This paper ponders the situation of co-presence with aliens. If first contact were to occur physically without sharing verbal language, would we still be able to communicate? In 1989, during discussions surrounding the "Declaration of Principles Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence” for the International Institute of Space Law, D. Werthimer asked how the protocol would address first contact if not via radio, suggesting the possibility of physical first contact with aliens. In 2018, the Indigenous Studies Working Group Statement to the “Breakthrough Listening” project at the UC Berkeley SETI Research Center called for the creation of protocols of care around SETI. “First contact” with aliens should consider consent and biases regarding aliens’ bodies and cultures. They posited that communication occurs across species and beings, extending beyond writing and speech. The ISSC (Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication) seeks to develop “transferable skills of Somatic Communication,” and it “serves global populations who benefit from communication that occurs beyond the verbal modality.” (somaticcommunication.com) I am part of the ISSC, and my PhD project at UC Davis consists of practices of somatic communication as a means for communicating with aliens. Is it possible to imagine the encounter with aliens as an embodied one? How could somatic communication contribute to a protocol of care in SETI? What are the consent, safety, friendliness, and non-harm measures that somatic communication can contribute? What would be the attributes of aliens on the same scale with which we could somatically communicate? And what could be communicated? This paper proposes that somatic communication could hopefully help create some conditions for such an encounter, communicating the unwillingness to cause harm and the desire to initiate friendship, ideally acknowledging some of our own biases when designing hypothetical situations of first contact.