Somatic Practice is body-based awareness work that reconnects the client to physical sensation as a source of information and choice.
Soma, from the Greek for body, here means the body as lived from the inside — tension, breath, weight, temperature, and the 📝felt sense of a mood — rather than the body as an object to be fixed. Practices in this family include slow attentive movement, stillness with tracking, and simple experiments that reveal habitual bracing. Thomas Hanna used "somatics" for this first-person training; related educational methods such as Feldenkrais work in the same neighborhood. The aim is interoception: noticing internal signals clearly enough to change how one organizes.
This is education and practice, not psychotherapy and not a treatment for a medical diagnosis. A client might discover that a shoulder stays lifted at rest, or that the breath stops at a certain range — a cue for 📝Breathwork — and then learn a smaller, easier option. Insight without sensation does not substitute for that loop.
In a bodywork session, somatic practice is the client's side of the work: attending, moving, and reporting. Hands-on methods such as 📝Articular Mobility change tissue; awareness is what lets the new option last off the table.