what is somatic coaching?

Extraordinary, lasting change is possible when we connect to our body’s vast intelligence and learn how to follow it. As your Somatic Coach I’m here to guide you and support you on that journey.

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We started as vibration. Two cells meeting, then rapidly dividing, within the body of our mother. From this being of water and light we eventually grew a spine; we became structure, bone.  We kept growing. Fingers, teeth, brain, marrow. Our growth was inevitable.  The will to evolve into a new thing that we could not possibly previously know, and do it, again and again did not need to be found or created.  It just was.  

 

There is no force to the process of transformation, no necessary extra effort.  Only a yes.  

 

The body will lead us, the body knows everything.  All we need is this yes, this willingness to listen and follow our own somatic intelligence. 

 

There’s nothing to figure out.  Let the mind try -- it will, it wants to, let it.  The process of trying will stretch and open us. The sensation of pain will stretch and open us. We can build our capacity to witness sensation.  We can let the body be alive with information and we can learn how to hear all of it without seeking to numb or escape. We can learn to be present and compassionate with the world exactly as it is, and with ourselves exactly as we are. We can love deeper, stronger, better. Follow our deepest calling. Find courage with the discomfort of opposing forces. 

 

We can reclaim our body as the safest place.  

 

I’m here to help.

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I am a certified Body-Mind Centering Somatic Movement Educator (say that 5x fast!), a certified Transforming Touch practitioner, and I am trauma informed in nervous system regulation and somatic trauma work. I am trained in Rhythmic Movement (RM), Primitive Reflex Integration and I specialize in Developmental Trauma.

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my story

In my early twenties, shortly after I graduated from university, I fell ill with a mysterious, debilitating illness. I went to doctor after doctor. Had test after test done. Was confined to bed for months.

 

I didn’t know it at the time but it was the beginning of the most important journey I’d ever go on in my life, one that would teach me how to do the work I do today.

 

It sent me to live in many different countries, train with the world’s leading somatic teachers, dance with people from all over the world, study nutrition, psychology, natural medicine, expressive arts therapy, Presence Based Coaching, Body-Mind Centering, and nervous system healing in order to discover how our bodies really, truly and– most importantly–WHOLLY heal.

 

I wrote a book about that journey: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD, available here for purchase

 

I’m here to offer back everything that journey taught me. 

 

True and lasting change happens first at the level of the body. When we work to understand, be with, and shift our habitual movement patterns, we make space for greater power, inspiration, focus, health, and creativity in our lives.

 

My workshops and coaching center around finding a deeper, more meaningful relationship to our embodied experience, as well as how to use this relationship to attain and sustain our life goals.

 

Whether it's in a group workshop or through private coaching, I'm here to help you live the life you want, in a body that will guide you and support you every step of the way.

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"Remember that all things which happen
To you are raw materials
Endlessly fertile

Endlessly yielding of thoughts that could change
Your life and go on doing for ever"

--Ben Okri, To An English Friend in Africa

 

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