my pain level was not as high, and I started to have more good days than bad. I am extremely grateful for Yuri's amazing help! He is a wonderful therapist, very kind and compassionate, and has been a guide to help lead me to less pain and better health through the Somatic Therapy work." Sheila C. | Santa Barbara, CA
"I felt my intestines tubulize after this work with Yuri." Shel R. | Los Angeles, Ca.
" When I was born, my mother suffered from depression after losing members of her family in the Holocaust. She was not available to me then, and I found myself enacting patterns of rage and blame with my adult relationships that I could neither understand nor resolve. Through Yuri's sensitive Somatic Therapy work, I was able to experience the attention that I needed allowing me to meet my significant other without the unfulfilled needs from the past." Joshua H. Arroyo Grande, Ca.
Yuri's work with me has been astounding. From the start I noticed that he works way deeper than cognitive therapies. He seemed to reach deep into the core of my body and soul. His sessions did not make sense to me - he hardly talked! He just sat there with me and my confusing experience and he kept pointing me back towards my body in a million ways. For hours after the sessions I would feel profoundly relaxed and peaceful. Over the months, Yuri helped me with a myriad of tools to contact and learn the language of my own body, both by alerting me to its signals and by keeping a loving presence with anything I went through. Angela R. | Santa Barbara, Ca.