somatic practices
Embodied awareness techniques
Somatic practices are body-centered disciplines that cultivate awareness of physical sensation, movement, and posture.
The category includes yoga, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, and similar methods that treat the body as a site of learning rather than merely an object to be trained.
Practitioners often emphasize internal experience over external form: Her somatic practice helped her recognize tension patterns she'd carried for years.
- body awarenessSensing one's physical position
- massage therapyManual soft tissue treatment
- craniosacral therapyManual therapy targeting cerebrospinal rhythm
- yogaMind-body exercise discipline
- breathworkTherapeutic breathing exercises
tai chi · mindfulness meditation · qigong · mind-body connection · physical theater · bioenergetics · dance therapy · bodywork · felt sense · trauma release · embodiment · grounding · neurofeedback · attunement · posture · tension · touch · nervous system
- danceballet, breaking, folk dances, b-boying, folk dance
somatic practicestalk therapy
Psychological treatment via conversation
psychoanalysis · cognitive therapy · cognitive behavioral therapy · bibliotherapy · logotherapy
somatic practicesabstract reasoning
Thought using concepts alone
intellectualism · book learning · rationalism · armchair philosophy