Meet Starry
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Starry Summers, SEP, ERYT 500
Hi, I am Starry Summers. I am a long-time, professional Yoga Instructor, Somatic Trauma Healing specialist and workshop/retreat facilitator. My calling in life is to help people savor the experience of being in their bodies; to be able to use these magnificent vessels to channel feelings of goodness, pleasure, stability, abundance and the states of flow that support one’s fullest unfolding.
By doing so, we become the receiver of our energy even as we are the generator of our energy. It is the elixir.
Most people move around with little awareness or connection with their bodies. Even when we are trying to stay connected, trauma has often sabotaged our nervous system and despite our best efforts through Yoga, mindfulness, meditation and more, we suffer. This was my personal story. It took me many years to recognize my own symptoms of trauma stemming from early childhood experiences. I realized, painfully, that I had done a great job of “managing” my trauma through yogic techniques, but I had no idea how to actually touch it and allow it, much less, resolve or complete it.
It can be a bit like sitting alongside a gorgeous mountain stream while going thirsty. Our bodies provide the inner landscape for awareness to reside. Through it, our thoughts, memories, emotions like fear, awe, curiosity, compassion and love rise to the surface of our experience.
Through Somatic Experiencing, we learn to explore, linger in and trust our feelings and sensations again.
It’s my deep pleasure to have helped hundreds of lovely people regain their connection to their natural life-force, vitality and joy.
The more pleasure and joy you access through your body, the more it becomes your ally; the more easily you can accept and love the parts of you that still feel challenged by old events and old beliefs systems. Using SE (Somatic Experiencing) you gradually increase the capacity of your nervous system to handle the charge. And to release pent-up energy. You complete old patterns so the “charge” is a mere fraction of what it once was.
Your body is your portal, your access, your entryway to the present now moment. All spiritual traditions teach that this present moment is the only way to reality, truth and existence. To ignore the body, to “transcend” it is to disassociate and lose touch with what was given to us, our finest ally in our quest to becoming integrated and whole. To ignore embodiment is to ignore the goddess, to ignore the mountains and air and streams and life force from which everything arises. And deeper beneath that is stillness and silence accessible through meditation.
View Starry’s listing with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
Starry’s Background:
Starting as a student of shamanic practices in the late 1980’s, Starry was invited to take intensive training in Hatha Yoga and began teaching in 1995. As her path unfolded, she trained extensively in Iyengar Yoga and in the Tantra-Hatha Yoga tradition as taught by Rod Stryker’s ParaYoga and the Himalayan Institute. She has traveled to Brazil, India, Bali, Malaysia and throughout the US and Canada to train in different modalities and experience other cultures. After years of owning her own studio in St. Louis and teaching many workshops, group classes and one-on-one lessons, Starry now specializes solely in private coaching and in retreat environments. She finds meditation, restorative yoga and advanced yogic energetic practices highly supportive to Somatic Experiencing in the release of trauma and restoration of true well-being.
Throughout her life, Starry has celebrated and practiced many forms of expressive movement including seven years of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts/dance form, performing with groups in Spain, France and Mexico. She has led Thai Yoga Massage workshops, Breathwork, Women’s Circles, kirtan and dance. She specializes in coaxing the body into playfulness, relaxation and ease. A writer of poetic-prose and memoir, and creator of video art, Starry loves opportunities to express in all forms.
A commitment to helping people explore and nurture awareness of one’s true self guides Starry to integrate her experience and teachings from many other realms beyond Somatic Experiencing and Yoga; including, “Real Love,” dream and myth exploration, Divine Feminine rituals, Breathwork and the teachings of Adyashanti. She is an active member of the Haidakhandi Ashram and Sharon Landrith’s Clear Light Sangha in Crestone, CO.
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What people are saying...
“Profound, authentic and powerful…”
“Thanks, Starry, for the opportunity and dynamic container, the time and space to sink in deep with myself, beautifully cultivated and lovingly held. Thanks for the of allowing being exactly where you are and of such vulnerability. Thanks for leading in this way. Just feeling lots of gratitude and resilience for what is here, there, and yet to come. The transformation is a marvelous thing! You are doing such amazing work in the world. And the 54 points meditation? It is deeply relaxing!”
— CC
“It has had a profound effect on me…”
“We shared some really significant time together in your sessions, Starry, and doing kirtan and so much more. You helped me open up my heart and became a spiritual mentor to me. It has had a profound effect on me – for the better. Your energy fills the space with such connection and authenticity. You’ve touched so many lives, just like you did mine. Thank you!”
— BG