The body is another direction entirely.

The body holds things. Stress. Unprocessed experience. Emotions that never found a way out.

It doesn't always matter what they are or where they came from. We don't need to go back into the past to work with them. Whether through hands-on work, breath, or somatic conversation, the aim is the same: give the body the right conditions, and it knows how to let go. Physical symptoms often ease when that happens.

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soma

σῶμα · Greek · the body itself

From the Greek σῶμα, meaning body. The body itself, before interpretation. Not the mind's account of it. The thing itself. That is where I work.

In this practice

The body before the story. The tissue before the explanation. That is where I start.

somatic

σωματικός · Greek · of or relating to the body

Somatic Movement

You direct. Awareness through active movement, building body literacy and the nervous system's capacity to regulate. Works through proprioception: the sense of how your body moves through space, held in muscles, joints, and posture.

Somatic Therapy

This practice

No physical effort or direction required, but presence is. The practitioner tracks what the nervous system holds through interoception: the visceral interior, breath, tension, the subtle sensations inside the body. The body does its own work. This is where frozen survival responses get to complete, and what's been carried finds the conditions to release.

What to expect

A session is led by what's present.

Light touch, following what the nervous system is carrying. The body tends to know where it needs to go.

Light touch

Contact at the head, sacrum, or feet. Very light pressure. Listening touch, not strong manipulation.

Intelligence activates

A subtle rhythm in the cerebrospinal fluid reflects what the whole person is carrying. I follow it.

Tissue releases

When the nervous system feels safe, held patterns begin to unwind. Physical patterns too. Pain and recurring symptoms often live here. Something settles. People often can't name it, but they feel it.

The loop closes

Incomplete threat responses can finally resolve. The body stops spending resources maintaining an emergency posture that has outlived its purpose. For some this shows up as emotional shifts. For others, a physical symptom that has been present for years begins to ease.

Soma by Faith Lantz, treatment room, Central Hong Kong

Testimonial

"I came to Faith because I hadn't been sleeping properly for months. During the session it honestly felt like she wasn't doing very much, just resting her hands on me. But at some point my body went somewhere I hadn't been in a long time. A really deep rest. I woke up the next morning and something felt different. I don't fully understand what she does but I keep coming back."

Client · Insomnia · Hong Kong

The toolkit · Three approaches

The session draws on all three. What's needed shifts with each person.

In practice, these don't stay separate. A session draws on all three. How much of each shifts depending on how you arrive and what the body needs in that moment.

Craniosacral Therapy

For the body that needs to be heard.

Hands-on work using less than five grams of pressure, the weight of a coin. The practitioner listens to the craniosacral rhythm, a subtle pulse in the cerebrospinal fluid that reflects what the whole system is carrying. No heavy manipulation, no corrections. The light touch creates the conditions for deep rest, and for the nervous system to find its way to safety.

Somatic Experiencing-Informed

For what didn't finish then.

Developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Works with the nervous system's incomplete threat cycles, activation that began and never fully discharged. Tracks sensation rather than story.

Rebirthing Breathwork

For what the mind keeps circling.

Conscious connected breathing as a direct route into the body's held patterns. Used selectively, when the session calls for it. Bypasses the thinking mind entirely.

Who this is for

The body has been trying to say something.

The jaw that's been clenched for years. Chronic pain with no clear cause. The migraine that keeps coming back. The digestive system that reacts to everything. The skin that keeps breaking out. Insomnia. Exhaustion that rest doesn't touch.

Sometimes there's a medical explanation. Sometimes there isn't. Either way, the body is communicating something. This work doesn't treat specific conditions. It works with the nervous system to understand what's being held, and to help the system find its way back down.

Many people come after working through the medical route. Tests done, things tried, something still unresolved. They're ready to try a different direction.

I also work with mothers in the postpartum period, and with babies and newborns. If something feels off with your baby: unsettledness, discomfort, difficulty feeding or sleeping. That instinct is worth following. The work is gentle enough for the smallest bodies.

Testimonial

"There was this background anxiousness most of my life, always this feeling that something is wrong even when nothing is. I wouldn't say it's gone. But it's quieter. I keep coming back because each time I do it feels like another layer lifts. I'm not sure I can explain what Faith actually does but I feel like a different person to when I first walked in."

Client · Anxiety · Hong Kong

Faith Lantz, somatic therapist, Hong Kong

About Faith

I spent years trying to think my way out of something that lived in my body.

I'm Faith Lantz, a craniosacral therapist and somatic practitioner based in Central, Hong Kong. I work with the craniosacral rhythm, the nervous system, and what the body holds.

I came to this work because I needed it myself. Years of exhaustion in Hong Kong and later in Bali, the kind that rest doesn't touch. I tried what most people try. Craniosacral therapy reached what nothing else had.

That is who comes to my table.

Faith Lantz, craniosacral therapist, Hong Kong