What are somatic practices?
Simple, human explanation of what somatic practices are, and why so many people find them life-changing.
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“Somatic” just means of the body.
Somatic practices are methods that help you tune in to what’s happening in your body—sensations, tension, breath, posture—and use that awareness to shift how you feel and how you respond to stress.
In everyday language?
They help you get out of your overwhelmed head and back into the part of you that actually knows how to calm down: your body.
Somatic practices are methods that help you tune in to what’s happening in your body—sensations, tension, breath, posture—and use that awareness to shift how you feel and how you respond to stress.
In everyday language?
They help you get out of your overwhelmed head and back into the part of you that actually knows how to calm down: your body.
This could look like:
- Slowing your breathing
- Noticing where you’re tight and softening
- Grounding your feet before a difficult meeting
- Moving in a way that signals “I’m safe”
- Or learning to catch your early stress signals before the crash happens
Nothing mystical. Just practical, trainable skills.
Why do somatic practices work?
If you’re burned out, you probably already know that “thinking your way out of stress” doesn’t work.
Your brain tries to solve stress like a puzzle… but burnout isn’t a puzzle—it's a physiological state.
Here’s why body-based approaches help:
1. Your nervous system speaks “body language.”
Your posture, breath, muscle tone, and movement patterns constantly tell your brain whether you’re safe or under threat.
When you shift the body, the nervous system shifts with it.
Slow the breath → heart rate calms.
Unclench your jaw → brain gets “we’re okay.”
Stand upright → more confidence, more capacity.
2. Stress accumulates in the body.
Burnout isn’t just exhaustion—it’s tension, bracing, shallow breathing, and a kind of “frozen” internal speed.
Somatic work releases that load physically, not just mentally.
3. The body helps you spot early warning signs.
Most people only notice burnout when they're already collapsing.
Somatic awareness helps you feel the first signs—tight chest, shallow breath, restless legs, collapsed posture—before your body forces you to stop.
4. Embodiment creates real, lasting change.
Insights are nice (“I should relax more”), but the body learns through doing.
Repeating small, embodied practices rewires your responses over time. You don’t just know how to handle stress—you feel it in your bones.
Your brain tries to solve stress like a puzzle… but burnout isn’t a puzzle—it's a physiological state.
Here’s why body-based approaches help:
1. Your nervous system speaks “body language.”
Your posture, breath, muscle tone, and movement patterns constantly tell your brain whether you’re safe or under threat.
When you shift the body, the nervous system shifts with it.
Slow the breath → heart rate calms.
Unclench your jaw → brain gets “we’re okay.”
Stand upright → more confidence, more capacity.
2. Stress accumulates in the body.
Burnout isn’t just exhaustion—it’s tension, bracing, shallow breathing, and a kind of “frozen” internal speed.
Somatic work releases that load physically, not just mentally.
3. The body helps you spot early warning signs.
Most people only notice burnout when they're already collapsing.
Somatic awareness helps you feel the first signs—tight chest, shallow breath, restless legs, collapsed posture—before your body forces you to stop.
4. Embodiment creates real, lasting change.
Insights are nice (“I should relax more”), but the body learns through doing.
Repeating small, embodied practices rewires your responses over time. You don’t just know how to handle stress—you feel it in your bones.
What this means for you
If you’re burned out, the last thing you need is more theory, more overthinking, or more pressure to “fix yourself.”
To work with somatic tools, you don’t need to be flexible. You don’t need to sit on a cushion in perfect silence. You don’t need to be “good at it.”
You just need a body—which you already have.
To work with somatic tools, you don’t need to be flexible. You don’t need to sit on a cushion in perfect silence. You don’t need to be “good at it.”
You just need a body—which you already have.
Somatic work gives you:
- Simple tools you can use immediately
- A way to reset your system without force
- A path back to feeling like a human again—present, connected, capable
A tiny practice you can try right now
- Put your feet flat on the floor.
- Exhale a little longer than you inhale—just once or twice.
- Feel the weight of your hips or feet supporting you.
- Let your shoulders drop 2 millimetres.
Notice how even this small shift changes something inside.
That’s somatic work: small, doable, real.
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