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.


Meet your Teacher

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

2.7k 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 (374)

Recent Reviews

Jocelyne

September 11, 2026

Excellent course. 🙏

Mandy

September 11, 2026

Thank you so much. Beautiful and insightful course.

Saisy

September 10, 2026

That was a brilliant course- thank you so much

Ian

September 7, 2026

Thank you 🙏🏻, this is extremely softening and powerful! 💫🌞 I will be doing the course again! 💛🌞

JohnWilliam

September 5, 2026

A gentle but valuable introduction to listening to messages and signals from one's body.

Nour

September 3, 2026

That was exactly what i needed. Thank you

Sian

September 2, 2026

Beautiful inspiring and so so gentle - thank you Niamh xx

Rita

August 30, 2026

An amazing journey. Thank you very much!

Jan

August 30, 2026

This is a clear and helpful introduction to somatic healing. Thank you very much for this beautiful series. Grateful

Wendy

August 23, 2026

I absolutely loved this course. Niamh’s voice is so soothing, her words are beautiful, and the music carries you gently through the entire journey. There is something truly special about the way she guides you. Niamh, you are a gift. Thank you. ❤️🙏

Dawn

August 22, 2026

You have an amazing gift for describing complex somatic teaching whilst connecting with the body in such a deep heartfelt way. Truly beautiful, thank you.🙏I will return to this course.

Iris

August 22, 2026

If every being on the planet could learn, practice, and integrate these vital processes into their daily existence- the world as we know it would shift to a rhythm of seismic compassion!

Connie

August 21, 2026

What a tender and beautiful course, thank you for the introduction to titration 🙏

Derek

August 20, 2026

Amazing! It took me a while to finish this course as I just did not want it to end. Each section well I’m at a loss for words right now as in some cases I shared it with others Or I would take a quote or something from yours and pass it along in social media to a friend of course mentioning your name and this place And I played the lessons again and again as they meant so much but this last one! Integration amazing and amazing voice and just thank you so much. I am dictating through Siri, so please pardon typos as I am visually challenged

Dana

August 19, 2026

This was so much more than just another course and I feel that I will return to it often. Thank you so much for your support 🙏❤️

Cynthia

August 18, 2026

I love your voice and your course, thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️

Michael

August 16, 2026

This course was so helpful!

Jennifer

August 14, 2026

I LOVED it!! The information was soo good and your voice is sooo calming! Thank you soo much! I plan to continue listening and learning from it again and again!

Sean

August 13, 2026

This course has been the most meaningful meditation I've had to date. I found it hitting close to home over and over again, and both the messages themselves and the soft voice delivering them were both soothing and meaningful. Thank you. I will be returning to these lessons, and while I already feel more in tune with myself, I look forward to the growth I will continue to make.

Merlinda

August 6, 2026

As has been true for every meditation of yours that I have been guided through, your gentle, compassionate, sensitive and wise teachings encourage me towards healing. You are a master in your knowledge, use of language, with your soft, quiet soothing voice and melodic accompaniments. Deep gratitude for the gifts you shared with all of us on this course.

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