The body is another direction entirely.

Most people's bodies are still holding an emergency posture that has outlived its purpose. The stress, the tension, the symptoms that don't resolve. This is somatic work. Giving the body the conditions to finally let go. What opens isn't just the absence of pain. It's ease. Pleasure in sensation. The capacity to rest without effort.

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What is somatic work?

Therapy that works through the body rather than around it. The body holds experience: stress, old patterns, incomplete responses. These live in tissue and the nervous system, not just in memory. Somatic work addresses that directly.

sma

σῶμα · Greek · the body itself

The body itself, before interpretation. Not the mind's account of it. The thing itself. That is where I work.

somatic

so·mat·ic  /soʊˈmætɪk/  ·  adjective

Two forms. One asks the body to move. The other asks it to arrive.

Somatic Movement

You direct. Awareness through active movement, building body literacy and the nervous system's capacity to regulate. Works through proprioception: the sense of how your body moves through space, held in muscles, joints, and posture.

Somatic Therapy

This practice

No physical effort or direction required, but presence is. The practitioner tracks what the nervous system holds through interoception: the visceral interior, breath, tension, the subtle sensations inside the body. The body does its own work. This is where frozen survival responses get to complete, and what's been carried finds the conditions to release.

What to expect

A session is led by what's present.

Light touch, following what the nervous system is carrying. The body tends to know where it needs to go.

Light touch

Contact at the head, sacrum, or feet. Very light pressure. Listening touch, not strong manipulation.

Intelligence activates

A subtle rhythm in the cerebrospinal fluid reflects what the whole person is carrying. I follow it.

Tissue releases

When the nervous system feels safe, held patterns begin to unwind. Physical patterns too. Pain and recurring symptoms often live here. Something settles. People often can't name it, but they feel it.

The loop closes

Incomplete threat responses can finally resolve. The body stops spending resources maintaining an emergency posture that has outlived its purpose. For some this shows up as emotional shifts. For others, a physical symptom that has been present for years begins to ease. And sometimes what opens isn't about what stops. It's about what becomes available. Ease. Pleasure in sensation. The capacity to rest without effort.

Soma by Faith Lantz, treatment room, Central Hong Kong

The toolkit · Three approaches

The session draws on all three. What's needed shifts with each person.

In practice, these don't stay separate. A session draws on all three. How much of each shifts depending on how you arrive and what the body needs in that moment.

Craniosacral Therapy

For the body that needs to be heard.

Hands-on work using less than five grams of pressure, the weight of a coin. I listen to the craniosacral rhythm, a subtle pulse in the cerebrospinal fluid that reflects what the whole system is carrying. No heavy manipulation, no corrections. The light touch creates the conditions for deep rest, and for the nervous system to find its way to safety.

Somatic Experiencing-Informed

For what didn't finish then.

Developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Works with the nervous system's incomplete threat cycles, activation that began and never fully discharged. Tracks sensation rather than story.

Rebirthing Breathwork

A direct route into what thinking can't reach.

Conscious connected breathing as a direct route into the body's held patterns. Used selectively, when the session calls for it. Bypasses the thinking mind entirely.

Who this is for

The body has been trying to say something.

Adults

The ones who have tried everything — and something still hasn't shifted.

The jaw that's been clenched for years. Chronic pain with no clear cause. The migraine that keeps coming back. The digestive system that reacts to everything. Insomnia. Exhaustion that rest doesn't touch.

Many people come after having done the therapy, the bloodwork, the carefully built routines. Not passive about their health. Thoughtful, even. And still something hasn't moved.

Moms and Babies

The body that gave and gave — and the smallest bodies that started carrying something from the beginning.

Mothers in the postpartum period, processing a birth that went differently than expected, or simply needing somewhere that asks nothing of them for an hour.

And babies: colic, feeding difficulties, unsettledness, or poor sleep — particularly after a difficult birth. That instinct that something is off is worth following. The work is gentle enough for the smallest bodies.

"There was this background anxiousness most of my life, always this feeling that something is wrong even when nothing is. I wouldn't say it's gone. But it's quieter. Each time I come back it feels like another layer lifts."

Client · Anxiety · Hong Kong

"During the session it honestly felt like she wasn't doing very much, just resting her hands on me. I woke up the next morning and something felt different. I don't fully understand what she does but I keep coming back."

Client · Insomnia · Hong Kong

Free guided workbook

Your body is already in the middle of a conversation.

You just haven't been given the language to hear it yet.

Conversations with My Body is a free 14-page guided workbook. Body maps to see where you're holding. A grounding practice to arrive. And the question your nervous system has been waiting to be asked.

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Workshops & Events

Join a room of people doing the work together. Group sessions, breathwork evenings, and retreats — launching second half of 2026.

Group Workshops

Half-day sessions. Introduction to somatic work, breathwork evenings, or practice for those already in the work.

Retreats

Full-day or weekend retreats. Deeper immersion. Space for the nervous system to genuinely arrive.

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Faith Lantz, craniosacral therapist, Hong Kong

I spent years trying to think my way out of something that lived in my body.

I'm Faith Lantz, a craniosacral therapist and somatic practitioner based in Central, Hong Kong. I work with the craniosacral rhythm, the nervous system, and what the body holds.

I've lived in Hong Kong for most of my adult life and I know what the pace of this city does to a body over time. I left for Bali thinking a change of environment would be the thing. Genuinely quiet, beautiful, the kind of place people go specifically to reset. Even after a few years there I was still wired, still not sleeping, with constant digestive issues, and it became clear that the environment wasn't the problem. I tried different diets, a lot of supplements, everything that seemed worth trying. Nothing helped. Wired and tired all the time.

Then the day came. I remember sitting and noticing something had changed. I felt calm, good, present. Genuinely shocked by it. I'd been going for CST sessions for a few months by then, and that's when I understood that something had unlocked. Things aren't always easy, but something real has changed. I feel different in my body. Less anxious, more here, and genuinely more able to enjoy being in it. I'm back in Hong Kong now and I look forward to sharing this work.