The 3 Somatic Keys you'll explore in this short online course are, together, the essential keys to unluck your ability to de-stress with greater ease.

They come together to enable you to do what we humans (and our fellow mammals) evolved to do: to address stresses, strains, shocks, and traumas from the inside.

The 3 keys help you address stress by regulating your own neuromuscular system (and, so, your nervous system). By noticing and releasing stress that’s stuck in your body – in your muscles, your brain, and your whole body.

You've likely already grabbed my free guide to the 3 Somatic Keys. If so, this course is your 'next step' as it takes you through each key in a little more detail, and invites you to experience more of how Clinical Somatics informed by the 'felt sense' can be life-changing in its capacity to ease and release chronicallu stuck stress, stored trauma, and chronic pain.

If you don’t release stress from your body, it builds up over time to create high stress levels, physical stiffness, discomfort, and pain, and increasing difficulty in dealing with new, everyday stresses and strains (as well as bigger shocks and traumas) – whether they’re emotional or physical.

Self-moving, self-sensing, and self-learning are intertwined with each other, in what we’ll be calling your soma.

What is your 'soma'?

Your ‘soma’ is YOU.

It’s yourself experienced by you, ‘from the inside’ – as a living, moving whole. (So, it’s you as only you can experience yourself: no- one else has access to this, however much they ‘know’ about you).

Your soma is not made up of a separate ‘mind’ and ‘body’. Your soma is you, experienced as a living process.

When you focus on sensing yourself, for example, there will inevitably be some self-movement and self-learning going on at the same time (even when you’re not consciously aware of it!).

Because that’s how human physiology works! (There’s much more about all of this in my 28 Somatic Steps to Embodied Freedom course, where you’re guided through multiple ways to use the 3 Somatic Keys and explore more about how your nervous system works – to release stress by working with your body, not against it.)

In this short e-course, you’ll focus on a different ‘Somatic key’ each day.

But I also encourage you to notice how the 3 keys interact. To sense how it’s almost impossible to do one thing (sense, learn, move) without also doing the others at the same time. Part of ‘doing’ Somatics is to notice that, to pay more attention to it.

A note for Practitioners and those who are familiar with Somatics work: These 3 keys are the 3 key components to address stress that I’ve developed in my work as a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator, Focusing Practitioner, and SEP. As well as Thomas Hanna’s pioneering Somatics work, I draw on Eugene Gendlin’s ‘Focusing’, and on insights from more recent research and practice in the fields of both neuroscience and nervous system health.