Using Bourdieu Pierre’s notion of ‘Habitus’ and Francis Nyamnjoh’s idea of ‘Conviviality’, I explore two music-centered community projects—which I term 'Community Somatics’—in South Africa as tools to rethink and broaden the understanding of somatic practices. Though the mainstream understanding of somatic practices has moved beyond the institutionalized canon (of experiential and sensorial learning) into broader educational, therapeutic, and artistic contexts, its framework is not sensitive to embodied oppression, the problematic history that reproduces social, economic and political crisis—which constantly shape the body and mind across the global south. I ask, how do we re-articulate somatic-informed practices as sensitive tools for social and political transformation beyond the frontiers of universities, classrooms, and practice studios? Responding to this question, I argue that due to its location in the ‘ivory towers’, the current understanding of somatics tends to reproduce the very conditions that it aims at mitigating. Therefore, like the South African cases, mediation of historically informed social inequality, economic and political crisis, trauma, and questions around embodied recovery and provisioning (especially in the post-pandemic contexts) require a ‘Community Somatics’ framework.