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6 week course

HeartSomatics™ Meditation

A somatic meditation journey for busy, distracted minds that are ready to stop pushing through

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A gentle introduction

If meditation has never quite worked for you, there is a reason

​When someone with ADHD — or a nervous system that has always found it hard to settle — sits down to meditate in the traditional way, the mind often does the opposite of what it is supposed to do. It speeds up. It plans, replays, problem-solves. The body feels restless or strangely numb. And rather than feeling like rest, the whole experience feels like another thing to fail at.

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This is not a concentration problem. It is a nervous system pattern, and it has a logic to it.

HeartSomatics Foundations of Meditation begins somewhere different. Rather than asking you to quiet the mind first, we start in the body — with breath, with sensation, with the simple felt experience of arriving here. Stillness becomes something that emerges naturally, rather than something to achieve.

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You do not need a quiet mind to meditate. You need a body that feels safe enough to settle.

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If you’ve ever thought “I just can’t meditate”

This course was created for you

HeartSomatics™ Foundations of Meditation is a live, trauma-aware course designed

for people who feel disconnected from themselves or who have struggled with traditional meditation approaches. This is not about clearing your mind, sitting still, or doing it “right”. It’s about learning how to meet your body where it is, and letting presence emerge naturally, without force.

What's included

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6 live weekly sessions (60–75 minutes)

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Recordings of all sessions (available after each call)

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Guided somatic meditations and practices in a held community

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Simple reflections and integration prompts

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6 months access to all course materials

Everything is designed to fit gently into your life, even during low-energy seasons.

Whats included 

Six live weekly sessions of 60 to 75 minutes, held online in a small, intentional group where co-regulation is part of the practice itself.

Recordings of every session available after each call. Guided somatic practices, simple weekly reflections and integration prompts to carry the work into daily life. Six months access to all course materials.

 

Everything is designed to fit gently into your actual life, including the low-energy days.

What we explore together

Each week creates the conditions for safety, presence and gradual reconnection.

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Week 1 — Why You Cannot Settle
Understanding the busy nervous system. Busyness is not a character flaw — it is often a survival pattern. When we understand why the mind keeps moving, we can begin to work with it rather than against it.

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Week 2 — The Body as Your Starting Point
Breath, rhythm and coming home. We regulate from the body upward, using the exhale and simple somatic anchors as tools for settling rather than concentration objects.

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Week 3 — Meeting What Arises
Feeling without getting lost. When we slow down, things surface. This week offers a gentle framework for staying present with sensation and emotion without suppressing or being swept away.

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Week 4 — Making Friends with Your Mind
From content to context. Rather than trying to stop thinking, we learn to shift our relationship to thought — resting in the wider awareness from which thoughts arise.

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Week 5 — The Still Point
Discovering what is already here. Beneath the activity of the mind, something remains undisturbed. This session is about finding that quality of presence without effort.

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Week 6 — Meditation in Daily Life
Presence in motion. A practice that only works in ideal conditions will not last. This session is about carrying what you have discovered into the texture of ordinary days.

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Plus a bonus live Q&A session in the week following the final session.

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Join the waitlist  

This group is intentionally small for safety and care, therefore spaces are limited. Be the first to hear when the next intake opens

Meet Laura

A different way in - from someone who found it.

Laura Starky is an integrative somatic therapist, meditation facilitator and the founder of HeartSomatics. With over 25 years of experience as a licensed mental health professional and social worker, and specialist training in somatic therapy, NeuroAffective Touch and meditation, she brings genuine clinical depth to embodied contemplative practice.

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As someone who received her own late ADHD diagnosis, Laura understands from the inside what it is to have a nervous system that finds conventional approaches difficult - and what becomes possible when you find a different way in. That personal thread runs through everything she teaches.

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“The membership is making a real difference to my experience of life!"

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HeartSomatics™ Mini Library

A small collection of short, gentle somatic practices for busy, distracted minds — for the moments when you need a pause, a breath and a way back to yourself.

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If you have ADHD or have always found it hard to settle, these practices were made with you in mind. Inside you will find seven of my best tried and tested somatic resources — trauma-informed, accessible and designed to work even on the hardest days.

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