Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies that emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. It is a term used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma, or the body as perceived from within by first-person perception. Somatic techniques may be used in bodywork, psychotherapy, dance, or spiritual practices. Somatic exercises involve performing movement for the sake of movement, with a focus on inner experience and expanding internal awareness. Practitioners of somatic therapies support the approach as a way of working through repressed or blocked emotions related to traumatic experiences. Somatic therapy is a newer form of mental health counseling that helps people release damaging, pent-up emotions in their body by using various mind-body techniques. Somatics is a field of study dealing with somatic phenomena, which is the human being as experienced by himself from the inside. Somatic learning is an activity expanding the range of volitional consciousness. Somatics is relational in its healing and can help people trust more, cherish their own worth, love better, be more loved, and be more present.