Strathearn Somatics
Somatic Movement Therapy
Somatic Workshops
Joseph Pamphilon,
Somatic Movement Therapist RSMT
Somatic Movement
Somatic movement invites us to return to the body. What we value most in this practice is the internal experience of being a body, not as an object to control or improve, but as a source of depth and connection. In a world that often pulls us into speed, stress, and disconnection, somatic practice offers a space to slow down and listen to what we really need.
These practices are grounded in awareness. Rather than striving for a particular shape or outcome, we pay attention to sensation, impulse, and what’s alive in the moment. Through guided awareness, gentle movement, stillness, or breath, we begin to notice how we hold ourselves, physically, emotionally and in our relationships with others. This opens space for something new to emerge.
Somatic movement supports presence, nervous system regulation, and a deeper sense of being at home in your body. Over time, it can offer a way of navigating life with authenticity and clarity. It can be a powerful way to move forward from old patterns of thinking and behaviour.
Individual Somatic Movement Therapy sessions with Joe Pamphilon. A place to go deeper.
Somatic Movement Workshops in Perthshire. A supportive place to move, sense inwards and explore.
About Me
Joseph Pamphilon
I trust in the body’s living intelligence, and the practice of listening inward.
This trust has been shaped over many years, through working in mental health and addiction services, through guiding wilderness retreats, and through my ongoing practice of movement and embodiment. I began my professional life as a mental health nurse and later established a community addictions recovery project. Again and again, I saw that the body carries more than words can sometimes reach, and that healing often progresses when we include the body.
My path into Somatic Movement Therapy began as a personal one. I turned to body-based work to help me understand and navigate my own experience of grief, and it was through this intimate process that I became more familiar with the body not just as a site of pain, but as a doorway to meaning, resilience, and change.
Alongside my clinical and community work, I’ve followed a personal path of somatic exploration. Yoga and Authentic Movement have been longstanding practices for me. They help me cultivate presence, responsiveness, and honesty with myself. I’ve also led vision quest retreats, where the land itself becomes part of the healing process.
These strands of mental health, embodied practice, community support, and nature-based work, form the roots of my therapeutic approach: respectful, curious, and attuned to the sensitive wisdom that lives in our bodies.
I grew up in the Highlands of Scotland and have now made my home in Crieff, working across Perthshire and the central belt. The landscape continues to shape how I listen, move, and accompany others in this work.
Individual Somatic Movement Therapy
Somatic Movement Therapy offers one-to-one space for those seeking to explore what the body holds. What it may be ready to release, reclaim or simply have brought to awareness.
Our bodies carry the imprint of our lives. Injury, stress, grief, trauma, or the quiet accumulations of daily life can shape how we move, feel, and relate. They also carry the potential for creativity, peace and a heart-felt sense of connection to ourselves and others, This work offers a space to gently bring awareness to patterns, see what truly wants to move, and to meet yourself with curiosity and care.
In a session, we may work with speaking, guided awareness, breath, touch, or movement. You might bring a particular area of tension or pain, or a more diffuse sense of anxiety or disconnection. The process is deeply responsive: each session is a creative exchange and unique to the person and circumstances.
Somatic movement therapy can support you through grief, trauma, burnout, illness, transitions, or perhaps a desire to feel more alive and connected in your own skin.
Somatic Movement Workshops
Somatic workshops offer a chance to slow down, reconnect, and listen to your body in a supportive and spacious environment.
Through guided and awareness practices, we explore how tension, emotion, and habit live in the body, and how they might begin to move. Each workshop offers time for gentle exploration at your own pace. You might discover more ease in your posture or breath, new insight into how you’re holding something, or the relief of having space to feel and move without pressure.
Workshops are open to beginners and experienced movers alike, and to people of all physical abilities. You don’t need any prior experience or level of fitness, just a willingness to listen inwards and follow what feels true for you.
I offer a variety of workshop themes throughout the year, often drawing on physiology, symbolism, seasonal rhythms, or embodied connection to the natural world. Current and upcoming workshops are listed here:
Current Workshops:
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Coming Home to the Body
Have you left a little space this summer that is just for you?
In the rush and rhythm of everyday life, it’s easy to become distant from ourselves. We carry tension, tiredness, and old stories in our bodies, often for a long time.
These workshops offer time for a gentle return. A space to slow down, to listen inwardly, and to move with care and curiosity. We'll have three spacious hours each time to see what wants to unfurl, rest or arise in your body. You'll be gently guided through the workshop with plenty of room to explore what your body needs.
Testimonials
‘I greatly benefited from this [one-to-one] work in terms of meditation and movement techniques for releasing tension and identifying where tension was located in my body; and also in developing a more embodied presence and being more rooted and grounded to the earth’
Derek M
‘The Coming Home to the Body workshop creates a safe space to allow for the free movement of body and psyche. Facilitated in a beautifully gentle and holding manner it gives the unique opportunity to reintegrate the facets of self, shifting and clearing old energies that no longer serve’
Julie M.