When your body says yes but your soma says no! 

Soma in Greek means "of the body".  Or how the body knows. 

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In SomaSensing™ it means integrity, a state of wholeness. Where we have are guided by  intuition. A sense felt sense of  "inner guidance" or "inner knowing" Of what feels right.  This sensory guidance is subtle and always there.  

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What takes us away from that is any form of stress, pain or trauma. Numbing our sensory signals as a way of coping with overwhelm.  Resulting in sensory amnesia and nervous system dysregulation. 

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A body under emotional stress will often choose comfort and safety over integrity. It finds the quickest way to "feel- good" creating an association. A habit.  The body's way of coping and surviving. 

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It's why we may find that we choose what makes us feel good instead of what's good for us. Like choosing a mouth-watering tempting slice of chocolate cake over a green salad.

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The body chooses what makes us feel good. Soma guides what's good for us.

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SomaSensing™ calms the nervous system to connect you to Soma or wholeness. Helping you to recognise your true self from your habitual nature.  Helping you to self-regulate. Providing easy practices to manage overwhelming sensory information. Bringing your nervous system into regulation and helping you to know yourself from a place of calm and compassion.

Interoception is sensory information that arises from within the body. 

Exteroception is sensory information we sense from the outside in.

Proprioception sometimes known as kinaesthetic awareness is how we sense body position and motion.

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Interoception

Interoception refers to sensations that provide clues about the state of your nervous system. They arise as butterflies in your tummy when we are anxious or in love, heart racing, a warm fuzzy feeling or nausea, sensual touch, hunger, cravings, or the urge to pee. So helpful when you want to calm down distress signals. But what if those distress signals are overwhelming? Then you tune in to your fascia.

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Fascia your connective tissue is the largest sensory organ of the body. Stiffening with discomfort or pain under any form of dysregulation or dissonance. Fascia has an abundance of interoceptors. Also providing clues of the state of your nervous system from sensing the state of your tissue.

In SomaSensing, interoceptive awareness involves the somatic practice of tuning in to listen to the quality of the tissue. Noticing any areas of discomfort or stiffness and self-adjusting intuitively to soften those areas of stiffness. Calming the sympathetic, "on alert" response. Pandiculation is an example of an interoceptive self-regulating practice. The urge to stretch emerges from within. Listening to that urge allows you to find and unwind areas of stiffness. Rocking to self soothe is another.