Somatic Therapy Training
Feeling disconnected from yourself or your surroundings can be unsettling. Advice to “get back into your body” may add pressure without explaining what you can actually do. Grounding around dissociation can begin with something outside you: a familiar object, a…
Before an important conversation, you may feel more alert. When a problem appears, your attention may sharpen and you begin deciding what to do. That response is not automatically an error to remove. A healthy stress response is not a…
You stop working, but a part of you immediately wants to make the pause useful. Perhaps you should stretch, breathe correctly or listen to an improving podcast. Rest acquires a task list before it has even sat down. A somatic…
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:…