House of Somara Energy Healing and Movement Therapy

House of Somara Energy Healing and Movement Therapy An integrative healing practice that blends somatic movement therapy, applied neurology, and energy work.

We help sensitive, high-achieving, and overwhelmed humans release tension, reconnect with their bodies, and remember who they are beneath the stress.

07/03/2026

An amazing way to reduce pain?
Help your brain clearly see where your body is in space.�

Your brain is constantly creating a 3D map of your body.
It uses information from your joints, muscles, skin, and senses to know where each body part is in space.

When part of that map becomes blurry, your brain becomes less certain about that area.

And when the brain is uncertain, it often responds with protection.

That protection can show up as:�
• Pain�
• Tension�
• Stiffness
• Reduced mobility�
• Brain fog
• Anxiety
ETC
The good news? You
can improve the clarity of the map.
Here is a simple ways to start:
Stimulate the skin�
Gently rubbing an area provides your brain with more sensory information and helps sharpen its map.

If you're short on time, focus on the areas that take up the most brain real estate:
Hands, Feet, Spine or the area of pain/tension.

A few minutes of intentional sensory input can go a long way toward helping your brain feel safer in your body.

Clearer map = less need for protection.

07/01/2026

Sensitive souls rule the world. ✨

A lot of people see their senisitivity as a curse. Something they need to overcome... I don't see it that way at all...
In fact I see it as an amazing leadership skill.

Sensitive people notice what others miss. They read the room. They sense shifts before they're obvious. They care deeply. They see connections. They pick up on nuance.

The challenge is that these gifts can feel overwhelming when you don't know how to work with them.

When sensitivity is ungrounded, it can look like people-pleasing, overthinking, taking on everyone else's emotions, getting stuck in chronic pain and illness or constantly doubting yourself.

But when sensitivity is supported by strong boundaries, self-trust, and regulation?

It becomes wisdom.

It becomes intuition.

It becomes leadership.

The world doesn't need fewer sensitive people.

It needs more sensitive people who know how to use their gifts. 💫💕

06/29/2026

Do you believe in the woo?! ✨

Ever tried a past life regression?

The first time I experienced one, I was shocked by how real it felt. It wasn't just a story playing in my mind...my whole system responded as if it had touched something familiar.

Whether you believe past lives are literal memories, symbolic stories from the subconscious, or something in between, the experience can be incredibly powerful.

I've learned that sometimes the value isn't in proving whether it's "real"... it's in noticing what it reveals, what emotions arise, and what shifts afterward!

I'm curious... have you ever experienced a past life regression? 👇💫

06/26/2026

Here is a fun one!

I talk alot about helping with pain but this work is always awesome for performance!

This drill is based on opposing joint theory. We are mirroring the lower body positioning with the opposite limb of the upper body. There's a bunch of neat brain science involved in why this can work.

06/24/2026

The first rule of Healing Club is: your body is not the enemy.

The second rule of Healing Club is: your body is not the enemy.

Everything changed for me (anxiety, depression, eating disorders, chronic pain) when I stopped treating my body like something that needed to be fixed and started treating it like something that needed to be connected with, listened to and honoured.

Healing began when the fight ended.

06/22/2026

A pattern I've noticed over the years is that right before I "level up", right before something really good shifts in my life....things often feel hard, confusing, and messy.

I lose my keys.

I forget what I was saying halfway through a sentence.

I start questioning myself.

I feel like I don't know what I'm doing or what I'm talking about.

I feel like I'll never get to where I want to be.

And then, somehow, I move through it.

And on the otherside...

Things click.

I understand something in a deeper, more meaningful way than I did before.

It's almost as if the old version of me has to get a little disoriented before a new perspective can emerge.

Now that I've noticed this pattern, it's easier for me to recognize it when it's happening.

It doesn't mean I enjoy it.

It doesn't mean it's comfortable.

But it does mean I don't panic quite as much.

Instead of assuming everything is falling apart, I can wonder if maybe something is coming together.

You know that moment when you've been unusually grumpy, emotional, and irritated by absolutely everything...and then your period starts and you're like, "AHHHH... that makes so much sense."

That's what growth often feels like to me.

In the middle of it, nothing makes sense.

Looking back, it all does.

I don't know if it's like that for you, or if your pattern looks completely different.

But paying attention to the patterns has been incredibly helpful for me.

The more I understand my own rhythms, the less I fight them!!!

10/10 recommend.

06/18/2026

"How long is this healing thing going to take?"

When you're in pain, overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, or feeling disconnected from yourself, you want to know when you'll finally arrive at the finish line.

But healing rarely moves in a straight line.

Some things shift in a single session.
Some things take months.
Some things unfold in layers you didn't even know existed.

We are complex.

And while everyone's journey is different, there are a few patterns I've noticed that seem to support the process.

1. Stop trying to fix yourself.

You are not a problem to solve.

You are a human being having a human experience.

Yes, there may be things you want to change. Patterns you want to understand. Symptoms you want relief from.

But healing tends to move with more ease when it comes from self-compassion rather than self-rejection.

2. Challenge your thoughts.

Or work with someone who can help you do that.

Not everything you think is true.

Most people secretly believe healing is possible for everyone except them.

Sometimes you need to borrow someone else's belief until you can find your own.

3. It's not going to be linear.

It just won't.

The difficult days don't erase the progress.

Expect ups and downs.

The lows prepare you for the wins. The wins prepare you for the lows.

All of it is part of the process.

4. Boundaries matter, but so does flexibility.

In the beginning, healing often requires strong boundaries.

But at some point, the walls need to come down.

The rules that once supported you might start limiting you.

At a certain stage, it's okay to skip the four-step morning routine or miss a day of journaling.

Healing isn't about becoming more rigid.

It's about becoming more free. Free to choose. Free to trust yourself.

5. Wrap yourself in compassion.

Looking at your patterns, wounds, fears, and habits can be hard.

The kinder you can be with yourself, the more space there is for real change to happen.

The hard part is that healing isn't usually about getting somewhere else.

It's about learning how to be with yourself exactly as you are.

06/16/2026

We're so quick to label things as good or bad.

We're so quick to resist feeling the "bad" stuff, as if being sad, frustrated, anxious, disappointed, or overwhelmed means something is wrong with us.

Mmany of us learned that feeling good is the goal and anything else is a problem to fix.

But what if nothing is wrong?

What if having a hard day doesn't mean all that much?

What if feeling grief, anger, fear, uncertainty, or sadness is simply part of being human?

One of the biggest gifts of my practice has been learning to be more present with what is.

Whether it's joy, grief, excitement, frustration, or what most days actually are... somewhere in the middle.

The more I practice being with my experience instead of fighting it, the more I realize how much energy I used to spend resisting reality.

Resisting what I felt.
Judging myself for feeling it.
Trying to get somewhere else.

I think that resistance often makes things harder than they need to be.

We are here to experience the full spectrum of being human, not just the parts that feel good.

For me the goal isn't to feel good all the time.

It's to build the capacity to be with whatever is here, whatever is real.

There's a strange kind of freedom that comes when you stop chasing happiness and start allowing life to unfold. When you stop trying to fix yourself and get curious. When you stop putting so much pressure on yourself and just allow yourself to be with what is.

06/14/2026

Breathwork is cool.

But have you ever tried getting super specific with your nervous system?

Your brain is constantly trying to answer one important question:

"Where am I in space, and am I safe here?"

To figure that out, it relies heavily on three systems working together:

• Vision — what your eyes see
• Vestibular — your balance and inner ear system
• Proprioception — your body's ability to sense position and movement

When these systems aren't communicating well, your brain has to do more guesswork.

And your brain doesn't like uncertainty.

When information is unclear, it will often become more protective.

That protection can show up as tension, dizziness, poor balance, chronic pain, coordination issues, fatigue, feeling disconnected from your body, or just feeling generally "off."

This is one of the reasons why generic nervous system tools don't always work.

Especially for those dealing with persistent pain, symptoms, or a highly protective nervous system, it can be overwhleming for your system.

The most powerful intervention is in improving the quality of the information your brain is receiving. ANd getting really speficic with what your unique system needs.

Training your eyes.

Working with balance.

Improving propropception.

Building better communication between the systems your brain relies on to create a sense of safety.

When the brain gets clearer information, the output often changes:

• less tension
• smoother movement
• better balance and coordination
• improved mobility and strength
• reduced threat responses
• sometimes even shifts in mood, energy, and pain levels

06/12/2026

Everyone says “regulate your nervous system”…

But can we talk about HOW?

And for the love of god…
regulation does not mean being calm all the time.
It does not mean feeling good 24/7.
And it does not mean using hacks to bypass a melt down.

Breathwork, meditation, yoga?
Absolutely helpful for some people...some of the time.

But what gets missed is:
The specifics matter.
The dosage matters.
And your brain only cares if the input actually creates more safety.

Your nervous system is constantly gathering information through systems like:

👀 Your visual system
🌀 Your vestibular system
👋 Your proprioceptive system (where your body is in space)

These systems are feeding your brain information ALL day long so it can decide:
“Am I safe enough to relax, move freely, digest, heal, connect?”

If those inputs are unclear...
your brain will often increase tension, pain, fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, dizziness, bracing, etc. as a protective strategy.

So while you might feel good during and right after your yoga class, your meditation or your breathwork session.and it can be more of a bandaid approach instead of actually creating long term change. And I know this because I taught a bandaid approch for a long time - I watched people come to yoga classes for years without making a lot of long term gains until I started integrating a nervous system based approach.

The nervous system- needs accurate information.

eye exercises
vestibular training
improving coordination
changing movement variability
building tolerance slowly

getting the RIGHT dose instead of forcing yourself through practices your system does not like..

This is very unique to your system, your history and your symptoms.

When you get specific in your training you create lasting change. No more bandaid approches.

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97 Portland Street
Dartmouth, NS

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Thursday 8am - 7pm

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