Overwhelmed
For the late-night spiral, the tight chest, the racing mind.
Practise: long exhales, hum & tone, soft belly, grounding to the room.
anxious · wired · frustrated · on edge · racingSoma Circuit meets your body where it actually is — not where productivity culture says it should be. Practises tailored to each state, drawn from polyvagal-informed somatic work.
For the late-night spiral, the tight chest, the racing mind.
Practise: long exhales, hum & tone, soft belly, grounding to the room.
anxious · wired · frustrated · on edge · racingFor the days you feel okay enough to build capacity.
Practise: rhythmic breathing, resourcing, safe-place visualisation, full body scan.
present · grounded · okay · resourced · hereFor shutdown, numbness, heaviness, and low energy — the state most apps forget.
Practise: warming in, slow reach, somatic hand postures, gentle re-engagement.
tired · numb · disconnected · heavy · far awayOpen the app, choose how you feel, listen to one practice, notice what may have shifted. Two to twelve minutes. No login, no setup.
Three honest cards: Overwhelmed, Steady, Flat. Pick the one that fits today, not the one that sounds best.
A gentle 0–10 body slider. Wired, settled, or numb — your scale, not a clinical score.
Audio-guided breath, sound, grounding, or movement. Two to twelve minutes, in Gerry's voice.
Rate again. The garden grows quietly. No streaks, no scores, no shame for skipping a day.
No fire emoji. No guilt. No leaderboard. Just a quiet record of the days you came back to yourself.
Practice days bloom. Rest days stay as buds. The week rolls forward whether you tend it or not. Each day is its own practice.
Gentle consistency — each day is its own practice.
"I built Soma Circuit because the practices that help people in therapy often need to be available at 4am, before a hard meeting, after a difficult conversation, or when the body suddenly feels too much — or nothing at all."
As a psychologist, I watched clients leave the room with insight but no body-based tools to use between sessions. Soma Circuit is what those tools became — short, audio-guided, grounded in polyvagal theory and somatic practice. Plain language on the surface. Clinical depth underneath.
Gerry Bronn · Clinical Psychologist
The app collects no usage data and requires no account. Practice history stays on your device. Privacy isn't a setting — it's the default.
A generous free tier — enough to actually feel a shift. Soma Circuit Plus is an invitation into depth, not a paywall in front of regulation.
Founding members · the first 200 paid users — $89 / year for life. Join the founding cohort →
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Soma Circuit supports everyday wellbeing. It is not therapy, medical advice, or a replacement for professional care.
If you are in crisis · AU Lifeline 13 11 14 · Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 · US 988 · UK Samaritans 116 123 · NZ 1737
Audio-guided. Quiet on purpose. Designed to be opened in two minutes and closed when you've shifted, not when a streak says so.
How activated does your body feel right now?
The check-in language changes with your state. Wired isn't the same as flat. Activated isn't the same as numb.
If you choose Overwhelmed, you're asked how activated you feel. If you choose Flat, you're asked how disconnected. The rating is gentle, not clinical — a body rating, not a distress score.
Each practice is timed to the rhythm of the audio guidance — breath, sound, orientation, gentle movement, attention.
You'll hear a calm voice, a metronome of breath, occasional silence. Nothing flashy. Nothing performative. The practice is the practice.
A gentle shift —
every bit of regulation counts.
Notice what may have shifted.
When the practice ends, you check in with your body again. The app remembers — but it doesn't celebrate.
You'll see two ratings, side by side, and a single sentence: notice what may have shifted. No badges. No streaks. No nudges to do more.
As you practise, deeper variations open up — longer durations, fuller sequences, more sound and silence. You can stay at any level for as long as your body needs.
Short, simple, grounding. Two to three minutes.
Adding gentle attention to the room and the body.
Longer breath cycles, soft vocal toning if welcome.
Slow, embodied movement. Eight to ten minutes.
Full sequences. Twelve minutes of layered practice.
A quiet primer, written by a clinical psychologist. We're sharing what informs the practice — not promising what it will do for you.
Your nervous system is doing work all the time — reading the room, the day, the people you're with. Sometimes it's well-matched to what's actually happening. Sometimes it's responding to old patterns or accumulated load.
Regulation isn't about staying calm. It's about being able to move between states — to mobilise when you need energy, to settle when you need rest, to come back to yourself after something difficult.
Polyvagal-informed approaches describe three broad nervous-system states. We've translated them into language you can feel rather than diagnose:
The window of tolerance, named by Dr Dan Siegel, describes the zone in which we can think, feel and respond without being hijacked. Above the window: overwhelm. Below it: shutdown.
Soma Circuit is designed to support the skills that help people return toward their window — through breath, orientation, sound and gentle movement.
Somatic and polyvagal-informed approaches share the view that the body is part of regulation — not an afterthought to it. Talking is powerful, but a body that is wired or shut down is sometimes more responsive to slow breath, weight, sound and posture than to thinking.
With repeated body-based practice, many people can build capacity to notice their state and choose a small, supportive action. That's the modest, well-supported claim we're making.
Soma Circuit is an educational wellness tool. It is not therapy, diagnosis, treatment, crisis support or a medical device. It does not claim to treat, cure or fix anxiety, trauma or depression.
What it does aim to do is offer a short, consistent body-based practice — a place to come back to between everything else. The work the app supports is the work you do with your own attention, in your own body, in your own time.
These are sources for educational grounding. Citations of academic work do not imply that the authors have endorsed Soma Circuit.
Soma Circuit started as a series of short audio practices Dr Gerry Bronn made for his clients to use between sessions. It became an app when too many of them began asking to keep them.
I'm Gerry. I'm a clinical psychologist in Melbourne with twenty years of practice, mostly with adults navigating overwhelm, burnout, anxiety and the long tail of difficult life events.
Most of my work happens in the room with one person at a time. But the most useful things people told me about their progress always happened outside the room — at 5am when they couldn't sleep, on the train before a hard meeting, in the car in the school pickup line.
So I started recording short body-based practices for them. Five minutes of breath. Three minutes of orientation to the room. A grounding sequence for the morning. They kept the recordings on their phones.
Soma Circuit is what those recordings became. The practices are mine, refined with thousands of hours of clinical use. The voice is mine. The shape of the app — three states, short practices, no streaks, no accounts — is the shape of how my clients actually use this work in their lives.
It's not a meditation library and it's not a habit tracker. It's a body-first companion you can carry quietly.
— Gerry Bronn
Designed by a psychologist.
Built for your body, not your performance.
A practical resource for psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, GPs and bodyworkers who want to recommend a steady, body-first app — and recommend it well.
Encourage one practice in a state that fits the body that day — not a long sequence on Sunday. Short, consistent practice beats long, occasional effort.
A grounding practice on the way to a session, or a settling one on the way home. The app doesn't replace the session — it bookends it.
Before a meeting, after a difficult call, when waking at 4am. The three-state model is designed to be useable in moments, not just rituals.
The most useful thing the app generates isn't a score — it's something to notice. Ask what the client is observing about their state across a week.
"Try Soma Circuit between sessions. Choose the state that fits your body and do one short practice a day. We'll talk about what you notice."
"Here's the app I mentioned: somacircuit.com. Start with Overwhelmed if you feel wired, Flat if you feel shut down, or Steady if you want to build capacity."
"Soma Circuit is a psychologist-designed nervous-system regulation app based on somatic and polyvagal-informed practice. It is intended as a between-session educational tool, not a substitute for therapy. We will use it gently and review what the client notices."
Stop a practice if it feels overwhelming. Orient to the room, name three things you can see, contact a trusted person. Don't use Soma Circuit while driving or operating machinery, and don't use it as the only support during acute crisis or in place of contacting your therapist, GP or crisis service.
Recommend it freely.
It's a quiet companion to your work.
All practices live inside the app, where they're guided in audio. This is a quiet index of what's there — by state, by what they support, and when to try them.
Practices are guided in the app. We don't publish full instructions on the website — the audio is the point.
Short essays from the founder and clinical contributors. Educational, careful, never prescriptive.
Sympathetic activation, in plain language — and why naming it changes how you respond.
Steadiness is a moving target. A quiet note on the difference between regulated and serene.
Numbness is a strategy, not a flaw. What it's protecting, and how to thaw without forcing.
Why we built Soma Circuit without a fire emoji, a leaderboard, or a single nudge to do more.
Notes on between-session tools, transference, and keeping the work in the consulting room.
The privacy decisions baked into Soma Circuit, and what they cost us in convenience.
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One paragraph from Gerry. One practice you can do in three minutes. One quote worth keeping. That's it.
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If you've ever woken at 4am with your jaw tight and your mind already three meetings ahead, this letter is for you. There's a particular kind of activation that happens in the small hours — half-asleep, half-bracing — and it almost never responds to thinking.
What it does respond to, often, is one slow exhale. Then another. Then the felt-sense of the mattress under your back. That's the whole practice this week: three exhales longer than your inhales. You don't have to fall back asleep. You only have to soften, a little.
Long Exhale · 3 minutes. Inhale to four. Exhale to seven. Three breaths, then rest the count and let the breath find its own length.
"You don't have to be calm to come back. You only have to notice you've gone."
— Gerry
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Soma Circuit is a nervous system regulation app designed by a clinical psychologist.
Soma Circuit is a body-first practice app built by Australian clinical psychologist Dr Gerry Bronn. Three states — Overwhelmed, Steady and Flat — guide users to short audio practices for breath, orientation, sound and gentle movement. The app is accountless, ad-free and collects no user data. It launched in May 2026.
Dr Gerry Bronn is a clinical psychologist based in Melbourne with twenty years of practice. Soma Circuit grew from short audio practices he recorded for clients to use between sessions. He is AHPRA-registered and trained in somatic and polyvagal-informed approaches.
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When you practise regulation, the people around you feel it too. Soma Circuit was built to be shared — with friends, family, clients, teams, and communities. Calmer bodies. Calmer rooms. Calmer world.
Everything Soma Circuit does — the product, the brand, the partnerships — is built around the same three-layer ripple.
Practical, body-based tools you can return to in any state. A small library you carry quietly.
Co-regulation is real — calmer bodies create calmer rooms. The practice becomes contagious, in the best sense.
Calmer families, workplaces, and communities. Sharing simple tools with the people in your life.
Every partner agrees to safe wellbeing language — no claims of treatment, cure, or trauma release. We provide an approved messaging kit so partners never have to invent their own copy.
Psychologists, somatic therapists, coaches, breathwork facilitators, yoga teachers, parenting educators, and trauma-informed practitioners.
Free Soma Circuit Plus subscription · co-branded client onboarding · private practitioner channel · client recommendation kit.
Existing users who love the app and want to share it with the people in their lives — friends, family, colleagues, community.
The person you refer gets their first month of Plus free. You receive 30% recurring for their first 12 months.
Curated micro-creators in somatic, parenting, leadership, and wellbeing spaces. Quality over reach.
Approved language kit · founder Q&A access · affiliate dashboard · optional flat campaign fee. See full creator offer.
All Ripple partners agree to use language that reflects what Soma Circuit actually is: a wellbeing tool. No claims of treatment, cure, diagnosis, or outcome promises.
Every Ripple partner agrees to disclose their paid relationship clearly (#ad, "I'm a Soma Circuit affiliate") and to use the approved messaging kit. We reserve the right to revoke commissions for non-compliant posts.
Practise it. Embody it.
Share what helps.
Tell us how you'd like to share Soma Circuit. We'll send the approved messaging kit and onboarding details within a week.
A generous free tier — enough to actually feel a shift in your body. Soma Circuit Plus is an invitation into depth, not a paywall in front of regulation.
Or $99 / year — less than one therapy session a fortnight.
The first 200 paid users — at lifetime pricing. Includes a private community channel, founder Q&A access, and early input into the practices we record next.
Therapists, coaches, and somatic facilitators can offer Soma Circuit Plus to their clients at significant discount — or join the Ripple Program for recurring partnership commissions.
Ten Soma Circuit Plus seats to gift to clients. Each comes with the practitioner client one-pager and your name as referrer.
Recommend the app freely, receive 40% recurring on every paid user — for as long as they subscribe. Free Plus subscription included.
It's genuinely useful. Levels 1–3 of every module is enough practice to feel a shift in how you settle, build capacity, or re-engage. Most users won't need to upgrade unless they want deeper integration work.
Levels 1–3 are short, simple, and grounding — three to seven minutes. Levels 4–5 add longer integration sequences, layered breath/sound/movement, and somatic hand postures. They're the work for someone who's been practising and wants to go deeper.
Yes — in one tap, in the app or App Store. Your free Foundations access continues. You can also switch from monthly to annual at any time.
The first 200 paid users get $89/year for life. The price never increases for that cohort. Founding members also get a private community channel and early input into the practices we record next.
Yes. Practitioner partners receive a free Plus subscription and the option to buy bulk client seats at significant discount. See the Ripple Program.
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Soma Circuit is operated by Soma Circuit Pty Ltd, an Australian company founded by Dr Gerry Bronn, registered in Victoria, Australia. References to "we", "us" and "our" in this policy mean Soma Circuit Pty Ltd.
The Soma Circuit mobile app does not require an account, does not ask for personal information, and does not collect, transmit or share any usage data. Your practice history and level progress are stored locally on your device and are visible only to you. There are no advertising SDKs and no third-party analytics SDKs in the app.
If you delete the app, your local practice history is deleted with it.
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By using the app or this website, you agree to the terms below. The shortest summary: this is an educational wellness tool, not therapy or medical care.
Soma Circuit is an educational wellness tool. It is not a substitute for professional mental-health care, medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or crisis support. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency services or a crisis support line.
Use of the app does not establish a clinician-client relationship between you and Dr Gerry Bronn or Soma Circuit Pty Ltd.
Don't use Soma Circuit while driving or operating machinery. If a practice feels overwhelming, stop, orient to the room and contact a trusted professional or crisis line if needed.
You agree to use the app and website in good faith and not in a way that disrupts the service or harms other users. The content of practices is for your personal use; you may not record, redistribute or commercialise it without our written permission.
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Common questions about the app, the practice and your safety. Can't find what you're looking for?
Soma Circuit is not a crisis service. In Australia, contact Lifeline 13 11 14. In the UK, Samaritans 116 123. In the US, 988. In New Zealand, call or text 1737. Or contact local emergency services.
Soma Circuit is a nervous system regulation app designed by a clinical psychologist. You choose a state — Overwhelmed, Steady or Flat — rate the intensity, listen to a short audio-guided practice, and check in again. It's a body-first companion for between-session practice.
Yes to start. Levels 1–3 in each module are free forever. Soma Circuit Plus is an optional subscription that unlocks Levels 4 and above and the expanded practice library.
No. The app works without an account. Open it and start.
Most practice data stays on your device. With your permission, the app may use coarse location on-device for day/night appearance. If you subscribe to Plus, Apple and our subscription provider (RevenueCat) process purchase status to unlock paid content. We do not run ads or third-party analytics SDKs. See our Privacy Policy.
In the app, open Settings or the Plus paywall and tap Restore purchases. Manage or cancel billing in your Apple ID → Subscriptions. You can also email support@somacircuit.com.
No. Soma Circuit is an educational wellness tool. It is not therapy, diagnosis, treatment or a crisis service. It can sit alongside professional care, but it can't replace it.
Stop the practice. Orient to the room — name three things you can see, three you can hear. Contact a trusted person or your usual professional. If you're in acute distress, contact a crisis line or local emergency services.
Soma Circuit isn't designed as the only support during acute crisis. Some users find a short, simple practice helps them re-orient — but please use it alongside, not instead of, professional support during high distress.
No. Don't use Soma Circuit while driving or operating machinery. Many practices are eyes-closed or attention-inward.
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