INTRODUCTION TO SOMATIC SONGWRITING

Nervous system regulation is about restoring balance within the autonomic nervous system (ANS) — the part of your body that controls involuntary functions like heart rate, digestion, and breathing.

It’s the body’s natural ability to shift between different states:

• Fight or flight (sympathetic activation) when facing challenge or stress,

• Rest, digest, and create (parasympathetic activation) when feeling safe and supported.

A regulated system allows you to:

• Respond rather than react to stress

• Feel grounded, connected, and creative

• Coordinate inner processes such as hormones, immune response, and emotional expression

• Adapt fluidly to changes — both internal and external

• Access intuition and creative flow more easily

Beyond physiology, your nervous system is the bridge between your body, emotions, and creative expression. It’s where presence, intuition, and authentic artistry begin.

Your nervous system is the foundation of your creative flow.
When it’s dysregulated, your body stays in survival mode — making it harder to access intuition, presence, or playfulness. Regulation reopens those pathways so ideas, melodies, and lyrics can move through freely.

Creativity isn’t just a mental process; it’s a felt one.
Regulation helps you feel safe enough to take emotional risks — the kind that great art requires.

This isn’t a mindset program or performance hack. Somatic Songwriters brings the body into the creative process.
Instead of pushing through creative blocks, we explore the nervous system states that shape how you write, perform, and connect.
It’s not about “fixing” you — it’s about helping you feel safe enough to be yourself, both on and off stage.

Both — the science of Polyvagal Theory, somatic psychology, and neuroscience, combined with body-based awareness and creative integration.
It’s grounded in research yet deeply human, connecting physiology with artistry.

Think of it like learning an instrument or a second language.
At first, it takes repetition, curiosity, and patience. You might practice specific exercises — noticing your breath, orienting to safety, feeling your feet on the ground — much like scales or grammar rules.

But over time, it becomes embodied.
You start to “speak” the language of your body fluently. You naturally notice your sensations, regulate your breath before a performance, or reconnect to your body during writing sessions — without needing to think about it.

When your awareness becomes a natural rhythm through the day, it’s no longer practice — it’s who you’ve become.
You’re fluent in regulation. That’s when creativity flows freely again.

As much as your body needs.
This work invites you to listen inwardly instead of forcing a timeline. Some lessons may take days to integrate, others may unfold over weeks.

The goal isn’t to “finish” — it’s to live differently.
You’re learning to relate to yourself, others, and your art from a place of regulation and presence. That’s a lifelong practice, and this course gives you the foundation to sustain it.

Beautiful — this will actually deepen what you already do.
While breathwork and meditation are amazing, this course teaches when and how to use them depending on your nervous system state.
Sometimes slowing down isn’t what your body needs — sometimes it needs gentle activation or grounding through sound and movement. You’ll learn to discern the difference.

You’ll gain:

• A foundational understanding of Polyvagal Theory and how it applies to creativity

• Somatic tools for regulation, grounding, and expanding capacity

• Breath, micro-movement, and voice exercises designed for artists

• Reflection and journaling prompts for emotional integration

• Creative rituals to reconnect body, mind, and art

That’s completely normal.
For many, this information is new and not yet part of mainstream medical or creative education. Nervous system regulation is a bridge between science and embodiment, rooted in neuroscience and trauma theory, yet experienced through direct felt awareness.

You can’t see your nervous system — it lives as electrical impulses, chemical messengers, and muscular responses within you.
But you can feel it: in your breath, tension, energy, and flow.

If something inside you feels drawn to this work — even if your mind has doubts — that inner curiosity is often your system saying yes.

That’s a common and important question.
“Overwhelm” simply means too much, too fast. Trauma itself can be defined as “too much for the nervous system to process at the time.”

In this course, we work with two main ingredients: Attention and Intention.
You’ll learn to notice sensations safely, in the present moment, and to pace your experience with care. We start with foundational tools that build capacity and safety before exploring deeper layers.

Each nervous system is unique. What feels grounding for one person may feel activating for another. That’s why your pace matters most.

Part of your healing journey is learning to sense what’s too much, not enough, or just right.
We’ll guide you gently, but ultimately, you are the expert on your system.

If you feel uncertain about your capacity, you can always reach out for 1:1 support or consult your trusted care provider before diving deeper.

There’s no “right” way — only what’s true in your body in each moment.
This isn’t performance-based learning; it’s a gradual return to your own inner rhythm.
If you’re noticing more awareness — of your sensations, breath, or emotional shifts — you’re already doing it.

That’s totally okay — in fact, it’s encouraged.
Part of nervous system regulation is learning to pause when you need to.
You’ll have lifetime access to the course materials so you can return anytime your body feels ready.

Yes. You’ll have guidance through recorded lessons, reflective prompts, and the community space.
If you ever feel emotionally overwhelmed, you’re encouraged to reach out for additional support — through a trusted therapist, practitioner, or one-on-one somatic session.

No — this course is educational and experiential, not a substitute for therapy or medical treatment.
It teaches tools for self-regulation, creative recovery, and body awareness that can complement therapeutic or medical work.

While this course is safe and educational, it may not be appropriate for individuals currently experiencing:

• Severe psychiatric disorders

• Active suicidal thoughts or recent suicide attempts

• Substance abuse or severe addiction

If you’re unsure whether this program is right for you, please consult your healthcare provider before beginning.

Yes — in a nervous-system-informed way.
Instead of trying to think your way out of anxiety or blocks, we help you work through the physiological states underneath them.

You’ll learn tools to calm the body before performances, reset after touring, or reconnect when you feel disconnected from your art.
The aim isn’t to eliminate nerves — it’s to feel safe within them, so energy can transform into presence and expression.

Absolutely. Stage presence is a regulated state — the body feels safe enough to be seen.
Through regulation tools, you’ll learn to expand your capacity to be visible, expressive, and emotionally available on stage, without draining your energy afterward.

While designed with songwriters and artists in mind, anyone who wants to reconnect with their creative self can benefit from this work.
You don’t need to be a performer — only curious about your inner world and how it expresses through you.

Absolutely.
This work often complements therapy, coaching, or other healing practices. It can deepen the embodiment of insights you gain cognitively in therapy and help regulate between sessions.

You may notice:

• More creative flow and emotional safety in your writing process

• A calmer relationship with stress and performance

• Deeper connection to your body, voice, and intuition

• Greater clarity around your creative identity and needs

  
  Progress looks different for everyone — it’s less about achieving a goal and more about feeling at home in your own system.

Yes. Lessons are designed to fit into real creative lives — you can do them on the road, between sessions, or during quiet moments.
Even 5 minutes of somatic awareness can shift your state. This isn’t about doing more — it’s about being more connected in what you already do.

Not at all.
We begin with simple, accessible tools and build from there.
Each lesson is grounded in education and guided practices that teach you how to feel safely, not forcefully.

Yes. Somatic Songwriters is more than a course — it’s a community of artists learning to create from regulation instead of burnout.
You’ll have access to guided sessions, reflections, and shared spaces to connect, co-regulate, and grow together.

If you’ve ever felt creatively blocked, burnt out, anxious, depressed or disconnected from your voice — this is for you.
If you long to feel safe in your expression again, to write, perform, or simply exist from a place of ease — this work meets you there.

That’s completely okay — curiosity is part of regulation too.
This work can feel new or even a little abstract at first, especially if you’ve spent years creating or surviving from your head rather than your body.

You don’t need to have it all figured out to begin.
If something in you feels drawn — a quiet yes, even under the uncertainty — that’s usually the part of your system that’s ready for this.

You can always reach out to us with questions before joining.
We’re here to help you sense whether this work feels like the right next step for you.