Efu Nyaki - Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing

Efu Nyaki, a Trauma Healer. Efu's book, Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing: Ancestral Wisdom from the Snail Clan of Tanzania (Healing Arts Press, November 7, 2023), explains how the author came to develop her system by integrating ancestral tribal wisdom with a fusion of two Western healing systems: Somatic Experiencing and Systemic Family Constellations Therapy. The journey to healing trauma is not always straightforward. As Efu Nyaki reveals in detail, the healing process is a complex ritual of energy movement on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Born and raised on Mount Kilimanjaro’s slopes in Tanzania, East Africa, Efu explains how she came to develop her profoundly successful system for helping people heal trauma by integrating ancestral tribal wisdom with a fusion of two Western healing systems: Somatic Experiencing and Systemic Family Constellations Therapy. She shares how her journey to become a healer was initiated by her grandfather, who told her the legend of the sacred healing snail of the Nyaki clan. She explains how she discovered Somatic Experiencing and Systemic Family Constellations Therapy and how combining these therapies created a powerful system for releasing cellular memories and healing the intergenerational and collective traumas hidden beneath the surface of suffering. Sharing stories from her healing work around the world, she presents action steps—such as meditations, breathwork, and creating a family tree—that readers can take immediately to regulate their nervous systems, deepen their awareness, and engage the personal healing process. Demonstrating how trauma survivors can transform their suffering into vibrant wholeness, the author shows how healing trauma is the result of bringing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of our lives into an integrated coherence. Interview Questions for Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki: 1.In writing your book, what lead you to choose Somatic experience (SE) as a main modality for trauma resolution? 2. You also came to use Family constellation system therapy ( FCST) as a modality that works symbiotically with SE, how did you get to this conclusion? 3. You have talked about depression as a fairly new and modern disease, can you speak more about this? 4. Is depression influenced by cultural values? 5. In your book you spoke extensively about the orders of love as one of the most important aspect of human life. Can you please say more about it? 6. How do the orders of love influence someone's spirituality? 7. In the chapter that you talked about sexuality, you mentioned that sexuality is part of the trans generation transmission pattern. Please speak a little more about it. 8. How can readers learn more about your trainings? 9. Many people speak of the online sessions or teaching being a difficulty and limited process of healing. In your book you mentioned how this has been possible for you and the process of healing trauma. Please say more about it. 10. Is there anything else that you feel like you wish to speak to that was not exposed enough in your book - May be this will be your in second book. About the Author: Efu Nyaki is a healer born and raised in Tanzania who works internationally facilitating trainings and workshops on trauma healing as well as conducting individual and group sessions on trauma healing both in person and online. The cofounder of AFYA, a women’s holistic healing center in Brazil, she is a faculty member at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and a professor of Systemic Family Constellations Therapy at the Hellinger Science Institute.