Learn to live somatically

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

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

Just one of the many reasons emotions may be hard to access or even feel. Somatic therapy gives your body another experi...
09/09/2026

Just one of the many reasons emotions may be hard to access or even feel.

Somatic therapy gives your body another experience. It gives your body/mind the chance to slowly process and build new pathways, challenging beliefs and bringing in curiosity of what adaptations your body/mind has formed to help you “survive” until now.

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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

Nervous System regulation exercises is becoming a Somatic way to avoid what you need to feel. Suppression instead of exp...
08/09/2026

Nervous System regulation exercises is becoming a Somatic way to avoid what you need to feel. Suppression instead of expression is rife with the trend of nervous system regulation techniques online. We need to get comfortable with feeling discomfort, with feeling anger, with feeling sadness because these are all communication from your body. If you are shutting down and silencing by regulation every time you feel an activation of any sort you are encouraging distrust in what your body is feeling.

If any activation is causing distress in your body we need to retire what these feelings mean, allow the body to tell the difference between discomfort or fight/flight. Avoiding these feelings will cause them to come out in other ways, behavioural or physical symptoms will show up, and usually in your safest spaces and relationships.

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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.

08/09/2026

Come find me. Rewrite what touch means to your body mind and spirit through Somatic bodywork sessions. Get connected to your body while being supported and learn what may be underneath that tension and tightness that keep showing up after everything you’ve tried.

Touch can be caring, help you feel seen, help the body feel supported by another, without any expectation from touch, other than to be held.

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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.

06/09/2026

Our body naturally “releases trauma” it’s a stress cycle response. Part of our fight and flight system. As horrific as it is we are built to withstand unsafe situations, we are built to fight or flight our way out of them, and when we can’t we freeze.

I don’t “release trauma” from your body, I don’t help with “stuck” emotions. I provide a setting for you to close these stress a cycles. We are left with symptoms of trauma because of these unfinished cycles and patterns of survival we have developed. You cannot release trauma as if you have never experienced what you went through, but we can help the body and nervous system realise it is in the past, you are an adult now and you got out alive.

We do this with different techniques, exercises and body work. This work is strange, it can feel@confusing when we are rewriting survival patterns and giving the body another option. The proof is in the changes I see in people and that they FEEL in themselves.

I say designed in this video, but we are a being, it comes naturally to our being. We just need to work through the obstacles together.

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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.

Our tongues holds a lot of what is going on in the deeper parts of our body. An indication of where our nervous system i...
06/09/2026

Our tongues holds a lot of what is going on in the deeper parts of our body. An indication of where our nervous system is at. Read the post, try the exercise, let me know how you get on.

Bracing? Let’s find out why together…

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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.

06/09/2026

Anger, as we call it, when viewed as an action rather than an emotion can really build our story with it differently.

Anger is an activation in your body when you feel unsafe. Think wild animal, they make themselves bigger, they growl, threatening ways to dominate the other but it never usually follows through with action UNLESS it is life threatening. Our Somatic System, the part in charge of fight or flight is shared with these animals. Now this is never an excuse to threaten someone in a violent manor. Due to conditioning, our own experiences under the empire, many of us are told we are weaker, led to believe this because of the way society is formed…who are the hunters in nature?

Anger, when viewed as an emotion, an activation in this way and we use healthy ways to connect and express it can make our bodies believe we can protect ourselves. It’s very important.

Our stories with Anger are formed usually as children, the power dynamic is very different as a child witnessing anger as an action. This can be why we find it had to access or show our own Anger, we do not want to make others feel the way we did, unsafe. We do not want to be that person who made us feel unsafe.

If this is the case we need to rewrite our story with Anger, so we can feel and know we can protect ourselves.

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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.

05/09/2026

LIVE Online Intro To Somatics Workshop

Friday 25th Sept 6.30-8pm. $19

You have seen the word somatic popping up everywhere but what does it mean and how can somatic work enhance your life? Find out from the comfort of your own home in this online workshop…

Workshop Summary :

•Somatic Education: Understand what Somatic work is and discover its benefits.

• Fight or Flight: Learn how this natural response functions to protect us.

• Triggers: Gain insight into what triggers are and how they manifest in our bodies and lives.

• Understanding Trauma: Discover what trauma is and why we ‘store’ it.

• Emotions Journal: Learn the value of keeping an emotions journal.

• Somatic Techniques: Explore methods to manage emotions and manage stress through somatic exercises.

• Guided Body Scan: Experience a body scan exercise to locate and acknowledge where emotions reside

BOOKING LINK IN BIO
Workshop through ZOOM. Link will be sent to you the day before. Workshop will be recorded and sent out to all participants to watch at their own leisure.

DM with any questions

04/09/2026

Lost in translation is that “Somatic” referring to the body describes only our physical body when the word that it is translated from , SOMA, actually describes the body/mind/spirit as one. Our entire being. This is the difference I feel between Somatic Therapy vs Somatic Healing practices.

The English language bastardised a lot of translations from other languages, some words to describe the sounds of flowers, plants or even sometimes a feeling you have cannot even be translated into English. Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about this in the book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ and I witness it throughout Westernised Somatic Practices today. It views the body as something to be fixed, regulated, another branch of the western mental health system viewing the body as a machine. Our SOMA is a holistic entity in constant relation with self, others, nature and even the planets. That what we bring into the room in sessions. We are here to be. That takes a lot of un-learning and working through conditioning. We are even witnessing now that medical science has the equipment to see inside the body as consciousness is involved and not just on dead bodies, that science is proving what bodyworkers and thousands of years of “alternative therapies” and people LIVE EXPERIENCE has been saying, there is an energy within us. Science is behind on this stuff for that exact reason. But what it change in the next 10 years.

If you wan to bring this unlearning into your life, you know where I am…

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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.

02/09/2026

If you have experienced a freeze response in the form of tightness in the throat and the inability to say what you need to, sometimes this reaction can even cause the feelings of sickness, dizziness and like you are going to pass out if you push past it…then your body may believe that to use your voice in this way will effect its survival. You may fear the reaction from others, you may also fear others will leave, “abandon” you if we ask or say such things.

In somatic therapy sessions we work with these reactions, we bring in exercises and methods to support the body as it comes out the “freeze” and then bring in ways to soothe and integrate. The body learns from experience, it gives our somatic system another option, through this experience.

Have you experienced this reaction before?

📍 Find me in Newtown, Gadigal Land | Sydney
💆‍♀️ Want to work with me? One to one or group session 🔗 in bio
🫂 Want to find community? Join my Somatic workshops or community 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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