The principles of somatic yoga extend beyond the mat into everyday activities. Learning to move with greater awareness can improve posture, reduce workplace strain, and enhance athletic performance.

Practicing somatic yoga over time can have additional benefits for women, adds Holmes. “It can help you to feel more at home in your own body, and more comfortable in your own skin.

Somatic flow yoga is like giving your joints a little oiling. The smooth and mindful movements help the natural fluids in your joints circulate, making them feel more flexible and less stiff.

But I am also trained as a somatic-experiencing practitioner, and I’m also a trained yoga instructor. Then I had the most real education of it all, by becoming a mother.

Somatic therapists combine mindfulness, talk therapy, breathwork, yoga, dance, and physical manipulations of the body to help patients become more attuned to what their body is telling them.

Practicing somatic yoga over time can have additional benefits for women, adds Holmes. “It can help you to feel more at home in your own body, and more comfortable in your own skin.