We Center to get open, present and connected.
In under ten minutes, you can return to choice–
shift from triggered to grounded,
shift from grabbed by to in relationship with,
shift from conditioned tendency to choice.
Centering is a simple, powerful practice that helps you return to the fullness of your embodied intelligence—especially when facing pressure. It’s a foundational practice on the path of somatic transformation and embodied leadership.
When done daily, it strengthens your ability to respond—not react—with clarity, dignity, and in the direction of the commitment you are working to embody.
Note: Centering is not a concept. It’s skillful action—built in the body through intentional practice—until it becomes an automatic response under pressure.
This moment of transformation from old systems to new systems demands more than intellect—it calls for presence, resilience, and connection that's rooted in the body.
In a world shaped by disconnection, urgency, and systems that harm, somatics offers a way to return to ourselves and one another. It helps us recognize how those systems live in our tissues, and how we can shift—not just conceptually, but physically—toward more grounded, life-affirming ways of being.
Somatics gives us tools to stay centered amidst complexity, to act with intention, and to build the inner and collective capacity needed for lasting transformation.
The phone you hold is one of the most powerful places of shaping in modern life—of attention, habits, even identity.
Our lineage teaches us that sites of shaping are the environments and interactions that condition our automatic responses.
Rather than abandon the phone, we use it—placing Centering right where the shaping happens. Instead of letting the phone pull us into distraction or urgency, we use Centering to interrupt the disembodying impacts of the phone, and practice returning to ourselves.
Even in the swirl of constant pings and pulls, you can return to your body—and choose how to respond, not just react.
After 50 years of shaping the field of somatics, our work is just beginning.
As a newly formed 501(c)(3), the Strozzi Institute for Somatics is focused on resourcing individuals, organizations and networks committed to meeting the challenges of our time with embodied presence and skillful action.
We envision a future shaped by safety, belonging, dignity, and resilience for all—where transformation is not just conceptual, but lived through the intelligence of the body.
Learn more about our lineage, our team, and why we remain in a life-affirming commitment to the study, practice, and teaching of somatics.