“Somatic Expression is inclusive and accessible, so people of all body types and from all backgrounds can participate."

The Benefits of Somatic Expression

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In Somatic Expression you become more literate as a soma - a "thinking body". You learn practical tools and creative strategies to manage the stresses, strains and challenges of living in a body. You become much more at home in your own skin as you are oriented to the lay of the land.

Once you have learned the practices, you don’t need equipment, a class, or a teacher. You can practice whenever you want in your own time as your body is always with you. These collaborations with your soma help you compassionately transform negative states of lethargy, anxiety, pain, and distress into positive states of balance, pleasure and well-being.

This is movement as medicine. You learn to nurture your nature and master your own body. Somatic practices help generate more personal self-sufficiency, so you can charge up and chill out at will! You are able to:

- lower your blood pressure
- stabilize your balance
- breathe fully and deeply
- move with ease and grace
- decrease your stress
- increase your energy
- ease your aches and pains
- calm yourself

The conversations you can have with your body through its own sensory intelligence - proprioception - can help you feel more secure in your own skin and stable on your own two feet. You literally discover the strength of your backbone and the support of the ground. "Being centered" becomes more of a physical reality and less of a conceptual idea.

Through the five somatic languages of breath, vocalization, contact, movement, and stillness, you open the door to a much more lively relationship with your own being. As one client said, "there is much more grace and fun in life than I imagined".

See the article Somatic Expression to learn more about this work.

Supporting movement in a Somatic Expression session

“Thank you! You seemed to effortlessly distill the essence of what was internally going on, help me name it, and then gave me tools to attend to where I am at right now. I'm feeling much gratitude for the awareness, for the suggested methods of leaving my self imposed dark tunnel, as well as your ever-ready permission and support.” Ann K, massage therapist