BODY-LED MEDITATION · SOMATIC THERAPY

Meditation
designed for you.

Body-led meditation and somatic therapy for women who want to feel more at home in themselves.

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Mindful. Compassionate. Body Centred.

A DIFFERENT WAY IN

A gentler, more human
way to meditate.

Meditation is often taught as something we need to get right. Sit still. Focus on the breath. Quiet the mind. Stay with it, even when something inside you wants to move away.

But your body may be asking for something different.

Body-led meditation begins with what is already here. Rather than overriding restlessness, emotion, numbness, distraction or the need to move, you are invited to notice your experience and respond with curiosity, choice and care.

Grounded in somatic therapy and nervous system informed practice, this is less about becoming good at meditation, and more about building a relationship with your body that feels responsive, compassionate and your own.

The practice meets you where you are.
You do not have to meet the practice.

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Lauren Howe sitting outdoors in nature

Begin with
the body.

Lauren Howe

A slower,
kinder way
is possible.

WHY I WORK THIS WAY

My body taught me
another way to meditate.

Meditation has been part of my life for more than a decade, but a silent retreat changed my relationship with it. I kept forcing myself to sit still, follow the technique and push through, even as my body was asking me to move, orient and stop.

I thought discipline meant staying. Instead, my nervous system tipped into what I now understand as a trauma response.

That changed everything.

I began questioning practices built around stillness, perfection and ideals when they ask us to override the body in front of us.

I stopped asking my body to fit meditation, and began seeking meditation practices that nourished my body.

Through somatic therapy, nature-based practice and my own lived experience, Body-Led Meditation began to take shape. In essense it is less forcing and more listening. It centres individual choice. And encourages practice that makes room for and tends to whatever is actually here.

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A KINDER, MORE CONNECTED WAY OF BEING

My guiding principles.

These are the foundations I return to in meditation, somatic work and the way I meet each person who comes into this space.

Nervous system
informed

Work with your system,
not against it.

Choice-centred

Your practice.
Your pace.
Your way.

Inclusive and
person-centred

All bodies.
Your experience, needs and capacity matter.

Inspired by nature

Guided by the wisdom
of the natural world.

Meeting what is here

Meet your experience
with compassion and care.

THE BODY-LED MEDITATION METHOD

Your body can
lead the way.

Body-led meditation is not a sequence you have to perform perfectly. It is a way of listening and responding that can change from one moment to the next.

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01

Notice

Tune in to what is
happening in your body
right now.

02

Meet

Be with what you find
with curiosity and
compassion.

03

Support

Offer what feels
helpful, whether that is breath,
movement, rest or resource.

04

Integrate

Carry what you learn
into your life, in
your own way.

A MOMENT TO CHECK IN

Pause and notice.

Before choosing a practice, take a moment to notice what is already here. You do not need to change anything first.

What are you noticing in your body?

What might feel supportive right now?

Let what you notice guide what comes next.

BODY-LED MEDITATIONS

What does your body
need today?

There is no perfect choice. Begin with the one that feels closest to your experience today.

Personalised support for your unique journey.

WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

DEEPEN

Body-Led Meditation
Mentoring

Personalised support to explore how meditation can work with your body, your nervous system and the way you actually move through life.

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DIVE DEEPER

Private Body-Led
Sessions

Individual somatic therapy for the places that may need more time, relationship and support than a meditation practice alone can offer.

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THE SOFT GROUND

Words for the
journey inward.

Reflections on the body, meditation, nervous system, womanhood and the inner work of becoming.

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