The Somatic Core Series: Heart of the Wave
Welcome to the first portal in the Stomach Alive Somatic Core Series—where core vitality meets breath, gut-brain intelligence, and nervous system alignment.
Most people live above their bodies—thinking, reacting, performing—while the true command center of life sits unheard, just below the ribs.
Your breath is the bridge home.
Stomach Alive’s Somatic Core Series begins with Heart of the Wave—awaken gut-brain connection, breath-led core vitality, and nervous system integration.
This practice supports your gut-brain axis and promotes vagal tone and digestive function.
Breath Is the First Initiation
We underestimate breathing.
We treat it like background noise when, in truth, it is the primary dial for how you think, digest, regulate, and evolve.
Every inhale and exhale is a physical and energetic event:
It massages your stomach and intestines
It hydrates and mobilizes fascia.
It influences your vagus nerve and emotional tone.
It signals safety or threat to your nervous system.
Your breath is not just respiratory—it is your body’s conductor, synchronizing digestion, immunity, energy, and perception.
When the breath is shallow and trapped in the upper chest, the system stays in survival mode.
When breath deepens into the ribs, the back body, and the pelvis, the body shifts from defence to repair, presence, and inner power.
🜂 Your Core Is Not Your Abs
Let’s get this straight: the “core” isn’t a six-pack—it is a network of diaphragms and pressure gates that stabilize your spine, organs, and life-force.
Your body has multiple diaphragms:
Thoracic
Pelvic
Vocal
Cranial
Plus subtle fascial diaphragms in between
Together, they form a sealed energetic container—the kind ancient yogis, martial artists, and mystics trained deliberately.
This is the version of “core strength” no fitness industry ad mentions—because it requires consciousness, not crunches.
Take the first lesson for free—
Enjoy the first class + lecture to sample the somatic core series.
The Somatic Wave That Wakes Up Your Gut
Before strength, intensity, or ascension, we begin low to the ground.
Earth and Water are the first elements we work with in this practice.
Why?
Because the body must trust before it opens.
Slow pulsations, spiralling movements, hip rocks, Sufi rolls, and cat-cow variations stimulate:
Peristalsis (gut movement)
Vagal tone
Lymphatic flow
Fascia hydration
Nervous system down-regulation
These movements are ancestral, animal, and innate.
Samana Vayu: The Solar Spiral at Your Center
There’s a reason the navel is revered across civilizations.
In yogic anatomy, Samana Vayu is the inward-spiralling current at the solar plexus—the force of digestion, discernment, and integration.
It metabolizes not only food, but experience.
When Samana is strong, you naturally:
Know what to take in and what to release.
Develop clear energetic boundaries.
Feel your intuition as a certainty.
Breath is the key to activating this current.
Try This Now: The Belly Spiral Practice (3 minutes)
Place one or both hands on your navel.
Inhale through the nose for 4… Exhale for 6…
As you breathe, imagine a small golden spiral at the navel drawing energy inward—gathering, refining, clarifying.
Ask: “What is mine to absorb today—and what is mine to let go?”
Reflection Prompts for the Curious Nervous System
Choose one to explore today:
Rest for 2–3 minutes with your hands on your ribs. What shifts?
Do you emphasize the inhale or the exhale more? Why?
Place your hands on your lower back and breathe into your kidneys. What do you feel?
Enter the Somatic Core Portals:
Reading opens the mind. Practice awakens the body.
The 10-class Somatic Core Series guides you through each portal with breath-led movement, somatic sequencing, and embodied integration.
Awaken the intelligence that lives in your core. This 10-part somatic series activates gut-led clarity, strengthens inner alignment, and expands your capacity to move through life with presence and power.
