This presentation is inspired by the understanding of current global shifts through the perspective of multiple 'somatic turns' (see among others Shusterman 2000, Olsen 2010, Farnell 2012). It draws from my artistic research on the impact of somatically-informed methodologies upon performance environments and beyond, in order to revisit the understanding of embodiment and what 'being an embodied self' may mean in the 21st century. Working in relation to broader contexts and multidisciplinary interactions in my recent projects, I started studying the significance of supporting the development of diverse somatic communities towards challenging urgent sociopolitical polarities in modern societies. By somatic communities I identify diverse groups that develop around the dynamics of exploring and researching somaticities (the distinct state of being embodied selves) through the critical acknowledgment of difference and multiplicity (Benjamin 2018). In other words, inviting the shaping of communities that embrace somaticity as genuine difference instead of homogeneity, is suggested as an artistic-research methodology towards change. This proposal aims at being shared through experiential qualities of a collective or third soma.