The Approach | Soma by Faith Lantz

What is somatic work?

Therapy that works through the body rather than around it. The body holds experience: stress, old patterns, incomplete responses. These live in tissue and the nervous system, not just in memory. Somatic work addresses that directly.

            Craniosacral Therapy
            ·
            Somatic Experiencing
            ·
            Rebirthing Breathwork
          

sma

σώμα · Greek · the body itself

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

somatic

so·mat·ic  /soʊˈmætɪk/  ·  adjective

Two forms. One asks the body to move. The other asks it to arrive.

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.

                Craniosacral Therapy
                ·
                Somatic Experiencing
                ·
                Rebirthing Breathwork
              

What to expect · In-person sessions

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.

01

Light touch

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

02

Intelligence activates

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

03

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.

04

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. And sometimes what opens isn't about what stops. It's about what becomes available. Ease. Pleasure in sensation. The capacity to rest without effort.

Soma by Faith Lantz, treatment room, Central Hong Kong

For online sessions and longer-term work, see the sessions page.

The toolkit

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

Craniosacral Therapy

For the body that needs to be heard.

The body as the starting point.