Offerings
Soma Community Practice
Soma Community Practice is a 75-minute exploration of somatic movement and embodied expression.
Weaving together energising, expressive movement and deep restorative rest, Soma Community Practice offers a shared space to move, feel, release, and soften—inviting you to shift gently from thinking to sensing, into presence and connection.
The practice begins with sensory orientation, grounding, and anchoring exercises, guided by breath and embodied awareness. It then shifts fluidly into expressive movement that supports strength, mobility, and heart rate variability, helping to release built-up energy, ease muscular tension, and strengthen nervous system resilience.
As the practice unfolds, the pace gradually slows, offering an invitation to turn inward. Through nourishing somatic exercises, soft stretches, tension-release techniques, and trauma-aware breathwork, the nervous system is guided into deeper regulation and rest.
Soma Community Practice is open to all bodies and experience levels, with options, modifications, and rest always welcome. You’re invited to move in a way that feels responsive, supportive, and true to your Soma.
Wednesday evenings - Thornbury
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Darebin Presbyterian Church Hall
15 Rossmoyne St, Thornbury VIC 3071
Cost - $20
Personalised Soma Practice
Experience a personalised Soma Practice designed to support your unique nervous system and embodied needs. These one-on-one or duo sessions are tailored to meet you where you're at — whether you're seeking somatic movement, embodied Pilates, stress management or a reconnection with your body.
This is a space to listen inward, move intuitively, and come home to yourself — rested, regulated, and reconnected.
Private or Duo Sessions | 60 Minutes
Available at Thornbury Studio or online by request
Stress Support Workshop
Explore a restorative somatic workshop designed to help you understand and manage stress through gentle, body-based practices. This 90-minute session offers a supportive space to reconnect with your body, calm your nervous system, and develop accessible tools for emotional regulation, burnout prevention, and everyday resilience.
This is an opportunity to slow down, tune in, and build a personalised body-based repertoire of somatic exercises you can return to, anytime you need to ground, restore, or reset.
Small groups up to 20 | 90 Minutes
Available at Thornbury Studio, or by arrangement within the inner Melbourne area
Please email hello@somapractice.com for inquires
Price considers group size, travel, and location.
Other Services
Workshops
Soma Practice offers curated workshops focusing on a specific element of movement, Pilates, somatic or embodied practices. If you have a need for a specific workshop, we would love to hear from you.
Events or Festivals
With experience guiding sensory meditations and facilitating movement at Melbourne festivals such as Tessellate and Chewin’ the Fat, Jodi is passionate about creating inclusive, embodied experiences for larger groups. If you’re interested in collaborating or inviting Soma Practice to your next event, reach out.
Corporate Classes & Workplace Events
Bringing Soma Practice into your workplace offers countless benefits—reducing stress, easing physical tension, supporting posture and movement health, and boosting productivity, all while nurturing a stronger sense of connection and wellbeing among your team. Get in contact if you’d like to offer your staff a fun, inclusive, and regulating movement experience!
FAQs
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Embodied movement is the practice of being fully present in your body as you move. It’s about tuning into your inner landscape—becoming aware of your breath, the rhythm of your heart, your body temperature, how your muscles contract and release, and how your body moves through space. Rather than focusing on how movement looks, embodied movement invites you to feel into the experience of being a living, breathing, sensing body in motion.
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Somatic movement takes us a layer deeper. It uses movement to connect with and understand how our emotions live in the body. Our feelings are often stored in our muscles, tissues, and bones—and somatic movement helps us bring gentle awareness to these internal experiences.
It can support nervous system regulation, emotional expression, and the release of held tension.
Through somatic movement, we create space to move what we feel and reconnect with ourselves in a meaningful, embodied way. -
Just bring your Soma! Mats and small props are provided. The space includes bathrooms, drinking water, and areas to change and store your belongings.
In the warmer months, we recommend bringing a small towel. For Soma SOFT classes, which involve deep nervous system regulation, it’s common for body temperature to drop—so you might want to bring an extra layer that’s comfortable to move in.
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Yes! Jodi offers both group and personalised online classes by request. To book, just get in touch at hello@somapractice.com.
Be sure to follow our Soma Journal for educational posts and updates on upcoming events. And keep an eye out—Soma On-Demand is coming soon!
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Our studio space is warm and welcoming—perfect environments to connect deeply with your Soma.
Darebin Presbyterian Church Hall
15 Rossmoyne St, Thornbury VIC 3071
Wednesday evening classes are in the hall.
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There are cycle racks outside the studio, in a well-lit area, where your bike can safely rest while you move.
Darebin Presbyterian Church Hall Thornbury -
On-street parking is located on Rossmoyne Street and High Street.
The hall is easily accessible from High Street trams.
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