The Somatic Frameworks Glossary collects the conceptual models and lenses that inform Somatic Realignment Therapy, defined so clients can understand the thinking behind their protocols.
Glossary
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- 📝Biopsychosocial Model — the view that physical, psychological, and social factors together shape health and experience.
- 📝Bottom-Up / Top-Down Processing — working with change either from the body upward (sensation first) or from the mind downward (thought first).
C
- 📝Container — a defined multi-session engagement, such as a 3–6 month arc, rather than a one-off session.
D
- 📝Dis-ease / Ease — the framing of discomfort as the body being out of ease, and the work as a return toward ease.
E
- 📝Embodiment — being present in and connected to one's physical self.
F
- 📝Felt Sense — the body's felt, pre-verbal read on a situation.
- 📝The Five Layers — the working model of the whole system: physical, emotional, mental, supermental/intuitive, and spiritual.
H
- 📝Holistic (Whole-Person) Model — addressing the whole person rather than isolated symptoms.
I
- 📝Integration — how shifts from a session carry into daily movement, breath, and life.
- 📝Interoceptive Awareness — the developed ability to sense internal bodily states; see also 🏷️#nervous-system-lexicon.
M
- 📝Mind-Body Connection — the two-way relationship between mental or emotional states and physical sensation.
P
- 📝Polyvagal-Informed Practice — an approach informed by 📝polyvagal theory's model of nervous-system states; see also 🏷️#nervous-system-lexicon.
- 📝Presence — the practitioner's calm, focused attention treated as an active part of the work.
W
- 📝Window of Tolerance — the range in which a person can feel sensation or emotion without becoming overwhelmed or shut down; see also 🏷️#nervous-system-lexicon.