The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of somatic-focused group psychotherapy on the survivors’ relaxation states, chronic pain cognition, and body awareness from Gwangju 5.18 democratic movements. The participants consisted of 5 survivors from 5.18 who are using Gwangju Trauma Center and living in Gwangju. This study was conducted for 11 weeks as a single subject group from Sep. 1st to Dec. 1st, 2015 (once a week, for 90minutes). The effect was measured through Smith’s Relaxation States Inventory, Pain Catastrophizing Scale, and Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skill and analyzed by Wilcoxon signed rank test. This study presents significant result on the relaxation states and body awareness. This has shown that somatic-focused group psychotherapy is effective for stimulate parasympathetic of survivors who have psychological trauma, so lower their tension, raise relaxed response, and promote body awareness. Lastly, we discussed about the limitation and direction of the further research.