Linda Heuman, SEP™
About Linda
I came to somatic work by a long route.
For more than thirty-five years, contemplative practice has been central to my life. I spent years living in Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal, studying and practicing Buddhism, and later became a writer and journalist exploring Buddhism’s encounter with the modern West.
Much of my work took place at the boundaries between different ways of knowing. As a contributing editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and a John Templeton Foundation Journalism Fellow, I spoke with Buddhist teachers, scholars, scientists, and other thinkers about the nature of mind, the body, and experience. I became especially interested in the often-unnoticed assumptions through which we interpret what is real—particularly the tension between cultures that privilege third-person, objective knowledge and contemplative traditions in which first-person experience can carry its own authority.
Eventually, that inquiry became more embodied. I began to understand that the assumptions shaping experience do not live only in our ideas or our psychology. Our histories are carried in the body and nervous system, influencing what we perceive, how we respond, and even what we are able to take in. Intellectual understanding—and even profound insight—does not necessarily change patterns that physiology is still organized to protect.
That realization led me to Somatic Experiencing®. I completed Somatic Experiencing International’s three-year professional training and have continued to explore trauma and healing through several years of study with Thomas Hübl, whose work brings together personal, relational, ancestral, and collective dimensions of trauma.
Today, I bring this background to my work with clients. I’m especially drawn to working with thoughtful, curious people—including spiritual practitioners, writers, and others with rich inner lives—who may have done a great deal of reflection and self-understanding but still find themselves caught in patterns they can’t think their way out of. That is where I find somatic work most powerful: when the mind has understood all it can, and the body still has something to say.
Somatic Training
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Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP™), Somatic Experiencing International.
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Timeless Wisdom Training in personal, ancestral, and collective trauma healing—in progress, Academy of Inner Science / Thomas Hübl.
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Therapeutic Psychedelic Facilitation & Integration, SoundMind Institute.
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Certified Reiki Advanced Practitioner, All That Matters Yoga and Wellness.
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Certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher, Eyes of the World Yoga.
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Certified Massage Practitioner, Twin Lakes Massage School.