Somatics explores the deep connection between mind and body, revealing insight into our body’s regenerative abilities.
Through increased awareness, we learn to identify physical and emotional tensions that might block our natural regenerative processes. Somatic practices—including mindful movement, breath-work, bodywork, and highly attuned body awareness—help amplify holistic health, reduce stress, and invite resilient states of thriving.
Our body constantly regenerates itself, with cells renewing at different cycles.
Stomach lining cells refresh within days, while bone cells take years to regenerate completely. This remarkable renewal process varies by tissue type. Through somatics, we learn to support and enhance these natural regenerative cycles by understanding how our bodies function and what they need to thrive.
The liver offers an example of our body’s regenerative power—it can repair and regrow itself overnight after injury. This process happens through the liver’s ability to replace damaged cells with new ones, particularly during rest periods.
Here are common examples of how the body regenerates itself:
All of these processes amplify through deep rest states – why rest is crucial for healing. During sleep, our body dedicates energy to repair and recovery at its optimum.
Somatic practices act as a bridge because they help bring us into supported deep rest states where healing flourishes.
These deep rest states activate our parasympathetic nervous system—our “rest and digest” mode—allowing our body to repair tissues, create proteins, and release healing hormones.
When can more easily access these restorative states – we can optimise our natural healing processes.
How does regenerating the body relate to our personal lives?
Generational trauma and epigenetic are two fields that can illustrate how we embody these aspects in everyday reality.
Generational trauma shows how we hold patterns in our tissue field that are influences by our parents, and grandparents, great-grandparents, and so-on. While, epigenetics acts like a biological switchboard of sorts, that turns genes on or off, influenced by lifestyle and environment which impacts how we adapt. This field shows that our genes are not our destiny; they can be modified by our choices.
Experienced heightened body awareness with a trained somatic therapist through an Embodiment Mentorship (online) or Biodynamic Somatic Therapy (in-person) for your own personalised healing process. This will help deepen your relationship to your body.
