Somatic Pilates is a specialist form of Pilates that combines Somatic principles with the principles of Pilates.  It works primarily with very deep presence and felt sense - it is about integrating and becoming at one with your body, developing something called embodiment and deeply listening to and respecting your body.  Somatic Pilates has a much deeper anatomical component for the client and teacher / practitioner and may harness different systems of the body deliberately to produce different effects.  Its purpose is to produce full mind body integration.  It does not intend to work with body as a separate 'thing’, but works with the body as an integrated whole, we both have a body and we are a body.  When we work with our bodies and listen to them carefully we become much calmer and at peace with ourselves, and in that respect Somatic Pilates can be for some people a real tonic to everyday life, stresses and strains in every respect.  So much can move us away from our bodies, and Somatic Pilates is a practice to put people back within themselves once more.  We can move with greater freedom, we put less strain on our body, we develop greater felt sense and more confidence in our body because we have a different relationship with it….