Find greater comfort and ease in your own body - and bring that lived understanding into your work with clients
EMBODY Somatics goes beyond ‘the body’ and ‘nervous system work’, towards a whole-person philosophy and practice of somatic change.
The conversation about 'the body' in therapy has grown fast. Somatic approaches, nervous system regulation, working with ‘the body’, polyvagal theory — it's everywhere.
And if you're a thoughtful therapist, you may have started to wonder: is there something here I'm missing? Something that could add another dimension to what I already offer?
Not because your work isn't good. It is.
But there's something in that thought, that curiosity, that's worth following.
EMBODY Somatics is where that wondering finds a map, and starts exploring to fill in the terrain of the whole. embodied person.
Experiential and academic, embodied and discursive, it's designed to deepen what you already offer — not replace it.
What EMBODY Somatics offers
A small-group practitioner programme built around one central idea: genuine somatic change begins with your own soma first, and developing the capacity to think somatically.
Not a technique to add to your toolkit. Not another certification. A living, philosophical understanding of what the soma actually is — and what it needs in order to change.
You'll work with pandiculation, felt sense, and neuromuscular learning — in your own body first, to carry that living knowledge into your work with others when you feel ready.
On these foundations, you have the materials and support you need to start developing somatic attunement and discernment, in your professional life and client work.
Who it's for
EMBODY is particularly well-suited to counsellors and psychotherapists — person-centred, psychodynamic, integrative, existential, humanistic, relational — who bring real clinical depth and are genuinely curious about what embodied work might add.
Bodyworkers, coaches, and movement practitioners who bring comparable relational depth are also warmly welcome.
You don't need somatic training. You need curiosity — and a willingness to begin with your own soma.
“Although I had read about the ‘body keeping the score’ it wasn’t until this course that I grasped the concept of the body and the mind being one, rather than there being a separate mind and body. This awareness has meant that I now pay attention to my client’s body and what it is communicating rather than just listening to the words that they are saying… it has also been a personal journey for me … I have become more aware of my own body and how to release stored stress.”
Sarah - play therapist
Hello, I’m Samantha.
I love books, cats, and crows (ok, all animals). And my life completely changed when I discovered Clinical Somatics!
A life-long learner, I trained as a psychotherapist because it brought together aspects of previous jobs & experiences that I’d loved. Then, I discovered Hanna’s ‘Clinical Somatic Education’, and got rid of my decades-long chronic pain in a few short months. I also felt way less stressed than I’d ever believed possible, so was able to start addressing past trauma, and to help clients address their embodied stress, too.
That experience — of genuine, lasting somatic change from the inside — is the ground everything I teach is built on.
Now I work with therapists and practitioners who sense there's more: more to offer, more to understand, more of the whole person to listen to. EMBODY Somatics is where that exploration begins.
