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Your roots are in the world - Your destiny is in the body
A global community organized around a single discovery: your body already holds who you are meant to become.
Founded by Jivasu
What Soma Is
Soma is a body- and science-based teachings to awaken somatic intelligence for health, happiness and transformation.
Soma’s path transcends religion, culture, race, color, and nationality, helping individuals to transform themselves and become compassionate builders of a peaceful world.
Four Facts of Soma
The First Fact
We all want to live, flourish and to reach our peak potential
The Second Fact
Only few reach life's peak due to six life traumas, blocking the flow of life energy within the body
The Thirds Fact
We can unblock life energy in the body through somatic practices and by understanding our unique somatic personality
The Fourth Fact
We will experience the following five on the path: Somatic Identity, Somatic Crises, Somatic Self and Somatic Non-dual
Meet Our Founder: Dr. Jivasu M.D.
Jivasu (Pradeep Kumar) is a physician and the founder of Soma Path. Soma Path is a call to return to the body for health, happiness, transformation and to discover our destiny.
According to Jivasu, the body is humanity’s common ground. Awakening its intelligence can ignite a somatic revolution, freeing us from fear, guilt, and trauma. We begin to live in peace, passion, and bliss, in harmony with all living beings.
Trained as a pediatrician in India, Jivasu spent 13 years with his wife, Dr. Karen, serving as a volunteer physician at the Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh and in the remote villages of the Garhwal Himalayas. It was at Sivananda that he experienced his first awakening. This awakening came to full fruition twelve years later as the realization of wholeness and freedom from the fear of death.
Jivasu affirms that his lineage is not limited to a single tradition, but extends to life itself, which began long ago on Earth as a single cell. He has been deeply influenced by the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, J. Krishnamurti, and U.G. Krishnamurti.
He has taught a variety of teacher training programs around the world, including Hatha Yoga, Nada Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and meditation. He has appeared on various podcasts, on Gaia, in independent films, and on Cable 14 television, and has spoken extensively at gatherings and international conferences.
He is the author of several books and manuals, including Meditation: A Path of Relaxation, Awareness, and Expansion of Awareness; Naturality: Living According to Your Nature; Offerings in Longing and Love; Understanding Death to Live Fully; and Return to the Body — The Soma Path. A book on his teachings, Awakening Begins in the Body — The Soma Path, was published by Mira Rostami.
The Science
What is the body?
The body, of which the brain is one of the organs, is a confluence of three cosmic forces of matter, energy, and consciousness. The body is a microcosm and an extension of nature.
What is science?
Quantitative science – We gain knowledge of life through quantitative measurements, experiments, and
research.
Qualitative science – We gain knowledge of life through self-reflection, self-enquiry, critical questioning, and Somatofulness or interoception. It is based on feelings.
What is transformation?
Breaking and transcending the trauma's patterns is transformation. It leads to peace, love, and well-being, and freedom from fear, guilt, and suffering. Transformation is not a point but a process with many points in it and there is no end point.
Five Experiential Stages of The Soma Path
Somatic Identity
Building an embodied healthy identity or self is essential to find our place in the world. It is the foundational stage on which all other higher stages are built.
Somatic Crises
When life energy reaches a critical a threshold, the old identity is dismantled releasing trauma. Identity is reassembled but instead of being a master it becomes a channel of higher life.
Somatic Self
The first transformative stage which includes the experience of witnessing consciousness, flow, and destiny. We become free from fear and guilt.
Somatic Universal
Individual boundaries begin to dissolve. Connection to the living world becomes felt in the body, not just understood in the mind. The body opens beyond its own skin into the cosmic.
Somatic Non-Dual
Stage of pure consciousness. Wordless, timeless. The body is functioning with its natural biological rhythm.
The Community
Soma Path draws people from five territories of life:
Living in the Body
Daily Life & Personal Well-Being
"My body is working against me in everyday life."
Body in Relationship
Family, Partnership & Connection
"The problem shows up in how I relate to the people around me."
When Life Breaks Open
Trauma & Transformation
"Something happened - or is happening - and I can't go back to who I was."
Death and What It Teaches
Mortality, Legacy & the Final Chapter
"I'm facing death - or the thought of it is changing how I want to live."
Teaching the Work
Training & Transmission
Meet the Teachers
Matt Nash
Matthew Nash is a yoga teacher, creator, and devoted student of Dr. Jivasu, weaving traditional practice with Soma’s science-informed somatic method. He serves as a lead teacher trainer and program designer, sharing the body’s innate wisdom through classes, trainings, and educational content across the world.
Camille Peters
Camille Peters is a Soma Meditative Yoga Facilitator whose path transformed through her long study with Dr. Jivasu. With over 12 years of training in Soma, Kundalini Yoga, and Nada Yoga, she guides others toward balance, awareness, and authentic connection through meditative somatic practice.
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Vittoria DeSimone
With over 30 years of practice, Vittoria blends Anusara, Hatha, Restorative, and Soma-inspired mindful movement with breathwork and meditation to support resilience and inner peace. As a Registered Psychotherapist, she brings depth and compassion to her teaching, creating an inclusive space for self-exploration.
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Kim Lan Toffin
Kim is the director and trainer of the Suwen Center in France, blending Traditional Chinese Medicine with Ayurveda and Yoga. Shaped by her Chinese heritage and time in Singapore and India, she teaches a holistic approach rooted in self-listening, natural living, and honoring the body’s rhythm.
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Dr. Diana Othman
Dr. Diana Othman is a pediatric oncology consultant who deepened her path through yoga, meditation, and Soma-based healing. Certified in Soma Meditation and Consciousness Training, she integrates medical science with somatic wisdom to support balance and emotional resilience. Her work is grounded in presence, gentle listening, and holistic healing.
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Dr. Gauri Mittal
Dr Gauri Mittal has completed her MBBS, MD & PDCC in Lifestyle Disease Management from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh. She has been trained and mentored in the teachings of "Soma: Path of the Body" by Dr Jivasu MD and is a certified Somatic Yoga Teacher Trainer.
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April Furanna
April Furanna is a somatic yoga practitioner, Hatha yoga teacher, and Ayurveda yoga therapist living in Costa Rica. A longtime student of Jivasu, she trained in his Naturality program as it evolved into what is now Soma. Her work weaves subtle movement, nervous system awareness, Ayurvedic principles, and food as embodied support into individualized practice.
Soma In The World
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The Global Initiative for Somatic Transformation (GIST) is the living expression of Soma Path’s vision in the world. Founded by Dr. Jivasu, GIST brings together science, somatics, and community to offer a new way of living - one rooted in connection with nature, with each other, and with our Somatic Self.
Through accessible learning, global gatherings, and partnerships with organizations dedicated to human and ecological well-being, GIST is nurturing a worldwide movement for inner transformation, collective flourishing, and the return to a more connected, meaningful way of life.
Master's & PhD Program
For practitioners seeking academic recognition alongside their somatic practice, Soma Path partners with SHEN — the Spiritual Heritage Education Network. SHEN offers a Master's and PhD in Neurobiology of Transformation through its affiliation with Ubiquity University, using the neurobiology of the body-mind as a universal language across science, medicine, and contemplative tradition.
How Soma is different from other systems of teaching
In Soma
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The body is the gateway to awakening
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The focus is on life and destiny, not on God, Brahman, Tao, or any abstract metaphysical concept
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The world is affirmed in its totality
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Nothing is illusion; everything is reality at different levels
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Desire is a tool, not an obstacle on the path to awakening
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A healthy identity or ego is the foundation
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Understanding one’s somatic personality is at the core of soma path
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