Somatic Coaching
What is somatic coaching?
In somatic coaching and movement-based work, somatic principles are the foundation of how we slow down, listen, and practice together. Rather than prescribing outcomes, somatic coaching supports clients in cultivating embodied awareness, resilience, and choice—honoring both personal experience and the broader contexts we live within.
Somatics holds that change happens at the speed of trust. The 10 session commitment reflects the spaciousness needed for embodied change to emerge.
This work is relational, iterative, and grounded in the belief that sustainable change happens when the body is dignified as a source of intelligence and wisdom.
What happens in a somatic coaching session?
Coaching sessions are 60 minutes in length and are led by a theme or topic brought in by you, the client. Topics may change from session to session and are held in a container of connection to the overarching theme or goal of our 10-session arc.
The session will allow for intentional exchange (talking time) that might explore posture, breath, habits, moods, patterns of action, relationships, roles, values, resilience, current conditions, and /or survival strategies.
A more significant portion of the session will allow for intentional practice or process followed by a closing debrief, highlights & take-aways, intentions for supportive practice, and next steps.
Somatic bodywork
What is somatic bodywork?
Somatic bodywork is a gentle, hands-on, fully clothed process that supports nervous system regulation, awareness, integration, and embodied change.
Rather than focusing on "fixing" the body, this work engages the body by listening to patterns of tension, breath, posture, and movement that reflect how you've learned to meet and be in the world.
The first portion of the 90-minute session will allow for intentional exchange (talking time) that might explore posture, breath, habits, moods, patterns of action, relationships, roles, values, resilience, current conditions, and /or survival strategies.
We will then move into 45-minutes of bodywork on a raised bodywork table or on a ground level bodywork pallet. We will end our time by returning to our session focus, discussing emerging sensation and awareness, highlighting take-aways, and setting intentions for supportive practice, new commitments, and next steps.
These sessions are collaborative and responsive, supporting greater ease, resilience, and choice in how you move, feel, and act in daily life.
All touch is guided by consent, presence, and close attention to your body's cues and comfort.
What are the benefits of somatic bodywork?
The benefits of somatic coaching and bodywork are connection with one’s body, language, and action for greater presence, integrity, and skillful engagement.
Over time, we repeatedly embody habits, reactions, ways of relating, and patterns of action that can then feel “normal” or inevitable, even when they no longer align with our values or vision.
Somatic work supports awareness of these patterns and creates space for new possibilities to emerge.
By working at the level of embodied experience, somatic bodywork supports more choice, adaptability, and alignment—personally and collectively—opening pathways toward liberation rather than repetition.