When you work with a coach, you normally have a question or challenge you’re facing. How could embodiment coaching give you the answers?

There are many types of coach – this is one that rolls them all into one

A life coach will help you with parts of your life – personal goals, how to make decisions. A relationship coach will help you with your love life and a financial coach will help you grow your wealth. A mental health or fitness coach will work with you on specific areas that need your attention.

An embodiment coach can address almost any of those things. Instead of talking about it and reliving the past, we work with the body and look at where the stories are contained and how you want to feel going forward. You learn to listen to the body and discover more about how you relate to yourself and others. How? Through how you are sensing and moving and feeling, rather than favouring your thoughts and logic above all.

My first experience of embodiment coaching

I remember the first time I experienced embodiment coaching. It actually happened in a movement class where it dawned on me what it felt like to be creative. How I could have way more options in my life by doing things with variation. It was a really visceral conceptualisation of something that didn’t seem to make as much sense when I made visual art, music, poetry. Feeling it my body and how it changed me had a deeper resonance. And I noticed that it was not just a one way process. When I explored myself with more depth, I could express myself with more nuance. Nervous systems are always being stimulated. Being able to read mine better has helped me during times of great stress or sadness.

Becoming a coach and how I help others

So when I did the Certificate of Embodiment Coaching training in 2022, it started with a 6 month process called ‘Foundations of Embodiment Coaching. And we had to be coached, by others, and go through a process of practicing our embodiment in a range of different situations. I’ve been intensively training for my Feldenkrais practitioner qualification since the beginning of 2023. I am always in a coaching process.

So, I walk the talk. I’ve been coached and coached and coached.

And I love seeing people have an ‘aha’ moment; like the time one client said in session her ears popped and her sinuses cleared – but more importantly, she understood it as a message from her body to listen better. That sort of thing seems pretty obvious but when it is happening in a session when a person is looking for an answer, it is so resonant. Her eyes were so wide with awe and it made a lasting difference to her, because it was connected to a moment of learning, of hands-on connection with a caring witness, and she understood what it meant to her, and shared that.