Embodied connection
Be here. With another.
Practices for noticing yourself, meeting another person, and staying in contact with the world around you.
We can explore presence together.
Begin with curiosity. Make space for choice. Let experience unfold at a pace you can meet.
Experience it together
Take the ideas into life.
A retreat gives time to meet, explore and return to what matters.
Thailand
01 — 10 April 2027
Cultivating Connectedness
Somatic Relating Come Home to Connection
What is Somatic Relating?
Somatic Relating is a form of togetherness that creates the possibility of nourishment and the deep satisfaction of basic human needs through human contact:
to feel safe to be seen to feel accepted to belong
To be met in our vulnerability, to be addressed with kindness, to express feelings, to play, to move, to feel comforted, and to relate in a satisfying way.
Somatic Relating Includes:
- Establishing healthy boundaries suitable for each interaction
- Embodied presence
- Breathing freely and letting the breath be expressive
- Attuning to nonverbal cues of others
- Widening our perception
- Resonating through movement, breath, and sound
- Admitting our needs
- Asking openly for what we want
- Expressing when something doesn’t feel right
- Pausing and slowing down
- Improvising and inviting the unknown
- Free agency
- Distinguishing between intimacy and sexuality
A Whole-Person Approach
Somatic Relating sees the person holistically — as a soul, spirit, mind, psyche with its stories, a body with all its systems, memories and parts, a personality, a unique being, a friend, a brother or sister.
What Might Get in the Way?
This work helps you meet and move through internal obstacles such as:
- Limiting beliefs
- Past traumatic experiences
- Lack of nourishing intimate interactions
- Attachment styles
- Survival strategies
- Cultural differences
- Prejudices and misconceptions
Where Can Somatic Relating Be Practiced?
- Between friends, family, and partners
- In parenting and caregiving
- In doula work
- In sessions between therapists and clients
Why Water? Somatic Relating can also be practiced in water.
Warm water softens the body and opens up the heart. It helps us slow down, release tension, and return to a state of natural flow. In this element, we access a deeper level of trust and connection.
Water also creates a sense of spaciousness and partially depersonalizes the experience, allowing us to feel held and supported by the environment rather than by a particular individual.
What You'll Experience
Each class is a laboratory for exploration, with guided practices that may include:
-Partner and group touch sequences
-Co-regulation through body contact
-Cycle of Satisfaction - Yielding, Pushing, Reaching, Grabbing, Taking Hold, Pulling, and Absorbing
-Somatic repaterning - ways to re-write existing patterns in the body for more conscious and healthy reactions
-Time and space to rest, float, and be held
You'll work in pairs, trios, and small groups, always with clear consent and gentle guidance.
