Somatic Sound - 11 Days Of Music For The Nervous System
With Zuzana Robertson, AFBPsS, MSc, CSciYour body knows things your mind hasn’t caught up with yet. The tension that lives in your shoulders long after the stressful meeting has ended. The tightness in your chest that arrived before you had words for what you were feeling. The numbness that settles in when too much has happened for too long. The aliveness that returns — slowly, quietly — when the nervous system finally receives what it has been asking for. This course works directly with the body through sound. The science behind this approach is established and growing. The vagus nerve — the body’s primary regulatory pathway — responds directly to auditory stimulation. Polyvagal theory, developed by neuroscientist Stephen Porges, identifies prosodic sound as one of the primary safety signals the nervous system uses to assess its environment. Sound is not simply pleasant. For the nervous system it is informational — and the right sound, received by a body that has been prepared to receive it, produces measurable regulatory effects. Across eleven days, each session combines a brief teaching on somatic psychology — the science of how experience is stored and released in the body — with a short body awareness practice and an original music track composed specifically for that day’s somatic focus. The music is the primary therapeutic instrument. The teaching simply prepares the body to receive it. No prior experience required. No meditation background needed. No effort. Simply a willingness to listen — not just with your ears but with your whole body. Created by a psychologist and hypnotherapist with seventeen years of experience working with the nervous system, somatic approaches to healing, and the evidence base for sound as a somatic regulatory support. Eleven days. Eleven aspects of nervous system experience. One complete somatic sound journey.
Brief somatic teaching, guided body awareness and original world music - one day at a time.
About this course
Your body knows things your mind hasn’t caught up with yet. The tension that lives in your shoulders long after the stressful meeting has ended. The tightness in your chest that arrived before you had words for what you were feeling. The numbness that settles in when too much has happened for too long. The aliveness that returns — slowly, quietly — when the nervous system finally receives what it has been asking for. This course works directly with the body through sound. The science behind this approach is established and growing. The vagus nerve — the body’s primary regulatory pathway — responds directly to auditory stimulation. Polyvagal theory, developed by neuroscientist Stephen Porges, identifies prosodic sound as one of the primary safety signals the nervous system uses to assess its environment. Sound is not simply pleasant. For the nervous system it is informational — and the right sound, received by a body that has been prepared to receive it, produces measurable regulatory effects. Across eleven days, each session combines a brief teaching on somatic psychology — the science of how experience is stored and released in the body — with a short body awareness practice and an original music track composed specifically for that day’s somatic focus. The music is the primary therapeutic instrument. The teaching simply prepares the body to receive it. No prior experience required. No meditation background needed. No effort. Simply a willingness to listen — not just with your ears but with your whole body. Created by a psychologist and hypnotherapist with seventeen years of experience working with the nervous system, somatic approaches to healing, and the evidence base for sound as a somatic regulatory support. Eleven days. Eleven aspects of nervous system experience. One complete somatic sound journey.
Meet your Teacher
Zuzana Robertson is a psychologist and certified hypnotherapist with seventeen years of experience working with people and organisations through stress, change, and nervous system dysregulation. She holds a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy and is also a meditation teacher and artist. Somatic approaches to nervous system regulation are central to her work — the understanding that experience is stored in the body before it becomes thought, and that lasting regulation requires working with the body directly rather than through the mind alone. Somatic Sound brings together her psychological expertise and her knowledge of the evidence base for sound as a regulatory tool into a single, complete eleven day journey through the body’s own intelligence. The music in this course is not background. It is the primary instrument of regulation - chosen and composed with the specific somatic territory of each day in mind.