Nervous system & somatic healing
Somia helps you heal your nervous system and come home to your body.
Somia is a nervous system and somatic healing platform. We help you understand persistent symptoms, regulate your body, and move from survival toward a fuller life.
The HEAL Method
One guided path, unfolding in three levels
Not three separate products. One continuous method. You calm the system, then heal what holds it in survival, then integrate the work into a whole life.
Mind
Ease symptoms and build a foundation of brain retraining and nervous system regulation.
Body
Heal the deeper wounds and protective patterns that keep the body stuck in survival.
Human
Integrate the work into every area of life, where healing becomes thriving.
Your Healing Journey
Mind → Body → Human
#1 International bestseller
The Secret Language of the Body
The essential self healing guide from Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin. A body first approach to reducing stress, resolving chronic symptoms, and healing your nervous system.
“Inspiring, refreshing and practical. A delightfully lucid guide to healing yourself.”Bessel van der Kolk, MD · The Body Keeps the Score
Who we are
Two paths to healing, one shared mission
Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin are the cofounders of Somia and the HEAL Method, and coauthors of The Secret Language of the Body.
Jennifer Mann
A mind body practitioner whose own overnight collapse into chronic illness, and full recovery, reshaped how she teaches nervous system healing to a global community.
Karden Rabin
A bodyworker and educator of more than fifteen years who healed his own debilitating chronic pain through somatic and mind body therapies.
In their words
Real people, real recovery
Now I’m recovered, I don’t feel like I’ve bounced back, I’ve bounced forward. My capacity to handle stress is completely different and I feel clearer, happier and SO much more aligned in my life.
Eliza LengMember
“My life is now “normal” whatever that means…My relationships in every sense have improved, I’m less anxiously attached, more secure in myself, have much clearer boundaries, and the list goes on!”
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IsobelMember
“So many times I’ve climbed a mountain, or gone on a big trip, or been out dancing with my friends,… and just thought, wow, this really works… Do it! It saved my life, I don’t know where I’d be without it.”
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Nervous System Recovery Membership
Everything you need to heal, in one place
The Nervous System Recovery Membership is Somia’s complete nervous system healing program. A structured program, live coaching, community, mentors, and ongoing integration support, guiding you from survival to a life that feels like yours again.
Live coaching
Community
Mentors
Integration support
Ongoing practices
Who the Membership supports
Many chronic symptoms share one root: a nervous system stuck in survival
Fibromyalgia
Chronic pain
Anxiety
POTS
IBS/IBD
Long COVID
Burnout
Insomnia
Autoimmune & stress related symptoms
The Membership is an educational healing program, not a medical treatment, and does not promise or guarantee specific medical outcomes. Always work alongside your healthcare providers.
The Membership works with the whole cycle, not just the symptom.
Inside the membership
One method, unfolding in three levels
Not three separate products. One continuous path. You begin by calming the system, then heal what holds it in survival, then integrate the work into a whole life.
Mind
Ease symptoms, feel real relief, and build a strong foundation of brain retraining, neurosomatic exercises, and nervous system regulation. This is where the body first learns it is safe.
- HEAL Brain Retraining Method, Somia’s signature framework for easing and stopping symptoms
- Brain and cognitive retraining to interrupt the patterns driving symptoms
- Vagus nerve and nervous system regulation for calm, safety, and resilience
- Parts work with the fears and protective patterns that reinforce symptoms
- 50+ practices for daily regulation, symptom relief, and mind body safety
Body
Heal the root cause by working with the deeper emotional wounds and protective patterns that keep the body stuck in survival, while building real, felt safety inside. This work is gentle, paced, and trauma informed.
- Somatic retraining to release stored survival responses from the body
- Emotional regulation to stay present through triggers, symptoms, and intensity
- Attachment informed healing and inner child work for deeper internal safety
- True self work to reconnect with who you are beneath the patterns
- 20+ somatic therapies to soften and reorganize old protective patterns
Human
You begin this work to heal. You stay with it to thrive. Level 3 is the ongoing stage where the work integrates into every area of life: health, identity, relationships, and nervous system mastery.
- Somatic StudioWeekly live classes for regulation, embodiment, movement, emotional expression, and purpose.
- Guest masterclassesSleep, exercise after illness and post exertional symptoms, hormones, nutrition, relationships, parenting, and sustainable achievement.
- A path to HEAL ProOngoing nervous system integration, with a direct pathway to become certified to teach the HEAL Method.
Your Healing Journey
Mind → Body → Human
Membership ecosystem
The world you step into
One membership, and everything that surrounds it. Live support, practice, learning, and people, all in the same place.
The world members enter.
What membership looks like
A week inside the Membership
Guest sessions
Expert sessions, masterclasses, and invited guests
Alongside the core program, members join live masterclasses and sessions with invited experts. Sessions are recorded, so you can watch when your system has capacity.
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Mentor team
Our mentors are graduates of the Membership who healed through the program and now support the community as guides.
Healed from ME/CFS and fibromyalgia through the program. A certified Mind Body Practitioner and Holistic Life Coach who offers the validation and guidance she once needed.
A trauma informed somatic mind body practitioner who healed after more than a decade of chronic illness. She creates spaces for community, safety, and shared growth.
A Wayfinder Life Coach in training and trauma informed yoga teacher who began the Membership in 2022. Becoming a mentor is her full circle moment.
A member transformation
Now I’m recovered, I don’t feel like I’ve bounced back, I’ve bounced forward. My capacity to handle stress is completely different and I feel clearer, happier and SO much more aligned in my life.
Eliza LengMember
“My life is now “normal” whatever that means…My relationships in every sense have improved, I’m less anxiously attached, more secure in myself, have much clearer boundaries, and the list goes on!”
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IsobelMember
“So many times I’ve climbed a mountain, or gone on a big trip, or been out dancing with my friends,… and just thought, wow, this really works… Do it! It saved my life, I don’t know where I’d be without it.”
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PoppyMember
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The Masterclass
Here’s what you’ll get inside the Masterclass, Nervous System Retraining for Chronic Symptoms
A live teaching to understand why chronic symptoms can persist when your nervous system is stuck in survival.
A nervous system informed framework for understanding what nervous system retraining actually requires and what may be missing from the work you’ve already tried.
A guided somatic practice: feel what it is like to work with your system instead of fighting it.
A first look at the new Nervous System Recovery Membership: weekly coaching, community, and the brand new Level 3, including Somatic Studio and Guest Experts.
A chance to win 1 year of free access to the new Nervous System Recovery Membership.
Your body can learn to feel safe again
Join the Nervous System Recovery Membership and begin the path home to your body, at your own pace, with people who understand.
International bestseller
The Secret Language of the Body
Jennifer Mann & Karden Rabin
“Inspiring, refreshing and practical. A delightfully lucid guide to healing yourself.”Bessel van der Kolk, MD · The Body Keeps the Score
What the book is about
A body first guide to healing yourself
Your autonomic nervous system runs a constant, mostly subconscious conversation between your brain and body. Under stress, anxiety, or trauma it can get trapped in survival mode, showing up as chronic physical and mental symptoms.
Combining science backed insight with hands on technique, Jen and Karden offer an accessible look at nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, and the vagus nerve, and teach you to speak the language of your body and heal.
What you’ll learn
Practical tools you can use from page one
Recognize the signals
Notice the stress symptoms and survival responses your nervous system is running beneath the surface.
Interrupt & regulate
Use breathing, vagus nerve, and interruption techniques to calm the body in the moment.
Redesign the response
Work with your observing self to witness harmful thoughts and reshape old stress patterns.
Tend to the inner child
Attend to the emotional wounds underneath symptoms with a flexible, integrated framework.
Return to the body
Tune into your five senses to shift from a stressed mind into a more embodied state of being.
“A sturdy yet flexible framework for integrated mind body healing.”
Available worldwide
Order your copy today
Available in paperback, on Amazon, Audible, and Kindle globally. If you don’t see your region, order through any local or online bookstore.
Around the world
Editions & translations
Published and forthcoming in twelve languages.
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New international editions are on the way.
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Praise & reviews
Trusted by leaders in healing
A delightfully lucid guide to get in touch with your self. Jen and Karden gently and beautifully invite us to experience our selves, our bodies, minds, sensations and emotions, to befriend and care for the creatures that we are.
A tactical and practical action guide to nervous system regulation and self healing. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to help you reconnect with your body’s miraculous ability to heal itself.
A simple approach to create healing breakthroughs by reinventing the neurology of your mind and the physiology of your body.
Jen and Karden have connected mind and body in a new dialect, bringing you from disparate parts into a highly functioning whole. A must read for anyone seeking profound and impactful self healing.
A beacon of hope, illuminating the path to a more integrated, vibrant self.
Those who feel stressed, sick and stuck would do well to check this out.
“I haven’t even finished it, and it’s already changed my life.”
About the authors
Jennifer Mann & Karden Rabin
Two mind body practitioners and cofounders of Somia. Both healed from their own chronic illness and pain, and now guide a worldwide community through nervous system and somatic healing.
Learn to speak the language of your body
Order The Secret Language of the Body in paperback, Kindle, or Audible.
About Somia
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.
The brand and healing platform, the home for everything we make.
The structured program, membership, and community housed within Somia.
The Secret Language of the Body extends the same work into print, worldwide.
Cofounder of Somia & the HEAL Method
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.
Cofounder of Somia & the HEAL Method
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.
Their shared work
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 HEAL Method and The Secret Language of the Body around what their community told them they needed most.
The mentor team
Guides who healed here first
Our mentors are graduates of the Membership who recovered through the program and now support the community as guides and 1:1 mentors.
Healed from ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. A certified Mind Body Practitioner and Holistic Life Coach passionate about the innate power of the mind body connection.
A trauma informed somatic mind body practitioner who healed after a decade of chronic illness. She creates spaces for community, safety, and shared growth.
A Wayfinder Life Coach in training and trauma informed yoga teacher who began the Membership in 2022. Mentoring is her full circle moment.
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Ready to begin?
Explore the Nervous System Recovery Membership, or start with the book, whichever meets you where you are.
Press & media
In the press
Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin, nervous system practitioners, authors of The Secret Language of the Body, and founders of Somia, featured across international media.
‘I spent £20,000 on my chronic illness, then I finally found a cure’
A first person account of recovery from chronic fatigue beyond the conventional medical system.
Where stress lives in the body
Jennifer Mann maps how stress accumulates physically, from the jaw and shoulders to the gut and chest.
All coverage
20 articles
12 experts on their secret to festive survival
Wellness experts share microhabits for a calmer, more regulated festive season.
To create better mental health we need to reconnect mind and body
Why understanding the nervous system is essential to lasting holistic health.
Can trauma manifest as physical pain? Here’s what experts say
How unresolved trauma can live in the body as real, physical symptoms.
Five self care practices to embrace this autumn
Seasonal shifts affect the nervous system, a chance for recalibration and rest.
5 ways to escape “survival mode” and reduce stress at work
Practical steps to bring an overwhelmed nervous system back from survival mode.
How to banish back to work anxiety, according to the experts
Vagus nerve exercises and gentler routines to ease the return to work.
The body centred therapy transforming how we heal trauma
Why somatic therapy is moving from the fringe into mainstream healing.
When fawning goes too far
How anxiety can be the catalyst behind people pleasing, and what to do.
Chronic anxiety is not an illness, it’s a coping mechanism
Anxiety as a message from the body, and how to adapt out of it.
Why habit stacking can make healthy changes stick
Layering a new habit onto an established one to make change effortless.
Strategies to manage stress and anxiety as a parent
Tools to support the body through the everyday stressors of parenting.
Expert tips for keeping calm during toddler temper tantrums
How to manage and de escalate toddler tantrums while staying regulated.
How I healed my chronic fatigue through the mind body connection
Jennifer’s recovery story: rewiring the nervous system after years of CFS.
More people are living in “functional freeze mode”
The hard to spot signs of functional freeze, and the first step out.
I spent £20,000 on my chronic illness, then I found a cure
A first person recovery from chronic fatigue beyond conventional medicine.
I tried grounding therapy for two weeks, it worked wonders
What barefoot grounding does for stress, focus, and the nervous system.
Five senses meditation can shift your mood in minutes
Karden Rabin offers a fast, sensory way to calm an anxious mind.
You’re not lazy, you’re in functional freeze mode
Understanding the freeze survival state and how to gently move out of it.
Where stress lives in the body
Mapping where stress accumulates, from jaw and shoulders to gut and chest.
The Secret Language of the Body, review
An insightful debut guide for those who feel “stressed, sick and stuck.”