Individual Somatic Coaching
The goal of this coaching is to trigger and support the process of physical and mental self-organization and self-development through a mindful and compassionate perception.
Who it's For
Somatic Coaching is for you if
You want to perceive your body from a place of compassion and curiosity.
You believe that your body holds wisdom and you want to enter into a dialogue with it.
You want to explore helpful sensory, emotional, thought, and movement patterns that cultivate growth and healing in your body and mind.
How it's Done
The coach listens to the client's words and observes the client's movements mindfully and with compassion to initiate a healing process in both the client and himself.
The tools of the method are touch, movement, language, and awareness of perception.
Self-regulation naturally arises through trust and curiosity in the wisdom of the body; much like how a human baby learns to organize itself physically and mentally. This kind of self-regulation often expresses outwardly as a gentle exploration of movement, postures, breathing, and vocal expression.
After exploring one or multiple cycles of self-organization and self-development, the client verbally shares their experience and their current physical and mental state. This sharing and reflection of the client's experience is aimed at incorporating the prefrontal cortex (PFC) into the process of somatic self-regulation. The PFC is responsible for higher-order cognitive functions such as language, abstraction, logic, imagination, and social cooperation.
Sensation, motor function, and emotion primarily arise from the nervous system and limbic and endocrine systems. These systems developed before the PFC and can self-regulate without help from the PFC. However, if the client is able to create a logical understanding of the healing process by assigning words to the experience, they are more likely to continue a practice of perceiving themselves mindfully and with compassion.
Coaching might also include theoretical education in anatomy, evolutionary biology, physiology, and Buddhist psychology.
The method practiced in this coaching session is PME, an ISMETA-affiliated somatic method.
What it Costs
Individual online coaching costs $160 per session.
Individual in-person coaching costs $180 per session.
Individual coaching sessions are approximately 75 minutes.
What it Takes
The aim of this coaching is to empower the client to be self-sufficient in initiating and supporting their own healing process. Some clients feel this way after one session, others need more time to develop the mindset and the skills to feel sufficiently resourced.
While there is a treatment element to the individual coaching, it is primarily designed to build a client's perceptive skills so that the client can access their own innate bodily wisdom for self-organization and self-development. When the coach teaches clients to perceive their own body mindfully and compassionately, the client can initiate a healing process themselves.
How to Start
Select an appointment time and complete the intake form.