Somatic Practices
Somatic practices such as Somatic Experiencing, somatic tracking, and other body-oriented trauma approaches, are body-oriented, psychophysiological approaches that support trauma integration and relational healing through direct attention to sensation, posture, breath, and embodied awareness. Rather than working only through cognition, these methods engage bottom-up processes that influence how experience is held and metabolized in the body. Over time, somatic work strengthens capacity for regulation, connection, and resilience and helps down-regulate an over-active nervous system.
This somatic approach reflects an integrative mental health approach that works with both mind and nervous system rather than techniques alone.
Somatic Practices are one of several body-based practices explored in our Mind–Body & Somatic Therapies pillar, which focuses on supporting nervous system regulation through gentle, embodied tools.
Somatic Practices strive to build the skills of introception and proprioception...body-based awareness.
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