SOMATIC CRADLE HYPNOTHERAPY
A Gentle and Deep Approach to Non-Directive Hypnotherapy

Somatic Cradle Hypnotherapy (SCH) is a deep body-centered practice, similar to healing in regression-based hypnotherapy.

At its core, it is a "kind" style of hypnotherapy involving a profound healing trance without directive suggestions. The facilitator takes on a nurturing, maternal-like role rather than the traditional authoritative approach of guiding the conscious mind.

SCH allows for restoration by immersing you in a state of deep tranquility — as if you were held in the arms of a loving mother — even if you never experienced that in childhood.

There's no need for direct suggestions or to reprogram the mind — natural healing unfolds on its own. Indirect suggestions are gently embedded through the therapeutic atmosphere, symbolic narrative, and especially during the final stage of restoration — when the nervous system becomes flexible and receptive to change and healing.

Through somatic psychotherapy and hypnotherapeutic techniques, you access deep states of calm, safety, and acceptance. Your body and subconscious absorb a new experience — and that changes everything.

Notably, most of the process happens through the body rather than cognitive communication and is not limited by language or intellectual capacity.

This makes SCH effective even for those who are "non-hypnotizable," have difficulty expressing emotions, face language or developmental challenges, or are on the autism spectrum. It can also work beautifully with children.

"It's a mysterious space where the past and future meet. Some people revisit their childhood, while others glimpse their future parenting. These moments are too beautiful for words."

THE METHOD
Three Core Pathways
Choose the depth that fits your current need — from a 40-minute resource session to a 3-day deep retreat.

🕊️ PATHWAY 1 — Healing and Restoration

Resource activation without regression

Duration: 40–90 minutes · Group or individual · Somatic, without memory retrieval

How it works: You don't revisit the past or recall traumatic experiences. Instead, your body receives direct access to states of peace and emotional safety. Sometimes, emotional overload, anxiety, or internal struggle releases with mild discomfort, but the discharge is fast and gentle.

Even if you've never experienced loving, safe maternal embrace — your body and subconscious can create and store that experience now.

What happens: Deep somatic relaxation · activation of safety and acceptance on the bodily level · nervous system regulation · filling the system with peace and calm · healing without needing to relive the pain.

Helpful for: anxiety, depression, insomnia, panic attacks, post-traumatic reactions.

Who it's for: those needing fast recovery and replenishment · those tired of "digging into the past" · those seeking a safe, gentle healing experience · those needing a reset without deep emotional work.

Result: You leave feeling resourced, rested, and restored. Your body remembers the feeling of safety and peace.

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💚 PATHWAY 2 — Positive Regression

Immersion into a cradle-like state or being held in mother's arms

Duration: 2–5 hours · Individual or group · Somatic psychotherapy + hypnotherapeutic techniques

How it works: Using somatic and hypnotherapeutic tools, you enter a positive regressive state — as if cradled or lovingly held. Even if you've never had that experience, your subconscious can create and re-live it — safely, gently, and healingly.

✨ Come to Pathway 2 if:

  • You constantly feel tension, anxiety, or fear
  • You can't let go of control or relax
  • You're low on energy, vitality, or joy
  • Nothing seems to excite or motivate you
  • Love or intimacy feel flat, disconnected, or unsatisfying
  • You experience chronic fatigue or emotional numbness
  • You carry the sense that "something is wrong with me"

What happens: Hypnotherapeutic immersion into the resourceful state of early infancy · embodied experience of unconditional love and acceptance · creating a new safety imprint at the subconscious level · deep somatic reset · rebuilding fundamental trust in life and the body.

Result: Your body and subconscious remember a new experience — of unconditional love, safety, and acceptance. This becomes your new internal anchor.

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🌱 PATHWAY 3 — Deep Reset with Regression

Liberating reprogramming of trauma and limiting beliefs

Duration: 1–3 days (retreat format) · Individual or small-group · Somatic psychotherapy + hypnotic regression + unpacking and reprogramming

How it works: Intensive deep work using guided or spontaneous regression into birth and childhood trauma. Through a combination of somatic therapy and hypnoregression, destructive programs are unpacked and transformed. Rather than implanting suggestions in a trance, we offer supportive guidance during transitional states when your system is open and neuroplastic.

What happens: Hypnoregression into birth and early childhood trauma · somatic release of bodily tension and energetic blocks · unpacking limiting beliefs and destructive patterns · deep-level reprogramming · liberation from traumatic imprints · formation of new neural and emotional pathways.

Techniques: somatic psychotherapy (body and breath work) · hypnotherapeutic regression · belief and program release · somatic reprogramming · integration of new imprints.

Result: A full reset. Liberation from deep patterns. New beliefs and inner stability. A redefined relationship with self and the world.

Note: This approach does not replace medical treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider for diagnosis, treatment, and guidance on whether SCH is suitable for you.

IS IT FOR YOU?
Who Is SCH For?

SCH may be right for you if:

  • You often feel tension, anxiety, or fear
  • You struggle to relax or let go of control
  • It's hard to trust others, even those close to you
  • You seek parental-level love from partners
  • You find it hard to build or enjoy relationships
  • You carry a constant sense of "something's wrong with me"
  • You feel a lack of confidence or inner support
  • You want to release childhood wounds and blocks
  • You need to stop over-pleasing, proving, and performing

Suitable for adults and children, all genders. Very few contraindications.

OUTCOMES
What You'll Gain

🌟 After SCH practice, real change happens.

You'll gain:

  • A basic sense of safety — "I'm okay, and the world accepts me"
  • A feeling of completeness — regardless of success, failure, or approval
  • Internal support — no longer seeking it from others
  • Deep calm and peace — relief from chronic tension
  • Unconditional self-love — valuing yourself simply for being

You'll be able to:

  • Stop chasing love or approval
  • Accept yourself as you are
  • Feel "good enough"
  • Trust yourself and the world
  • Release deep-seated fear and anxiety
  • Gain resilience and emotional grounding
MECHANISM
Why The Somatic Approach Works

💫 Why through the body and subconscious?

SCH is a somatic practice — working through the body. Like a reset in hypnotherapy, it grants access to levels unreachable by words alone.

Your body remembers everything:

  • Prenatal experience
  • The birth process
  • Early months and years
  • Whether you were wanted and loved
  • Whether you felt safe or not

These are preverbal memories. Your conscious mind had no words back then — but your body and subconscious recorded everything. And this is exactly the level at which you can now create new imprints.

🔄 The principle of somatic reset:

Depending on your chosen path, you either:

  • Activate your resource directly (without regression) — your body experiences safety here and now
  • Enter positive regression — through hypnotherapeutic techniques, you recreate and live through an idealized early experience
  • Work with trauma regression — unpack and reprogram limiting beliefs and patterns

In every case, your body and subconscious remember the new imprint — and this shifts your baseline experience of life.

IN PRACTICE
Roles in SCH Practice

👶 The Child — receiving role

For anyone who wants to receive unconditional love, safety, and acceptance. All genders and ages welcome.

What happens: You lie down in a special hammock or soft surface. Through touch, gentle rocking, and kind words, your body directly receives somatic signals of safety and care.

Depending on the path:

  • Path 1 — you simply relax and receive
  • Path 2 — you enter a positive regressive state via hypnotechniques
  • Path 3 — you go deeper to reprogram trauma

Result: Your body remembers — "I'm safe. I'm loved. I'm enough." This becomes your new baseline.

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🤱 Mothers in Need of Nurturing Themselves

You give so much. You hold, carry, calm, soothe — often forgetting your own need to be held.

SCH offers a deeply restorative experience for women who:

  • 🤰 want to prepare their body and nervous system for childbirth
  • 🌬️ need to release fears and tension related to motherhood
  • 🕊️ seek postnatal healing and emotional rebalancing
  • 💞 feel emotionally depleted from constant giving and caring
  • 🤱 long to receive the very kind of safety and love they give to their children

In this role, you don't have to "be the mother." You can simply be — and be held. Safe, cared for, embraced without conditions.

Through gentle touch, presence, symbolic regression, and somatic holding, you'll experience what it feels like to be fully received and nurtured.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY
Voices from the practice
"I stopped obsessively checking my phone, waiting for someone to call. I used to feel tense all the time — now I feel self-worthy." · "I feel calm, it's easier to trust life. I realized I tried to control too much. Now life is unfolding in the right direction." · "After the practice, I felt happier, more confident, peaceful, and grateful. My relationship with my mom began to heal." · "More confidence in myself and in life. My adult self feels stronger. These sensations are woven into the body." · "It's like I was reborn into a fresh, innocent body. This is a unique process. A second birth."
READY FOR YOUR SOMATIC RESET?
Whatever your childhood was — it's never too late to have a happy one.
SCH gives you what you never got: to be a wanted child · to grow up in trust · to feel unconditionally loved. You leave with the sense: "I am good. The world welcomes me." You gain your inner anchor.
✅ Why SCH Works:
  • Works through the body and subconscious — words can't always reach preverbal imprints; somatic tools + hypnotherapy access these deep levels directly
  • Like a reset in hypnotherapy — SCH functions like a powerful emotional reset, allowing you to revise your psychological default settings
  • Works even without prior experience — even if you never experienced unconditional love or safety, your body can create and store that experience now
  • Three levels of depth — from a 40-minute resource session to a 3-day deep retreat, you choose the right depth for your current need
  • Safe and integrative — the practice is held in a space of complete acceptance; a skilled practitioner ensures you are safely guided at every step
  • Lasting change — changes happen at the level of somatic memory and subconscious programs; your body keeps the new imprint
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Want the full method including directive techniques?
SCH is the gentle branch.
The full Somatic Hypnotherapy (SHT) method also includes trance work with suggestion, regression to core trauma, character therapy, and breathwork — a wider toolkit for deeper or symptom-focused work.
Read about Somatic Hypnotherapy
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$49 Demo SCH Session — 60–75 min
Experience the cradle state once before committing. First session only.
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Package — 10 hours — $700
Suitable for Pathways 1 & 2. Hypnotherapy, coaching, supervision, training.
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Package — 20 hours — $1,200
Full Pathway 3 cycle.
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About the practitioner
Andrew Fleshel (USA / Ukraine) — psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, somatic therapist, trauma specialist. Over 25 years of experience, including 8 years in clinical and crisis-center settings. Secretary of the East European Association for Hypnosis and Clinical Psychotherapy.

WhatsApp / Telegram: +1 215 722 9722
78 Tomlinson Rd, Huntingdon Valley / Philadelphia, PA 19006
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