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How to Become a Somatic Coach: A Guide to Finding the Right Women-Centred Somatic Practitioner Training
You might be here because you are curious about somatic approaches and how they could open up new possibilities for you, or be integrated in your current or future practice.
If you are an existing coach, maybe you already sense that something deeper is possible in your work with women.
Or maybe your personal journey has led you to wanting to hold women in their journeys with the kind of depth that goes beyond traditional frameworks and approaches.
If any of this resonates, you are in the right place.
This guide is an invitation into the world of women-centred somatics…
How to Embody the Life and Future We Desire to Create
We are always embodying something.
It might be the forward urgency of our hectic schedule, the relaxed openness in our heart in moments of joy, or the way our body’s shoulders tighten when we feel stressed.
So much of what we embody isn’t chosen consciously.
It’s shaped by our history, our family, and the culture we live in.
Often, the patterns we have practised are what allowed us to get through, to cope, to keep going in challenging moments. They are deeply intelligent responses that have helped us to navigate life. Responses that we have unconsciously honed and perfected through repetition.
The Somatic Path to Women's Empowerment: How to Cultivate the Inner Conditions for Growth
As women, we are told to own our worth, to take up space and believe in ourselves, as if empowerment was just a mindset shift away.
A simple choice we haven’t made yet.
For many of us, rather than feeling liberating, this can actually feel like more pressure and keep us stuck.
Even if we long to feel daring and empowered, something within us still hesitates, contracts, or resists in moments where we are invited to step up or forward.
However bright, intelligent and capable we are, deep within our system, something might not yet feel safe enough for us to expand into a fuller expression of who we are.
This is where traditional empowerment models can fall short…
3 Ways Somatic Coaching Is Different From Traditional Coaching Approaches
Somatic approaches are increasingly talked about, yet they can feel obscure or hard to distinguish from more traditional or cognitive ways of coaching.
In this blog post, we look at how somatic coaching might differ from more traditional approaches, and explore 3 ways in which somatic coaching can help facilitate deep transformation.
The Power of Living in Alignment
Most of the women I support are far more intelligent, creative, resourceful and brave than they often know. They might have built businesses, raised families, held space for others, and navigated challenges with incredible resilience.
Many find me at a point in their life where they feel a sense of weariness that goes beyond physical tiredness. An 'experiential' weariness.
They are exhausted from trying to fit into external frameworks that often don’t reflect what matters most to them.
They are tired of overriding the ever growing discomfort of living a life that might look good on paper, but might not feel vibrant or fulfilling on the inside.
They are experiencing misalignment - a growing dissonance between their inner and outer worlds.
And something within them is pulling them towards more alignment (although they wouldn’t articulate it in this way)…
Leading in Times of Chaos: The Leadership We Need Now
Over the past couple of weeks I have been fortunate enough to attend a weekly group circle dedicated to exploring how to navigate times of chaos and polycrisis - it has been illuminating, tender and perspective shifting.
Simply being with others asking themselves similar questions, sharing our respective experiences and coming together to forge a path forward that feels true to each of us and the whole has been a gift.
It has crystalised even more deeply for me the need for us to come together, to co-create a path forward, to focus on our communities and the places where we can make a difference.
Trusting the Wisdom Of Our Body: 6 Ways Somatic Intelligence Can Help Us Live and Lead With More Presence, Wellbeing, Purpose And Confidence
Have you ever felt torn between what your mind (or the outside world) was telling you to do, and how your body felt about it? Perhaps you were considering applying for a new job, saying yes to an invitation, or considering how to navigate an argument with a friend, a child or your partner?
Have you ever ignored an inner nudge or a deep knowing, followed what you thought you should do, and regretted it later (wishing you could have a do over)?
Most of us are very aware of our thoughts, but much less so of the language of our body.
We often forget that our body holds deep wisdom.
In this blog post, I explore the power of our somatic intelligence: the wisdom of our body, this innate guidance system within us that can lead us towards more of what we truly desire: aliveness, clarity, confidence, or ease.
How Our Nervous System Impacts Our Leadership Capacity As Women: A Somatic Approach to Leading with Confidence
Have you ever felt pulled to step into something bigger : a greater vision, a leadership role, or a new chapter of your life, but found yourself stuck between the desire to lean in, and an inner resistance that left you feeling stuck, hesitant or overwhelmed.
As women, the tension between ambition and the internal barriers that hold us back is so common, and can feel like an internal tug-of-war.
The idea of the ‘something bigger’ might feel exciting, but when opportunities to take that step present themselves, fear, self-doubt or self-sabotage seem to get in the way, leaving us frozen and unable to move forward.
The truth is, leadership isn’t just about ambition or skills; it’s about capacity - our ability to hold the emotional, physical, and mental ‘charge’ of being the leader we envision ourselves to be.
And that capacity begins with your nervous system.
Embodied Presence: Reconnecting with Our Body’s Natural Intelligence to Transform Our Life
Do you ever feel like you’re ticking all the boxes, meeting expectations, and doing all the “right” things—yet underneath it all, there’s a quiet sense that you’re not fully in your life?
Embodied presence is a doorway to a more empowered and meaningful life.
It’s an invitation to tune in to our body’s natural intelligence (our somatic intelligence), to reclaim a sense of agency, freedom and sovereignty.
In this post, we’ll explore what embodied presence and interoception are, how we become disconnected from ourselves, why it is so vital for us to reconnect to our body’s natural wisdom to reclaim agency and to embrace a more empowered way of being and living.
The Power of Somatic Coaching: 6 Ways A Body-Based Approach Facilitates Deep Transformation
Are you finding yourself longing for more than just coping with the demands and pressures of life and wondering how to feel more deeply present and alive?
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world, and looking to feel more anchored within yourself amidst the chaos?
Have you reached a point where you are tired of constantly feeling exhausted? Maybe you’re craving a way to feel more sovereign over your life, and to make choices that reflect what YOU need, desire and value most?
Perhaps you would like to envision new possibilities and horizons, and explore a life that reflects your deeper yearnings?
If any of this resonates, somatic coaching could offer a path forward.
Leadership, Redefined: Why Feminine Leadership Is Powered By Rest
We live in a world that measures success by productivity, achievement, and the ability to keep pushing forward at all cost.
The more we do, produce, deliver - the greater our success, even if it means deprioritising our wellbeing, and abandoning our needs and sense of purpose as we climb ladders.
For women, this model of being and leading seems to ask that we sacrifice ourselves, conceal parts of who we are to fit into a mould that was never shaped for us, and that we chronically overachieve, overextend and overgive - often leading us to constantly hover over exhaustion or to oscillate between chronic stress (being ‘all on’) and burnout (being ‘all off’).
But what if we’re missing something crucial in the conversation about leadership?
What if true feminine power doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from resting deeper?
Embodied Feminine Leadership: your way of being is a way of leading
As women, we are often conflicted about leadership.
We might want to step up to lead and take a stance for what we believe in, but the current style of leadership that is role modelled to us isn’t always one we are willing to embrace. It often demands that we abandon parts of who we are, in order to fit in and belong. This way of leading omits a huge portion of who we are as women, and undervalues the unique qualities that we are naturally gifted with and embody.
