FEEL AT HOME IN YOUR BODY AGAIN
Somatic Movement
Releasing tension and restoring natural movement from the inside out
What is Somatic Movement?
Somatic Movement is one of the key tools within the BodyMindBrain Method, focused on recalibrating how your nervous system controls your muscles and the tension they hold.
Rather than stretching or forcing movement from the outside, it works from within, retraining your brain to release tension, restore coordination, and move with greater ease.
It’s a gentle but powerful way to resolve the deep muscular holding patterns that develop through stress, posture, or overuse, helping you feel more balanced, fluid, and at home in your body again.
Whereas traditional body exercises make the muscles stronger, Somatic Exercises make the brain more intelligent in sensing and controlling muscles. Thomas Hanna, Creator of Somatics
How Somatic Movement works
Somatic Movement teaches your brain to sense and release tension through slow, mindful movement sequences, which alternate between tension and release.
By deliberately slowing down and tuning into the sensations of contracting and releasing your muscles, you help your brain regain precise control over movement. This process gently “resets” muscle tone at the brain level, while helping you become conscious of holding patterns that have been happening automatically and unconsciously.
Key Benefits of Somatic Movement
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Releases deep-seated muscle tension
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Improves posture, flexibility, and coordination
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Reduces pain and stiffness from stress or overuse
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Increases body awareness and energy flow
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Supports calm, balance, and recovery
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Enhances the effectiveness of other BodyMindBrain training methods
Who It’s For?
Somatic Movement is suitable for anyone who wants to move more freely, release chronic tension, or re-establish a connection with their body.
It’s particularly helpful if you:
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Feel tight or restricted even after stretching or massage
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Experience back, shoulder, or neck tension from long hours or stress
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Have notived posture changes over time
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Want to move, breathe, and rest with greater ease and awareness
This approach is as valuable for active individuals as it is for those recovering from fatigue, stress, or injury, helping you move efficiently without strain and supporting long-term posture and comfort.
About BodyMindBrain:
At BodyMindBrain, we help high-performing professionals break free from the cycle of stress and fatigue through an integrated approach restoring balance across mind, brain, and body. Modern lifestyles often over-activate the sympathetic nervous system, leaving too little time for recovery.
Using advanced, science-backed technologies, we optimise brain function, oxygen efficiency, mitochondrial health, and physical strength. Alongside this, we rebuild the psychological and lifestyle foundations that support recovery.
The result is sustainable resilience: the capacity to perform at your best, maintain clarity under pressure, and protect your long-term wellbeing.
What happens during a session?
Somatic Movement involves gentle, guided movements performed slowly and consciously, usually lying down.
There’s no stretching or performance goal, the focus is on sensing and releasing so that your nervous sytem can re-estaboish natural movement. This helps reset long-held tension patterns and supports both physical ease and emotional calm.
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Somatic Movement works from the inside out , re-educating your brain to release tension and create smoother, more coordinated movement. It complements physical training by improving the nervous system control that underpins strength and flexibility.
How often should I practise Somatic Movement?
Practising short sequences several times a week, even for 10–15 minutes, helps reinforce new, relaxed movement patterns.
It also integrates easily with other elements of the BodyMindBrain Method such as EMS, IHHT, and Neurofeedback.
Is it suitable for everyone?
Yes. Somatic Movement is highly adaptable, and safe for most people, including those recovering from fatigue, injury, or stress-related tension.
Movements are slow, gentle, and always within your comfort zone, there is no pushing, pulling, or pain.
How does Somatic Movement fit within the BodyMindBrain Method?
Somatic Movement supports nervous system regulation, the foundation for clear thinking, physical balance, and stress recovery.
It complements Neurofeedback, IHHT, and EMS ans our coaching for stress and performance appraoch by improving body awareness, coordination, and postural stability, helping your whole system work in sync for sustainable performance and wellbeing.