02/10/2026
Do you know what Somatic Work is?
A few years back I heard the word somatic and honestly thought it sounded like something mechanical. Something to do with engines or science labs. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
What I’ve learned since is that somatic work is simply about the body — how it quietly carries our experiences, our stress, our habits, our stories. Not in a dramatic way, just in the everyday things we all recognise: tight shoulders, bracing without meaning to, the breath sitting high in the chest.
It’s not quite mindfulness, though it is closely connected. Mindfulness asks us to notice our thoughts and breath. Somatic work asks us to notice what the body is saying underneath all of that. The textures, the weight, the tension, the ease.
This is why we’ve invited Emma Flint from Em Flint Somatics to our October supper club. Emma isn’t coming to “perform” or run a class — she’s simply joining us at the table, part of the evening, part of the conversation.
And after dessert, when everyone is relaxed and settled, she’ll lead us into some somatic work in her own gentle way. Nothing pressured, nothing performative, just a calm moment to explore what the body might be holding.
A lovely way to end an autumn evening.
Oh and yes maybe a plumb cake for pudding?