https://www.somatichabit.co.uk/

Somatic Habit, York (2025)

11/08/2025

Calling all health and wellbeing practitioners — this one’s for you. 💛

We know how much you give to others, so we’ve created a space for you to pause, reset, and reconnect.

Join us on 30th August for a relaxed and practical workshop in York. This will be led by the fabulous and very experienced CBT therapists Leanne and Sally from Well Minds PTS, and yours truly from Somatic Habit. We’re quite the team!

We’ll explore simple ways to manage and release stress, reconnect with your body, and protect your own wellbeing — because you can’t pour from an empty cup.

Expect a mix of gentle movement, useful tools, and good conversation with like-minded people who get it.

Let’s look after the people who look after everyone else.

📍 York Pilates People, Clifford Street
🔗 Link in bio for more info + booking

P.S. Don’t forget to save this post to remind yourself of the details later ⚖

04/08/2025

There is nothing more rewarding for me than getting feedback from my clients like this -

“Since I’ve been following your instructions, there has been a noticeable improvement in my shoulder pain. Doing somatic practice really works and it’s amazing! Your instructions are brilliant - and when I follow exactly as you say, I can feel the change/release within my muscles. I have learnt to go slow, become more aware and appreciate that less is actually more. It’s a journey of ‘knowing thyself’ and thank you for starting me on it.” - Sheilla

To find out more, join a class or sign up to my newsletter, head to my website. The link is in my profile 😊

28/07/2025

📌Save the date for a Somatic and Sound Healing Evening…

Brought to you by York’s wonderful Reiki Master and sound healer Irene Forsyth from York Reiki Plus, and yours truly from Somatic Habit.

Join us for an indulgent and relaxing evening at the end of your week. An opportunity to reconnect with yourself, peel away layers of stress and tension and take some time to be present through gentle somatic movement and sound healing.

When: Friday 12th September 2025, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: The Harriet Centre, The Gatehouse, York Cemetery
Cost: £30

Bring a yoga mat, you may also like to have a blanket and cushion; the session will be mostly spent laid down on the floor.

Free parking on site.

#‌YorkReikiPlus

21/07/2025

It was my birthday at the weekend!

So to celebrate I’m offering a free studio or zoom class.

Book as normal through my website. Just add discount code FREECLASS at the checkout*.

*limited offer to 1 use per customer

16/07/2025

Calling all health and wellbeing practitioners — this one’s for you. 💛

We know how much you give to others, so we’ve created a space for you to pause, reset, and reconnect.

Join us on 30th August for a relaxed and practical workshop in York. This will be led by the fabulous and very experienced CBT therapists Leanne and Sally from Well Minds PTS, and yours truly from a Somatic Habit. We’re quite the team!

We’ll explore simple ways to manage and release stress, reconnect with your body, and protect your own wellbeing — because you can’t pour from an empty cup.

Expect a mix of gentle movement, useful tools, and good conversation with like-minded people who get it.

Let’s look after the people who look after everyone else.

📍 York Pilates People, Clifford Street
🔗 Link in bio for more info + booking

P.S. Don’t forget to save this post to remind yourself of the details later ⚖

10/07/2025

My message to you this week comes from a heart bursting with delight and pride, having just spent 4 days that have been an absolute honour and a privilege for me.

On Sunday I had the pleasure of congratulating 7 incredible somas who became fully certified teachers having completed their Essential Somatics Movement Teacher Training.

They’ve spent 6 months diving deep into this powerful method, learning and understanding the movements and how to teach them so very effectively. Fundamental to this, they also spent 6 months diving into, deepening and exploring their own somatic process; who they are, how they function, how they live and how they show up in life. This is a profound experience that’s led them to know themselves and others in a whole new way.

This is a deeply reflective process, and their openness to exploring and reflecting upon the unknown has been inspiring to witness. It’s also what has led them all to become such caring, skilled and sensitive teachers, because how we live is how we teach.

As Tom Hanna said whilst he was training others in his method, you cannot enter into this world and learn to teach and guide others and still be the same person at the end of it.

Perhaps you’ve experienced such reflections, observations and changes for yourself through your somatic movement practise?

Sunday’s certification has gifted the world with 7 more skilled teachers across the UK, Europe and Middle East. They are spreading this work out into all corners of the globe, and that is definitely something to celebrate, woo hoo!

I also want to say a huge thank you to April from \@‌synergy_somatics for joining and assisting over the 4 days and sharing her vast knowledge, care and experience. It was so great having you there.

And this leads me to thank you for being here. Thank you for indulging in your curiosity of what this somatic movement is all about and has to offer, and for creating change and growth for you and those around you.

Together we can create more peace, harmony and connection in our inner and outer world, if we so choose.

If you’re interested in deepening your practice and/or training, drop me a message and let’s chat.

04/07/2025

🎧 Headphones on and listen in - I’m in a brand new podcast episode!

I had a lovely conversation with Lynnis from the the V.I.B.E. Living World and joined her in the V.I.B.E. Living Podcast, , the ultimate audio destination for women over 40 looking to thrive in their mid-life journey!

In this powerful episode, I share how discovering **clinical somatics** finally gave me lasting relief. I introduce the eye-opening concept of _sensory motor amnesia_—those unconscious tension patterns your brain forgets how to release. The game-changer? A gentle, brain-based technique called _pandiculation_ that helps you retrain your nervous system and let go of chronic holding, for good.

I reveal how somatic healing isn’t just about pain relief. It’s about reconnecting with your body, releasing emotional stress, and reclaiming freedom of movement at any age. Whether you’re managing chronic pain, healing from injury, or simply looking to move more freely as you age, this episode offers practical tools and hope.

You’ll also learn a simple somatic practice to try immediately, and discover why your body has the power to change, no matter your age or condition.

The episode is called: Freedom from Pain at Any Age: Karen Statner’s Journey Through Somatic Healing and you can listen to it via the link in my Bio.

To find out more about Lynnis and the V.I.B.E. Living World, head to her profile here

17/06/2025

Remembering how to trust ourselves can help to heal painful and sometimes deep cracks and wounds.
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Chronic tension that builds up over time can lead us towards feeling disconnected, and it can be difficult to feel and trust ourselves when this becomes the norm.
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Somatic movement offers an opportunity for us to explore our unspoken world at our own pace, with kindness and compassion. It helps us peel away hidden tension and reconnect with the essence of who and what we are.
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No matter what’s past, we can always create change and re-learn how to once more…
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👐 Trust ourselves.
👐 Trust in our unspoken world.
👐 Trust in what we feel.
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12/06/2025

Living with the hidden build up of chronic muscle tension is like riding a bike every day with a slow puncture.

We keep peddling every day, but over weeks, months, years it takes more effort to keep peddling and moving forwards. We may eventually stop riding our bike and tell ourselves “it’s my age”.

Clinical Somatics is like finding where the puncture is and easily repairing it yourself, giving you back your energy and restoring joy to your life as you keep moving forwards. Woo hoo!

03/06/2025

Long term change comes from exploring those hidden, unseen and unspoken places that take place below the surface.

Somatic movement helps to gently guide you to those places.

26/05/2025

Chronic tension reduces our power and strength because it uses up our energy.

Keeping our muscles constantly held tight, even when we don’t need them, is like our heart rate always being high even when we don’t need it to be.

It’s like our heart rate increasing when we run for a bus, but never coming back down once we’re on the bus.

If we forget to relax our muscles after using them, over time this drains our energy, power and strength. The great news though is that you have everything within you to be able to take your muscle tension all the way back to rest, and restore your power and strength so it’s ready for you when you need it. Hurrah!

20/05/2025

Somatic Movement uncovers the keys to reclaiming your natural freedom and autonomy. Discover the freedom of moving and living as you are designed to, and unlock the path to lasting change at the level of your nervous system.

Sound good? Join me for a somatic movement class either on Zoom (Monday & Tuesday’s) or in the Studio (Wednesday).

To book your place, head to my bio and click on the link to my website SomaticHabit.co.uk

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