Somatic comes from the route body.
Somatosensory is relating to a sensation (such as pressure, pain, or warmth) that can occur anywhere in the body, in contrast to one localized at a sense organ (such as sight, balance, or taste).
Somatic-based practitioners recognize that the body as an untapped resource. Your body has been through your whole life with you. Some of the experiences have brought you pleasure, some pain, and a whole host of feelings in between.
By working directly with the body, we are connecting sensations and symptoms to psychic processes that help to explore unwanted patterns, change or reset one’s nervous system, and heal us at a cellular level. We can then notice mindfully the shifts that will be in service to our lives and shed the things that are no longer serving us.