Hi, I am so glad you are here
I’m Lauren Howe, a SomaSoul® somatic therapist, eco therapist and meditation teacher.
I support women moving through life transitions, the times that ask us to change, grieve, soften, begin again, let go, become, or find our way back to ourselves.
This might be motherhood, pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, burnout, identity change, relationship shifts, grief, perimenopause, spiritual questioning, or one of those quieter inner thresholds where life still looks the same from the outside, but something inside you knows it cannot keep going in the same way.
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 threshold of body, nervous system, story, belonging and presence. I support women to come back into relationship with themselves in ways that feel trauma sensitive, compassionate, practical and real.
Over time, I began to see that many women’s bodies and nervous systems are carrying so much, often while moving through profound inner and outer change.
This is why my work is body-led.
It is not about forcing calm, fixing yourself, or becoming a better version of who you are. It is about learning to listen to what your body has been holding, meeting the parts of you that have adapted and protected, and slowly finding steadier ground within yourself.
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. We have a cute and naughty rescue dog called Wally who is often attached to my heel and a gorgeous ginger cat called Ginny who we absolutely adore. 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, laughs with my two sisters, 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.