Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy connects mind and body, releasing tension and trauma through techniques like work, fostering personal growth.
What is Somatic Therapy?
This isn’t therapy; it’s liberation. Your invitation to check in every day and simply ask, What does my body want right now?
Somatic therapy is an experiential body-based modality. When we suppress emotions or go through traumatic experiences, the body holds onto them, which can create; pain and tension in the body, an inability to express emotions, and can keep us trapped in repetitive patterns or reactive responses.
Working directly with the body means bringing acute awareness to your physical sensations as challenging or pleasurable feelings arise, as well as tracking your nervous system responses so that when; your boundary has been crossed, your capacity is reaching its limit, or someone simply triggers you - you feel your body’s signals and know how to deactivate before reacting in the moment.
With practical exercises such as mindful breathwork, intentional movement, posture awareness, and experiential role-play scenarios, guided visualisations, consensual touch you will learn to understand and read your body’s emotional and physical landscape, regulate your nervous system and uncover your limiting beliefs, as well as, your deeper desires. This body-focused approach is not only a fast and effective way of rewiring unhelpful patterns, by releasing stored tension you open your receptivity to more pleasure, resilience, and genuine intimacy.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
Talking therapy
vs Somatic therapy
Traditional talk therapy has its place, but sometimes words are not enough. Maybe, (like me), you felt that therapy in the past didn’t reach the core of the issue and you yearn for deeper change. Somatic practices are practical and embodied, where the healing quite literally happens from the inside: out.
In a world where so many of us carry wounds of trauma, disconnection, or shame in our bodies, this modality is liberating. It challenges conventions that therapy must be stoic or solely cognitive and instead invites you into direct, gentle connection with your body’s lived experience, intuition, and emotional landscape so that you practice the changes you want, right from the start.
