Somatic Work
Healing and Awakening Through the Body
What is Somatic Work?
The word somatic comes from the Greek word soma, meaning “the living body in its wholeness.” It points not just to the physical form, but to the body as a direct, living experience—intelligent, expressive, and inseparable from our emotions, thoughts, sensations, and spirit.
Somatic work invites us to listen deeply to this living body. Through mindful presence and curiosity, we begin to access the body’s wisdom—its memory, its knowing, its capacity to heal and awaken. Rather than approaching the body as something to fix or control, somatic practices open a compassionate dialogue with what’s already here, allowing insight, regulation, and transformation to arise naturally from within.
Approaches I work with
Body-centred Psychotherapy
A mindful, body-based approach to uncovering and transforming unconscious patterns
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy is a gentle, body-based approach that helps uncover the unconscious beliefs, emotional imprints, and patterns shaping how we experience life. Through mindful presence, healing unfolds naturally—not by analysing or fixing, but by noticing what arises in the moment through sensation, movement, imagery, and emotion.
Grounded in safety and respect for your pace, this collaborative process supports the body in releasing what it no longer needs. Rather than revisiting old stories, the work creates space for integration—opening the way to greater freedom, authenticity, and ease.
Somatic Inquiry
A path of awakening through the body.
Somatic Inquiry is a contemplative, body-based process of listening deeply to your inner experience—not to fix or change it, but to discover the truth of what’s here. Rooted in presence, curiosity, and reverence, it invites the body to reveal insights, clarity, and integration through attuned guidance and awareness of sensation, emotion, and felt meaning.
Rather than focusing on symptoms or past events, this work explores what is unfolding in the present moment. Many are drawn to it as a path of both healing and spiritual awakening, opening the way to authenticity, wholeness, and a deeper ground of being.
Tension and Trauma Release Exercises TRE®
Release deeply held patterns of tension and stress that hold you back physically, emotionally and spiritually.
TRE® is a gentle yet powerful series of exercises designed to support the body in releasing deep patterns of stress, tension, and trauma. It works by safely activating the body’s natural tremor mechanism—a neurogenic vibration that helps discharge muscular tension and bring the nervous system back to a state of balance, ease, and calm.
When we carry unresolved stress or trauma, the body can remain in a contracted state—stuck in fight, flight, or freeze. Over time, this can impact everything from our sleep to our sense of safety and connection. TRE offers a simple, body-led way to unwind these patterns, restoring a felt sense of groundedness, presence, and vitality.
Work with Renata
