Somatic Therapy Training
Someone arrives, and the room already has a pace. You can rush to fill it with instructions, or make enough space to find out what they need. Facilitator presence is a practical quality of attention: being available to the person,…
You sit down to write about a feeling and produce three pages about what you should have said. The body itself barely gets a sentence. Somatic journalling offers another starting point: a plain record of what you noticed, the situation…
The day is over, but you are still answering it. A conversation is running again in your head. Your hands keep finding the phone. Even your shoulders seem to be waiting for the next notification. A somatic evening routine for…
A mistake happens, or someone speaks to you in a way that lands badly. Then the sentence becomes much larger than the event: “There is something wrong with me.” Shame can make a moment feel like a verdict on your…
You reach the end of a task and discover that you have been leaning towards the screen as though the answer is hiding inside it. Or you notice that the chair has a back, and you have spent twenty minutes…
The vagus nerve is real. Many of the promises attached to its name need a little more inspection. A useful guide to vagus nerve facts and myths starts with anatomy, then separates that anatomy from claims about an everyday exercise.…
The vagus nerve has become rather famous. An everyday pause can now arrive online with the promise of changing an entire nervous system in sixty seconds. If you are looking for gentle vagus nerve exercises, begin with a useful distinction:…
The page will not load. The person has interrupted you again. The task that should have taken ten minutes has acquired its own postcode. Frustration often arrives when something gets in the way of what you are trying to do.…
Sometimes noticing your breathing is helpful. Sometimes it makes you watch every inhale as though it is sitting an exam. On those days, a chair, a colour or a sound may be a more workable place for attention. A breath…
A participant folds their arms. It is tempting to decide they are guarded. Then they mention the room is cold. Reading body language in somatic facilitation is most useful when it means noticing visible changes and checking what the person…