What is body literacy?

Body literacy is the ability to read the signals your body is already sending — tension, ease, contraction, expansion — and understand what they mean. It is the practice of interoception: noticing internal bodily sensations rather than overriding them. The Listening is a 4-week group series in Hong Kong that teaches body literacy through somatic practice grounded in polyvagal theory and the research of Bessel van der Kolk and Stephen Porges.

What is The Listening somatic series in Hong Kong?

The Listening is a 4-week somatic group series run by Faith Lantz in Central, Hong Kong. Over four weekly two-hour sessions, participants develop body literacy through guided interoception practice and felt-sense work. The series draws on Somatic Experiencing and polyvagal theory. Groups are small — six to eight people — so each person is properly held.

What is interoception and why does it matter?

Interoception is the body's ability to sense its own internal state — heart rate, breath, muscle tension, and other signals. Research by Stephen Porges, Bessel van der Kolk, and Gabor Maté shows that interoceptive awareness is fundamental to emotional regulation and well-being. The Listening develops this awareness through direct somatic practice.

Do I need prior somatic or therapy experience for The Listening?

No. The Listening is designed for people who are curious about their bodies and ready to pay a different kind of attention. Some participants have done therapy; others arrive with none. What most share is a sense that the conversation needs to switch direction — from mind to body.

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A 4-week series · Body literacy

The Listening

Your body has been speaking the whole time. The Listening is where you learn to read what it's been saying.

For the body that has been waiting for the conversation to switch direction. This is the second instrument.

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Who this is for.

You've done the thinking. The body still has the next chapter.

Weekly sessions

2 hrs

Each session

6–8

People per cohort

Central, in person

You know yourself well. You pay real attention to your inner life. And there is something that keeps calling for attention. A pattern that keeps returning. A tension you can name but your body keeps holding.

That isn't a sign that you need more information. It's a sign that the conversation needs to switch direction. From mind to body. From understanding to noticing.

Your body has been speaking the whole time. The Listening is where you learn the language.

The four sessions.

Each session builds on the last. You start with safety. You end with a practice you can keep.

Week 1 · 2 Hours

Orienting and grounding

What a felt sense actually is. Settling into the room. The first practice of noticing without explaining. Building the safety the body needs before it'll show you anything else.

By the end: most participants leave with a working felt sense vocabulary and one practice they can do anywhere.

Week 2 · 2 Hours

Tracking sensation without story

Separating the data from the interpretation. Learning to stay with what's actually here, not what your mind is making it mean. This is where the work starts to get real.

By the end: most participants can describe what they're feeling without reaching for an explanation of why.

Week 3 · 2 Hours

Resourcing

Finding the places in your body that are already settled. Building a felt vocabulary for what good feels like, so you can recognise it later. The opposite of trauma work. The home base.

By the end: most participants have identified their personal resources and can return to them at will.

Week 4 · 2 Hours

Integration

Taking the practice into the rest of your life. How to use this in a meeting, in bed at 3am, in a conversation that's going sideways. The version of you that takes this home.

By the end: most participants have a clear take-home practice and a felt sense of how to use it.

What to expect.

Honesty up front about what's hard, what's not, and what The Listening actually is.

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In the first session.

Most people can't feel much below their neck. That isn't a sign of being broken. It's a sign of having lived in your head for a long time. You'll be supported through it.

Somewhere in week two or three.

Things surface. Old tension that hadn't moved. Emotion attached to nothing you can name. This is the work, and it's the part where most one-off workshops leave you. The group holds it, and the science backs it up: one regulated nervous system settles the others. That's polyvagal, not metaphor. The next session integrates what surfaced.

By week four.

The same body that felt blank in session one usually has plenty to say. The practice is yours. The skill stays with you.

About me.

The work is somatic. The frame is nervous system. The voice is mine.

Faith Lantz, somatic wellness practitioner, Hong Kong

I'm Faith Lantz, a somatic wellness practitioner based in Central, Hong Kong. I'm a certified Biodynamic and Upledger Craniosacral Therapist, a certified Rebirthing Breathwork practitioner, and I'm completing a 3-year professional training in Somatic Experiencing, the body-based trauma approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine.

I run a private practice in Central, Hong Kong. The people who find their way to me are ready to work at the level of the body. The Listening draws on interoception research and the body-based trauma work of Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, and Gabor Maté — the science of what it takes for a body to feel safe enough to be read.

The Listening is the work I wish someone had handed me ten years ago. The thing under the other things. Where the lasting shift lives.

The format.

Four weeks. Small group. One practice you keep.

4-week series

From HKD 3,200

Four weekly two-hour sessions, in person in Hong Kong. Six to eight people. Materials and take-home practices included. Payment plan available.

Cohorts open periodically through the year. Register your interest below to be first told when the next one runs.

Limited spaces.

The Listening is run in small, intimate groups so each person can be properly held. When a cohort fills, registration closes until the next one opens.

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