A science-backed somatic method

Find Your Path to Ease and Resilence

Persistent and recurring pain patterns have many causes and influences, but they don't have to define you.

SomaYoga teaches simple movements and awareness practices that speak the language your nervous system that support your body’s natural ability to self‑regulate and heal.

Whether you’re dealing with back, hip or shoulder pain, pelvic floor issues or stress, we’ll guide you to explore what feels right for you.

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What is SomaYoga?

Somatic Yoga is a Gentle, Transformative Path to Mind-Body Healing

SomaYoga blends mindful movement with yoga therapy and somatic principles to help you tune into how your body feels. It focuses on slow, intentional movements rather than perfect poses, encouraging you to notice tension and reconnect with your nervous system.
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Research suggests that practices like somatic yoga may improve mind‑body awareness and help people manage stress and chronic pain. If you’d like to experience this gentle approach in your own time, our Video On Demand library offers guided SomaYoga sessions you can follow at home.

Many users say these sessions help them feel more comfortable and at ease, but every body is different, so the best way to know if it suits you is to try it yourself.

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Nervous System Rebalancing

How SomaYoga Works

Persistent pain isn’t always about bone or joint damage; it’s often linked to an overactive nervous system that continues to send pain signals long after an injury has healed.

Somatic Yoga helps you work with your nervous system so you can start to ease those persistent patterns.

Recognise Your Patterns

Stress, injury and trauma can lead the brain to create protective tension habits. Over time these patterns contribute to ongoing discomfort.

We guide you in noticing these habits and understanding the science behind them so you can begin to change them.

Relearn Safety Signals

Gentle, mindful movements signal to your nervous system that it’s safe to let go of tension.

There’s no forcing or pushing through pain; just working with your body’s capacity and learning how to move with ease.

Build New Habits & Create Lasting Change

Instead of chasing symptoms, focus on underlying causes.

Through consistent practice, you can develop new movement patterns that support natural function and may lessen chronic pain over time

Videos on Demand

Stream classes, guided practices, and live replays.
Learn interoception, breathwork, pandiculation, and nervous-system resets at your own pace from anywhere.

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SomaYoga Foundations Live 20-Hour Training

Join the waitlist for our 20-hour immersive training to retrain the brain, reset the nervous system, and release pain. Open to teachers, guides, and practitioners—no teaching experience required.

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The Pillars of Resolve Pain Guru

Authentic Care,
Lasting Relief

Our approach combines 20+ years of certified somayoga therapy experience with evidence-based brain retraining methodology

Science-Backed Expertise

20+ years of certified somatic yoga therapy experience that combines evidence-based brain retraining methodology with the brilliance and wisdom of yoga to release persistent tension & pain.

Nervous System First

Regulating the nervous system is the first step to healing.
Understanding this dynamic between mind/body pain and the nervous system is the first step toward health, resilience, and peace of mind.

Systems Based Solutions

Pain presents in patterns. Your body is a system where injuries and healing do not happen in isolation.

Working with the body as a system gains huge results.

Educational Depth

The human body does not come with an owner's manual.

Learn the "why" and "how" which empowers you to be the Guru of your own health and healing.

Holistic Integration

Holistic healing that recognizes there is no distinction between the body and mind.

Cultivating an awareness to how we show up in the world creates a catalyst for lasting change.

Reconnect With Your Body. Restore Balance. Heal.

We understand what it feels like to feel stuck in tension and pain, and nervous system overdrive and we also know what to do to resolve it.

When you learn how your body works and how to release the patterns stuck in your nervous system, healing happens.

Follow the pathway outlined below and we can guarantee you will see results.

Take The First Step on Your Healing Pathway

Teach Somatic Yoga with Confidence and Clarity.

Resolve Pain Guru offers professional training in somatic yoga, pain science and embodied practice that can help you support clients with back pain, hip issues and stress‑related tension.

Our courses, including the SomaYoga Foundations training, explore the neuroscience of pain and nervous‑system regulation.

You’ll learn how to weave therapeutic movement, mindful breathing and practical pain‑relief techniques into classes and one‑on‑one sessions.

We cover real‑world applications for yoga therapy, clinical settings and everyday life. Along the way you’ll connect with other teachers and professionals who are dedicated to helping people move with less pain and more ease.

Explore our somatic yoga teacher‑training programs, continuing education courses and pain‑science workshops to see which path fits your goals.

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Our Mission

Empowering self-healing through science,
somatics, and embodied awareness

Resolve Pain Guru exists to help people understand and resolve chronic pain by working with the nervous system, not fighting the body.

Our mission is to translate modern pain science, somatic movement, and yoga therapy into accessible, practical tools that empower individuals and professionals to create lasting change.

We believe pain is not a life sentence, movement should feel safe and intelligent, and healing happens when people are given the knowledge and agency to participate actively in their own recovery.

Meet Carrie and Nicole

Meet Carrie Meyer

CO-Founder, SomaYoga Educator, and Pain Science Translator

Carrie is the co-founder of Resolve Pain Guru and teaches SomaYoga methodology, blending modern pain science, somatic neuromuscular re-education, and yoga therapy into a practical, teachable system for resolving chronic pain. With decades of experience as a movement educator and therapist, Carrie’s work focuses on helping people understand why pain persists and how to work with the nervous system to create lasting change. Her teaching is known for its clarity, depth, and ability to translate complex science into accessible, embodied practice.

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Meet Nicole Ablack Ramkay

CO-FOUNDER, SomaYOGA Educator, and Guide for Embodied Healing

Nicole is a co-founder of Resolve Pain Guru, supporting students and clients in applying somatic principles to real-life movement, pain patterns, and nervous system regulation. With a grounded, compassionate approach, Nicole helps bridge theory and lived experience—guiding people to slow down, listen inwardly, and rebuild trust in their bodies. Her work emphasizes safety, curiosity, and sustainable change through gentle, awareness-based movement.

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🧠 Is Your Nervous System in Overdrive? Here’s How to Reset & Relieve Stress

In today’s high-speed, hyperconnected world, many of us are unknowingly living in a state of chronic stress. Our nervous systems—designed to protect us from danger—are stuck in overdrive, constantly interpreting everyday stressors as threats. Understanding this dynamic is the first step toward reclaiming your health, resilience, and peace of mind.⚖️ The Two Faces of Your Nervous SystemYour nervous system operates in two primary modes: • Parasympathetic Response: Often called “Rest and Digest,” t

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Join Us at Toronto Yoga Conference

We are so excited to bring our unique blend of Somatics and Yoga Therapy to the 2024 Toronto Yoga Conference & Show. Integrating a knowledge and practical application of somatics into your yoga teaching and practice is transformative. We invite you to join us and learn why.Our offerings will include: • Nervous System Overdrive & Pain: A Somatic Perspective (2 Hours) • Somatic Reflex Patterns that Keep You Stuck & In Pain: 1 of 3 The Red Light Reflex (2 Hours) • Somatic Reflex Patterns that Keep

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Listen to Our Latest Podcast Interview

We were so pleased to be invited on the air with Elizabeth Sullivan, author, speaker and spiritual teacher on her Soul Sovereingty Podcast where we talked about Mind-Body Healing and just what is available to us when we look at the whole.Give it a listen on all your favourite apps including Apple, Spotify, Google, YouTube, Rumble and more. Search for "Soul Sovereignty With Elizabeth" on your favourite podcast provider.We are featured on EP. 39: YOGA THERAPY FOR AWAKENING In this episode she conv

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Somatic Education Significantly Lowers Low Back and Neck Pain

Are you the kind of person that needs proof that something works, before trying it?The world of Somatics including Clinical Somatic Educators, SomaYoga Therapists (like Nicole and I) and our allied health colleagues who teach somatic mind-body movement re-education can join in support of the findings of a September 2022 research paper that clearly demonstrates that the application of Somatic Education results in marked reductions in low back and neck pain, among other significant results.The Jo

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Incontinence or Prolapse After Child Birth?

Are you suffering from urinary incontinence, pelvic floor pain, prolapse or general discomfort in your pelvic floor? I just received an email from a client, asking for support for a friend, a new mom experiencing pelvic floor prolapse who is having trouble doing a pelvic floor contraction.Guess what ladies, you do not have to suffer with the symptoms listed above, there is lots you can do to restore good pelvic floor function.When you feel disconnected from your pelvic floor or a lack of control

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On Being Truth

Those of you who are new to our blog and site(s) should know that we are truth seekers, warriors of this work on deep and intersecting levels. We try, test and practice the work that we share with you. Our M-O (Modus Operandum), is to continually work on healing our traumas, injuries, physical, mental and emotional burdens so that we can live our best lives and share this experience and passion to help others.Nicole and I are never "not in the process" of self discovery. This body of work is tru

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Addressing Neuroplastic Pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy

All pain is in the brain. And despite our tendency to seek a structural cause for pain, most chronic pain that has lasted over 6 months is neuroplastic in origin, not structural.Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a new diagnosis & treatment paradigm that helps clients unlearn chronic pain by retraining their brains. The psychological re-training approach teaches the brain to no longer mis-interpret healthy signals from the body as dangerous, reducing the fear of, and eventually the onset of pain

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How Diagnoses Are Helpful and Harmful?

Say you are at the doctors for back pain and you are told that you have functional scoliosis. The imaging shows your spine being tugged out of an easy straight and stacked line. While this can provide some relief knowing how things are presenting, how does this information empower you to take your next steps? Equally important questions to ask are: Why are the muscles on one side of my spine stuck so short and tight? What effect does this have on my spine and muscles on the opposite side? Unde

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