• Somatic Spiritual Coaching

    Somatic Spiritual Coaching is Body-Oriented Coaching and it is an opportunity for you to explore your spiritual path, address any blockages or challenges in your life, discuss what path would be best for you or simply learn how to integrate spirituality into your daily life by tuning into your body’s inherent wisdom.

    I’m especially interested in working with people healing from negative or harmful experiences from meditation retreats and/or past spiritual teachers, gurus, or healers.

    I’m also interested in working with empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP) who want to understand and learn how to work with the specific gifts and challenges that being highly sensitive can present.

    It’s my intention to help you find clarity and nourishment while guiding you to the answers residing within your own heart. My services are ultimately to lead you to your own sense of internal knowing and self-trust.

  • Our Sessions

    A full session with me is 60 minutes via Zoom. Sessions are with video, unless otherwise requested. This is so that I can see your facial expressions as well as your body language as part of Somatic Coaching, but know that it’s okay to request audio only. I do highly recommend attending at least 3 sessions, however, this is not a requirement for working with me.

  • How to Start?

    If you’d like to learn more, feel free to schedule a 30 minute Introductory Call to see how this work can benefit you.

How you’ll feel

more embodied with a deeper
sense of self-trust

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FAQs

what is somatic coaching?

The ancient Greek word ‘soma’ means body. At its core, somatic coaching is therefore a coaching modality that has a focus on the body. But the focus of the work is on the whole self, what we refer to as the ‘bodymind’. This weaves together different sources of knowing for you, the client: your thinking, your emotions, your sensations, felt sense, intuition and deeper wisdom. This differs from traditional coaching methods that predominantly focus on cognitive processes. In Body-Oriented Coaching, the attention is on both the thinking mind and what the rest of your body is telling you.

(Adapted from What is Somatic Coaching? by Meryl Rowlands)

how is somatic coaching different from psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy mostly deals with how someone’s present life is influenced by their past. Psychotherapy typically looks more for a diagnosis — finding the root of an issue (in your family of origin, for example).

Coaching focuses primarily on someone’s present and how they might design their future.

You might share memories in therapy and in coaching - however in coaching we are more interested in how the memory relates to the present moment and what it implies for the future that is emerging.

(Adapted from What is Somatic Coaching? by Meryl Rowlands)

An important Note about Trauma

While I am trauma-informed, I am not a mental health professional trained in working with trauma. I may refer clients to Psychologists and Therapists when appropriate or when a client may be better served by a trained mental health professional.

what to expect in a somatic coaching session?

In a Body-Oriented Coaching session (on Zoom) you will be having a spoken conversation like with any other coach. You will bring something going on in your life that you’d like to explore and I will be supporting you by asking exploratory and open questions.

During the session you will be invited to tap into what your body might like to reveal to you, which might not make immediate ‘sense’. But the invitation is to resist the cognitive bypass (and layer a ‘top down’ solution or explanation on what’s happening) and just to stay with the felt sense that is emerging.

A felt sense is that ‘gut knowing’ inside, when you have an obvious or a subtle sensation in your body that you might not fully be able to name but you can attach an emotion to it and ‘just know’ what it is telling you.

You will be invited to explore those sensations and start a dialogue with your somatic intelligence to gain insights.

A Body-Oriented Coaching session is a safe and held space in which the places inside that want to be known can express themselves fully.

It can be a truly transformative experience to allow those places to be seen and heard, explored and supported in the atmosphere of relational safety that coaching provides.

(Adapted from What is Somatic Coaching? by Meryl Rowlands)