I was at a party recently and I’d just handed my card to someone. They took a look and asked, “What is embodiment coaching?” Oh, that. Uhhhhh. I forgot I had aspirationally and perhaps precociously added that to my card, despite not yet having any clients in that part of my practice. After a moment of thinking about it, I gave an answer that satisfactorily connected to an earlier part of our conversation, but I realized I need an elevator pitch for this. So, here goes.
Embodiment
Empowering and complexifying the mind-body connection. Understanding ourselves in our wholeness – not as a mind with a body to carry it around – but as a mindbody process arising from the complexity of existence on this earth. Regaining bodily sovereignty.
Bodies feel: they feel emotion, they feel pain, they feel stress, strain, arousal. They do things – things we understand and things we don’t. It is common in western society to be uncurious and undereducated about this whole situation. My back hurts – take a painkiller, get a surgery, do these exercises. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by my emotions – take some xanax, go to a therapist. I feel sluggish and unmotivated. But why? Why is any of this happening?
Embodiment coaching begins with bringing back the curiosity. Bringing the mind that’s gone off to live in simplicity – away from the confusing, often painful sensations of the body – back into a curious and non-judgmental awareness of all that your body is telling you. After finding this re-attunement, we can start to ask the empowering question: what is possible?
So what does this process look like?
- Building a foundation of awareness and sensory practices
- Enhancing emotional and sensory language and understanding
- Practicing expressive movement (Play!)
- Mindset attunement
- Nutrition and anatomy education
I want to help guide you to find the courage to love and embrace your body in its awesome and terrifying wholeness. I want to help you be free of unnecessary pain, so you can become the force of nature you were born to be!