Welcome to the

HeartSomatics™ Community

A membership for those who are tired of just surviving and ready to feel at home in themselves again

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What is the HeartSomatics™ Community?

A gentle path back to yourself through the wisdom of your body

A somatic journey that teaches you how to listen to your body, not just your thoughts, as a source of guidance, presence and calm. Through simple, accessible practices, you learn to settle your nervous system, feel your emotions without being overwhelmed by them, and reconnect with the quiet knowing that has been there all along.

This is not an app, and it is not content to consume. It is practice in relationship. We gather live, we practise together, and when something arises in your body, there is an experienced, trauma informed practitioner there with you, and a small community of people learning to listen in the same way.

That is the difference between reading about the body and actually living in it. Many people arrive here simply looking for a place to pause and breathe. Over time, they begin to notice something shifting: more space in the body, more presence, more clarity, more capacity to respond to life instead of just reacting to it. A warmer, softer relationship with their own body. A deeper sense of trust in themselves. This work is steady, gentle and cumulative. You do not have to rush. You move at the pace your nervous system can integrate.

Imagine your week feeling more like this

You wake up and there is space in your chest instead of a knot in your stomach.

You notice a wave of anxiety and have simple practices that help you pause and reconnect with yourself.

You feel your heart, not just conceptually, but as a warm, steady place you can return to.

You move through your day less caught in your head and more anchored in your body.

And you are not doing it alone on your yoga mat. You are held inside a genuine community of women who understand.

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This is not about fixing yourself

It is about coming home to yourself

You wake up already spinning. Replaying yesterday, planning today, dreading some of it before your feet have touched the floor.

You go through the motions, work, conversations, responsibilities, but you are not really there. There is a tension that has lived so long in the body it feels like part of you. A jaw that never quite unclenches. If you are honest, you have been living in your head for so long you cannot remember the last time you felt truly present in your own life.

You have probably already tried to understand your way out of this. And the understanding has helped, but it has not reached the place that needs it.

That is because insight alone does not settle a nervous system. The way back is through the body and you do not have to find it alone.

If this sounds familiar, the HeartSomatics™ Community is for you.

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What's included when you join

You will have full access to a minmum of 2 live sessions each month: the Drop In, where you can bring your questions and curiosities, and the Somatic Inquiry Circle, a guided practice with space for inquiry and witnessing.

Live sessions take place on Monday or Wednesday evenings, last 75 mins startign at 19:15. Dates are confirmed a month in advance. All sessions are recorded and added to the library, so there is no pressure to attend everything live.

A 1:1 onboarding call for personalised guidance, an opportunity to ask questions, share a little about where you are and receive personal guidance on how to approach the practices in a way that feels supportive.

8 Foundational modules, supporting you to understand and feel the Mandala in your own system. Plus, a growing Somatic Practice Library, including yoga nidra, breathwork, micro pause practices and heart based meditations. New content added as it is released.

Community space and messaging support Inside the Somatic Wellness Hub, with direct access to Laura between sessions. And we also welcome guest practitioners whose work complements the HeartSomatics approach.

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Pricing & Options

This community is accessible, spacious and there when you need it

You can join monthly and stay for as long as it feels nourishing. There is no pressure to commit beyond what feels right for you. Over time people begin to notice more moments of presence and softness, a greater range of emotional feeling without becoming overwhelmed, less numbing or bracing in the body. A growing ability to pause rather than react. A warmer relationship with the body, deeper self trust and a quieter sense of inner steadiness. These shifts are often subtle at first. Small changes that accumulate gently over time.

Monthly Membership - £21 per month

You will have full access to 2 live sessions each month: the Drop In, where you can bring your questions and curiosities, and the Somatic Inquiry Circle, a guided practice with space for inquiry and witnessing. Also included: a 1:1 onboarding call for personalised guidance, access to all modules and the full Practice Library, community space, and direct messaging support inside the Somatic Wellness Hub. New content added as it is released. No contract. Cancel anytime.

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Be the first to find out when the doors open, or when we are holding our next free practice session

The HeartSomatics™ Mandala

A somatic learning journey at the heart of the community

The HeartSomatics Mandala is a structured journey through 8 pathways of somatic inquiry and embodied exploration. Rather than randomly grabbing practices, the Mandala helps you orient to where your heart feels guarded, where it is softening, where aliveness is already present and what feels ready for gentle attention.

We move slowly through each pathway, allowing the learning to become lived rather than rushed. You do not have to keep up. You move at the pace your nervous system can integrate. The 8 pathways are:

Inner Safety & Regulation: Developing a sense of inner steadiness so the heart no longer has to brace.

Feeling & Emotional Flow: Learning to let emotion move through the body without abandoning yourself.

Embodiment & Vitality: Reconnecting with the living intelligence of your body and softening patterns of holding.

Stillness & Presence: Waking up from autopilot and building the capacity to stay present.

Choices & Boundaries: Honouring your needs and limits without shutting down your heart.

Being Fully You: Allowing authenticity and aliveness to emerge without force or performance.

Inner Knowing & Connection: Attuning to the quieter rhythm of guidance beneath striving.

Living What Matters: Falling back into the aliveness that has always been here, and letting life organise itself from there.

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Is this community for you?

You feel drawn to meditation but want an approach that includes the body, not just the mind.

You have explored therapy, yoga or spiritual practice and sense there is another layer of experience waiting to be lived more fully.

You are curious about developing a steadier relationship with your body, emotions and inner life.

You appreciate practising alongside others who are walking a similar path of awareness and self-understanding.

You are interested in exploring presence in everyday life rather than trying to become a “better” version of yourself.

This space welcomes people from many different background, some arrive through meditation or yoga, others through personal development, and some simply feel a quiet sense that living only in the mind is not enough. You do not need to identify as spiritual to be here. Whether you come to this work through curiosity, science, intuition or lived experience, you are welcome

The deeper invitation

Beneath the practices and the pathways

HeartSomatics serves one of the great human quests: the discovery of who we really are. A discovery that changes our lives and the lives of those around us.

This is a journey within, using the heart as a portal to our deepest psychological and spiritual nature. The Mandala is Laura's map for gently softening the armour of the body so that the radiant heart can open. And when we turn toward the radiant heart, we find emotional and energetic sensitivity, relational intimacy and a reliable inner knowing - a wholeness that has been within us all along.

You do not need to think of yourself as spiritual for this to unfold. It begins exactly where you are - with the body, the breath and a willingness to listen. Through meditative and somatic inquiry, we gradually see through the beliefs that have kept the heart guarded and discover what has been quietly waiting underneath.

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A gentle introduction

A note about joining

HeartSomatics is a somatic practice and embodied awareness community. It is not a clinical space and it cannot offer the individual containment that some people genuinely need. This space may not be right for you right now if you are currently in crisis or experiencing significant mental health difficulties, working with complex trauma that is regularly destabilising, or finding that body-based practices tend to intensify rather than settle your experience.

If any of this resonates, 1:1 somatic therapy would offer a better foundation. Please reach out before joining and Laura can help you find the right level of support.

When you join you'll get immediate access to the HeartSomatics space in the hub, including the practice library, foundational modules and the community space. You will also be invited to begin with the simple onboarding journey, which introduces the Mandala and helps you find a gentle starting point for your practice.

As part of the membership you are also offered a 1:1 onboarding call with Laura. This is an opportunity to ask questions, share a little about where you are and receive guidance on how to approach the practices in a way that feels supportive. From there you are free to explore the membership at your own pace and join the live circles whenever it feels right. There is no pressure to catch up or keep up. The invitation is simply to begin where you are.

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Meet Laura

Guiding women back to their bodies through somatic inquiry and presence

Laura Starky is the founder of the Somatic Wellness Hub with over 25 years’ experience in trauma, mental health and substance misuse. Her work combines trauma-informed somatic therapy with non-dual contemplative wisdom, supporting adults who understand their patterns intellectually yet still find themselves caught in repeating emotional reactions or nervous system overwhelm. Alongside her therapy practice, Laura teaches embodied meditation and holds small group circles that support people to reconnect with the body and integrate their experiences in everyday life.

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