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Somatic Productivity
The missing manual for people who know what to do but can't seem to start. Body first, brain second.
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Somatic Productivity for Teachers
A Nervous-System Guide to Surviving the School Day, the Marking Pile, and the Drive Home
You spend all day regulating other people's nervous systems. Who regulates yours?
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What this book does
You spend all day regulating other people's nervous systems. Who regulates yours?
Somatic Productivity for Teachers takes the body-first framework from the original Somatic Productivity and applies it directly to the rhythms, pressures, and energy demands of teaching. From the morning commute to the marking pile, from difficult conversations with parents to the Sunday-night dread, this book gives you practical, time-efficient tools to reset your state, protect your recovery windows, and build a sustainable teaching life without burning out every half-term.
Who it's for
For teachers who are exhausted before the day even starts.
What it helps with
- Regulate your nervous system before the school day starts with 60-second resets
- Protect your evenings and weekends from school stress bleed-through
- Build sustainable energy across the term without relying on half-term collapse
- Practical tools designed for the specific rhythms of teaching life
- Four free companion resources available in the library's resource drawers
“Most teacher wellbeing advice is generic. This is built for the specific rhythms of teaching.”
Notes from readers.
Left between the pages
Being a teacher is hard: kids act out, parents blame you, and you have to keep going for the rest of the class or day. Inside you'll find charts and tasks that will help you on the harder days: how to cope and not dwell on everything that happens.
From the resource drawers
Free companions to this book.
Printable PDF
The Teacher State Map, Diagnostic
A twelve-question printable assessment. Tells you which of the five Teacher States you most often occupy across the school day, with a full result section for each state and the chapters to read next.
Download the PDF ↓Printable PDF
The Cover Note Template
A one-page printable template to leave for the teacher covering your class. Ten minutes to complete. Reduces the recovery cost of returning to a class that has moved without you.
Download the PDF ↓Guided exercise
Letter to Your First-Year Self
A forty-five minute guided reflective exercise. A workbook that walks you through writing a letter to the teacher you were on your first day in the profession. Useful at every career stage.
Download the PDF ↓Worksheet
Mirror Your Classroom, Worksheet
The printable version of the exercise between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the book. Use it if you do not want to draw in your copy.
Download the PDF ↓Questions readers ask
Before you commit.
Where are the companion resources?
All four printable companions, the Teacher State Map diagnostic, Cover Note template, Letter to Your First-Year Self, and Mirror Your Classroom worksheet, are free on the Resources page.
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The Somatic Productivity Workbook
You read the book. Now put it into practice, exercises, tracking sheets, and daily prompts that make regulation automatic.
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Teaching is a full-body job. If that sentence found you, this is your book.