What is somatics?

Somatics is a returning home to our body as the site of wisdom, resilience, and transformation.

It teaches that our muscles, bones, and breath carry the maps of where we’ve been; our nervous systems, emotional learnings, and movement patterns hold our personal, cultural and collective histories.

By coming into deeper relationship with our embodied patterns, somatics supports the reshaping of habitual responses into intentional ones. With practice we can develop greater agency, dignity, connection, aliveness and alignment with our values.

Somatics states that we are what we practice most often (staci haines).

It gives us the opportunity to notice what we have been regularly enacting, and invites us into ongoing, unfolding, intentionality around what we want to choose now.

It is the slow, steady practice of becoming.

Some somatic contemplations:

What am I consistently practicing with regularity and rhythm that nourishes my sense of aliveness?

• How can I embody more self-trust in my daily life?

• In what ways might I be enacting limiting systemic thinking within my own body?

• What small shifts might align me with my ideological, theoretical, and intellectual desires for myself and my communities?