Held: A Somatic Journey Back To Yourself - by Niamh O'Shea

COURSE

Held: A Somatic Journey Back To Yourself

With Niamh O'Shea

Held is a 7-day self-paced somatic journey designed to help you restore ease and reconnection between body and mind. Each day blends reflection, guided meditation and simple nervous system practices to support grounding, release tension and increase embodied awareness. Through this process you will explore how sensations, memories and emotions are held within the body, learning to listen and respond with care. You will be guided to meet yourself with honesty, compassion and curiosity, gently unwinding stress patterns and cultivating presence. Whether you are moving through overwhelm, transition or simply longing to feel at home in yourself, Held offers a space to land, breathe and return to stillness.

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Meet your Teacher

Niamh O'Shea
Edinburgh, UK

Niamh O’Shea is an integrative practitioner with a background in psychology, somatic practice, and holistic healing. Her work draws from transpersonal psychology, nervous system regulation, and creative process to support gentle reconnection between body and mind. As a trained somatic practitioner with extensive study in mind-body healing, coaching, and trauma-informed care, she brings over two decades of experience in both creative and therapeutic fields. Niamh’s approach blends reflection, embodiment, and creativity to help others cultivate presence, clarity, and self-trust.

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7 Days

1.8k students

5.0 stars

10 min / day

Healing

English

Lesson 1

Understanding The Body’s Survival Responses

This lesson explores how the body responds to stress and overwhelm through the four core survival states of freeze, fight, flight and fawn. You will learn how these reactions form, why they appear without conscious choice and how they relate to trauma, safety and nervous system health. This session offers a gentle, trauma-informed understanding of your patterns, helping you recognise your responses with clarity rather than self-judgement.

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Lesson 2

Listening To Your Inner Signals

This lesson introduces interoception, the ability to sense your internal world through breath, sensation, and subtle nervous system cues. You will learn how the body communicates long before the mind forms thoughts, and how to recognise small shifts that show your true state. This session supports deeper self-awareness and a more compassionate relationship with your body.

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Lesson 3

Titration And Building Capacity

This lesson explores titration and capacity, two core principles in somatic healing. You will learn why small, manageable doses of sensation support the nervous system more effectively than intensity, and how working at the edge of your limits helps your body integrate change safely. This session introduces titration, capacity and pendulation in a gentle and trauma-informed way, helping you understand how to meet your inner experience without overwhelm.

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Lesson 4

Finding Safety In The Body

This lesson explores how the body recognises safety through small physical cues such as softening, grounding and the gentle settling of the breath. You will learn how safety is experienced in the nervous system, why grounding supports regulation, and how to work with the signals that help your body return to steadiness. This session offers a calm and trauma-informed approach to building a sense of inner safety.

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Lesson 5

Meeting Emotion In The Body

This lesson explores how emotion first appears as sensation in the body and how to meet those sensations without overwhelm. You will learn how to recognise the physical shapes of emotion, why the nervous system can shut down or intensify during strong feelings, and how titration supports safe emotional processing. This session offers a gentle, body-based way to understand and move through emotion with more ease.

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Lesson 6

Self Regulation And Co Regulation

This lesson explores how the nervous system settles through both self regulation and co regulation. You will learn how the body responds to supportive presence, why connection creates a sense of safety, and how to use grounding, breath and gentle awareness to steady yourself. This session offers a calming and trauma-informed understanding of how we soothe and are soothed.

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Lesson 7

Integration And Returning To Yourself

This final lesson explores integration, the gentle process of allowing your body to absorb what you have learned over the past days. You will reflect on the shifts in your breath, your awareness and your sense of safety, and understand how healing continues long after the course ends. This session offers a soft closing, a moment of gratitude, and an invitation to keep moving at your own pace with the practices that support you.

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5.0 (219)

Recent Reviews

Megan

July 10, 2026

A truely beautiful experience, thank you for sharing this across the oceans.

Judi

July 10, 2026

An absolutely beautiful hopeful course❣️Thank you for deepening my somatic practice in such invaluable ways🙏🏾💝

Helen

July 10, 2026

The unique and gentle guidance of this 7 day journey has been extraordinary and supportive. Niamh’s teaching supports both the science and heart towards a deeper understanding of nervous system regulation. The beautiful guided meditations, music and spacing of the 7 days allowed for my own mind and body to experience, reflect on and integrate these learnings into my own life. My hope is to be able to honor this and bring it to others through my yoga teaching.

Kitt

July 9, 2026

Beautiful 💗 I looked forward to each day. Your voice is so incredibly soothing. Thank you 🙏

Billy

July 8, 2026

Thank you for creating this beautiful course!

Ariana

July 7, 2026

Wonderful, beautiful, gentle and transformative! Thank you for this loving and supportive sharing. 🙏🏻💐❤️🥰🎵🕯️

Denise

July 7, 2026

A wonderful course. Deep reminder to slow down, pause, listen, let go, soften, to show love to yourself. Thankyou for a beautiful journey. 🕊✨️🦋❤️

Lizabeth

July 5, 2026

Of all the excellent meditations and courses I’ve listened to on insite timer, this was the most amazing to experience. Very helpful - So soothing. Thank You!

Kathy

July 3, 2026

This was a wonderful course for me - exactly what I was ready to hear and learn! I loved and appreciated the calm, soothing voice of Niamh and her delivery of the message. I will listen again!

Martin

July 1, 2026

🙏

Jamie

June 30, 2026

Highly recommend

D

June 29, 2026

Great course! Thank you for your gentle voice.

Tanya

June 27, 2026

Beautiful and compassionate.

Ginger

June 24, 2026

An impactful gentle journey of awareness. Learning to listen more closely to the wisdom within our precious bodies. Thank you 🙏🏼

Joy

June 24, 2026

I loved this entire course, and will most likely revisit it occasionally.

Lisa

June 23, 2026

Thank you

Christine

June 21, 2026

Wow. Clear and direct insight, such power behind each word spoken. This was impactful in a deep and also extremely tender way. Thank you.

Denise

June 20, 2026

I loved this gentle, yet potent course. Beautifully produced. I felt very held. 💖

Ef

June 20, 2026

This was wonderful.

Linda

June 19, 2026

I am at a loss for words. So simply, thank you.❤️.

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