Soma Mundi
Restoring the living dialogue between body and world, cultivating inward listening and outward offering, tending the place where the Earth speaks through us.
Marin County, CA
With Sally Haskins
About Soma Mundi
If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
- Rainer Marie Rilke
Soma Mundi is rooted in the intention to listen, to attune, to be guided, and to offer ourselves back to the living world. It is entrenched in the understanding that humans are of this Earth—like cells in a greater body—and that the same intelligence that sustains and evolves this planet courses through our very own flesh. By creating containers to listen to this intelligence, we invite in a primordial wisdom that can accompany us as we navigate these uncertain, yet extraordinary times.
In the face of immense suffering and ecological collapse, the nervous system does what it needs to survive and endure. We learn to tune out the fear, the grief, the anger. We close and protect the heart. We numb and distract ourselves from a reality that, at times, can feel unbearable. But when we shut down these channels of sensing and feeling, we lose a deep intimacy with ourselves, each other, the earth, and the more-than-human world. The crises of modern day could be seen, in part, as a result of this loss of intimacy. Healing, growth, and maturation begin when we dare to feel again, to reopen the channels for Earth’s intelligence, and remember our innate interdependence with one another and our role within our planetary community.
Soma Mundi offers experimental practices and shared inquiries that weave together nervous system regulation, body-based mindfulness, and self-exploration in a present-centered and process-oriented approach. Influenced and informed by somatic therapy, depth psychology, ecopsychology, and systems thinking, this work is embedded in the belief that each person is a living channel for the voice of the Earth, and that by coming together in shared practice, we cultivate a space where collective wisdom and guidance can emerge.
Soma Mundi is a place for sensing, feeling, dreaming, growing and embodying, organized around our radical interdependence. Here, personal healing is collective healing, and to tend to the body is to tend to the world.
About SallY
Sally’s vision for Soma Mundi emerged throughout her many years of study and exploration in disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, cosmology and spiritual ecologies. This multidisciplinary adventure taught her about the marvelous 13.8 billion year journey of the universe, its creation of the Earth, as well as humanity’s potential within the Earth system. This story, when told through a narrative lens, reveals its mythic dimensions, its intrinsically spiritual undertones, and most importantly, a telos that humans might lean upon to discover our species’ belonging within the greater web of life.
Against this backdrop, Sally felt the shadow side of our times. The unraveling of inherited beliefs—while necessary to expose systemic harm and open space for new perspectives—has also left many of us feeling fragmented, adrift, and unsure of where to turn. As she observed the patterns of collective consciousness, she noticed the same currents moving through her own inner life, helping her to sense how personal experience is inseparable from the larger psyche of the Earth, and each informs the other. Her desire to weave together personal and planetary psychology felt clear early on, but ultimately, it was her lived experience of deepening into her own body—feeling what longed to be felt—that enabled a meaningful sense of purpose in her life.
Sally’s explorations in somatic orientations, such as Process Work and Hakomi Therapy, helped converge her theoretical foundations with her living experience and resulted in the aha moment that most directly inspired the creation of Soma Mundi. Both Process Work, Hakomi, as well as many other somatic traditions rely on the body’s self-organizing intelligence to help guide personal healing processes. With her background in cosmology, Sally recognized that the self-organizing intelligence that moves through bodies is the same intelligence that evolves and sustains the universe. It became clear that somatic therapies were already offering the tools needed to listen to this inner intelligence and allow it to support us within our personal journeys. The missing piece, however—or rather, the next emergent step—is in widening our intention for listening. We listen, not only to nurture our personal psychology, but also to hear the wisdom that might guide us back toward right relationship with the Earth and our planetary community.
Learn more about Sally's education, training, and credentials, here.
Offerings
Somatic
CoaChing
Somatic Coaching supports you in learning to attune to the ways in which your body offers wisdom and guidance that can assist you through life and toward a sense of meaningful purpose. This work gently attends to areas of pain, confusion, suffering, overwhelm, grief, and disconnection to restore a sense of unity within ourselves and within our wider relations. By deepening self-understanding, we learn who we are and what it is we wish to offer to the world. Sessions involve dialogue, guided practice, and collaborative somatic processes rooted in Hakomi that invite you into deeper layers of embodiment, presence, and connection.
If you wish to learn more or ask any questions, please feel free to email and set up a free 20 minute inquiry call.
I offer restorative yoga privates that assist you in slowing down, making contact, and finding a sense of ease within your body. These sessions are cultivated to meet your unique needs, where we can utilize the practice to focus on anything from physical asana to emotional tending, nervous system regulation, breath work and meditation. I offer hands-on touch when appropriate and always with your consent.
I teach privates online, San Anselmo, or at your home in Marin. Email for additional info.
Yoga Privates
(In Person + Online)
Embodiment Class
(In Person)
Embodiment is a group practice that focuses on reinhabiting our own bodies and learning to listen to the deep intelligence that resides there. Western culture has contributed to an immense disconnect from our bodies, the Earth, and our deep web of relations. When we slow down and listen to the ways that our bodies are constantly communicating, we can access a living breathing roadmap that guides us through life’s challenges and enables feelings of interconnection, aliveness, and belonging to this world and the times that we live in.
This practice feels like a long, slow, luxurious moving meditation through your inner world with lots of invitations to slow down and rest within your experience. Here, we offer gentle resistance to a paradigm that values doing and production, and we seek the quiet radical wisdom that emerges from tuning into what is already present and wanting to be felt and known. Each practice opens in a circle offering a brief meditation, a chance to share how you’re arriving, followed by a meditative inquiry into the body centered around that week’s teaching. The practice will close with a long restorative pose and optional hands-on adjustments. No yoga experience is necessary. Come exactly as you are.
The Circle is a community gathering where we will practice Soma Mundi’s approach to deep ecological listening. By deepening into our own inner worlds—our feelings and longings—we touch into the feelings and longings of the outer world. This process enhances our sense of self-in-other, awakens our compassion, and creates a space where wisdom might emerge to help guide us toward deeper belonging in the greater web of being. You can expect heart-centered reflection and sharing, body-centered mindfulness, and group witnessing in a low-pressure, always optional, warm and supportive community environment.
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The Circle
(In Person)