You are a soma. Your soma is self-regulating, self-monitoring, self-assessing, self-correcting, self-renewing and ultimately self-healing.
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.
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.
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.