The Toolkit:
Somatic Tools for Everyday Resilience
You can’t go to Patagonia every week. You need tools that work on a Tuesday morning.
Somatic travel shifts your perspective, but daily practice shifts your baseline. I have curated this library of books, decks, and guided sessions to help you interrupt stress patterns and return to flow—no matter where you are.
The Origin Story:
My somatic methodology wasn’t created in a vacuum. It was refined inside the high-pressure environment of Google, where I launched the MindBody Awareness program in 2011 to help engineers manage stress and increase focus.
“Being aware of what my physical body needs while my brain is busy coding has helped me significantly reduce stress, not get so worn out, and enjoy my job.” — Google Engineer, attending my MindBody Class (2013)
Read the original 2013 Case Study on The Google Blog.
I have spent the last 13 years refining those early methods into the programs I offer now.
“Amy Colvin offers a crisp, readable, actionable roadmap to a more thoughtful, compassionate, happier you. A gem of a book and a powerful way to start each morning.”
—Laszlo Bock, former SVP of People Operations at Google and author of Work Rules!
Why read it? High performers often think self-compassion will make them “soft.” The opposite is true. This book is a practical operating manual for the modern mind, offering 66 specific practices to:
✨ Silence the Inner Critic: Stop the mental spinning that keeps you awake at 3 AM.
✨ Build Emotional Resilience: Bounce back from setbacks without burning out.
✨ Shift from Force to Flow: Learn the specific somatic cues to drop your shoulders and open your mind.
The Deck: Daily Pattern Interrupts
Visual Cues to Rewire Your Nervous System
Your brain is a prediction machine. If you don’t give it a new input, it will replay the same old loops of worry and judgment. The Cultivating Compassion Deck is designed to interrupt those loops.
Featuring stunning artwork of animal archetypes—from the intuitive Fox to the resilient Phoenix—each card offers a somatic cue to shift your state.
How to use the deck:
✨ The Morning Anchor: Draw one card with your coffee to set a specific intention for the day.
✨ The Pattern Interrupt: When you feel the “contraction” of stress, pull a card to widen your perspective.
✨ The Journal Prompt: Use the affirmation to bypass writer’s block and access your inner wisdom.
“These cards have a unique way of setting a positive tone for my day and helping me stay focused on my path to inner peace.” ~ Taylor M.
Guided Somatic Resets (Free)
Shift your state in under 20 minutes.
✨ For Breaking Rumination:
✨ For Morning Energy:
✨ For Deep Rest:
✨ For Internal Harmony:
Conversations on Resilience
Deep dives on neuroplasticity, getting unstuck, and finding calm.
✨ On True Resilience: Armor vs. Boundaries – Why “armoring up” to feel safe actually drains your energy, and how to soften your physical defenses to become durable like bamboo rather than brittle.
✨ On Breaking Stagnation:
✨ On Calming the Chaos:
✨ On Somatic Reprogramming: