Putting words to sensations:

A Felt Sensations Guide

When we come into a more intimate and generative relationship with our bodies, we often find ourselves at a lack for words to describe our felt sensations in the body. Much of this is due to the absence of education around our felt sense and practice describing it to others. Use this guide to support putting language to your felt sensations in the body. This can support an increase in your connection to your own SOMA.  

Achy

Airy

Aroused

Blocked

Breathless

Bubbly

Burning

Buzzy

Calm

Chilled

Clammy

Clenched

Closed

Constricted

Contracted

Cool

Cold

Contained

Dark

Dense

Disconnected

Drained

Dull

Dizzy

Electric

Empty

Energized

Expansive

Fiery

Fidgety

Floating/Floaty

Flowing

Fluid

Fluttery

Frozen

Frisky

Full

Gentle

Grounded

Guarded

Hard

Heavy

Heavy-hearted

Hot

Hollow

Icy
Itchy

Jittery

Jumpy

Knotted

Light

Loose

Nauseous

Numb

Open

Pounding

Prickly

Pulsing

Queasy

Quiet

Radiant

Relaxed

Rhythmic

Rigid

Ringing

Settled

Slow

Shaky

Shivery

Sleepy

Smooth

Snappy

Speedy

Spacey

Spacious

Soft

Sore

Sparkly

Startled

Stagnant

Stiff

Still

Stuck

Streaming

Suffocated

Sweaty

Tense

Thick

Throbbing

Tight

Tingling

Trembly

Twitchy

Unsteady

Uplifted

Vibrating

Warm

Wound-up