SOMAJA is a form of profound, deep level body work developed by Christina Pelzer that aims to relax and improve body awareness.
Based on ancient traditional knowledge from various cultures, it can train your physical and emotional self-awareness. This way, physical dissonances are not just resolved short-term but your perception and understanding of your own body is also improved long term.
It helps to develop self-competence in dealing with physical sensitivities and helps you gain a better understanding of your body’s language and handling it with self-reliance.

One of my favorite metaphors in this context is the car with a flashing oil light. Most drivers would likely stop to fill up their oil as soon as possible, preventing worse things from happening, such as a total engine failure. If we translate this metaphor onto our own body’s warning signals, the reaction unfortunately often plays out differently:

“Oh, my oil light is flashing. It’s bothering me, but I don’t have time right now, instead of stopping and refilling the oil, I’ll just turn it off or cover it up, so I don’t have to see it anymore.” In our case, it would be painkillers, narcotics or similar that are used to cover up our body’s red flags. We continue driving as if nothing happened.
After a while, our car starts making strange noises and eventually breaks down – we are in pain, suffer a nervous breakdown or a burnout. But it gets worse: We are surprised, no, annoyed even, at our car for suddenly breaking, having to pay an even higher price to repair the damage as it now escalated to a total engine failure. It would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad: if we had just followed our body’s initial signals, this outcome could have been avoided. This is a sad phenomenon of our time – it shows how little appreciation we have for our own bodies and therefore our soul. It shows how little most of us love themselves.

As babies, we arrive in this world whole and complete – we are pure love. We learn perceiving everything our body is telling us, naturally feeling and expressing ourselves accordingly.
Over time, our mind matures, initially serving us as another way to express ourselves. But the more we train and shape our mind, influenced by parents, the environment and society, the more it becomes an overbearing inner driver, critic and supervisor. It ensures that we adapt to challenging situations, keeping us in check to keep us functional, mostly serving others rather than ourselves.
However, through trained, habitual thought patterns, the mind develops a life of its own – we lose control over it and it becomes our master, steering our destiny through negative patterns, structures of fear and other dysfunctional mechanisms.

Starting in childhood, we have formative experiences throughout our lives. Some are beautiful, but many bring us pain, sorrow, and trauma. This is normal and often times even positive in retrospect, because difficult times force us to leave our comfort zone and facilitate personal growth and development.

Our comfort zone is constantly growing with us. Unfortunately, most of us tend to avoid the pain this personal growth comes with, even though it’s the only way to let go of old trauma and pain. To stay functional, we just repress it.

Most people escape into their minds, imaginary worlds, or drugs to avoid feeling the pain and experiencing what is really happening inside their body.

Strictly speaking, this means letting our body down. With every injury, every pain, every unpleasant feeling and every trauma that we don’t consciously acknowledge and thus heal, we withdraw our energy further from our own body. This energy, once filling us up completely, slips further and further upwards, right into our heads. Sometimes it even leaves our body completely.

Suddenly, we notice that we are numb, that we no longer feel ourselves, often starting from the neck down. Maybe we haven’t even been able to cry in a long time.

At this point, we are usually already separated from our feelings, our emotional body and, before that, from our physical body.

However, all the unpleasant feelings that were previously completely controlled or suppressed are not gone. They are stored inside our body cells and our subconscious as bodies of pain because they have not been fully felt, accepted and therefore released.

In the long term, our body becomes ill as a result. The body of pain becomes a painful body.

The only way to feel at home in your own body again, to feel good and to be healthy, is through the process of mindfulness and cleansing body, mind and soul – because everything is connected.

We can’t avoid having a closer look at our sore spots, soul pains, childhood traumas, issues with our parents or partners, one by one, allowing ourselves to feel the pain and thereby letting go of it.
This allows us to cleanse our wounds, allowing them to heal completely. During this healing process, its often necessary to heal the wounds of the emotional body first, so that our own energy, which has often already fled to the mental plane, can return and find its way back to the physical body via this path.
Through pain or illness, our body points out problem areas that need our attention. If we show ourselves the necessary attention and self-care, the body can heal, forgo symptoms of pain, allowing everything to get back into balance.