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Somatic Habit, York (2025)

09/10/2025

This week I’m heading off with Martha Peterson to share the Pain Relief Through Movement weekend with some folks in Zagreb.

As I’ll be travelling home on Monday morning I’m delighted to introduce you to Sandy who’ll be guiding you through your start to the week.

Sandy Duncan is a certified Essential Somatics Movement Teacher and mindfulness (MBSR) teacher. She’s passionate about supporting people in understanding and befriending their nervous systems and loves guiding participants toward more self efficacy, freedom, and connection in daily life. When she’s not teaching, you’ll often find her with a book in hand, out on the ski slopes, or taking her dog for long walks.

Sandy‘s classes invite you to come home to your body, explore with kind curiosity, and nurture your inherent resilience to move through life with more ease.

Enjoy being guided by the lovely Sandy, and I’ll be back with you as normal for class next Tuesday. Until then, happy pandiculating!

Much love

Karen x

@‌mindfully_embodied

30/09/2025

Today is International Podcast Day so I’m sharing the podcasts I’ve been featured on over the past year.

🎙V.I.B.E. Living Podcast hosted by Lynnis @‌vibewellnesswoman

🎙 How Does She Do It?! hosted by Jo @‌howdoesshedoitlife

🎙Lift OneSelf Podcast hosted by NatNat @‌liftoneself

I loved being a guest on each of these podcast’s. It’s great to share more about Somatic Habit with new audiences and engage in different conversations.

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If you are a podcast host and think I’d be a good fit for you audience too, send me a message or email me at: contact@somatichabit.co.uk

26/09/2025

Hi, I’m Karen and I am a Clinical Somatics Educator, based in the beautiful historic York. I run weekly zoom and studio classes, clinical sessions and offer an online membership too.

In case you don’t know what Somatics is let me explain.

If you suffer with pain and limited movement, maybe even feel like you have “tried everything” but with no long term improvement, somatics is the missing link. Somatic movements are some of the safest and easiest ways to relieve muscle tension, giving you back control of your life.

I believe that all of us, no matter our age, background, or experiences, have the ability to create more space and freedom in how we function and live.

I thought I’d share a few of my interests with you so you can get to know me better. Some other loves of mine are:

- energy and sound healing
- Movement and mantra meditations
- cinema trips
- connection through deeply rich chats
- CHAI!
- Sunflowers
- Full moons & pink sunsets
- Autumn trees

Fancy joining one of my classes to discover more about somatics? Head to my website to book (link in my bio) ☺️

14/09/2025

Holding tension in our muscles, is like keeping the kettle boiling long after it’s reached boiling point, and we’ve finished our lovely cup of tea.

Holding our muscles tight uses up way more energy than is required or helpful. It’s inefficient and can lead to all kinds of problems such as pain, low energy or rarely feeling relaxed.

Functional muscles are ones that can tighten up when they’re needed to move us, like the kettle boiling water for our perfect cuppa, then those same muscles returning back down to rest, like the kettle switching off until your next cup of tea.

Take back control of your muscles and your body, so that you can enjoy fuller and freer movement. More movement means more life!

Join me for a somatic movement class and learn essential skills for a long, healthy and pain free life.

Book via my website - details and link in bio.

02/09/2025

Have you booked your tickets yet for the 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, 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.

🎫 Book your tickets using the link in bio.

#‌YorkReikiPlus

28/08/2025

📣 We’ve got a few spots left to book for our balance workshop on Saturday 30th August. Interested? Check out the details below 👇

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 ⚖

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.

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