Framework Somatics

Framework Somatics is the San Diego practice of Nicolette de Saint-Amour, a Guild Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method®. She completed her Feldenkrais training under Julie Peck in Kelowna, Canada, and has more than a decade of experience in various somatic modalities.

Her private work centers on Functional Integration® lessons, which are tailored to one person's desire, intention or need. Sessions may happen lying on a table, sitting or standing, with props where they help. The learning is gentle and non-invasive, so a person can reorganize how they move through comfort, enjoyment and ease. She also offers Zoga Face Integration, a manual approach to the muscles of the face and body.

Nicolette has studied body reading and postural assessment intensively with Tom Meyers of Anatomy Trains and Judith Aston of Aston Kinetics, and this informs her practice. She also draws on bioenergetics and somatic archetypes to help clients meet life's demands with resiliency and ease.

She is a Lecturer of Somatics in the music and dance department at San Diego State University, and serves as Secretary and Board Member of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America. Born in Maputo, Mozambique, she grew up nomadic, which shaped her interest in life transitions, in how the body adapts to a changing environment, and in the personal mythologies that arise from that.