Somatara Therapy Clinic

04/01/2026

It’s time to nourish your nervous system with gentle, safe touch and guided movements that reset. Call me on 086 8297703 to book your appointment or learn more. 💕

01/01/2026

28/07/2025

Tara Dowling -Somatic Healing 🌻

Tara is a passionate wellness advocate with a unique journey!
After starting her career in fitness and later flying the skies with Aer Lingus as cabin crew, Tara experienced a work-related back injury that changed everything.
Frustrated with traditional recovery routes, Tara discovered Somatics – and it transformed her life. The results were so profound that she trained to become a certified Somatic Movement Educator.

So, what is Somatics?
Somatic Movement is a gentle, science-based approach that taps into the body’s natural ability to heal.
It helps release chronic pain, reduce stress, and restore movement through slow, mindful motion.
By doing less, sensing more, and tuning into your body, you retrain your muscles to let go of tension and pain – bringing flexibility and freedom back to your life.
“We hold our issues in our tissues” – and Somatics helps us let go.
Contact Tara to learn more or book a session:
086 829 7703
somatara@live.ie

04/07/2024

Hey guys!

This talk is happening tomorrow evening in the lovely olive room in Gorey.

I was on the teaching team on the last training in Galway and as usual it was awesome and life changing for all the students.

Students are held in such a beautiful way and supported on their 2yr journey.

If you’d like to meet some of the teaching team and learn about the training you can let Dermot know you’re attending or drop in and say hi.

Oh and this will be the first year we have the training in Waterford, wouldn’t it be lovely to see this grow on the sunny south east ☀️☀️☀️☀️

21/12/2023

Sometimes we need a little reminder of how amazing we truly are

20/10/2023

"CASH IS KING" 👑

- If you have a 50€ note in your pocket and you take it to the restaurant and pay for dinner...

The restaurant uses this 50€ to pay the laundry bill. The owner of the laundry then pays someone for, let's say a haircut at the hairdressers shop. The hairdresser uses €50 at the supermarket checkout.

After an unlimited number of payments, the value of the 50€ note remains the same, which means that it has served its purpose for all those who have used it as a means of payment and the bank has no activity or interference in any cash transaction made.

HOWEVER... WHAT IF YOU PAY BY CARD ?

- If you go to a restaurant and pay digitally with your Card the cost of your digital payment billed to the restaurant owner, including transaction fees in percentages, is an average of 2.5%, which means they are charged roughly about 1.25€ for each payment transaction.

This means that each further payment transaction by Card costs another 1.25€. So, taking our scenario the same charges apply to the restaurant owner who pays the laundry bill in digital format, the hairdresser payment, plus other payments, etc.

So after the first 36 transactions of this 50€, only €5 remains and the remaining 45€ ends up in the Bank 🤬 thanks to all these digital transactions and fees !

Furthermore, the cost of a bank card is on average 2.25€ per month, so after you have saved for a month, your 50€ will be only worth 47.75€.

Electronic/Card payment is just a continuous payment to banks and DOES NOT BENEFIT you or the local business in any way !

18/09/2023

Most people are good. Most people kiss their pets goodbye and read ‘just one more’ bedtime story to their children. Most people visit their grandparents even when they have no time and stop by to check on quiet friends, after a day too long and draining. Most people return their shopping trolleys, despite being already late and let someone with only one item, jump to the front of a queue. Most people give money when money is scarce and most people worry about people they don’t even know, day in and day out. When the world seems bad, remember, most people are good.

Good, from ‘Wild Hope’🩶
https://amzn.eu/d/2j0Nquu

Art by my now friend Bettina Baldassari - BettiPigna. 🤍🤍

26/06/2023

When a woman awakens and starts to own all of herself, letting go of the need to cover up or defend herself and instead accepts all of her idiosyncrasies, fears, wounds, false programs, flaws, icky moods, fat thighs, sweaty armpits etc and supports her unique imperfect self instead of judging, rejecting and wishing that she were different or like somebody else, she has entered the promised land of freedom and self empowerment.

She starts to drop the posing, defence mechanisms, competitiveness, jealousy and all the false gods that she previously used as crutches, false images or places to hide parts of herself...

What is left is a Woman of Strength, courage, fortitude and a woman that is compassionately understanding towards others because she is able to give to others what she has given to herself...

She becomes fearlessly authentic, she finds her Voice, there is no longer shame, therefore she no longer needs to hide or change any part of herself...

She's able to overcome any fears of rejection for being true to herself.

Ironically, when a woman claims and accepts her
shadow, that which she rejected and suppressed about herself transforms from being dysfunctional to being a strength and the energy that it was previously draining from her becomes available to her. Such a woman gives others permission to accept themselves as they are, her own freedom becomes contagious.

Through being openly relaxed in her Power she
empowers others.

Author: Caroline de Lisser

Artist: Barbara Glatzeder

18/06/2023

Appreciate the little things. There are so many.

19/11/2022

Are you truly lazy
Or are you simply in the process of resting and recovering from all that you have been through?

Are you truly procrastinating
Or are you simply prioritizing what your soul finds more valuable, enriching and uplifting?

Are you truly sad
Or are you simply purging and releasing your emotions?

Are you truly broken
Or are you simply in the process of healing from past experiences and rebuilding your life?

Are you truly antisocial
Or are you simply undergoing a period of self-discovery and learning to fully embrace and enjoy your own company?

Are you truly naive
Or do you simply have an open heart and look for the best in other people?

Are you truly a loner
Or are you simply someone who prefers to spend more time alone in solitude?

Are you weak and overly emotional
Or are you simply someone with heightened sensitivity and a greater capacity to feel emotions?

Are you truly a workaholic
Or are you simply someone with great, ambitious dreams, a clear life purpose and an incredible work ethic?

Are you truly a “bitch”
Or are you simply good at standing up for yourself when necessary
And setting clear boundaries?

Are you truly ugly
Or are you simply someone who doesn’t conform to the unattainable, artificial beauty standards of society and is uniquely beautiful in their own way?

Are you truly weird, quirky or different
Or are you simply someone who possesses their own characteristic traits in a world filled with billions of people who differ from one another?

And are you going to allow others to define you
By placing all of these labels on you
Or are you going to choose to define yourself?

Words by Tahlia Hunter

Artwork by Demelsa Haughton