Somatic Yoga for Stress Relief: A Nervous System Reset

Do you ever feel stuck in “fight‑or‑flight”? That chronic tension, shallow breathing, and overall sense of overwhelm? Somatic yoga—a slow, mindful embodiment practice—can help reset your nervous system and bring you back home to yourself.

🌱 What Somatic Yoga Does for Your Nervous System

Somatic yoga blends traditional postures with somatic movement therapy - focused on interoception and proprioception - to increase mind-body awareness and ease stress. Research shows it reduces cortisol, lowers chronic pain, and supports trauma recovery by encouraging gentle, internal-focused movement.

A growing body of science, including small randomized trials, demonstrates that somatic practices guide the body out of sympathetic activation and into the calming parasympathetic state, helping us feel deeply safe and grounded.