Somatics
You are a soma. Your soma is self-regulating, self-monitoring, self-assessing, self-correcting, self-renewing and ultimately self-healing
What is Somatics?
Think of somatics as a big, beautiful oak tree. Its expansive branches include any movement practice through which you get to know yourself from the inside out. The branches that I know intimately are Hanna Somatic Education, Body-Mind Centering, and the yoga lineage of Donna Farhi. Other somatic modalities include tai chi, continuum, somatic experiencing and all meditation practices.
Imagine feeling open, relaxed and free in your body. What would it be like to be able to release tension and ease pain yourself wherever and whenever you want?
As Thomas Hanna says, if you can sense it and feel it you can change it.
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What Can somatics do for me?
Somatics offers a practical tool-kit for physical and emotional resilience, freedom in the breath and calm in the mind. On a physical level, it’s used to treat a range of conditions like lower back, neck, hip, jaw, pelvic and knee pain. It helps re-pattern hyper-kyphosis and scoliosis, and is used to heal sports injuries and postural problems. It also addresses sciatica, pelvic floor issues, repetitive strain and many more conditions.
Somatic exercises can be seamlessly incorporated into yoga, pilates, physio and physical therapy. They can transform dance, running, swimming and all sports. I have also taught GPs, psychotherapists, physical trainers, osteopaths, meditation teachers, massage therapists and movement professionals from all walks of life.
Why should i study Somatics
Somatics offers a practical tool-kit for physical and emotional resilience, freedom in the breath and calm in the mind. On a physical level, it’s used to treat a range of conditions like lower back, neck, hip, jaw, pelvic and knee pain. It helps re-pattern hyper-kyphosis and scoliosis, and is used to heal sports injuries and postural problems. It also addresses sciatica, pelvic floor issues, repetitive strain and many more conditions.
Somatic exercises can be seamlessly incorporated into yoga, pilates, physio and physical therapy. They can transform dance, running, swimming and all sports. I have also taught GPs, psychotherapists, physical trainers, osteopaths, meditation teachers, massage therapists and movement professionals from all walks of life.
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Somatic Teacher Training
Next UK/IRISH Training starts early 2026
Understand your body-mind connection, transform the way you move and revolutionise the way you work
A 10.5 day training diving for movement, healthcare and therapy professionals to learn to teach somatic practices that empower others to heal, reconnect, and thrive through mindful movement and embodied awareness.
what people say
I have found great healing in the practice. The somatics journey has a way of revealing and unpacking the body. Emotions - and other things that I was avoiding, resisting or not even aware of - bubbled up into my awareness. Dealing with these old issues makes more space for new life experiences. I am so grateful to have learned these simple somatic exercises.’
Claire Rickard, Yoga Teacher, UK
I am very grateful for the opportunity to study Somatics and experience myself in a whole new dimension. I am very inspired to see Lisa and her team living and breathing devotion for this work! We need more practitioners like that!’
Ingrid Zygute, Dancer, Ireland
I can honestly say that of all the teacher trainings and CPD I have done in my career, I have never completed a course feeling so thoroughly prepared to go out and share the material. Lisa encourages you to inquire, to get curious, not to accept at face value any external direction without trying it on for size in your own soma. What I love about Lisa's teaching is the sense of cross-pollination, the obvious passion she has not only for movement but for all shapes of creativity, and how so many threads are artfully woven together to form a rich practice. And it must be said that the course wouldn't have been the same without the fabulous teaching assistants, who provided such care and attention throughout the training days. The Somatic Exercise Coach certificate is one I am truly proud to have received, because the rigour with which the course is designed required me to really earn it on a deep level.
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
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Somatics is about opening up possibilities. Witnessing my students’ experiences over the past two decades moves me to joy, to tears and to deep humbling gratitude. The combination of the depth and simplicity of the practice is truly unique and key to its success.
Lisa Petersen