Somatic Movement Therapy

Somatic movement is slow, mindful movement in which you focus on how a movement feels from the inside rather than how it looks. A practitioner guides you through gentle exercises, often lying on a mat, and invites you to notice tension and let it go. The name covers several methods, including Hanna somatics, somatic yoga and somatic dance. Somatic movement has not been studied in reliable trials yet: see “Somatic movement: what the research says”.