# SomaGiri Journey Centre

> Family Constellation Therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa, facilitated by Gary Els. One-on-one and group constellations, a weekend retreat, a five-hour group celebration and a 12-month Awakening Pilgrimage. The work looks at how patterns, losses and loyalties within a family system may still shape someone's life, with structured preparation and integration around every session.

This `llms.txt` follows the [llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org/) convention so AI assistants and crawlers can locate canonical sources without parsing HTML. See [`/llms-full.txt`](https://somagiri.com/llms-full.txt) for the full markdown corpus.

## Core

- [Homepage](https://somagiri.com/): What SomaGiri is, who Gary is, all five offerings, the five-step process, and the FAQ.
- [Client stories](https://somagiri.com/testimonials): Thirteen first-person accounts from people who have done this work, including long-form Awakening Pilgrimage and addiction-recovery reflections.
- [Writing on healing](https://somagiri.com/blog/): Index of all seven essays on family constellations, trauma and the energy bodies.

## Offerings

- 1-on-1 Family Constellation - Explores hidden dynamics in your family system that may still be shaping your life. In individual work, small figures or markers stand in as representatives.
- Family Constellation Group Session - Participants stand as representatives in one another's constellations. Standing for someone else routinely surfaces your own material.
- Phoenix Awakening Retreat - Friday to Sunday residential weekend, maximum eight participants, including Family Constellation work, food and accommodation.
- Awakening Pilgrimage - Twelve-month guided journey for people ready to move past insight into lived change. Constellation work, somatic awareness, meditation and journalling.
- Phoenix Rejoicing - Five-hour group experience built around celebration, joy and reconnection to the body through music and movement.

## Writing

- [What Is Family Constellation Therapy? How It Works, With a Real Example](https://somagiri.com/blog/what-is-family-constellation-therapy): What the approach is, what happens in a session, who it is and is not for, and a real story from a 1-on-1 constellation.
- [My Personal Path on the Awakening Pilgrimage](https://somagiri.com/blog/my-path-on-the-awakening-pilgrimage): Gary's own reflection after eleven moons - what the group investigated, five things he learned, and what replaces trauma as a source of movement.
- [The Cocoon of My Transformation](https://somagiri.com/blog/the-cocoon-of-my-transformation): The butterfly's metamorphosis as a model for healing; the eight energy bodies as the container that makes release safe.
- [The Atom of My Trauma](https://somagiri.com/blog/the-atom-of-my-trauma): Trauma as something small and invisible carrying immense force across all eight energy bodies.
- [The Mother I Was Searching For](https://somagiri.com/blog/the-mother-i-was-searching-for): On the women who shaped Gary - grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, teacher - and a search that turned inward.
- [How SomaGiri Utilises Family Constellation Therapy](https://somagiri.com/blog/family-constellation-therapy): Constellation work as a central pillar rather than a standalone technique; the Orders of Love and ancestral pattern resolution.
- [What Family Constellations Reveal That Talk Therapy Can't](https://somagiri.com/blog/what-family-constellations-reveal): Hidden loyalties, generational entanglements, and material that lives below the reach of language.

## How the process works

1. Contact - a first conversation about what you are facing and whether there is an energetic fit.
2. Booking - an online call plus a short questionnaire, for safety and context.
3. Preparation - a few questions to reflect on before the session; you do not need to know your whole family history.
4. Family Constellation - working with generational patterns to bring clarity.
5. Integration - three touchpoints: immediately after, a follow-up call the next day, and another a week later.

## Common questions

- Fit: this work suits people willing to look honestly at their patterns; you do not need to arrive with everything figured out.
- Number of sessions: answered in the FAQ - it varies, and the site does not sell packages.
- Choosing a facilitator: the FAQ explains how to tell whether a facilitator is right for you.
- Aphantasia: people who do not see mental images can still do this work; experience arrives through the body, emotion or a sense of knowing.

## Technical

- [Sitemap](https://somagiri.com/sitemap.xml): Full URL list.
- [Robots](https://somagiri.com/robots.txt): Crawler directives.
- Location: 34B De La Rey Rd, Northcliff, Johannesburg, 2195, South Africa ([Google Maps](https://maps.google.com/?cid=1389483279267267851)). Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 17:00.
- Contact: the form on the homepage, or phone 082 888 6727 (+27 82 888 6727). No public email address is published.
- Facilitator: Gary Els, founder of SomaGiri Journey Centre.
- URLs are extensionless - `/testimonials`, not `/testimonials.html`.

## Out of scope (explicitly)

- SomaGiri is not a medical or psychiatric service and does not diagnose, prescribe or treat clinical conditions. Constellation work is not a replacement for medical, psychiatric or evidence-based psychological treatment.
- Constellation work is not used to establish whether an uncertain historical event actually occurred.
- No prices are published on the site. Cost is discussed in the first conversation.
- Sessions are held in person in South Africa.
- Testimonials are unedited first-person accounts and carry no ratings; nothing on the site claims a guaranteed outcome.