What is Somatic Living ?
Somatic Living is the practice of experiencing life through awareness of the body in the present moment.
Instead of living primarily in thoughts about the past or future, you learn to listen to physical sensations, emotions, breath, and inner signals that guide you toward balance and well-being.
By gently tuning into the body with curiosity and compassion, Somatic Living helps calm the nervous system, release stored stress, and restore a sense of safety and connection with yourself. Over time, this embodied awareness supports clearer intuition, emotional resilience, and more conscious choices.
Somatic Living is not about fixing yourself — it is about returning to the wisdom already are.
With gentle guidance, you’ll be supported in letting go of the past, quieting fear of the future, and staying grounded in the now—where clarity and conscious creation live.
The Benefits of Living Somatically
- A strong, vibrant body
- A peaceful, focused mind
- An open, loving happy heart
Here you will find gentle Somatic Guided Practices
- Blessing Cells
- Change Your Life in 15 minutes
- Awaken with Gratitude
- Forgive through Compassion
- Return to Wholeness with Color and Sound
- Start Your Day with Inspiration
- Somatic Practice: Go With the Flow
- Get Out of the R.U.T. Somatic Living Exercise
- Listening to the Heart Practice Somatic Living Exercise
- Somatic Practice - How to Deal with Betrayal and Abandonment
- Somatic Practice - Let Go of Guilt, Shame and Blame
More coming soon....
Somatic Practice: Go With the Flow
Go with the Flow
Somatic Practice: Go With the Flow
Set Your Intention:
To gently release resistance and return the body and mind to a state of trust, presence, and natural movement.
Practice
Pause and notice
Sit comfortably. Let your shoulders soften.
Take one slow breath in through the nose… and exhale gently.
Feel the body
Bring awareness to where your body touches the chair or floor.
Notice the support beneath you.
Tune inward
Place one hand on your heart or belly.
Ask yourself quietly:
“What am I feeling right now?”
No fixing — just noticing.
Breathe with what is
Imagine your breath moving through the feeling, like water flowing around a stone.
Allow sensations to exist without resistance.
Soften resistance
On each exhale, silently say:
“I allow this moment to be as it is.”
Return to flow
Picture yourself floating gently in a calm river — supported, not struggling.
Life moves. You move with it.
Take one final slow breath and open your eyes.
Affirm Softly
“I trust life as it unfolds and allow each moment to guide me with ease and grace.”
Get Out of the R.U.T. Somatic Living Exercise
Get Out of the R.U.T.
Purpose:
To gently release resistance and return the body and mind to a state of trust, presence, and natural movement.
Practice
- Pause and notice
Sit comfortably. Let your shoulders soften.
Take one slow breath in through the nose… and exhale gently.
- Feel the body
Bring awareness to where your body touches the chair or floor.
Notice the support beneath you.
- Tune inward
Place one hand on your heart or belly.
Ask yourself quietly:
“What am I feeling right now?”
No fixing — just noticing.
- Breathe with what is
Imagine your breath moving through the feeling, like water flowing around a stone.
Allow sensations to exist without resistance.
- Soften resistance
On each exhale, silently say:
“I allow this moment to be as it is.”
- Return to flow
Picture yourself floating gently in a calm river — supported, not struggling.
Life moves. You move with it.
Take one final slow breath and open your eyes.
Affirm Softly
“I choose awareness over fear and take one gentle step forward into change.”
Listening to the Heart Practice Somatic Living Exercise
Follow Your Heart
This gentle somatic practice helps you return to the present moment by listening inward — not to thoughts, but to the quiet wisdom of the body and heart.
Settle
Sit comfortably and allow your body to soften.
Let your shoulders drop and your breath slow naturally.
Hand to Heart
Place one hand gently over your heart center.
Feel the warmth of your hand and the subtle movement of your breath beneath it.
Notice
Without trying to change anything, simply notice:
- sensations in the chest
- the rhythm of your breath
- any emotions present
There is nothing to fix — only to feel.
Listen
Quietly ask yourself:
“What am I feeling right now?”
Then listen in the body rather than the mind.
Allow whatever arises to be present with compassion.
Breathe with Compassion
Take 3 slow breaths, allowing your chest to expand gently.
Imagine breathing kindness directly into your heart.
Receive
End by silently saying:
“I am here. I am listening. I am safe in this moment.”
You can practice this anytime you feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or disconnected.
Even one minute of somatic awareness can help restore presence, safety, and self-connection.
Affirm Softly
“My heart is my compass, and I trust its wisdom to lead me home to myself.”
Betrayal and Abandonment Somatic Living Exercise
Somatic Practice - How to Deal with Betrayal and Abandonment
“Returning to Safety Within”
This practice helps the nervous system release stored emotional charge and reconnect with inner safety and self-trust.
Ground the Body
Sit comfortably with both feet on the floor or lie down.
Place one hand on your heart and one on your lower belly.
Take slow, gentle breaths without forcing them.
Allow your shoulders and jaw to soften.
Simply notice: You are here. You are breathing.
Acknowledge the Feeling
Bring awareness to the sensation of betrayal or abandonment without analyzing the story.
Ask yourself:
Where do I feel this in my body?
You may notice tightness in the chest, heaviness in the stomach, or tension in the throat.
Let the sensation exist without trying to change it.
Stay With the Sensation
Breathe slowly into the area where the feeling lives in the body.
Imagine creating space around the sensation rather than pushing it away.
You might silently say:
- “This feeling is allowed.”
- “I can be with this.”
- “I am safe right now.”
This helps the nervous system shift from protection into regulation.
Offer Compassion to Yourself
Gently press your hand into your heart.
Imagine speaking to yourself the way you would comfort a child or dear friend.
For example:
“You did not deserve to be hurt.”
“I am here with you.”
“You are not alone now.”
Let the body receive these words.
Return to the Present Moment
Slowly notice your surroundings — the room, sounds, light, or the feeling of the chair supporting you.
Take three slow breaths.
Allow the body to settle naturally.
This practice doesn’t erase the past — it helps the body release the emotional imprint of it, restoring safety, presence, and self-connection.
Over time, practicing this gently retrains the nervous system to understand:
abandonment happened — but you are no longer alone with the feeling.
Let Go of Guilt, Shame and Blame Somatic Living Exercise
Somatic Practice - Let Go of Guilt, Shame and Blame
Let go of guilt shame and blame with forgiveness and the Violet Flame.
Another tool I would like to share with you and can be easily applied in any instant and can be practiced continually without outside assistance; is the Violet Flame or light. The color of violet is the energy of transmutation. It is the color to be used when you wish to change a negative thought, feeling, situation and or person, including yourself into the positive.
First you find or create for your self a comfortable place to sit or lie down to begin your play.
I use the word play because your mental body already has a strong resistance to other words such as; exercise, work, discipline etc. The mental body will attempt to stop you short
of even beginning by using your own negative connotation to those words to manipulate you in not taking loving time for yourself to be free from its limiting control; especially when it involves forgiveness. It would often rather be right than happy!
Create a place to play and get to know the inner wisdom of self; your soul!
It can be a comfortable chair by a window where lots of sunlight can stream in to ensure a sense of nurturing warmth, or somewhere out in nature.
I do suggest you make it as easy as possible for yourself and simply move a chair by a window somewhere in your home during a time you will not be distracted by the needs of
others sharing the home. You can always speak clearly by explaining to those others, you are taking time for yourself for the next 30 minutes or an hour and you chose to not be interrupted.
You are responsible for doing loving things for yourself and if you set yourself up for the risk of being interrupted by not communicating clearly you will be also setting yourself up for
yet another experience that you are negatively holding self or another accountable for.
- Sit in your chair
- Close your eyes
- Imagine a cylinder shaped tube of brilliant violet light.
- Expand the tube so that more than one person can stand within it.
- Call in the person; place or thing that you perceive is presenting the challenge.
- Invite them to step into the violet light.
- You step in after them or you can enter first.
- The two of you stand face to face. At first you or they may
- not be willing to look into one another's eyes. Don't be concerned, just stand there.
- Allow the violet light to fill up your entire body, by breathing it in continuously. In this example, the other will begin to do the same.
- Stay in the light for at least 15 minutes until you feel you have completely absorbed the violet light within you and you have witnessed the other doing the same. You will know this is complete when all the violet light turns to brilliant white light.
- Now look each other in the eyes; this will now be easier as all the negative thoughts and feelings regarding self-imposed and/or projected accountability are gone due to the violet light transmuting the negativity into the positive.
- Thank one another for showing up to clear the ego or fear based part of the brain also known as lower mental bodies of one another with the love and knowingness of the souls of one another.
- You can kiss, hug or whatever feels lovingly appropriate, as you remember you are the same and there is no judgment of the self or projected upon any other. You will be able to do so because while in the tube as you were breathing in the violet light, the clarity of the higher truth was revealed to you and the lower mental body was dismissed, right after you allowed your self to scream, cry, blame and feel shame. The emotions are an over lay of the thoughts; as such the more engaged you are in the negative emotions, the less ability you have to see and know clearly what is really going on. In the tube you get to express those emotions without harm to self or the other.
- Step out of the tube but take the white light with you for the rest of your day.
You can practice this each and every day, it may be with the same person for a long lasting challenge or you can do it in an instant when you recognize a new challenge arising.
A Testimony
During my divorce, I used the practice of transmuting with the violet flame every day for six months. I had become consumed by anger, resentment, and fear — convinced something terrible was being done to me. Attorneys were involved, emotions were escalating, and the situation felt like a battle.
Then I remembered the choice I had made long before: to live in peace, love, and inner freedom.
I realized forgiveness was the doorway back to that state — forgiveness for my estranged husband, for the situation, and most importantly, for myself. I had to release the belief that I was “less than” or deserving of loss. I had to give to myself what I hoped to receive from others.
Through the guidance I found in the violet flame practice, I committed to choosing forgiveness again and again, regardless of outer circumstances.
One week before our court date, everything shifted. My former husband approached me with tears in his eyes, apologized sincerely, and returned what had been contested — the home and the agreed financial settlement. We chose peace instead of conflict and compassion instead of fear.
That moment showed me the true power of forgiveness and the somatic practice of feeling the violet flame transmuting all within me that did not served my intension of love.
Although our lives moved in different directions, we both walked forward with love rather than resentment. Forgiveness freed us — not by changing the past, but by transforming how we held it within ourselves.
From the soul’s perspective, forgiveness reveals a deeper truth:
there was never anything to forgive — only experiences guiding us back to love.
Affirmations
I am safe within myself. I am worthy of love, connection, and belonging.
I release the pain of the past and return to trust in myself.
I do not abandon myself — I meet myself with love and presence.
In this moment, I am supported, whole, and not alone.
Somatic Meditation — Becoming Your Own True Love
True Love
Get Grounded and Present
Find a comfortable seated or lying position.
Allow your body to soften and your breath to slow.
Gently close your eyes.
Take a slow breath in through your nose…
and exhale through your mouth.
Again — inhale slowly
and exhale, letting your shoulders drop.
Now bring your awareness into your body.
Notice the weight of your body being supported by the earth beneath you.
You do not need to hold yourself up right now.
You are held.
Place one hand over your heart and one hand over your belly.
Feel the warmth of your hands.
Feel your breath moving beneath them.
There is nothing to fix.
Nothing to change.
Nothing to become.
Just feel.
Begin to Listen to Your Body
Bring your awareness to your heart center.
Notice any sensation present:
warmth, tightness, openness, heaviness, numbness — all are welcome.
Silently say to yourself:
“I am here with you.”
Pause and feel what happens in your body.
Now bring awareness to your belly.
This is the center of safety, identity, and emotional memory.
Breathe gently into this space.
Say softly inside:
“You are safe with me.”
Allow your nervous system to hear these words.
Reclaim Self-Love
Imagine now that you are sitting across from yourself —
the younger you, the hurting you, the tired you, the brave you —
all aspects of you.
Notice what you feel in your body as you see yourself.
Without forcing anything, gently say:
“I will not abandon you.”
Pause.
Feel the response in your chest, throat, or belly.
Now say:
“I choose you.”
Breathe slowly.
And then:
“I love you exactly as you are.”
Let your body receive those words instead of trying to believe them.
Somatic love is not thinking — it is allowing.
Integration- Merging with Self Love
Imagine now that the version of you sitting across from you stands up
and slowly steps into your heart.
You are no longer separate.
You are together.
Whole.
Notice how your body feels when there is no one to chase,
no one to prove yourself to,
no one to become for love.
Just breathing.
Just being.
Just loving.
Closing
Take three slow breaths.
With each exhale, allow your body to soften more deeply into support.
When you are ready, gently open your eyes.
Carry this knowing with you:
You are the love you have been searching for.
And your body already knows how to return you there.