Somatic Shadow Work
by Soma Mystica ®
The Shadow lives in the Body
The shadow doesn't live in the mind.
It lives in the body — in the held breath, the clenched jaw, the freeze before the feeling.
You can think your way around it forever. Or you can learn to meet it where it actually lives.
This course teaches somatic tools for working with the shadow — firstly, in yourself, and also giving you valuable insights on how to work with it with your clients.
The problem with shadow work as usual
Insight without integration isn't healing
Most shadow work stays in the head. We identify the pattern. We can name the wound. We trace it back to childhood. And then we wonder why nothing has actually shifted.
Because the shadow is not a thought. It is a survival strategy encoded in the nervous system — a contraction, a collapse, a charge that never completed. It cannot be reasoned away. It has to be felt, moved through, and metabolised by the body itself.
This is what somatic shadow work does. It brings the body back into the process — not as a side note, but as the site of transformation.
Who this is for
For practitioners who are ready to go deeper
Somatic practitioners who want a framework for working with the shadow specifically
Coaches and healers who recognise that psychological insight is only getting their clients so far
Therapists curious about integrating Jungian shadow concepts with body-based approaches
Anyone who does their own inner work seriously — and suspects the body holds more than they've accessed
This course touches on the foundational principles Sigourney trains practitioners in, within the Depth Medicine® practitioner training container
LIVE online course format
Paced over 4 weeks, via zoom in an online community platform.
Replay portal available for 6 months.
$333USD Pay in Full
or 3 x $111USD
Big Ideas, Real Impact.
Why somatic
The shadow lives in the nervous system
Jung understood that the shadow is everything we've disowned — every impulse, emotion, or part of self that felt too dangerous, too much, or simply unacceptable. What he didn't have was a body-based map of how that disowning actually happens.
We now know that what gets pushed down doesn't disappear — it gets held in the body as chronic tension, numbing, reactivity, or shutdown. The shadow is literally embodied.
Working somatically means we stop trying to excavate the shadow from the top down. We meet it where it lives — in the body's intelligent, protective response to being overwhelmed.
When the body is included in the process, integration becomes possible. Not just understanding. Not just acceptance. Real metabolisation.
01
Process orientated somatics
& skillful somatic tracking of the shadow
Explore our unique framework that combines…
02
Shamanic root cause of shadow
03
an introduction to jungian frameworks & alchemy
Meet the Founder
I have spent close to two decades inside the deepest layers of the human body — first as a clinical neurological physiotherapist, then as a practitioner trained in the tantric and Buddhist lineages, and for many years as a dakini working with the parts of human experience that most practitioners never encounter.
I know what the shadow looks like when it has no language. When it lives entirely in the body as chronic bracing, as shutdown, as impulse with nowhere to go. I know this from eight years of neurological clinical work — tracking the nervous system with precision, understanding how the body encodes what the mind cannot hold. And I know it from twelve years of deep lineage practice, sitting with the full spectrum of human shadow in some of the most confronting relational containers that exist.
Most approaches to shadow work are missing the body. Most somatic approaches are missing the shadow. This work is the bridge.
Soma Mystica® exists because that gap is real, and the cost of it is real. Clients who understand their patterns but cannot shift them. Practitioners who can track the nervous system but not the disowned self. The intelligence to name what is happening — without the embodied capacity to move through it.
Somatic Shadow Work is drawn from everything I have learned in those two decades — the clinical precision of neurological physiotherapy, the depth and rigour of tantric lineage transmission, and the hard-won knowledge that comes from working with the most underground layers of human shadow in real time, with real people.
I have built this course for practitioners who are serious about going all the way in — not just as guides for their clients, but as people doing their own work.
DATES & TIMESThis course will span over 4 weeks
4 × 90 minute live calls with Sigourney Belle
Every week on a thursday at 7pm AWST Perth time
We begin on April 16th
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$333 pay in full & save
Replay portal available for 6 months
3 part payment plan $111USD / 3 months
Replay portal available for 6 months