“What Is SomaYoga and Why Your Desk-Bound Body Will Thank You?”

Written By Monica Mohanty

Have You Noticed Your Body Talking Back?

If you’re like most professionals, your day involves hours at a desk, endless emails, back-to-back calls and by 3 PM, your shoulders are up to your ears, your neck feels fused, and your lower back is begging for mercy.

This is the daily reality for so many desk-bound bodies. And yet, most of us try to push through it ignoring the tension, pain, and fatigue. But what if your body isn’t the problem… what if it’s just trying to tell you something?

Enter: SomaYoga is a powerful, gentle practice designed to help you listen, unwind, and re-educate your body’s habitual tension patterns.

What Is SomaYoga?

SomaYoga is a blend of therapeutic yoga, somatics (body-mind awareness practices), and neuromuscular re-education. Unlike traditional yoga, which often focuses on stretching or strengthening, SomaYoga goes deeper helping you reconnect your brain to your body.

It’s based on the science of how we unconsciously hold tension due to stress, poor posture, or repetitive patterns (hello, hunching over a laptop). Over time, this leads to what’s called Sensory Motor Amnesia where the brain “forgets” how to fully relax certain muscles.

SomaYoga gently retrains these forgotten pathways through slow, conscious movements. The result? More ease, less pain, and a body that feels refreshed not just stretched.

Why It’s a Game-Changer for Desk Workers

You don’t need to be a yogi to benefit from SomaYoga. In fact, it’s especially powerful for people who:

  • Sit for long hours

  • Experience chronic neck, shoulder, or back tension

  • Feel stiff, fatigued, or disconnected from their body

  • Live with stress, anxiety, or burnout

  • Want a sustainable way to move and feel better

If your body feels “stuck” in a chair all day, SomaYoga offers the key to unsticking it not by force, but by awareness.

What It Feels Like (and What It Isn’t)

SomaYoga isn’t about touching your toes or “doing it right.” In fact, the movements are often small, slow, and subtly done lying down, seated, or even at your desk.

It’s not a workout. It’s not a performance. It’s a conversation with your nervous system.

Most people say they feel:

  • Lighter, taller, and more aligned

  • A quiet calm in their mind and body

  • Relief in places they didn’t realize were tense

  • More ease in daily movements walking, sitting, sleeping

Think of it as hitting “reset” for your nervous system and muscles.

A Personal Note

As someone who works with both private clients and corporate professionals, I see how common it is to normalize pain to accept stiffness or fatigue as just part of modern life.

But I also see the transformation when someone experiences their first SomaYoga session when they realize that change doesn’t have to come from pushing harder, but from learning to release what the body is holding.

It’s not magic. It’s not hype. It’s your body’s natural capacity to heal and SomaYoga is simply the tool to unlock it.

Ready to Explore?

Whether you're a burned-out manager, a remote worker with a sore neck, or simply someone craving more ease I invite you to explore what SomaYoga can do for you.

Want to learn more or try a private session? Send me a message via email or fill out the contact details on my site.     

Your desk-bound body will thank you.

Monica Mohanty