Mindfulness

Enhance your mind-body connection

WITH SOMATO RESPIRATORY INTEGRATION

SRI (Somato Respiratory Integration) is a body-based mindfulness practice that teaches you
how to use your breath, movement, and awareness to reconnect with your body and shift out of
stress/survival. It’s one of the most practical and empowering tools you can take home and use
every single day!

Somato Respiratory Integration

WHAT IS AN SRI CLASS?

Somato Respiratory Integration is a series of guided breathing and body-awareness exercises
developed alongside Network Spinal Care. Each exercise uses a specific combination of breath,
movement, and focused attention to help you locate tension in your body, acknowledge it, and
consciously guide your system toward ease and joy.

SRI classes at Vitality Wellness are taught in small groups in the office. No prior experience with
mindfulness or breathwork needed.

WHO IS A SRI CLASS FOR?

SRI is for you if:

You feel like stress is running the show
You find it hard to slow down, be present, or feel at home in your body
You experience anxiety, tension headaches, poor sleep, or emotional overwhelm
You’re already receiving Network Spinal Care and want to deepen and accelerate your
results

SRI is especially powerful for people who are in their heads and disconnected from their bodies.

If thinking about your to-do list is the closest you come to body awareness, this is for you.

WHAT HAPPENS IN AN SRI CLASS?

Classes are welcoming, calm, and judgment-free. You’ll be guided through different SRI
exercises by Dr. Tiffanie in a small group setting, usually while seated, standing or lying down comfortably.

Each exercise focuses on a specific stage of your healing journey.

You’ll use:

Your breath — to shift your nervous system state
Focused attention — to observe sensations without judgment
Gentle movement — to help energy flow rather than stay stuck

Classes typically run 60 minutes.

WHAT RESULTS CAN I EXPECT AFTER AN SRI CLASS?

Even after your first class, many people notice a tangible shift — a deeper breath, a softening in the chest or shoulders, a quiet in the mind that feels unfamiliar but welcome.

Over time and with regular practice, SRI can help you:

Regulate your stop living in fight-or-flight
Reconnect with your body & learn to understand its signals
Improve sleep
Reduce anxiety and mental overwhelm
Build emotional resilience — so life’s challenges feel less consuming
Enhance and accelerate the benefits of your Network Spinal Care

SRI gives you something most wellness practices don’t: a skill you can use on your own. In the
car before a hard conversation or in bed at night when your brain won’t stop.

WHY DOES SRI WORK?

SRI works because it acknowledges where your nervous system actually is, not where you want it to be.

Most of us push through stress, ignore body signals, or try to think our way out of how we feel.

SRI does the opposite: it brings your awareness into the body, into the breath, into this moment.

That act of conscious, compassionate attention is itself deeply regulating to the nervous system.

The practice is built on the same principles as Network Spinal Care: the body holds wisdom, that tension is a message, and that healing happens when we stop fighting ourselves and start
listening instead.

When practiced regularly, SRI helps build new neural pathways. Teaching your brain and body how to be calm, present, and regulated. The more you practice, the more accessible that state
becomes.

What People Are Saying About SRI

"The SRI class completely changed how I handle stress at work. I actually used the breathing exercise before a big presentation and I couldn't believe how centered I felt. It sounds simple, but it's genuinely one of the most powerful things I've learned."

— K. M

"I came in feeling completely disconnected from my body after years of just pushing through everything. SRI helped me find my way back. I cry sometimes during class — but it's the good kind of release I didn't know I needed."

— B.SR

Classes taught at Vitality Wellness Center

Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) is an easy-to-learn series of body/breathing exercises that combines:

Touch
Breath
Gentle movement, and
Focused attention

…to increase mindfulness, relaxation and ease, while reducing stress, tension, and anxiety.

This breathing exercise, which is easy for all ages to practice, can be performed in a variety of settings – home, work, or school.

SRI reverses the “fight-or-flight” stress response and advances the healing process. When a person is stressed, the “fight or flight” mode of our nervous system is triggered.

In adults and children, this can cause:

Headaches
Restlessness
Anxiety
Difficulty focusing
Poor sleep, and
Digestive problems

Breathing techniques common to mindfulness help relax the body and mind, while increasing its ability to focus.

Somato Respiratory Integration:

Decreases defense and/or unconscious resistance
Assists you in locating where you store tension and ease
Improves posture and deep breathing
Provides a more flexible and integrated experience of the body and mind

These exercises may be performed in our office during your Network Care session, or they may be given to you to do at home. SRI will assist you in progressing through the NSA Levels of Care.

The exercises are easy to do for anyone of any age and may be comfortably performed just about anywhere.