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Meet Your Facilitators:
The Heart Behind SomaYama® BREATH
We are Norm and Toni Poulsen, a husband-and-wife duo deeply proud to call the Treasure Valley home. As facilitators, we bring a unique "yin and yang" dynamic to our practice. Norm brings a steady, grounded resilience born from an 11+ year journey of continuous sobriety, while Toni offers a nurturing, intuitive presence. Together, we provide a balanced container of masculine and feminine energy, helping our clients feel deeply safe, supported, and seen.
Our path into this work began in the trenches of our own healing, where we discovered firsthand that you can only "talk" or "think" your way through so much before you hit a wall. Certified directly under Steven Jaggers, the founder of Somatic Breathwork™, we bring this authentic, science-backed lifeline to Idaho to help our community move from a state of survival into a life of embodied thriving.
From Physical Grit to Biological Calm: SomaYama® BREATH at MetFix Boise
You push your limits on the gym floor. You optimize your nutrition, lift heavy, and condition your heart to build a body that is functionally fit over a lifetime.
But true metabolic health isn't just about how well you fire up your mitochondria during a grueling workout—it’s also about how effectively you can turn the stress response off.
If you are constantly running on high alert, your body keeps the score. You can’t fully optimize your metabolism if your nervous system is stuck in survival mode. That is why SomaYama® BREATH is partnering with MetFix Boise to bring you a powerful, bottom-up approach to total-body recovery.
METFIT Boise is opening their doors to the general public, our community, and the MetFix crew for a completely free interactive session designed to bridge the gap between physical grit and deep, biological calm. Stop thinking your way to calm and start breathing your way there.
🗓️ Make It a Complete Night of Health (Double Free Session!):
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5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | MetFix Cardio & Conditioning Class (Optional & FREE) Come early and experience a powerful combination of weightlifting and metabolic conditioning ("cardio"). MetFix Boise is graciously offering this regular class to our breathwork attendees for free! Fire up your metabolism and experience what their incredible program is all about before transitioning into recovery. 👉 [Click Here to Register for the Free 5:30 PM MetFix Class]
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6:45 PM – 7:45 PM | SomaYama Informative Session & Free Shortened Breathwork Journey Right after the fitness class, we will gather for an informative breakdown of somatic work followed by a free, high-impact introductory breathwork session. Discharge the physical and emotional stress right on the floor, anchoring your nervous system into total recovery.
Who is MetFix Boise?
We love partnering with local experts who understand that health is a lifelong journey. MetFix is a specialized Nutrition and Strength and Conditioning program designed to help anyone become more Metabolically Healthy and Functionally Fit over a Lifetime.
They are in the exact same business we are, just from a different angle: the care and feeding of the Mitochondria. While they help fix and optimize your metabolism through elite physical training and nutrition, we step in right afterward to optimize your healing via the nervous system. Together, it is the ultimate health and recovery package.
Why Somatic Breathwork Belongs in Your Training Routine
While traditional training builds your physical resilience, somatic breathwork builds your nervous system resilience. When you step off the gym floor and into our supportive environment, we handle the biological calm:
1. Optimize Your Recovery (The Ultimate Physiological Reset)
True metabolic health requires a dynamic balance between physical activation and deep relaxation. By utilizing deep diaphragmatic breathing, we intentionally activate the vagus nerve. This builds your vagal tone, triggering a biological calm that shifts your body out of chronic stress and into a state of optimal recovery and cellular repair.
2. A "Bottom-Up" Approach to Reclaiming Power
Our bodies keep the score, holding onto stress, trauma, and day-to-day survival fog that our minds have already tried to process. One hour of somatic breathwork can do more to release what is stuck than years of traditional talk therapy because it treats the body first (bottom-up) rather than the mind first (top-down). We clear the subconscious fog so you can stand on the shore with total clarity.
3. Discharge Stored Stress in a Safe, Protected Space
Intense training releases physical tension, but emotional weight stays trapped deep within our tissues. We completely trade sterile, clinical environments and "woo-woo" clichés for a cozy, supportive environment. You won't find hard, exposed gym floors during our session; instead, we build a comfortable setup filled with plush blankets and supportive layers—creating a sacred space where you are entirely safe, supported, and seen.
What the Treasure Valley Community Is Saying
"The environment Norm and Toni create is incredibly safe. I went from being entirely hesitant and skeptical to feeling an amazing, deep peace and connection. The heavy cloud lifted in a single session."
"Transformational and liberating. It’s an incredible tool for reclaiming your power when your mind is too tired to keep fighting the battle of willpower."
Ready to Move the Needle on Your Healing?
Spaces for this free community event are limited to ensure a comfortable setup and personal sacred space for everyone.