The work in Club Soma is somatic therapy, which simply means we are working with the body directly, rather than just trying to think our way into change.
We work with breath, sensation, movement, and awareness of what is happening in your nervous system in real time.
Because your body already knows how to regulate. It already knows how to release. It already knows how to come back into balance. But often it hasn’t had the safety or the space to do that.
So instead of forcing change, what we’re doing is creating enough safety in the system for the body to start to process what it’s been holding.
And that processing is what slowly begins to shift the physical symptoms, the emotional patterns, and the relational dynamics that so many women feel stuck in.
This is not quick work, and it’s not surface level. It’s slow, and it’s layered, and it works at the root.
But it is also the kind of work where women often start to notice changes even after one session. A sense of stillness they haven’t accessed before. A softness in their body. A feeling of “I didn’t know I could feel like this.”
And over time, those shifts compound.
We see women start to set boundaries in ways they couldn’t before. We see them change the way they show up in relationships. We see them leave jobs that no longer fit. We see their cycle symptoms start to ease. We see them begin to trust themselves in a way they haven’t been able to before.
The work of getting out of your head and into the wisdom your body has been holding all along.
THE SOMATIC APPROACH
Somatic Therapy Research
Dr. Peter Levine
Creator of Somatic Experiencing and a pioneer in trauma healing through the body.
Dr. Wilhelm Reich
Introduced the concept of body armor and mind-body connection in psychotherapy.
Betty Dodson
A revolutionary voice in body-based empowerment and sexual healing.
Dr. Betty Martin
Creator of the Wheel of Consent, helping people reclaim embodied boundaries and nervous system awareness.