Somatic Embodiment Cohort Training

Who It's For

The Somatic Embodiment Cohort Training is for you if you want to be physically active and feel at ease in your body and you're struggling with,

• Trusting what you sense in your body.

• Chronic pain, recurring injury, or fear of injury.

• Finding success with other healing methods.

You believe your body is intelligent and that learning to dialogue with it creates healing and sustainable self-regulation.

We practice sensing compassionately and curiously so we can more fully listen to and leverage the information our bodies are presenting in the here and now. Sensing guides us to healing movement patterns, postures, and beliefs about ourselves. In addition to practice, we study theories that up the intrigue and appreciation for our bodies and enlist the logical mind as an ally in our sensing and healing process.

What We Do

• Anatomy • Buddhist Psychology • Physiology • Evolutionary Biology • Nervous System • Coaching • Touch and Sensing

Theory and Practice Topics Include:

Where, When We Meet

April 23 – May 25, 2024

Tuesday evenings 6-9pm
Apr 23, 30
May 14, 21

Saturday 8:30am - 2:30pm
May 25

Times are in US Pacific. All classes are on Zoom.

What People Say

Suddenly I was my own steward in my overall healing, combining my talk therapy with understanding how my body was holding pain, anxiety, depression, etc. When I introduced somatic work into my routine and let my own experience dictate the way forward in my healing, my understanding of healing drastically changed. It's been the most rewarding and simultaneously profound experience of my life because I firmly believe it will impact how I view my human experience from here forward. What can be more important than that?

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I was pleasantly surprised that my movements and touches can be self-therapeutic and my big obstacle was that I am easily distracted by my own thoughts.

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I feel I found a secret communication channel with myself that at some point I had forgotten. It has been a very monumental experience to listen and get to know myself again.

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Massage, acupuncture, chiro, reiki, hypnotherapy, physical therapy - all helped to a degree, but I wasn't finding the right alchemy between what my brain was trying to reconcile if I wasn't addressing where I held it in my body. And that withheld emotion in my body was clearly showing up as chronic pain, worry, discomfort, anxiety. I wrote in my journal many times that I was "at war with my body and needing couples counseling with my mind and body" to try to find true healing. I was stuck - depressed - honestly pretty hopeless. So many doctors kept telling me something must have happened (car wreck, fall) to be holding on to so much chronic pain and we just couldn't figure it out. Luckily, I finally found Somatic Awareness work and immediately I knew I was on to something different, but radically familiar deep inside.

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My personal process was enlightening. I’m working on getting the body, mind, and soul in unison and this intro class was on step closer.

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Made me think a ton about this body of mine. As I mentioned to start the class, I've had a lot of hard feelings towards my body. It has done so many amazing things for me this life and then to be at odds the last few years has been an extremely humbling process. Dedicating three hours to hold space for the simplest of asks from the body, the thing we do first when we are born sort of, was really powerful for me.

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The teaching was good and the class was 3 hours long it didn’t feel to be that long. The breaks were put in at good times. The methods were good too, especially having us do hands on exercises to emphasize what we were taught. The teacher was 10/10, his vibe makes the class feel like a comfortable safe space to learn and explore the new things we learned. He is highly educated in the subject and when explaining finds great visual representations.

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I found it very calming and enlightening to explore myself with your guidance!

I thought overall the class was insightful. It felt really nice to disconnect and really tune into my body amongst a small group and safe space. I found myself having some different emotions come up that I've been working through and it was nice to have some quiet time to observe them and let them flow through me. You were very calm and well spoken. You articulated the process and the information very well and clearly. I also appreciated that you would explain each exercise and what's to come before we started. Every part of the process was well articulated beforehand. Thank you so much for the experience!

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I learned more detail on how we breathe and what muscles and another body parts are needed to breathe. I also learned how to be more mindful and work on listening to the dialogue my body is trying to have with me.

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Training with Kelly is exactly what I was looking for! Targeted yet fun sessions bringing together many different modalities- fitness, flexibility, strength, somatic awareness and more . Inviting in a lot of exploration, curiosity and motivation during the process!

Kelly's client focused approach made me feel that my needs and goals were fully heard and correlated to the proposed exercises. I feel safe to step over my boundaries and yet free to express what my body is telling me and allow adjustments when too challenging.

I fully recommend training with Kelly!

How it Works

The Somatic Embodiment Program provides everything you need to achieve this transformation:

• Small Cohorts: Weekly trainings with your familiar 4-6 person cohort.

• 1-on-1 Coaching: Schedule your own individual somatic coaching sessions included in the Somatic Embodiment Program.

• Homework: Therapeutic, interesting, and challenging homework assigned and reviewed weekly.

• Multi-faceted Education and Training: Study anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, learn to coach, and more.

• Community: Hangout in the Skool community with other somatic explorers and somatic training modules.

• Share: Access drop-in trainings for you and a friend, included in the Somatic Embodiment Program.

How to Get Started

If you believe your body is intelligent and that learning to dialogue with it creates healing and sustainable self-regulation —

Apply for a call to see if you qualify for our program. Together we can see if it is the right fit for you and your mission. Please understand we can only choose 6 people to work with for every cohort.