Leaf shadows, Soma by Faith Lantz

The body is another direction entirely.

The body holds things. Stress. Unprocessed experience. Emotions that never found a way out. It also knows ease. Pleasure. Aliveness. Most people only consult it when something hurts.
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sma
σῶμα · 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
What's the difference?
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Rebirthing Breathwork

A direct route into what thinking can't reach.
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.
Hong Kong Central district aerial view

The body doesn't break down randomly. It speaks.

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. Insomnia. Exhaustion that rest doesn't help.
Many people come after having tried different modalities. Some have optimised everything they could think of: therapy, bloodwork, sleep tracking, carefully built routines. Not passive about their health. And still something hasn't shifted.
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.
Faith Lantz, somatic therapist, 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
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

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've lived in Hong Kong for most of my adult life and I know what the pace of this city does to a body over time. I left for Bali thinking a change of environment would be the thing. Genuinely quiet, beautiful, the kind of place people go specifically to reset. Even after a few years there I was still wired, still not sleeping, with constant digestive issues, and it became clear that the environment wasn't the problem. I tried different diets, a lot of supplements, everything that seemed worth trying. Nothing helped. Wired and tired all the time.
Then the day came. I remember sitting and noticing something had changed. I felt calm, good, present. Genuinely shocked by it. I'd been going for CST sessions for a few months by then, and that's when I understood that something had unlocked. Things aren't always easy, but something real has changed. I feel different in my body. Less anxious, more here, and genuinely more able to enjoy being in it. I'm back in Hong Kong now and I look forward to sharing this work.
Faith Lantz, craniosacral therapist, Hong Kong
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The first step is
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A brief exchange to understand what's brought you in, answer any questions, and see whether this is the right fit.
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