What Are Somatic practices?

Somatic practices are an essential part of connecting with the body.

For example:
When you feel stressed — where do you feel it?
Is it deep or surface-level? Tight or heavy?

By tuning into these sensations, we quiet the mind and begin to understand what’s really happening within. These practices builds our ability to introspect.

What is introspection?

The ability to witness what is happening inside our bodies, whilst it is happening. Introspection is a fundamental key to healing trauma.

Why?

It allows us to no longer be driven by these imprinted habituations.

We all have imprinted habituations from trauma or cultural conditioning. Imprints from trauma, of feelings like fear, despair and confusion, are particularly strong.

Through our interoceptive capacity we stop being driven by the trauma. We can feel what is happening in the body, and make conscious choices about how we meet those feelings.

We can decide how we hold it, what stories we do or don’t attach to it. Whether we feed it, repress it or let it be as it is.

It gives us back the power and choice we lost during trauma.