The Practice
For women who’ve been pushing through long enough to know something has to change.
Most programs ask you to add something.
A new habit. A morning routine. Another thing to get through before you’ve earned the right to rest.
The Practice asks something different.
It’s a 14-day somatic mindfulness course — and the foundation of Applied Somatic Medicine™. Not another meditation to check off. A real framework for learning to live inside your body, so you stop overriding it by default and start responding to it on purpose.
If you’ve spent years pushing through being sick, tired, or overwhelmed — not because you didn’t notice, but because stopping felt worse than continuing — this is where that pattern changes.
Your body already knows something is wrong.
The Practice teaches you to listen.
The Practice trains your attention to stay with what’s actually happening in your body — sensations, emotions, internal states — as they arise in real life. Not in a quiet room, set aside for practice. In the middle of your actual day.
Over time, that builds something most women in this pattern have never had: the ability to notice what your body is telling you before you’ve already pushed past it.
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“The thing I love about The Practice is that it gives concrete practical techniques to truly address the root causes of stress within the body.
It is empowering to feel like I have tools above and beyond general “self-care” practices.
I’m beyond grateful to have this program to come back to over and over and that it continues to heal my body more deeply each time I go through it.
This doesn’t feel like, “one more thing” to add to my daily routine, but rather a supportive and healing methodology for addressing what my body feels, but my mind hasn’t consciously identified.”
“What a gift! This course has a way of showing up at exactly the right time, always, so if you’ve stumbled across it now, you’re ready for it now.
Katerina is incredibly knowledgeable and distills centuries of teachings into accessible daily practices that create profound results.
For those who are just starting on the path, The Practice is a beautiful introduction to mindfulness.
For those who are well-steeped in these concepts, this serves as an invaluable tool for bringing attention back to core principles that are so easily lost in our daily lives.
Highly recommend!”
What Makes The Practice Different
Other approaches work from the outside in — new thoughts, new behaviors, new coping strategies layered on top of a nervous system that’s still running the same override pattern underneath.
The Practice works from the inside out. Rooted in Applied Somatic Medicine™, it trains your attention to stay with what’s actually happening in your body — so the pattern itself starts to shift, not just how you manage it.
Why This Works.
Most women in this pattern aren’t disconnected from their bodies because they don’t care. They’re disconnected because staying connected felt like too much — so the nervous system learned to route around it.
Somatic mindfulness interrupts that routing. When you practice staying present to sensation rather than overriding it, the body stops having to escalate to get your attention. That’s where real regulation begins — not as a technique you apply, but as a capacity you build.
“Your body has been sending you a message you were never taught to receive.
The Practice teaches you to receive it.”
— Katerina Baratta, MS, LAc, founder of The Embodied Wellness Studio
The Practice is a 14-day self-study somatic mindfulness program that combines modern neurological research with ancient techniques to help you stop overriding your body and start living inside it.
Over the course of 2 weeks you’ll receive:
• 9 Informative and inspiring emails that translate modern neuroscientific research and ancient esoteric theory into simple language so you can easily apply it to your life
• Audio recordings of every email transcript so you can listen on the go, whenever you want
• 5 Guided mindfulness practices, so you can start reaping the benefits right away
The Practice gives you something most wellness programs skip entirely: a way to actually feel what’s happening inside your body — before you’ve already overridden it.
What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You
These aren’t personality traits or bad luck. They’re signals. And they tend to get louder the longer they go unanswered.
- Digestive discomfort and irregularity
- Sleep disturbance and insomnia
- Elevated blood pressure
- Menstrual and fertility issues
- Poor memory and concentration
- Frequent worry, anxiety, and/or depression
- Restlessness, inability to relax
- Mood-swings, emotional reactivity
- Impaired ability to empathize with others
What Changes When You Stop Overriding
- The ability to notice what you’re feeling before you’ve already pushed past it
- A nervous system that doesn’t have to escalate to get your attention
- More space between what happens and how you respond
- Sleep that isn’t just collapse at the end of a long override
- A body you trust again — and that trusts you
What You Get
The Practice gives you everything you need to start building a real relationship with your body — not as a project, but as a daily practice.
Empowering easy-to-follow lessons give you a deeper understanding of your nervous system and the stress patterns that keep you stuck. Powerful practices help you turn down your stress response in real-time so you can embrace (and enjoy!) the things that matter to you most. And rest days between lessons give you the chance to integrate what you’ve learned and apply it in your everyday life.
Week 1
Day 1
Lesson: Benefits of Mindfulness — How and Why Mindfulness Works
Guided Practice: Full Circle Breath (Plus what to do if breathing makes you anxious)
Day 3
Lesson: Autonomic Nervous System 101 — The stress response, the vagus nerve, and how to tame habitual stress
Guided Practice: Walking Meditation (If you’re not a fan of seated meditation, this one’s for you!)
Day 5
Lesson: Stress Habits and Trauma — How stress gets stored in the nervous system and the 2 mistakes that cause the majority of human suffering
Guided Practice: Embodied Body-Scan Meditation
Day 7
Lesson: Using Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Guided Practice: Mindful Tooth-Brushing (This one will give you a reason to smile! And it can be applied to anything you do regularly, including washing the dishes, drinking, eating, showering, and more.)
Week 2
Day 8: Bonus Email
Lesson: Making Mindfulness a Habit — 3 fool-proof hacks to make mindfulness (or any new habit) stick
Day 9
Lesson: Acceptance & Resistance — How to reduce emotional reactivity through inquiry
Day 11
Lesson: Anxiety, Overcoming Mental Road-Blocks, & Stepping into the Fires of Transformation
Day 13
Lesson: Surrender, Discernment, and Letting Go of Stuck Emotions
Guided Practice: Emotional Release Meditation (A must-have practice for every human!)
Day 14
Wrap-up, review, and next steps to help you take everything you’ve learned to the next level.
Bonuses
Making It Stick
Learn 3 fool-proof hacks to make mindfulness (or any new habit) stick.
Direct Access to Katerina
Contact Katerina and have all questions around course content answered directly.
“I have been going through an extremely stressful time in my life over the past few years with illnesses, loss, and other family struggles. The Practice has helped me grow my patience, openness, compassion, and empathy amidst it all.
I have listened to many of the lessons multiple times, I really like that I can go back to the emails to review and re-listen.
I’m so grateful for this opportunity! The work you’re doing is so important.”
14 days to start learning what your body has been trying to tell you.
Start your practice today.
“The body doesn’t lie. It just waits until you’re ready to listen.”
— Katerina Baratta, MS, LAc
Not sure yet?
Here are telltale signs that The Practice is for you:
- Sometimes you don’t even notice how you’re feeling until your body forces you to. And by then, you’ve already been running on empty.
- You’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. You’ve tried the habits. The problem isn’t motivation.
- You have a nagging sense that something’s off — not with your life, but somewhere inside your body. Like a signal you can’t quite read.
- Your breath is shallow more often than it is deep.
- Your muscles are tight and tense.
- You’re emotionally reactive and moody more often than you’d like.
- You’ve thought “I’ll deal with this later” about your own body more times than you can count.
- You feel like you’re operating on autopilot and can’t seem to break out of your rut.
- You don’t sleep well, you feel restless and can’t get your mind to stop racing.
- You suffer from anxiety, depression, and/or chronic pain, and want to find something that actually addresses the root.
- You’re not looking for a wellness hobby. You’re looking for something that actually works.
Even just one of these is a good sign you should sign up.
Start your practice today
and start learning what your body has been trying to tell you.