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Buddha Somatics

Ancient wisdom meets modern
somatic work 🌀

Embodied wisdom over information
Your body is the key to more energy, understanding and inspiration.

Let's learn how to speak it's language

If this resonates, you are in the right place:

I don't want to waste your time here, so only continue reading, if this is the path you want to take the coming steps on:

This work is about becoming into intimate connection with your own lifes' experience.

You are here to start:

  • Rebuilding deep connection with your body and mind

  • Learning the nervous system’s language

  • Realizing how old wounds and conditionings have led to your current struggles and bodily symptoms

  • Reducing suffering, through a spiritual understanding of this human experience

  • Living from grounded presence instead of survival patterns

This is not about perfection.
It is about capacity.

Not about becoming someone else.
But about returning to yourself.

Life's a river

A somatic understanding of life as a human being

In the Beginning there is Existence

In the End there is Existence

What lies in between is a movement, a temporary expression  

To experience itself Existence — call it God, Nature, or the “Big S” Self — takes on form.

It seems to split into countless points of perception. These points of perception seem like separate beings, an individual consciousness.

Imagine Existence as an infinite ocean. To know itself, it allows currents to form. These currents become rivers.

Each river looks different. Each flows through different landscapes, with different bends, depths, and obstacles. Yet the water itself is the same everywhere.​​

This is life. And each of us is a river.

The body is the riverbed — the vehicle through which life can flow, perceive, learn, and heal. Without a body, life would have no texture, no sensation, no friction, no knowing.

In Buddhist psychology and modern somatics alike, the body is not separate from the mind

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This is not about religion

If the word Buddha makes you hesitate — pause for a moment.

This is not about converting anyone to any belief or religion.
It is not about dogma, rituals, or adopting a new identity.

Buddha Somatics does not ask you to believe anything.
It invites you to observe.

The word Buddha literally means “the awakened one”. It points to a state of awareness, a human capacity.

Just like some speak of Christ consciousness as a state of embodied love and presence rather than a doctrine, Buddha here refers to the possibility of clarity within you.

So what can we "awaken" to?

Shortly put, the understanding that we are innately part of the whole. Life experiencing itself trough this "seperate" viewpoint of a body.

Read more in this blog post I have created to summarize this idea.

 

More than 2.500 years ago Siddhartha Gautama pointed to something radically simple:

Suffering is always present in this human experience. But this is not meant in a pessimistic sense.
Because this suffering is rooted in our ignorance of our true nature. It decreases when we learn to observe our direct experience, especially the sensations in the body, without immediately reacting to them.
Neither craving for things to be the way we want, nor resisting to how the present actually is.
Learn more about this in the blog post.

That insight is not religious.
It is experiential.

You can test it yourself.

So how will we work with this understanding

The method is not about believing something new. It is about experiencing something directly.

This is a practice-based approach that combines meditation with somatic nervous-system work.
We move from cognitive understanding to embodied knowing.

Because insight alone does not regulate your nervous system.
But experience does.

From Thinking to Sensing

Instead of asking, “Why is life like this?”, "Why do I have these symptoms/ this disease?", "Why am I like this?"
we begin with:
“What is happening in my body right now?”

You learn to feel sensations — tension, heat, contraction, numbness — without immediately trying to fix them.

Awareness and a sense of safety creates regulation.
Regulation creates clarity.
In the stillness the wisdom and answers arise. 

Nervous System Regulation

Before going into deeper emotional layers, we build capacity.

Through grounding, breath, subtle movement, and safety-building practices, your system learns:
“I am not in danger.”

Healing happens when the body feels safe — not when the mind understands.

The River & The Stones 

This goes back to the analogy I have created, read more in this blog post.

Some stress is old. Some is new.

We work on:

  • Reducing new “stones” (daily stress, unhealthy actions, unconscious patterns)

  • Allowing old “stones” (stored emotions, past experiences) to surface safely

Instead of forcing the river to flow, we allow lifes' innate healing qualities to remove what blocks it.

Working With Symptoms

Symptoms are not enemies.
They are communication.

Anxiety, tension, fatigue, digestive issues — they often reflect nervous system overload or suppressed emotion.

When the body feels heard, it may soften.

Meditation — Not Escaping, But Embodying

Meditation here means staying with sensation long enough to realize:

It all moves, arises and passes again too.

The physical pain changes, the fear, the emotional states.

When you stop fighting you can relax into it

The most important part though is the integration into your daily life.

The understandings of this practice are not something you only feel and leave behind on a meditation cushion.

You apply it:

  • In relationships, conflicts

  • In entrepreneurship

  • In moments of stress

Instead of reacting automatically to the situations, you begin to respond consciously.

Instead of projecting outward, you recognize that the problem as well as the solution lies within.

 

You develop what I call:
Embodied clarity.

How to get started?

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Single Somatic Coaching Sessions

You are currently struggling with a life situation or bodily symptoms?
Let's dive deep together and find the understandings through connecting with the body.

Why is it there, what does it want to teach you?
How to grow from it and heal?

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Longterm-Support

If you feel the call to go all in and understand the working in it's totality then this is the right choice. You will build the capacities to guide yourself through tough situation and thrive in life.
I will be there to support, but you will become your own Guide, Coach, Healer

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Monthly Community Calls

We thrive in community.

That's why it's so powerful to meet in a likeminded community, being able to share wins, difficulties and hold space for each other.

Join our beautiful community!

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Guided Meditations

If you feel like working on your own and get to know the approach check out the meditations here

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Frequently asked questions

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Cedric Pfeiffer

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Blending Holistic Health, nature’s wisdom, and deep inner work to help you unlock your true potential. With a focus on somatic healing, inner child work, and sustainable transformation, I guide you in cultivating self-awareness and living your most balanced, authentic life."

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