Services
I've struggled with feeling and processing emotions all my life having been raised in a dysfunctional family. Working with Kristina and Somatic Coaching has provided the tools and guidance I need to plumb the depths of my resistance to life's challenges. I feel more willing and able to face and to heal past traumas and present issues. I always look forward to my next session and by the end I feel less stress and more strength to take on my day.
-C.J., client
Why Somatic Coaching
Do you feel disconnected from your body and long for more aliveness and joy?
Have stress and health issues narrowed your life and career opportunities?
Have you lost your sense of meaning, purpose, and direction?
Do you feel isolated and disconnected from loved ones and community?
Somatic Coaching is uniquely suited to address these types of issues by accessing all aspects of intelligence in our bodies - intellectual, emotional, and physical. I work with clients to connect with joy and aliveness, find purpose and direction, and build meaningful relationships with others.
My Services
One-on-One Somatic Coaching
I work with each client to identify what is most important to you and support you to take new actions aligned with your values and goals even under the same old pressures. Somatic coaching sessions typically are 55 minutes and include a variety of conversational and physical practices. We can meet as frequently as weekly, depending on your needs and preferences, either over Zoom or in person when it is safe to do so. I recommend meeting for 10 sessions or more to accomplish some of the following:
Explore current challenges, strengths, and supports so that we have a foundation from which to help you build your path forward
Learn how your default behaviors, moods, thoughts and ways of relating reveal themselves in the body and take steps to transform them
Develop a greater emotional range and feel more alive and joyful
Increase your resilience for managing stressors and challenges
Somatic Transformation Group
This group is for people with chronic health conditions/illnesses. We will explore somatic transformation in a group setting with weekly 90 minute sessions for 8 weeks. Groups will include physical practices (that can be done standing, sitting, or lying down), dyad and small group discussions, journaling, guided meditations, and fun group exercises. Groups will include the following explorations:
Deepen your capacity to connect authentically and build trust with others
Find support with other people experiencing chronic health conditions/illness
Become familiar with and transform your triggers and automatic reactions into skillful actions/responses
Find purpose, meaning, and hope in your life, even with stress and illness
Take the first step.
To start one-on-one somatic coaching or join my next somatic transformation group, book a free 20-30 minute consultation to meet me and find out if this work is right for you
What is somatic coaching?
The word “Soma” means body. Somatic coaching is a body-based approach to supporting clients in personal transformation. It involves really listening to and working with our whole selves. Somatic coaching views breakthrough change as happening not when one gains enough new insights and knowledge about an issue or pattern but rather when one engages in new practices that transform who we are. We become able to access all aspects of our wisdom - intellectual, emotional, and physical.
In a Somatic Coaching session, we will spend some of the time talking in order to explore and define the focus for the session. Sessions include a combination of conversation and physical practices, including movement, breathwork, body work, Aikido, and mindfulness. These approaches are designed to tap into the innate wisdom of your body and release habits that may be getting in the way of your goals.
You will develop a greater awareness of your body, harness this wisdom to explore and try on new ways of being, and engage in practices that create more well-being, choice, and capacity to take new actions towards the things that matter most to you.
Example of an in-person Somatic practice, though touching is always optional