Somatics for Beginners

Service Description

Somatics for Beginners Have you been hearing about somatics recently but don’t quite know what it is, how it can help, or why so many people are turning towards somatics after trying what feels like everything to support themselves? In this workshop, I take you through what somatics is, why it can help, and how to integrate it into your life to build more capacity to be with your emotions, complete stress cycles, and release stored tension, emotional blockages, and trauma from the body. I’ll guide you through the foundations of how your soma (body) may respond to life circumstances through the brain and nervous system, setting you up with practical, simple yet powerful grounding techniques and tools for your kete that can help you shift and change patterns that can last a lifetime. Somatics is simply tuning in to the wisdom of your body. Lauren will facilitate a space where you can try whatever feels good to try. Everything is optional, and this is a space to reclaim parts of you that may have been on ice for a while in order to survive the heavy demands of the Western world. Are you feeling ready to start thawing out? Are you ready to let go of old patterns? To gain more energy? To sleep better? To build stronger relationships with the people in your life? ⸻ About Your Facilitator Lauren is a qualified trauma-informed integrative somatic facilitator, specialising in nervous system regulation and embodiment practices. She embodies the wisdom of the somatic techniques she shares and is deeply passionate about supporting others to reclaim their own unique abilities to self-regulate. Lauren takes a fun, light, yet informative and easy-to-digest approach to facilitating. She trained under Amanda Hanna (SomaPsych) in trauma-informed facilitation, integrative somatics, yin yoga, social justice, and systemic change. ⸻ What Others Have Said “Lauren is an exceptional facilitator, and her work in yin yoga and somatics with adults and teens is the best in Hawke’s Bay. Whenever I attend one of Lauren’s offerings, I am always so grateful to be gifted the space to intuitively explore my body’s responses in my practice, whilst feeling held and supported. The spaces Lauren creates are truly empowering.”