Use your head and follow your heart.
I help people relax, become less anxious and depressed, and learn to be more flexible and centered.
We might use meditation, breath work, and sometimes simple yoga asanas to help you calm down.
Learn to connect with yourself and with others.
Some questions about how we'll work.
1. Should I bring my yoga mat?
A mat is not usually necessary.
2. Do I need to be flexible and able to twist around in unusual positions?
Actually, we'll probably focus more on straightening things out--but mental and emotional flexiblity are just as important as the physical.
3. I can't stand on my head.
We want to keep your feet planted firmly on the ground, but we'll turn some old assumptions upside down and get a new look at them.
4. How do we do that?
We'll talk. We'll find old patterns that don't work as well as they used to, and find ones that do, affirming the positive.
5. Do we meditate?
We might. I'll teach you, if you don't know how and you want to learn. Meditation and relaxation techniques offer healing, and can help you awaken and manifest healthy life choices.
Where does this take place?
In my office, 150 East 84th Street, #2P, NY NY 10028.
SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
For views of painted works on paper, please turn to "contact us" section.
Somerstein, L. BIJ- mixed media work image shown in Other/Wise, IFPE publication, Fall, 2009. www.IFPE.org.
Somerstein, L. What does being a Buddhist mean to you? re: the economic meltdown, Tricycle Magazine, Summer 2009, page 58.
Somerstein, L. Enlightenment Therapy, letter to editor, New York Times Magazine, May 10, 2009, page 10.
Somerstein, L. The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development, by Lucy Holmes, New York: Jason Aronson, book review NAAP News, Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2009.
Somerstein, L. "The Isaac Complex- how a man survived his father's anger and made a life for himself." presentation, IEA Open House, Sunday, April 26, 12:00-2:30- 114 West 17th Street, NYC.
Somerstein, L. (2008) The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis, by Katya Bloom, London: Karnac Books, book review Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Volume XXVIII, no. 4, Fall 2008, pp 56-57.
Somerstein, L. (2008) "Psychoanalytic Benefits of Hatha Yoga." Integral Yoga Magazine. Fall 2008. www.iymagazine.org
Somerstein, L. (2008). "The Metallic Womb." Journal of Religion and Health. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1m4115jql8l014v/
Somerstein, L. (2008). True to our Feelings. By Robert Solomon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 286 pages. $28.88. ISBN 0-19-530672-4. Book review, Feminist Division of American Philosophical Assocation.
Somerstein, L. (January 3, 2008). “Original Aloneness: finding the deep self.” World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, New Delhi, India. http://www.worldcongressps2008.org/event
Complete publication list available on request.
I'm also the book review editor of the Psychoanalytic Review, and a freelance editor.
http://www.npap.org
Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT
150 East 84th Street, #2P
New York, NY 10028
212-861-6818