A Holistic Approach to Lasting Change
As a somatic coach specializing in leadership development, I help leaders unlock their full potential by exploring the mind-body-spirit connection, a concept that has been studied across cultures for millennia. Somatics explores how our bodies influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, leading to deeper self-understanding and growth than mindset work alone.
Why somatics? Powerful coaching requires space for healing. Healing raises our resilience, allowing us to go beyond what gives us temporary relief. As a holistic coach, my work is grounded in a regenerative process that sustains healing and transformation for meaningful and lasting change.
What that can look like:
- Resilience rising: By healing and strengthening your nervous system, you can better adapt to challenges and reduce stress, anxiety, or chronic pain
- Body-based practices: May include techniques like breathwork, intuitive and subtle movement, physical or energetic touch, poses, and partner practices
- Inner wisdom exploration: Tapping into your body’s innate intelligence
- Empowered decision-making: By understanding your body’s signals, you can make more informed choices
Want to know more? Check out my FAQs for details on what may be included in a Somatic Intuitive Healing or coaching session.
Training Lineages
I completed two year-long trainings related to somatics in 2022-23 and am in process of completing their related certifications.
- Somatic Intuitive Healing (SIH) Certification Program, a 300-hour biodynamic somatic therapy and craniosacral training and certification program from The Center of Somatic Intuitive Healing in Portland, Oregon
- Strozzi Institute—Embodied Leadership (2005, 4-day immersion), Somatic Coach Training (2022-23, 150 in-person hours, 200 client hours for Strozzi and International Coaching Federation ICF PCC certifications). Petaluma, CA.
Everytime I receive a session, I learn. I’ve been grateful to work with a variety of practitioners, including my SIH peers. See my resources & referrals page for a broader lineage including teachers, peers, and practitioners.
The term “somatics” comes from Greek for body:
- Soma—from sōmatikos, the “alive” body
- Nekros—from nekros, the “dead” body
This illustrates an awareness that our body exists with aliveness and without. Soma is our body with aliveness. (Think of the myriad words you know for this aliveness, or universal “life energy”…) And Somatics is an integrated, holistic field of practices informed by what we (think we) know of physiology, cognition, the nervous system, neuroscience, psychologies, metaphysics, and cross-cultural spiritual practices.
“Power Posing” lends itself as a quick example of a body-based practice: entering into a power pose (a physical shape) almost instantly impacts key hormone levels (including cortisol & testosterone) that lower stress and increase risk tolerance, providing space for us to create choice and lead from our essence (vs fears).