ABOUT NIKI

Nicolette de Saint-Amour, GCFP, is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Lecturer of Somatics at San Diego State University, and founder of Framework Somatics, her private practice located in East Village, downtown San Diego, where she works individually with clients through Functional Integration® and somatic education.

Drawing on over a decade of experience in somatic education and body reading, her work explores the relationship and interplay between the physical body, emotions, perception, and thinking. Born in Mozambique, her nomadic upbringing has deeply informed her interest in how the body adapts to change, navigates life transitions, and organizes itself in relation to the world.

Her diverse background and continued study of movement and human development have cultivated a refined sensitivity to body reading—the ability to observe how a person’s history, habits, and experiences are expressed through their physical organization.

Through her teaching, private practice, and ongoing investigations into human movement, Nicolette helps others recognize habitual patterns, discover new possibilities for action, and develop a more integrated sense of themselves.

Central to her approach is the exploration of awareness through subtle, easy movement. Rather than understanding the body as a fixed structure, she invites others to experience themselves as a living continuum of pulsatory and streaming currents— an excitatory ocean of sensation, movement, and possibility.