BEYOND THE MIND

THE BODY
AS LIVING INTELLIGENCE

Pranasomatics works with the evolutionary intelligence of the body.
As a living map of awareness, memory, and potential.
We approach awakening not as an escape from the body,
but as its deepest fulfillment.

Definition

What is BodyMind Mapping?

A somatic-intelligent way to see how a human system actually functions β€” in real time, in real bodies.

BodyMind Mapping – developed by Pranasomatics – is a somatic-intelligent framework that helps you understand how a human system functions in real time. Instead of looking at thoughts, symptoms or stories in isolation, it tracks how the different layers of experience move together.

It connects sensation (what the body feels), emotion (what moves inside), cognition (how the mind interprets), nervous-system state (what drives reactivity) and awareness (what witnesses the experience).

Together, these create a clear, compassionate map of a person’s inner landscape, so transformation becomes grounded, regulated and precise β€” instead of random, overwhelming or purely mental.

In one sentence: BodyMind Mapping shows how the body, mind and awareness co-create experience β€” and how change becomes possible.

03 Β· Why it matters

Why BodyMind Mapping matters

When you can see how sensation, emotion, thought and the nervous system move together, change stops being random β€” it becomes clear, humane and precise.

Clarity

From confusion to a clear inner map

Instead of getting lost in stories, BodyMind Mapping reveals what is actually happening right now inside a system β€” which layer is speaking, and what it needs. This removes guesswork and brings calm precision to your work.

Nervous System Precision

Work with the system, not against it

By tracking nervous-system state alongside emotion and thought, you see when to slow down, when to stabilise and when the system is truly ready for deeper work β€” making sessions safer and more effective.

Humane Change

Change without force or overwhelm

BodyMind Mapping invites interventions that are kind, paced and collaborative. Clients feel seen in all layers of their experience, so transformation becomes grounded and sustainable β€” not another push through stress.

In practice, this means you can meet people where they truly are β€” with more precision, more compassion and far less strain on you and their system.

β€’ Discover where pain lives in
your body β€” and how it speaks

β€’ Repattern your system through
movement, voice, and regulation

β€’ Witness and integrate inner parts
and stories

β€’ Reclaim your instinct, your
softness, your sovereignty

From Mapping to Liberation

04 Β· THE 7 DIMENSIONS
The 7 Dimensions of BodyMind Mapping
BodyMind Mapping looks at experience through seven interwoven lenses.
Together they show how a system actually behaves β€” not just what someone says about it.
The Conversation
All dimensions talk to each other β€” body, emotion, thought,
nervous system, awareness, behavior, and relationship.
1 01
Sensation
What the body feels
The raw data: pressure, tightness, warmth, tingling, collapse. No story yet β€” just signals from muscles, organs and fascia.
2 02
Emotion
What moves inside
Fear, anger, sadness, joy, grief. Emotion is the movement of energy that colours sensation and pulls us to act.
3 03
Thought
How the mind makes meaning
Beliefs, interpretations and inner dialogue. Thought organises experience into stories – helpful or limiting.
7 07
Relational Field
The space between us
Attachment patterns, boundaries, co-regulation. The invisible field where two nervous systems meet and shape each other.
4 04
Nervous System
The state underneath
Regulation, activation, freeze, shutdown. This dimension shows whether a system can engage, protect or rest.
5 05
Awareness
Who is noticing
The observing quality that can hold all other layers. Awareness adds space, choice and compassion.
6 06
Behaviour
What actually happens
Actions, habits and avoidances. How experience shows up in daily life – in work, relationships and self-care.
In BodyMind Mapping you don’t diagnose one layer β€” you read the full pattern, so interventions land where the system is actually ready to shift.
05 Β· Venn Model of Human Experience

How the Body–Mind weaves experience

This Venn model shows five core dimensions of human experience. Each circle is a different strand of the psyche. Where they overlap, a person’s lived, somatic reality is born β€” the place where Pranasomatics actually works.

Venn Model of Human Experience Overlapping circles for Intelligence, Sapience, Consciousness, Emotion and Sentience. Intelligence pattern recognition Β· analysis Β· planning Sapience embodied wisdom Β· judgement Consciousness awareness Β· thought Β· sensation Emotion instinctive Β· intuitive Β· reactive Sentience subjective experience
How this helps in coaching

The Venn model keeps your work precise and compassionate. Instead of chasing single symptoms, you can feel which circle is speaking the loudest β€” and which ones are missing.

  • Mapping the pattern: You see whether a client’s struggle is mainly cognitive (Intelligence), wisdom-related (Sapience), awareness-based (Consciousness), affective (Emotion), or right at the core of Sentience.
  • Choosing interventions: You can decide whether to work with story, meaning-making, nervous-system tone, emotional current, or the silent witness.
  • Honouring the whole: Change becomes safer and deeper because you’re not forcing one layer β€” you’re inviting the whole Body–Mind field to reorganise.
Somatic therapy session
07 Β· Example Map

See a full BodyMind Map in practice

Download is no longer needed β€” explore a real Somatic Ocean Blueprint right here to see how the 7 Dimensions and the Venn Model come together in one clear, compassionate map of a session.

Somatic Ocean – BodyMind Mapping

Somatic Ocean Blueprint

A real-world example BodyMind Map showing how sensation, emotion, thought and nervous-system patterns converge inside a single moment.

Client Snapshot
Context
Morning anxiety before work
Session Focus
Feeling trapped & overwhelmed
Practitioner Notes
NS dysregulation + relational contraction
Date
Sample
Sensation
Body
Chest tight, throat constricted, breath shallow, shoulders lifted.
Emotion
Feeling
Fear, dread, overwhelm, trapped.
Thought
Mind
I can't do this, something bad will happen, I'm stuck.
Nervous System
State
Sympathetic activation, freeze response, disconnection.
Awareness
Presence
Narrow focus, inner listening muted, dissociated.
Behaviour
Action
Avoidance, procrastination, collapse.
Relational Field
Connection
Contracted, defensive, isolated.
The Somatic Knot
A sympathetic spike + fear-driven thoughts + relational threat create a loop: the system contracts β†’ breath shortens β†’ behaviour becomes avoidant. Awareness reopens the field.
Coaching Interventions
Three entry points for transformation: working through the body, widening awareness and reopening the relational field. In a real session, we move fluidly between all three.
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Somatic
  • Breath tracking
  • Grounding feet
  • Gentle neck release
  • Chest expansion
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Cognitive / Awareness
  • Name the pattern
  • Witness thinking
  • Orient to present
  • Choice point recognition
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Relational
  • Co-regulation presence
  • Safe mirroring
  • Expand relational field
  • Agency restoration
Emerging Shift
breath deepens Β· thinking slows Β· chest expands Β· system reopens to connection Β· agency returns
06 Β· How we use it in sessions

From raw experience to guided change

In Pranasomatics we don’t β€œapply” a model from above. We stay with what the body–mind shows us and move through three simple steps β€” again and again: Track Β· Map Β· Guide.

01
Track
We track what is actually happening in real time: sensation, emotion, thought, nervous-system shifts and the relational field. No fixing yet β€” just clear, compassionate noticing.
body cues nervous system relational signals
02
Map
We map these signals into the 7 Dimensions and the Venn model: where Intelligence, Emotion, Consciousness and Sapience meet β€” and where the system is looping, split or under-resourced.
7 Dimensions Venn model pattern clarity
03
Guide
From there we guide small, precise experiments: breath, micro-movements, contact, boundary shifts, meaning updates. The system reorganises from within β€” towards more coherence and choice.
micro-interventions somatic experiments integration
In a session this becomes a spiral: we track, map and guide again β€” until the new pattern feels natural in the body.
Benefits

The Benefits of BodyMind Mapping

Clearer sessions, deeper regulation, and more precision in what the body is actually trying to say.

More Clarity
See exactly what is happening across body, mind, emotion and relationship in one coherent view.
Better Regulation
Track nervous-system shifts in real time so you can meet the client where their body actually is.
Better Client Outcomes
Clients recognise their own patterns faster β€” the map becomes a compassionate mirror for change.
Embodied Precision
Interventions land with more accuracy, less guesswork, and deeper respect for the whole system.
Before and after BodyMind Mapping
Before
  • Sessions jump between topics without a clear thread.
  • Client stories feel scattered and hard to track.
  • You sense something in the body, but it stays vague.
  • Interventions are helpful, but not always well-timed.
After
  • One shared map anchors the whole process.
  • Client and practitioner see the same patterns in real time.
  • Body, emotion, thought and relationship line up into one picture.
  • Interventions become targeted, paced and deeply regulating.

Pranasomatics is a living synthesis of
ancient eastern wisdom and modern western science.

Lineage of Influence

Pranasomatics Stands on the Shoulders of Giants

Our work is a living synthesis of trauma science, parts work, tantric metaphysics, contemplative practice, embodiment and philosophy. These streams form the invisible scaffolding of Pranasomatics.

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Neuroscience, Somatic Trauma & Nervous System Work

How we understand safety, regulation and the body’s response to overwhelming experience.

  • Stephen Porges β€” polyvagal theory, neuroception, social engagement.
  • Peter Levine β€” Somatic Experiencing, returning agency to the body.
  • Janina Fisher β€” parts, memory and somatic integration.
  • Laurence Heller β€” developmental trauma and regulation.
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Internal Parts Work & Embodied Psychology

How we meet inner parts with precision, curiosity and compassion in a somatic field.

  • Richard Schwartz β€” IFS, Self-leadership and inner systems.
  • Frank Anderson β€” trauma-informed parts work rooted in neuroscience.
  • Pete Walker β€” complex trauma, shame and inner critics.
  • Marshall Rosenberg β€” needs language, embodied connection.
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Yogic & Tantric Foundations

The metaphysics and practice lineages that shape how we relate to awareness, energy and form.

  • Abhinavagupta β€” non-dual Kashmir Shaivism, recognition of Self.
  • Christopher Wallis (Hareesh) β€” contemporary transmission & clarity.
  • Swami Lakshmanjoo β€” oral teaching lineages of Shaiva Tantra.
  • Paul MΓΌller-Ortega β€” heart-centered non-dual awareness practice.
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Contemplative Practice, Presence & Awareness

How we rest as awareness itself and integrate awakening into ordinary life.

  • Adyashanti β€” post-awakening integration and humility.
  • Rupert Spira β€” awareness as our natural state.
  • Thich Nhat Hanh β€” embodied mindfulness in daily living.
  • Jon Kabat-Zinn β€” mindfulness and somatic stress reduction.
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Body Intelligence, Sexuality & Embodiment

How we honour the body as a site of intelligence, pleasure, creativity and relational truth.

  • Esther Perel β€” erotic intelligence in relationship.
  • Naomi Wolf β€” cultural & neurobiological intelligence of the body.
  • Sarah Desilets β€” reclaiming embodied pleasure.
  • David Deida β€” polarity, presence & embodied devotion (indirect influence).
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Additional Streams of Influence

Philosophical, scientific and poetic lenses that widen our map of consciousness and culture.

  • Ken Wilber β€” integral maps of consciousness.
  • Yuval Noah Harari β€” cultural context for consciousness evolution.
  • Mark Nepo β€” poetic presence in transformation.
  • Carlo Rovelli & Joe Dispenza β€” time, neuroplasticity & perception (used critically and contextually).
These teachers are offered as influences, not affiliations. The Pranasomatics method is a living synthesis shaped by β€” but not limited to β€” their work.
Next Step

Apply for Pranasomatics Coaching

If you feel called to map your own Body–Mind system with us, you can apply for 1:1 Pranasomatics Coaching. We’ll explore if this work is a good fit for your nervous system, your timing, and your life.

A short, reflective application β€” no pressure, no hard sell.
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