Somatic Therapy Training
The messages arrive, the dishes wait, somebody asks a perfectly reasonable question, and it feels like one request too many. Feeling overwhelmed does not always come with a dramatic story. Sometimes it arrives wearing the clothes of an ordinary Tuesday.…
Sometimes a practice asks you to feel more, go deeper or stay longer, when what you actually need is a smaller spoon. Titration in somatic work offers that smaller spoon: approach an experience in manageable pieces, with room to pause…
You may hear “notice your body” and immediately feel nothing much. Then comes the temptation to search harder, as though a sensation has slipped behind the sofa. Subtle body sensations rarely respond well to being hunted. A quieter question can…
An uncomfortable sensation can make your attention behave like a dog with a bone. The more you tell yourself not to look, the more you look. Pendulation offers a different option: notice something difficult for a brief moment, then notice…
You can be having a perfectly ordinary conversation and suddenly find that your words have packed a bag and left. Or perhaps you have more words than anyone requested, and every small noise feels sharp. The window of tolerance is…
Sometimes you cannot find the feeling everyone seems to expect you to have. A difficult event happens, or a busy week finally ends, and your inner weather report is simply: blank. Emotional numbness can be unsettling. It does not make…
When a room feels too loud or a conversation runs ahead of you, “just calm down” is not particularly useful. Somatic resourcing offers a gentler question: is there something, however small, that helps you feel a little more supported right…
A daily somatic practice sounds lovely until it meets an ordinary Tuesday. There is an inbox, a lost sock, perhaps a train to catch. If the plan only works when life is calm and spacious, it is not much of…
“Take a deep breath” is well-meant advice that can be surprisingly annoying when you are already doing your best. A breath awareness practice asks for something quieter: notice the breath you have, without making it deeper, slower or more impressive.…
Your heart beats, your pupils adjust and your digestive system carries on with its complicated work without asking you to manage each step. The autonomic nervous system helps coordinate many of these automatic functions. It also takes part in how…