Soma is the Greek root for Body.  Somatic Work connects the body’s inner knowing to the mind and soul. 

Our bodies experience life with a deep initial perception that our minds translate into what the mind experiences.  For example…you hear a loud bang and your body responds by contracting, cowering, tightening.  Your heart beats faster, your breath rate increases, and you start feeling hot.  Your nerves, receptors, skin, and systems all react.  A moment later, your mind connects the pieces, and you realize a ball just cracked a window nearby.   The desired response is that the energy conjured will continue its response cycle and dissipate leaving you feeling as you were before the loud bang.  But often, our minds start developing stories and asking questions or we get distracted and push the arousal state to the side so our bodies are left in the tense state.  This tension adds up over time and we become rigid and stuck which may cause chronic pain and various symptoms and syndromes. 

In somatic work, we can tap into those sensations, name them with a feeling or emotion, identify a memory, image, or experience that validates the sensation.  We notice what happens inside our bodies when we can do this.  Often you allow the energy to move and flow and a beautiful shift occurs.  We are able to release stuck patterns and we create space and capacity to allow the flow of more abundance to ripple through our bodies.