Somatic Life Coaching with Leigh

Come home to your body. Real change happens when insight becomes embodied experience.

What Is Somatic Life Coaching?

Somatic Life Coaching is an integrative, body-centered approach to personal growth and emotional healing. Rather than working only with thoughts or mindset, somatic coaching weaves together awareness of sensation, breath, posture, movement, and emotion to help you shift patterns at their root. The word somatic comes from the Greek soma, meaning “the living body.” In practice, that means we listen to the wisdom held in your body—not just your story—to guide healing and transformation.

In a fast-paced, stress-driven world, the nervous system can become over-activated or shut down. Somatic coaching helps calm and regulate the system, creating the safety and presence needed for clarity, resilience, and forward momentum in life.

Why the Body Matters

Our life experiences—stress, trauma, joy, beliefs, and emotional memories—are recorded not only in the mind but also in the body’s tissues, posture, and energetic field. When these experiences go unprocessed, they can show up as anxiety, tension, emotional reactivity, feeling “stuck,” or even physical discomfort. By gently tuning into bodily signals, we can release held energy, shift stress responses, and create new pathways for well being.

Core Principles

• Mind–Body–Spirit Integration: All parts of you are interconnected; change in one area affects the whole.

• Body Awareness as a Portal: Sensation is real-time data. Learning to notice it builds self-understanding and choice.

• Nervous System Regulation: Healing begins in safety. We use practices that support balance between activation and rest.

• Choice & Agency: As you track your body’s cues, you gain the ability to respond rather than react.

• Resilience Through Practice: Small embodied shifts, repeated over time, re-pattern your responses to stress.

Influences & Foundations

Somatic Life Coaching draws from multiple fields, including:

• Polyvagal-informed nervous system work (understanding states of safety, mobilization, and shutdown).

• Neuroscience of stress and memory.

• Guided movement and expressive somatics.

• Breathwork traditions.

• Mindfulness and body scanning.

• Energy awareness, including chakras, meridians, and the human biofield.

• Ancient and indigenous wisdom lineages honoring the body as a vessel for spirit.

How Somatic Coaching Helps

Somatic tools build physical and emotional awareness so you can recognize your body’s responses to anxiety, stress, or triggers in the moment. With practice, you learn to:

• Identify where tension, numbness, or activation lives in the body.

• Shift out of fight / flight / freeze into grounded presence.

• Release stored emotional energy.

• Reconnect with inner resources: calm, courage, clarity, compassion.

• Strengthen emotional resilience and self-trust.

• Integrate mind, body, and spirit for authentic living.

Who Is It For?

Somatic Life Coaching can benefit many people, especially those who are:

• Managing stress, anxiety, or trauma: Learn to regulate your nervous system and discharge held tension.

• Experiencing emotional blockages or reactivity: Gain tools to safely feel, express, and release emotion.

• Living with chronic pain or illness: Explore how emotional and energetic patterns may be reflected in the body; support whole-person healing.

• Seeking deeper self-awareness & spiritual connection: Bridge insight with lived, embodied experience.

• Moving through major life transitions: Career shifts, grief, relationship changes, or identity evolution are easier with grounding and support.

What to Expect in a Session

Each session is customized, but here’s a general flow:

1. Intake & Intention Setting – Before or at your first session, you’ll complete a short questionnaire exploring goals, current stressors, strengths, and desired outcomes.

2. Safe, Grounded Space – We begin with gentle settling: breath, sound, or guided awareness to help your body feel supported and present.

3. Body Awareness / Scan – You’re guided to notice sensations, temperature, tension, movement impulses, or areas of numbness. This becomes our map.

4. Mind–Body Practices – Depending on your needs, we may use breathwork, visualization, guided movement, tapping, or micro-postural shifts.

5. Somatic Experiencing–Style Tracking – We track cycles of activation and settling in the nervous system to release stored stress or trauma responses.

6. Movement & Self-Touch Options – Gentle stretching, orienting, shaking, resourcing objects, or supportive self-contact to aid regulation.

7. Emotional Processing – Space to name, feel, and express what arises—through words, imagery, journaling, or subtle movement.

8. Nervous System Regulation Skills – You’ll learn practical tools to shift from overwhelm to balance in daily life.

9. Integration & Home Practices – We close by reflecting on insights and offering simple practices to continue between sessions.

You remain fully clothed throughout. All techniques are invitational—nothing is forced, and you are always in choice.

Somatic Tools We May Use

Breathwork: Regulates arousal, supports emotional release, and increases body awareness.

Body Scanning: Builds felt-sense literacy; helps locate held emotion or stress.

Guided Visualization: Engages imagery to calm the nervous system and create new internal narratives.

Somatic Experiencing–inspired Release: Gently completes unfinished survival responses held in the body.

Movement & Postural Awareness: Small shifts in stance, gesture, or movement can unlock stuck patterns.

Self-Touch / Containment Holds: Soothing hand placements that signal safety to the nervous system.

Energy & Chakra Inquiry: Tracking energetic flow through chakras, meridians, and biofield patterns as additional information.

Between-Session Integration

Growth deepens when practices follow you into everyday life. You may be invited to:

• Track daily body sensations linked to stressors.

• Use short regulation breaks (breath, grounding, orientation).

• Journal emotional shifts or insights.

• Practice movement sequences that support resilience.

• Pair affirmations with embodied anchors (hand-to-heart, feet-on-ground).

Is Somatic Life Coaching Right for You?

If you’ve done mindset work yet still feel stuck… if stress lives in your body… if you long to feel present, empowered, and connected—Somatic Life Coaching can help you bridge the gap between understanding and transformation.

Ready to begin? Let’s explore the next step together.

Steps for the Process of Somatic Healing Life Coaching

1. You will first fill out a questionnaire that’s designed to analyze and assist with the process of growth in the areas of health, wealth, relationships and/or positive self talk.

2. After your completed questionnaire is received, you will be sent a selection of short videos that will further facilitate the coaching session process.

3. Once the questionnaire has been filled out and the videos have been viewed, we are ready to setup our video calls or in-person