Soma in Greek means body. Somatic means of the body. In Sanskrit katha means story. somatic katha is an approach that invites the body to come to its center and listen to the body’s story. It is a writing technique that transforms embodied trauma into liberation. somatic katha also offers a slow presence to an internalized/inner critic to support its transformation into an internalized nurturer.
How?
By engaging in somatic practices such as breath and movement abhyaas (in Hindi abhyaas means practice), somatic katha:
Taps into one’s body’s authentic wisdom in the moment.
Offer tools to create an embodied narrative/ katha by focusing on the current moment instead of sitting with the story deeply seated in the mind.
The somatic practices transform grief into sacred growth; shame into liberation, fragility into resilience, and disintegration into integration. It is a practice.
This modality is designed by weaving in the wisdom of bhava (emotions), abhinaya (the art of expression in Indian aesthetics), and abhyaas (practice) to approach the body, to listen to its deeply seated wisdom. With contemplative practice, we then make meaning, by engaging in a writing practice.
