Hi, I am so glad you are here
I’m Lauren Howe, a SomaSoul® somatic therapist, eco therapist and meditation teacher.
For more than twelve years, I’ve been studying, teaching and living the worlds of meditation, embodiment, somatics, and nature-based healing. My work sits at the meeting point of body, nervous system, and presence, supporting women to come back into relationship with themselves in ways that feel trauma sensitive, supportive, practical, and real.
I help women feel more grounded, connected, and present through somatics and body-led meditation.
This work has grown from both professional training and lived experience. Over the years, I have spent time inside many healing spaces, including deep meditation practice and silent retreat. Those experiences shaped me profoundly, and they also revealed something important.
Even in spaces devoted to awareness, healing, and presence, I could feel how easily the body can be left behind. How often meditation is taught as though all bodies can simply sit still, turn inward, and settle. How little room there can be for physiology, for hormones, for activation, for exhaustion, for trauma, for the complex and changing rhythms that many women are living inside.
That insight stayed with me.
I began to see that for many women, meditation is hard because their bodies are carrying so much and navigating huge physiological shifts, and because many traditional approaches do not fully account for that.
I’m also a mum to wildly beautiful twins, and I’m married to my soul mate, Ryan, the most caring and steady human I know. I love thru-hiking, though that part of me is on pause while the twins grow into their hiking legs, and I feel most restored by time in nature, honest conversation, and spaces where women can tell the truth about what life really feels like.
My philosophy
I believe many women struggle not because they are doing life, healing, or practice wrong, but because their bodies are not being fully considered.
So much support is still offered through the mind first. Women are encouraged to think differently, cope better, push through, or simply be present. But women do not arrive as blank slates. They arrive in bodies shaped by hormonal shifts, stress, emotional labour, caregiving, life transitions, and the imprint of past experiences.
Some women are also carrying the added physiological load of racism, ableism, marginalisation, financial pressure, and the wider uncertainty of the world around them. These are not abstract ideas. They are lived bodily realities that shape how safe it feels to slow down, turn inward, connect, or rest.
This is why approaches that do not account for the body and nervous system can feel hard, inaccessible, or even overwhelming.
My work begins somewhere else.
Through somatic therapy, body-led meditation, nervous system support, and nature-based practice, I help women understand what their bodies are communicating and find gentler, more supportive ways of being with themselves.
Rather than asking the body to conform, this work listens first.
I believe the body is not the obstacle.
It is the doorway.
The Personal Thresholds That Shaped This Work
My relationship with this work has been shaped by two powerful teachers: silent retreat and motherhood.
Through years of meditation practice, including silent retreat, I came into direct contact with how much the body holds and how easily meditation can be taught in ways that ask the body to adapt, endure, or be overridden. In silence, I learned that stillness is not always experienced as calming. Sometimes what rises is tension, restlessness, emotion, vigilance, fatigue, or disconnection. That experience changed the way I understood meditation. It showed me that meditation is never happening in the mind alone. It is happening through the body and nervous system.
Motherhood deepened that understanding in a whole new way. Becoming a mother to my twins after eleven years of IVF brought me into a much more intimate relationship with the physiological and emotional reality of being in a woman’s body. Pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, sleep deprivation, hormonal shifts, and the constant demands of caring for two babies changed both my relationship with my body and my understanding of what real support needs to look like.
I began to see even more clearly that many women do not need more pressure to be still. They need approaches that honour the body they are actually arriving in.
I am senior teacher with the Australian Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness, and I have facilitated movement meditation retreats that weave together somatics, nature, and meditation. In these spaces, I have seen the power of body-led practice and heard the testimonies of women (and men) who felt, often for the first time, that meditation could meet the fullness of their lived experience.
That is what now shapes my work: somatic therapy, body-led meditation, nervous system support, and nature-based practice that help women come back into relationship with themselves gently and honestly.
My Qualifications & Memberships
SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Foundations Training and SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Clinical Training
Leven Institute (approved training program by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA))
Embodiment Teacher & Practitioner Training in
The Non-Linear Movement Method®
Michaela Boehm
Holistic Counselling Skills
Metavision Institute
Year 1 of the Advanced Clinical Training In Contemporary Gestalt Therapy
The Relational Institute Australia
Bachelor of Laws and Arts
Murdoch University
Post-Graduate Diploma - Guiding and Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness
Australian Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness
Certificate of Ecotherapy
Eartheart Ecotherapy
Eco Therapy Professional Workshop for Therapists
The Relational Institute Australia
Soulcraft Intensive
Animus Valley Institute
Trauma Informed Facilitation
Melbourne Processwork Centre
Lifestyle, Food and Wellness Coach
Well College Global and Wellness Coaching Australia
I am also a member of Meditation Association of Australia and a Senior Mentor at the Australian Centre for Meditation & Mindfulness as well as the author of the Women’s Circles Elective.