What is SomaTherapy?

SomaTherapy is a hands-on, clinician-based training system focused on restoring fluid flow, space, and tissue health throughout the body. Rooted in osteopathic principles, it teaches practitioners how to normalize movement in fascia, joints, and the central nervous system through highly specific techniques.

At its core, SomaTherapy is based on two essential principles for optimal health and performance:
✅ Space within the joints and tissues
✅ Flow of fluids throughout the body

This isn’t your average manual therapy—it’s a paradigm shift rooted in the Complexity Model and the biomechanical concept of tensegrity (a system of continuous tension and discontinuous compression). SomaTherapy provides practitioners with the tools to make lasting, specific changes—not just temporary relief.

Why Tensegrity Matters

Tensegrity is more than a buzzword—it’s the blueprint of your body. It describes how bones and fascia work together to create structure and movement. In SomaTherapy, tensegrity isn’t just a theory—it’s applied to every assessment and treatment to understand how imbalances affect the whole system.

“You cannot distinguish between structures that your brain isn’t aware of.” – Dr. Guy Voyer

Understanding how fascia, fluids, and pressure relate through this model allows therapists to solve complex puzzles like chronic pain, postural dysfunction, and even concussion symptoms with a new level of precision.

What You’ll Learn in SomaTherapy

SomaTherapy is structured as a multi-year learning journey where practitioners develop “elite hands” and train their eyes to see beyond bones and muscles. Key components include:

1. Osteo-Articular Pumping
Techniques to restore the natural movement of fluids—like lymph, synovial fluid, and interstitial fluid—through joints and connective tissues.

2. Fascial Normalization
Focused treatment of entire fascial chains, addressing both continuity (from head to heel) and contiguity (adjacent fascial layers), which influence function and structure.

3. Transverse Tendonous & Ligamentous Stretching (TTLS)
Highly targeted techniques that normalize mechanical tension and temporarily relax protective reflexes in ligaments and tendons—essential for lasting joint health and adjustment precision.

4. Diaphragmology
Assessment and treatment of the four major diaphragms (thoracic, pelvic, cervico-thoracic, and cranial), all of which are central to breathing, stability, and fluid movement.

What is SomaTraining?

SomaTraining is the movement-based counterpart to SomaTherapy. It provides exercise tools rooted in the same principles—tensegrity, complexity, and fluidity—to help clients move, heal, and perform better.

This system includes:

• Segmental Strengthening

• Myofascial Stretching

• Global Dynamic Normalization

• ELDOA (targeted spinal decompression exercises)

Together, SomaTherapy and SomaTraining empower clinicians to treat the root cause of dysfunction with precision and lasting impact.

A Higher Standard in Manual Therapy & Movement

This approach goes beyond surface-level fixes. It trains practitioners to:

• Think globally, not just locally

• Treat based on structure dictating function

• Use fluid and fascial anatomy to create change

• Apply the principles of Complexity and tensegrity for real, lasting outcomes

SomaTherapists and SomaTrainers are trusted by elite athletes, top performers, and health professionals worldwide because of their ability to treat the body as a truly connected, intelligent system.