Samantha Holland, PhD teaches self-moving, self-sensing, and self-learning to address ongoing stress, stiffness, discomfort, and pain. A Certified Clinical Somatic Educator, Essential Somatics® Movement Teacher, and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, her approach is grounded in Thomas Hanna’s Clinical Somatic Education.
Samantha’s main online offerings are her ‘Nurturing Freedom from Stress, Stiffness, Discomfort & Pain: 28 Days of Embodied Stress Release’ course, and her EMBODY Somatics programme for psychotherapists and counsellors. She runs in-person and online workshops on ‘Listening to the Whole, Embodied Person’ to introduce Somatics and what it really means to fellow SEPs, counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, and other listening professionals.
Like so many of us, Samantha had struggled for years to find a long-term solution to neck, shoulder, and hip pain, and areas of increasingly limited proprioception and smooth movement. Upon discovering Hanna’s unparalleled work following a 3-hour Somatics-inspired yoga workshop, Samantha realised there was something revolutionary about this thing called Somatics in the way it treats the whole, embodied human and starts to melt away long-held pain from within. When Martha Peterson’s Essential Somatics® Movements started to free up Samantha’s muscle tension almost immediately—using just cortical self-education and amazingly gentle movements—it confirmed for her that this was something special.
Samantha is an active member of the AHSE. She’s also a Focusing Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, member of ISMETA and SEI, and has studied with Peter Levine, PhD, in person. She integrates the “felt sense” work of Focusing and SE™ along with aspects of Polyvagal Theory into her client work.
Based in the Scottish Highlands (near Nairn) and online, Samantha also sees clients and runs workshops in Sheffield (South Yorkshire) a few times each year. She runs an indie bookshop in Nairn.
Phone: +44(0)754 666 6135
Email: hello@somaticsamantha.com
Website: somaticsamantha.com