Embodied Coaching

Embodied coaching is a collaborative process that uses touch, movement, and somatic awareness to explore authenticity, connection, and healing. It’s not about fixing or solving, but about creating a safe space to listen to the body’s wisdom and navigate what arises — with curiosity, care, and intention.

  • Many seek coaching for support of “self-improvement” goals (fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, career). I primarily work with those seeking a reconnection with authenticity

  • I use bodywork as the centerpiece in  all coaching sessions,  believing the touch of another to be essential to lasting change and often entirely missing. I call this safe space ‘homebase’

  • From the security of a bespoke ‘homebase,’ clients are supported in a process of restoration, as they surrender aspects of their past to reclaim birthright gifts

  • It’s important to note: embodied coaching is not massage therapy in important and specific ways

Authenticity: Premise Behind the Practice

  • I believe we’re each here, alive [born?] to fulfill a unique purpose, gifted with an original nature that remains fit-for-purpose: our authentic self

  • Throughout life, many of us veer off course to instead chase goals imposed by or to please others… in turn adopting roles in conflict with our true nature

  • We may experience this betrayal of authenticity as a disconnection—from ourself and the world around us, often accompanied by physical, emotional and existential distress

Bodywork: Always the Centerpiece

  • Most approaches to wellness challenge us to engage thoughtfully, with the thinking mind. We observe others’ actions or hear or read their words to guide us in new ways of observing, contemplating, moving and living…  in short, to help us change.

  • Meaningful change, as a threat to the status quo, is met with fierce resistance within the same mind intending the changes. “Quieting the mind” is thus an essential step but is only part of the change equation. While quieting techniques—that tap into almost all aspects of what it is to be human—are infinite, touch is often missing altogether.

  • We’re better able to make and sustain meaningful life changes when we not only believe we’re safe (in the mind) but experience a felt-safety (in the body). Many of us felt least safe in our physical bodies in early life.

  • Our bodies have an inborne intelligence that seeks a return to balance, independent of the mind’s endless reasoning and rationalizing. Touch is the language of the body.

  • As we begin to trust that touch can deliver an embodied experience of safety, even a resistant mind senses the whole—body, mind, spirit—is secure.  I call this ‘homebase.’

Birthright: Reclaiming Original Gifts

We’ll use supportive coaching exercises—always in combination with bodywork—in a process  to reclaim authenticity and restore wellness, always aligned to your specific intentions

  • Sessions are broadly organized around key themes

    • Reconnection with the original self, including purpose and original nature

    • Adaptations in the form of facades, narrative and barriers

    • Reclaiming authentic creativity, expression, pleasure and relationships

Not Massage Therapy

Touch utilized in coaching sessions is distinctly different from the touch of massage therapy in a number of ways:

  • touch in coaching sessions is for heightening awareness to all bodily sensations for inviting meaning, instead of for rapidly reducing unpleasant sensations without regard for their significance beyond the physical body

  • touch is merely one component of a coaching session and provided early to create a felt safety in the body the physical space, instead of for the pursuit of pleasure and as the main component of massage

  • we’ll have a conversation throughout the bodywork portion of the session, as well as before and after, to ensure a mutual and continuous understanding of the unfolding process, in comparison to a focus on feedback and brevity in most massage

Homebase

Discovering Homebase

Intentional, healthful touch—paired with supportive sensory elements—can calm the body and create a foundation of safety. In our first sessions, we’ll explore different types of touch to identify your unique sense of embodied security: your homebase.

Evolving Through Touch

As your journey continues, we’ll revisit and refine homebase, adjusting to deepen your experience of safety and connection. This becomes the anchor for meaningful exploration and transformation.

Sensation as Compass

By heightening awareness of sensation throughout the body, you’ll begin to interpret physical signals as meaningful guides. From this place of embodied trust, you’re better equipped to lean into change and reclaim what matters most.

The services I offer may complement but are not a substitute for

  • Psychotherapy

  • Clinical or diagnostic care

  • Sex work/sexual surrogacy