Learning to listen to our bodily sensations can lead us to a wellspring of self-trust, health, connection and joy thereby alleviating unnecessary suffering and helping us tune-in to what is natural and life affirming. In this way – integrating sensing, feeling and action – we can more fully align our actions with our deepest values.

One way in which somatic practice is profoundly life-enhancing is when applied to the current epidemic of stress and burnout which shows itself in a wide range of conditions such as high blood pressure, tension, anxiety and panic attacks.

By bringing awareness to our direct felt sense (somatic) we can facilitate a conversation that tells our body it is safe enough. In turn, our body will communicate information that can lead to a harmonious connection with ourselves and with the world around us.

Somatic Health offers a complement to the more cognitive-based addiction therapies with their emphasis on reprogramming thinking. That approach has its merits, but ignoring or sidelining the body can fall short of uncovering the healing that the body is trying to move towards.

It’s all about connection – not just removing the drugs, but recovering a spontaneous, natural and wider connection with self and environment.

I am a member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) which represents the wider field of which Somatic Health is a part. Somatic movement and awareness is all about enhancing human function and body-mind integration, facilitating increased vitality and performance, and expanding creative expression. It’s also concerned with how to integrate learning with personal transformation. 

In my work, informed by these approaches, I guide individuals and groups into an inner experience of their bodies, deepening clients’ understanding of themselves in motion.

Group workshops for anyone interested in beginning to connect and more deeply connect with the sensory language of their body. For stabilisation, rest, vitality and resilience from burnout and overwhelm. Offered as an introductory session and follow-on course of eight, two-hour workshops. Also as short, responsive sessions outside of regular workshop spaces.

Recovering Connection for groups in recovery from all kinds of addiction. To safely meet the challenges and thrive within a community of practice. Offered as an introductory session with follow-on course of eight, two-hour workshops.

Group workshops growing your experiential realisation of the body as a direct experience of the natural world.

Led by you, the client, these ninety-minute one-to-one sessions invite a collaboration where the client and facilitator work creatively together in awakening awareness of the human body.

For those wanting to explore a vision of their future by connecting to their somatic felt sense – that is intrinsically trusted, meaningful and clear to the body itself. Exploring the link between embodiment, awareness, and social systems. Half-day group workshops.

For those looking to expand their physical, creative and communicative expression through playful and meaningful dance improvisation and contact improvisation sessions (we will be clear about invitations to engage in physical contact in our course descriptions). Sessions for adults and children. Offered as an introductory session with follow-on course of four more indoor group workshops. Also offered as one-day workshops and outdoor workshops.