What happens in a somatic coaching session?

What happens in a somatic coaching session?

What happens in a somatic coaching session is determined by your coach’s approach, your goal for the session and your level of comfort and feeling of safety.

I am currently enrolled in The Somatic School's Certified Body-Oriented Coach Training. I use a body-centered coaching approach to help creatives, changemakers, entrepreneurs, and purpose-driven business owners and leaders shift away from hustle culture and towards alignment. I believe a somatic approach to professional and personal fulfillment can assist in untangling limiting beliefs, the source of pressures, and other stressors.

Align, don’t hustle coaching journey

In our 60 minute coaching sessions you can expect…

1. A short grounding exercise to step into the present

2. We will then move into setting your intention or goal for the session

3. We will determine what needs to happen first in order for that intention to be accomplished

4. Depending on your intention, the flow of the coaching session can go many ways. But some possibilities include…

   • Helping you explore where you feel most activated in your body and using different exercises to extract wisdom of what your body is telling you

   • I will encourage you to use drawing, movement or visualisations to release energy or move stuck energy

   • I use a variety of frameworks to help you combine your body and mind in thinking through a challenge (for example, working backwards from results you’re getting, to determine the beliefs that led you there. So we can start re-imagining your beliefs)

   • I will use approaches such as orienting, visualisation, resourcing…and more

And again: I use a variety of techniques in each session to help the client explore their goals, they are completely driven by the client. When first starting out with somatic coaching, listening to your body might feel inaccessible or uncomfortable, and that’s ok. As a trauma informed somatic coach I meet you where you are at!

I thought it might be helpful to give real live examples from clients, where information was general enough to be non-identifying for the client, I outline them in the next post.