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Learn to live somatically Somatic Therapy for self, relationships and community. FHT/MTI/IPHM Accredited. Talks/workshops/121sessions

Nik is a Somatic Trauma Therapist who offers Sessions including Trauma therapy, Myofacial Release, Cupping and Massage.

04/06/2026

This can beone of the reasons that a deep breath makes you panic. It also explains why breathwork can push people into big cathartic “releases” especially if you have been in freeze for so long. To come out freeze we come through fight or flight, then we need to support this to integrate.

For a body that is on, pushing a deep breath can make you panic because it’s not ready, it feels you still need protecting. You’re stripping away that armour without support.

If someone is showing the signs of on, we track the breath before we begin. We use Somatic movement associated with coming from on to off. It’s slow, it’s a lot of back and forward, pendulation between protection and the curiousity of how it feels to drop that, and everything in between. I visibly SEE when it happens, we both visible witness the breath coming, and then the exhaustion hits. Sometimes big deep yawns and a full body exhaustion follows. The body finally feeling supported to let go, to come down.

This is Somatic Trauma Integration. It’s where change happens, when you are supported.

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

Is oversharing a struggle for you when it comes to creating connection and community? In this post I touch on how this m...
03/06/2026

Is oversharing a struggle for you when it comes to creating connection and community? In this post I touch on how this may be hiding a trauma response. If you relate I would be interested in the why. Whats under the need to overexplain and overshare.

This can also be due to your flavour of neuro diversity, and that is great. You will find people you align with, who can keep up and connect. But if you are noticing it is effecting your wellbeing, your ability to be at ease with silence or people ‘not knowing’ then there may be something we can work through together to make life and society easier to navigate

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

02/06/2026

It sometimes can be as simple as that. Connection with the only intention of being supported. Time for you to process and be held. Allow those emotions and feelings to come up in a supportive space.

It’s maybe something that has never been accessible for you, this support. May it be because of environment or responsibility, support is something that can be limited. In this modern society individualism is pushed on us, dividing us. Having us thinking it is weak to need someone or need supports. But it’s built into the way we cope and manage, it takes a village not only to raise a child but to be a health adult.

Let me be that support for you.

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

We cry for many reasons. When we’re sad, when were happy. Tears of love and joy. Tears of grief. But what if we are stru...
01/06/2026

We cry for many reasons. When we’re sad, when were happy. Tears of love and joy. Tears of grief. But what if we are struggling to cry? If we know it will make us feel better but it just wont come. This post touches on what it can mean for the bdy to come down from high alert with tears. We can be on for many reasons, our body percieving danger, we need to keep it together for others, conditioning that on is productive under the capatalist construct. There are many factors to bring in. What interests me is why your bdy feels the need to be on and what it means when to come down to regulated state, causes panic or even a resistance. What would it mean to you to just let go, fully. Do you believe this isnt an option? your body feels this is so.

That where we get curious. You may need support to come down, to cry. Let’s explore that.

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

30/05/2026

I encourage my clients to view these adaptions as armour. How beautiful our body had a way to build this armour for us and bring in means of protection to get us here today. In sessions we don’t try to whip off our armour by “fixing” the symptoms, leaving us feeling vunerable without and supportive systems in place to feel into that venerability. We meet ourselves where we are at, allowing our parts that built the armour we once needed to survive, space to be felt and validated. It’s done its job now. It can step aside until@we need it again. Knowing it will always be there to protect us if we need it, but the traumatic time has passed. Allowing ourselves to fully feel into these parts means we process them, change on a neurological and cellular level in the body. Protectors allowed to finish the full cycle they are built to do. Leading to peace on the other side and the ability to sit in discomfort without the overwhelm.

This is Somatic Therapy

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

You will hear me saying or maybe have heard me mirroring this. That the body stores trauma and the fascia is the reason ...
28/05/2026

You will hear me saying or maybe have heard me mirroring this. That the body stores trauma and the fascia is the reason why. Sometimes we need to mirror what clients are saying, at first. We learn new ways and adapt our techniques or methods as we do. Let me break it down where this misconception has came from.

The internet is booming with the concept the body stores trauma. Trauma lives in your fascia. You release trauma from the body. It isn’t quite right. It sounds good, but it’s not what’s happening. I’ve tried to break down what actually happens without getting too scientific and so it is still relatable. How did I do?

This is important to understand because what we believe becomes our story. You do not have Trauma in your body. You’ve body just believes it never got out of the dangerous experience. We can change that through Somatic Therapy.

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. This is Instagram and the information here goes so much deeper than we can fit into 20 slides. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

27/05/2026

Your abdomen is the area your body associates with attachment and nourishment as it’s the first place it experienced this. The body does not decider between emotional and physical sensations, feelings or pain. It just feels.

When you have a break up of used with friends or a partner, do you feel it in your tummy?

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

This could be the reason you find relationships hard. You are caught in a cycle that you can make sense of in your head ...
25/05/2026

This could be the reason you find relationships hard. You are caught in a cycle that you can make sense of in your head but the experience in your body is still not matching or making logical sense. It’s not just millennials, but they are a generation where medical health boards were rife with the CIO method being pushed onto new parents.

Make sense now?

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. This information is selected to make it easy to understand but there will be a lot that we cannot fit into 10 or so slides. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

25/05/2026

These are indications that your body may be using fight or flight as its baseline. I want you to start to question why. What is your body picking up in its environment, internal or external, that it feels the need to be ready for danger 24/7.

Our bodies are built to withstand danger, it’s what the fight or flight response is, our protective response. Trauma is something that is left behind when your body is unable to finish this full cycle and feel like it protected you. Not everyone who experiences a traumatic event is left with PTSD…did you know that. It’s completely dependent on how you were allowed to react, get out, protect yourself, this is the difference. This is what I work with. The completion of the stress cycle associated to the traumatic event, a way out at last for nervous system to realise it got out alive, the danger is in the past. Then we regulate. It’s magic to witness.

If you recognise these symptoms then you know what to do. Booking link is in bio. I’ll see you soon.

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

21/05/2026

Moving my entire life from Edinburgh with 2 jobs, running a q***r creative space and studying to be a Somatic Trauma Therapist hit me like I did not expect. I couldn’t work for 3 months, I couldn’t even make content on a holiday visa. I HAD to stop. No choice.

What came next was not surprising, another layer that stopping after having such a busy life meant. I knew it would come. I had the tools but even then it was still a lot to cope with.

Slowing down does not come as easy as you think.

How does it make your body feel at the thought of stopping? Lost? Panicky? Relief?

Let me know.

📍 Find me on Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one booking
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic Community
workshops or healing circle
🛜 Want to learn Somatic work I your own time? Check out
my online intro to Somatics workshop on my website.
🔗 for all in bio

Please note: what I share here is for guidance and self-reflection only. It is not a replacement for therapy. If something resonates deeply, I encourage you to reach out to a trauma-trained somatic therapist for support. You can only get so much information in an Instagram post, as always somatic work is a many layered therapy.

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