Somato Respiratory
Integration (SRI) at
Healing Wave Chiropractic
Somato Respiratory
Integration (SRI) at
Healing Wave Chiropractic
Experience the Breath of Transformation
Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) is a profound mind-body healing system designed to awaken your body's innate intelligence and help you reconnect with yourself on every level—physical, emotional, and energetic. Developed by Dr. Donald Epstein, the founder of NetworkSpinal, SRI is a series of breath-based exercises that guide you through the 12 Stages of Healing—each representing a distinct state of awareness, healing, and transformation.
At Healing Wave Chiropractic, SRI is taught both one-on-one (at routine appointments or by private appointment) and in small group workshops to empower you with tools to deepen your own healing between NetworkSpinal sessions. This is not just a technique—it’s a daily practice for transformation! Personally, Dr. Shaun uses SRI on most days, especially before caring for his practice members.
What Is SRI?
Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) is a body-breath awareness practice developed within the NetworkSpinal/EpiEnergetics system to help a person become more connected to and aware of their body, breath, emotions, and nervous system patterns. SRI helps your nervous system move from protection to connection.
Somato = body
Respiratory = breath
Integration = helping parts of the body-mind work together more coherently
SRI helps you reconnect with your body, calm your nervous system, and become more aware of the patterns of stress, tension, and healing already happening within you. Through simple breathing exercises, intentional movement, and focused attention, SRI helps support greater ease, emotional awareness, and mind-body integration.
Rather than attempting to “fix” a symptom, SRI provides a pathway to feel into and integrate the deeper rhythms and messages of your body—often resulting in:
● Release of long-held physical and emotional patterns
● A sense of peace and centeredness
● Greater access to energy, creativity, and insight
● The ability to be with challenging emotions without getting stuck
Why SRI?
In a culture obsessed with quick fixes, SRI offers a radically different invitation: to listen to the messages within your body instead of silencing them!
Pain—whether physical, emotional, mental or spiritual—is not the enemy. It’s a message. SRI teaches you how to meet that message with compassion, curiosity, and the very powerful tool of your breath. Over time, your relationship with stress, illness, and discomfort changes.
It’s not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about discovering what’s trying to emerge!
The 12 Stages of Healing
SRI guides you through the 12 Stages of Healing, from disconnection and suffering to presence, love, and awakening. Each stage includes specific postures, breath patterns, and hand placements and some include verbal declarations that help shift the body and mind into more resourceful states.
Some benefits experienced through the stages:
● Releasing fight/flight/freeze defenses
● Feeling grounded and safe in your body
● Clarifying your values and purpose
● A palpable sense of more vitality in the body
● Experiencing more gratitude, joy, and freedom
Reported Benefits of SRI
Patients and workshop participants have reported:
● Increased emotional resilience and peace of mind
● Greater clarity in life decisions
● Reduced physical pain and tension
● Heightened body awareness and energy
● Enhanced ability to adapt to life’s challenges
● Stronger connection to intuition and inner guidance
● Improved breathing, posture, and sleep
How SRI Is Offered at Our Practice
At Healing Wave Chiropractic, SRI may be woven into your care plan as a complement to NetworkSpinal care. We offer:
● Private SRI Sessions: Personalized coaching with Dr. Shaun to help you embody each stage or work on specific aspects your healing.
● SRI Workshops: Group classes to learn, explore, and experience the stages of healing in community.
● Guided SRI during NetworkSpinal sessions based on what you need right now.
These practices deepen your results and empower you to take healing into your own hands—literally!
Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) in Allentown
When it comes to the different types of pain, physical, mental, and emotional, “Fix it so I can get on with my life!” is often the attitude in our culture. Often our focus is simply to get rid of the pain as quickly as possible. A “quick fix” may offer temporary relief, but we believe this narrow scope, which focuses exclusively on symptoms, can be costly in the long term.
We understand the need to feel better as soon as possible. But, pain in any of its varying forms, is a message from our body that something needs to change. When this message is masked and ignored, problems may go away temporarily, but ultimately, they get worse.
Your Primary Source for SRI in the Lehigh Valley!
We are proud to offer Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI), a powerful body-breath awareness practice that supports greater wellness, emotional balance, and quality of life.
SRI is closely connected to NetworkSpinal and complements the care beautifully. Both approaches help the nervous system develop new strategies for healing, adapting, and reorganizing with greater ease. As part of your personalized care program, Dr. Shaun may combine NetworkSpinal and SRI to create a deeper, more participatory healing experience.
Through SRI, you become an active part of your own healing process. This personal empowerment can help maximize your results and deepen the benefits of care.
We are proud to offer Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI), an important, groundbreaking technology in healthcare that’s associated with long-term benefits in wellness, emotional state, and quality of life. SRI is a sister work of NetworkSpinal and shares many benefits as both create a neurological upshift in the body’s ability to heal. As a part of your specialized personal program Dr.Rose combines NS and SRI for the ultimate healing experience. Your personal empowerment maximizes your results.
How Can Somato Respiratory Integration Help?
Some patients have reported the following symptoms or conditions improve throughout their SRI sessions.
> Mental clarity
> Peace of mind
> Ability to make effective changes in life
> Less stress
> Less moodiness
> Less depression
> Increased energy
> Interest in maintaining a healthy lifestyle
> Creativity
> Ability to concentrate and stay on task
> Positive feelings about self
> Ability to listen to your intuition
> Confidence when dealing with adversity
> Compassion and understanding of others
> Better decision making
> And much more!