What is Somatic Therapy?

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Somatic (or body oriented) Therapy is a form of therapy that encourages awareness of the relationship between body and mind.

 

The main goal of Somatic Therapy is to support clients in attuning to the self-healing within their own bodies.

 

Through developing this body mind awareness, clients begin to experience more aliveness and creativity within themselves, enhancing the ability to self-regulate and be in nourishing relationship with others.

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Therapy sessions typically involve the client tracking her or his experience of sensations throughout the body, and where appropriate include working with breath, movement, sound, and healing touch.

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An awareness of the client as a whole interconnected being is held by the therapist so whatever arises is met with a sense of ‘warm hearted curiosity’ as the basis of enquiry into the nature of suffering and well-being.

 

Skills that Somatic practitioners have trained in and can offer:

 

• Talking therapy, anchored in sensation and embodied presence

• Tracking body sensations and facilitating movement

• Mindfulness and deep listening

• Authentic movement as an embodied awareness practice

• A neuro-biological approach to resolving trauma

• Art: Guided creative process and expression

• Touch and hands-on techniques drawn from BodyMind Centering and Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy

 

Somatic Movement Therapist and Educators may offer any or all of the following: individual therapy, group therapy, classes, courses and workshops. Practitioners work with adults, adolescents and/or younger children and babies.

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Every practitioner brings their own skills, experiences and interests into their work, thus influencing a particular and unique way of working in the somatic therapy and education field.