Somatic approaches recognize that psychological suffering is not housed only in the thinking mind but is stored in the body as sensation, posture, pattern, and activation. The Sutras' attention to the relationship between prāṇa (vital energy), āsana (embodied posture), and citta (mind) reflects the recognition that the body's state is not background to psychological life but a primary dimension of it. Somatic therapy works directly with bodily sensation as the language through which stored experience speaks and can be transformed.
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