Mindfulness is the foundational principle of Somatic Ecotherapy. It is the practice of cultivating a level of awareness and allowing physical sensations in the body, urges, thoughts, emotions, impulses, etc. to be as they are without judging them or trying to change them.

The purpose of mindfulness is to cultivate a compassionate relationship towards all our experiences, within the body, which enables conditions for transformative growth.

The Latin origin of the word Soma is body. Somatic mindfulness is awareness and allowing of all that the human body is experiencing. By cultivating this practice, experiences such as grief, trauma, sadness, pain, fear, anxiety, and a wide range of emotions can begin to move and change instead of remaining stuck in the body and continuing to inform repetitive, painful, limiting, exhausting, and reactive narratives and habits.