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.
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Learn more about Sally's education, training, and credentials, here.
Offerings
Embodiment
When and where: Mondays at 12pm at Home Yoga Studio, San Anselmo
More information and sign: here
Embodiment is a mindful-movement class intended to support nervous system regulation and help students connect inward with the living intelligence circulating throughout their bodies. You can expect slow meditative movement sustained by breath and awareness, followed by a long restorative pose as a chance to meet yourself wherever you are and listen for what is wanting to be known.
The Circle
When and where: To be announced
Reserve your spot: Please venmo to reserve your spot. You will receive an email with more details and location after payment is received (no one is turned away for lack of funds). If you have any questions or need to inquire about sliding scale fee, please do not hesitate to reach out!
Cost: TBA​
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.
CoaChing
Virtual sessions are offered on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays
Please reach out to learn more, ask questions, and set up a session. I offer free 15 minute inquiry calls.
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**This work is not psychotherapy, but rather a supportive practice that invites relational reorientation of self and world.
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Coaching sessions supports nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and the development of ecological listening. Ecological listening involves reducing internal noise in order to tune into the larger fields of wisdom that move through our bodies and guide our lives. This work gently attends to areas of disconnection, pain, yearning, and purpose, and relies on the body’s self-ordering intelligence to support restoration and reorientation. Rather than fixing or diagnosing, sessions create the conditions for sensing, feeling, integration, and meaningful contact with oneself as a part of larger living systems. Session involve dialogue, guided practice, and collaborative somatic processes rooted in Hakomi that invite you into deeper layers of embodiment, presence, and connection.