A calmer way to heal the nervous system
Somia is a nervous system and somatic healing platform. Through science based practice, guided exercises, and real community, we help people understand their body’s signals, build resilience, and create lasting pathways back to balance.
One body of work, three ways in.
Start wherever you are. The membership, the book and the quiz all teach the same nervous system work at different depths.
The structured program, membership and community housed within Somia, with mentors and live support.
Join membershipFind the nervous system pattern running underneath your symptoms, in eleven questions.
Take the quizThe Secret Language of the Body extends the same work into print, published worldwide in seven languages.
Read the book
Jennifer Mann
Jennifer is a mind body practitioner and an expert in psychophysiological disorders, and coauthor of The Secret Language of the Body. At the height of her career in holistic health she became bedridden almost overnight, facing multiple chronic illnesses, severe anxiety, chronic pain, and a long list of unexplained symptoms.
Despite clinical training in neurorehabilitation and physiotherapy and a background in biomedical science, conventional medicine offered no answers. She refused the prognosis she was given and set out to rebuild her own health, and her practice, from the nervous system up.
More than a decade later, her recovery still shapes how she teaches: practical, relatable, and grounded in lived experience. She guides a worldwide community and lives in Bali with her husband and son.
Karden Rabin
Karden has worked in the wellness world for more than fifteen years as a bodyworker and educator, and is coauthor of The Secret Language of the Body. Even as he helped clients out of pain, he began suffering debilitating chronic back pain of his own, at times bed bound, with neither holistic nor conventional medicine bringing relief.
That search led him to study the psychoemotional and neurological roots of chronic pain and stress based disorders, and into clinical training in mind body disorders and somatic trauma therapies, the work that let him fully heal his own pain, and now grounds his approach with others.
Two paths that met in the middle
Jen came to this work from the top down, the mind, the brain, cognition. Karden came from the bottom up, the body, movement, somatic release. Their own recoveries took different routes to the same place.
Together they saw how powerfully those approaches combine, and built the Nervous System Recovery Pathway and The Secret Language of the Body around what their community told them they needed most.
Guides who healed here first
Our mentors are graduates of the program who healed and changed their lives by doing it. They are here to support you as guides in the community, and are also available for 1:1 mentoring.
Healing from CFS/ME and chronic pain and fibromyalgia in 2022 led Anne to working with fellow self healers. She is a certified Mind Body Practitioner and Holistic Life Coach, and a Somatics Coach in training, with a special interest in early developmental trauma.
Her ill health began in her early teens with glandular fever and years of unexplained symptoms, culminating in being bed bound and in chronic pain with no answers. She tried everything within reach, reaching 70% recovery through brain retraining before plateauing. Only when she turned toward the nervous system and trauma did she find the program.
She draws on a decades long journey of trial and error, and on a professional background in project management in Irish banking. She is a mum of two, swims in the Irish Sea year round, and hikes in the Irish mountains.
A trauma informed somatic mind body practitioner dedicated to helping people thrive in all areas of life. Her passion for this work comes from her own decade long journey through chronic illness, and from wanting to offer the support she wished she had had earlier.
For years she battled chronic fatigue and pain, neurological challenges, digestive issues, anxiety, depression and insomnia, through multiple diagnoses and countless treatments. Discovering mind body healing and holistic nervous system regulation became the turning point: what began as managing symptoms turned into an inner journey of coming home to herself.
She is passionate about creating spaces for community and shared growth, because healing is not meant to be done alone. A creative soul, she finds joy in art, music, dance, travel and nature.
A Wayfinder Life Coach in training, a trauma informed yoga teacher, and a lifelong student of mind body healing. She lives close to the sea and is passionate about creating safe spaces where others feel seen, held and understood.
She grew up in high performance sport, excelled academically, and placed her worth on external achievement while constantly sick and injured. By the time she began the program in 2022 her nervous system had shut down entirely and she was bed ridden in a dark room.
She learned she was not stuck, and now surfs, hikes, runs trails and travels again, with a greater capacity to slow down and rest. Healing became less about getting rid of symptoms and more a way of being. Becoming a mentor is her full circle moment.
Ready to begin?
Explore the Nervous System Recovery Membership, or start with the book, whichever meets you where you are.