EMBODY SOMATICS

If you're here, you've likely started to feel that the distinction between working with 'the body' and working with the soma isn't just philosophical – it's the difference between shifts that fade and change that holds.

Perhaps you’ve sensed that something in contemporary somatic work doesn’t quite add up – that sessions can be careful, meaningful, and valuable, yet shifts don’t always hold as you’d expect.

EMBODY Somatics is a small-group, depth-oriented programme for practitioners who want to work with the soma more fully in their practice.

Many experienced somatic practitioners – therapists, movement practitioners, bodyworkers, coaches, or educators trained in one or more somatic approaches – reach a point where something in their work begins to feel only partially articulated.

Often the question is not about skill or commitment, but about how different strands of somatic work relate to one another in practice.

Regulation may settle a session without leading to deeper change. Neuromuscular work may shift physical patterns without fully integrating emotional experience.

The nervous system is part of the soma – but the soma is more than the nervous system.

The soma is not an object we work on, but a living process through which experience, movement, and meaning continuously form.

And this programme explores the territory where those strands of somatic work meet.

Grounded in Clinical Somatic Education and informed by neuroscience and felt sense work, the programme doesn’t provide an add-on training or a toolbox of techniques to bolt onto your practice. It’s a way of working with the soma as a living, learning system – so change becomes fluid, resilient, and ultimately self-sustaining.

Sitting at the intersection of several strands of somatic practice, it brings together insights from Clinical Somatic Education, trauma-informed somatic therapy, and experiential approaches such as Focusing – while centring the broader concept of the soma as the whole embodied person, a living process.

Rather than privileging nervous-system regulation or neuromuscular change alone, the programme explores how these processes participate in the wider shaping of experience within the soma as learning unfolds.

It’s particularly suited to practitioners who already have substantial experience in somatic work – therapeutic or movement-based – or deep expertise in a related field with a strong interest in Somatics.

Depth requires space. EMBODY runs as an ongoing small group, with 3–5 new practitioners joining each month, so the work remains personal, responsive, and genuinely relational.

THE PROBLEM

You’ve invested in somatic training. You believe deeply in this work.

Your clients engage. They regulate. Shifts do happen.

But the shifts don’t always last.

Patterns reassert themselves. Physical symptoms persist. Emotional loops return. By the next session, you’re revisiting familiar ground.

You know it’s not a lack of skill or care. And yet somewhere between sessions, the client’s system settles back into familiar patterns.

You’re left wondering: What would allow this to go deeper – and hold?

Many contemporary somatic trainings frame the work as engaging ‘the body’ – often in contrast to talk-based approaches. Regulation and sensation tracking become central.

These capacities are essential.

But when the body is treated as something to work on, rather than the soma understood as a living, learning process, the orientation subtly shifts.

Somatic work is not about managing a body.

It is about engaging a soma – a living, sensing, moving, learning system.

And that requires more than techniques. It requires thinking somatically.

Lasting change rarely comes from regulation alone. It comes from learning.

When that understanding is missing, somatic work easily becomes technique-led rather than philosophy-led.

And when that happens, certain dimensions of the soma are easily sidelined – particularly the structured understanding of neuromuscular stress patterns and how learning-based movement participates in change.

This creates a structural gap in practice.

Not because you lack a tool. But because the underlying understanding of what a person is – somatically – has narrowed.

That’s the gap EMBODY addresses.

THE SOLUTION

EMBODY Somatics is built on three interdependent foundations.

These are not techniques layered onto each other, but dimensions of somatic work that must function together to create lasting change.

1. Pandiculation as Neuromuscular Learning

When somatic work is understood philosophically as engaging the soma – not managing the ‘body’ – the neuromuscular dimension naturally comes back into view.

Most contemporary trainings emphasise regulation and sensation tracking. These capacities are essential, and also foundational. But without a structured understanding of how learning-based movement participates in change, and an understanding of neuromuscular stress patterns, regulation is often asked to do more than it can sustain.

In EMBODY, you’ll learn what pandiculation actually is (and what it’s not), how it engages the neuromuscular system as a crucial part of the nervous system, and how to guide foundational movement explorations safely and appropriately.

The aim is never to fix or force change.

It’s to help clients ease out of stuck patterns through neuromuscular learning of new movement options – so shifts can unfold in the soma and carry forward beyond the session.

Movement becomes learning, not intervention. You become a guide within a learning process – not someone applying techniques to something treated as distinct from the whole person.

And importantly, this begins in your own soma.

As you experience this work yourself, you’ll develop the embodied reference point that allows you to guide clients with quiet confidence – knowing exactly what you’re inviting them towards, because you’ve lived it.

Many practitioners find that this work also addresses the accumulated tensions of clinical work itself – the bracing, the held attention, the fatigue of long days in the chair.

2. Felt Sense as Self-Learning

Sensing is essential – but sensing alone does not guarantee integration, completion, or lasting change.

EMBODY locates felt sense work as allowing a structured form of self-learning, drawing on its original understanding as more than sensation – as an initially unclear sense of ‘something’ that carries meaning, context, and embodied knowing.

Clients are not simply asked to notice what is happening. They are supported to learn from it, in ways that respect timing, capacity, and agency.

This gives you – and your clients – something to do with all that sensing and tracking work.

A practical pathway towards what many trainings call ‘completion’, but rarely make concrete in clinical work. You’ll learn to recognise the full-body stress patterns and somatic dynamics that can prevent a response from resolving – and how those same patterns, once understood, can guide it forward. In this way, sensing and tracking emerge as elements within an unfolding learning process – necessary, but not sufficient on their own

Clients shift from passive observers of their sensations to active participants in their own regulation.

Agency develops. Regulation deepens. Change carries forward between and beyond sessions.

3. Integration in Live Practice

Somatic work is not sensing plus movement plus reflection.

It is the ongoing integration of self-sensing, self-moving, and self-learning within the living system of the soma.

Inside EMBODY, this integration is explored directly through:

• Live case discussion

• Experiential sessions in your own soma

• Careful integration with your existing modality and client work – guided by your clinical judgement, not imposed as a formula

This is not about replacing what you already do.

It is about working with the soma more fully – so regulation holds longer, movement informs awareness, and learning supports meaningful, sustainable change.

THE RESULTS

When you complete EMBODY Somatics, here’s what can shift:

For your clients:

• Clients move from sensing their experience to responding to it – developing greater agency in their own regulation

• Physical and emotional patterns soften more sustainably, with clearer pathways for addressing them when they re-emerge

• The often-elusive idea of ‘completion’ becomes more practical and embodied

• Shifts no longer rely as heavily on in-session regulation – they begin to carry forward between sessions, deepening and rippling out into clients’ lived experience in ways they notice and can sustain

For you:

• You feel more grounded, present, and at ease in your own soma – especially during long client days

• You recognise and work with neuromuscular stress patterns with clarity and confidence

• You can offer movement explorations that help shifts unfold and complete – not just arise involuntarily (without ever dismissing those involuntary responses)

• Your clinical thinking becomes more coherent, integrated, and philosophically grounded

The bottom line:

Change no longer depends so heavily on what happens inside a single session. It can better develop, embed, and continue between and beyond sessions.

You feel more embodied, confident, and effective in your work.

HOW WE’LL WORK TOGETHER

For four months, we’ll work together in live sessions within a small, ongoing group that welcomes a maximum of 5 new practitioners per month. You’ll have 12 months’ access to all recorded materials, so the learning can continue to settle and integrate long after our live time together.

Weekly Group Calls (3 per month)

• Focused discussion of course material and live clinical questions.

• Time for case consultation, reflection, and practical problem-solving within a small, responsive group.

1:1 Support

• Two individual 30-minute sessions (one in your first two months, one in your final month), in addition to group live call support and individual written feedback to milestone reflections.

Recorded Lessons (core component)

• Concise video and audio lessons covering core somatic philosophy, neuromuscular learning, felt sense work, and clinical integration.

• Interactive elements and milestone reflections allow you to translate learning directly into practice, with personalised feedback.

28 Somatic Steps (foundational practice)

• We begin with the 28 Somatic Steps.

• You’ll start this course within your first few weeks in the programme, so the work in EMBODY is grounded in your own lived experience.

• Through regular somatic sensing, movement, and learning practices, you develop a direct understanding of stress reflex patterns, regulation, and neuromuscular learning – not as theory, but as embodied process.

• This is how the philosophical foundations of EMBODY become real in your own soma.

  It deepens your personal resilience, clarifies your clinical thinking, and gives you a grounded reference point for guiding clients safely and appropriately.

  Because EMBODY does not begin with what you do for clients.

  It begins with how you experience your own soma.

Somatic Sensing & Movement Sessions (2 per month)

• Experiential sessions in your own soma to deepen embodied understanding of stress reflex patterns and learning-based movement.

• These sessions build your lived reference point for working with clients.

Annotated Bibliography

• Optional readings across Clinical Somatic Education, felt sense work, neuroscience, philosophy, and related embodied therapies – for those who wish to ground their practice more deeply.

This is for you if:

• You’re an SEP, somatic psychotherapist, somatic educator or other therapist or coach who incorporates somatic practices – and you’re actively working with clients (or in training to do so)

• You’re confident in your model and see its benefits in your clients, but want those benefits to last longer, rather than stay temporary

• You’ve done multiple trainings and courses but haven’t found the personalised approach you need to make sense of your practice, somatically

• You’re willing to do somatic work in your own soma as part of this learning

• You’re ready to go deeper than techniques to develop true embodied understanding

This is NOT for you if:

• You’re looking for a quick-fix certification, another modality, or yet another ‘tool’ for your toolbox

• You’re not willing to experience this work in your own body first, and continue to have a personal Somatics practice

• You don’t currently work with clients (or aren’t in training to do so) 

Investment & Founding Phase Pricing

EMBODY is an investment in how you think somatically — and in the depth and durability of the change your clients experience.

• $1,200 (Founding Phase: $900) or £900 (Founding Phase: £675)

• Founding phase pricing reflects the early stage of this format and the collaborative nature of the first groups of practitioners. I envisage this pricing will run to the end of March 2026.

How EMBODY Fits With Your Existing Training

EMBODY Somatics is not a replacement for the modalities you’ve trained in.

It offers a philosophical and practical foundation for understanding how those modalities function within a truly somatic framework.

Grounded in the practical philosophy of Clinical Somatic Education as developed by Thomas Hanna, EMBODY integrates contemporary neuroscience, stress physiology, felt sense work (including Peter Levine’s SE and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing), and elements of current trauma-informed approaches into a coherent orientation.

Rather than simply adding another technique (though for many, pandiculation will constitute a new technique), EMBODY clarifies how to think somatically about the whole person – so your existing skills become more integrated, intentional, and sustainable in their impact.

This is what makes EMBODY different from trainings that combine modalities or offer somatic ‘add-ons’.

It helps you understand and contextualise what you are already doing – more fully.

And from that clarity, your work deepens.

A Note on Commitment

I’ve invested many years in both Clinical Somatic Education and Somatic Experiencing®, alongside ongoing supervision, consultation, and philosophical study.

What matters most to me in EMBODY is not your accumulation of information, but the quality of engagement.

You will not be expected to learn passively by observation alone.
You will be invited into active exploration, reflection, and integration within your own practice.

If, after completing the first three modules, completing at least half of the 28 Somatic Steps, and participating in the live calls during your first month, you feel that EMBODY is not the right fit for you, let me know. You can request a 50% refund.

Because this work depends on alignment.