Movement can be an incredibly effective and rich route into the wisdom of the body. Embodying allows us to explore our experience through movement, posture, shape and form. It can be used to embody a felt sense, a state, an emotion, an idea, or a vision for oneself. (Source: Wendy Palmer, Richard Strozzi-Heckler)

The coach looks for signs of unconscious assumptions and tries to discern the emotionally nourishing experience that the assumptions might be preventing. Experiments are done with the client in a mindful state and are specifically designed to evoke reactions such as thoughts, feelings, images, impulses, memories, or sensations. For example, if a client talks very fast they may have an unconscious assumption that no one has time for them. As part of a verbal experiment, the coach might say “I have time for you...”. The reaction might be a pang of sadness. This realization often accompanies some insight, nourishment, or life-forwarding movement. (Source: Hakomi)

Psychodrama uses various guided dramatic (theatrical) actions to examine a topic. By bringing the body, mind, and motion into action at once it can often be more powerful than a discussion that stays at the cognitive level. (Source: Pascale Brady, Catherine Nugent)

Concretization: Using an object to stand for an intangible (emotion, sensation, idea, etc.) in order to bring the inner world outside where it can be observed, explored, and reflected on in its concrete form.

Role Reversal: Client takes on the role of another person, part of self, inner strength, or other entity in order to view the situation from a different perspective.

Empty Chair: An empty chair can stand in for the role of another person, part of the self, or other entity. Using an empty chair and directing the client to speak to the chair can allow for a more spontaneous expression of feelings than speaking about a person.

Resources Sculpture: An exercise used to embody our personal (internal), interpersonal (external) and transpersonal (spiritual) strengths and resources.

Diamond of Opposites: A visual tool used to measure an individual's pull toward a specific choice and away from that same choice. These two measures are plotted on an axis so they can be visually and somatically explored.

Social Support Network Diagram: A tool used for mapping the relationships in a client’s life. Using concentric circles the client places themselves and figures representing their relationships in the inner, middle, or outermost circle depending on the level of support and intimacy. These relationships are then explored somatically to see how these relationships can offer the client support towards their goal.

Dialogue with Wise/Future Self: The client as their Present Self has a conversation with their Future Self or Wise Self which might have a different perspective on the current situation and intuitively knows what is best for the client.

Client-led enquiries to discover grounding resources via Embodied enquiry - how would you like to feel supported in this moment? Movement - how would you like to move in this moment? Sound - is there a sound that would feel supportive right now? (Source: Polyvagal Theory)

The client is supported into a nourishment phase at the end of the session in order to fully absorb and integrate any new insights gained during the session. The longer we spend focusing on nourishing states and new possibilities, the more transformational learning will take root somatically. This can happen by sensing it in the body, savoring the good, embodying through movement, finding a symbol, giving it a statement, journaling, dancing, drawing, or resting. (Source: Hakomi)

Techniques include Cradling Cranium, Grounding, Breathing Patterns, EFT Tapping, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Vagus Nerve Eye Yoga, Rest. (Source: The Somatic School, Gary Craig, Nick Ortner, Stanley Rosenberg, Dr. Edmund Jacobson)