Do you offer discounted or sliding scale coaching packages?

Yes. If you are serious about committing to this program, and are stressed financially for whatever reason, I do offer sliding scale coaching packages. I take 5 clients at any given time, and I have 2 slots designated for discounted packages. Please reach out and ask if there is space available and we can have a discussion about what payment works for the both of us.

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Is Somatic Transformation Coaching like Life Coaching?

In some ways. There are some elements of Life Coaching that I find useful. For example, we help you clarify what you want in your life and offer accountability in reaching your goals. But that is where the similarities end. The majority of life coaching schools train their practitioners to help their clients through having conversations (which is mostly heady) and changing their lives through willpower and setting goals. Unfortunately, when it comes to profound transformation, willpower and goal setting doesn't take you very far when you have undealt-with trauma in your body. My coaching empowers you with knowledge of how to heal and inhabit your body in a way that makes transformation more natural and effortless than willpower and goal setting alone.

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How Is Somatic Transformation Coaching similar to Therapy?

It is similar to Therapy in that the results you will glean from our work together are inherently therapeutic. You will heal, learn tools to cope with life, and become more confident and resilient. 

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It is dissimilar in that most therapeutic modalities are based on talking, which can only get you so far on your healing/transformational journey. The feedback I've gotten from many clients is that this work penetrates deeper than any therapy they have experienced so far. Not only do we go deeper with powerful body-based transformational tools, but unlike most therapists (even somatically trained therapists, whom I highly respect and recommend) I will give you a unique behind-the-scenes look as to why these tools work and how, so that you can not only apply them to yourself, but you can also guide others through it.

 

This program is equal parts coaching and equal parts apprenticeship. I believe that you learn best if you also practice guiding and helping others. So not only do you EXPERIENCE transformation but you are TRAINED & EDUCATED about it as well. Most therapists also do not compose long-term transformational roadmaps for you, share notes with you, make themselves available outside of sessions, or designate homework and accountability systems for you to partake in. I've tried my best to create a program that blends the most potent tools I've learned from the worlds of education, therapy, tantra, spirituality, nutrition, mindfulness, and dance/fitness into one program.

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Also, because of the nature of how I am able to work under the term 'coach' instead of a therapist, I am not bound to one or two healing modalities. There is a wider range of tools you have access to with me, and I make sure that I customize a unique journey for you based on your blueprint and evolution.

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Lastly, I do not diagnose or treat illness like a psychiatrist or a psychologist is able to, and I am not a specialist. While my work is potent and has a broad healing/transformational impact, I recommend that if you are experiencing severe imbalances in your physical and mental wellbeing, that you find a specialist that can help you re-stabilize before you begin your work with me (or if it is appropriate, I've had people work in tandem with me and other practitioners, which greatly benefitted them, and could also be something for you to consider).

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Do you work with kids?

At this point in time, I do not, but I can give suggestions for how YOU can work with your kids.

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Do you work with couples?

Yes. I don't do entire coaching programs with couples, but I can do one-off sessions or packages with couples. I find that when it comes to transforming relationships, having shared context and language is helpful. When you practice body-based transformational tools together, your intimacy deepens, your relationship becomes more resilient and your communication and partnership skills improve. I like to have conversations first with couples to asses where you are at with your relationship before agreeing to work together.

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What areas of life can I expect to find transformation within?

It's up to what you want to focus on! These tools help people in every area of life. Ive helped people find intimacy in relationships, heal gut and ADD issues, heal emotional trauma, learn how to be playful and charismatic, build businesses, strengthen their connection to 'god' or 'the universe', learn how to rest, find their voice, manifest abundance in the form of money, resources, and housing, revolutionize institutions, learn how to cry and be held, learn how to dance, become a better parent... I mean literally no area of life is off-limits.  

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What is your transformational work like in the areas of business and entrepreneurship?

Before I pivoted my business to focus solely on teaching the art and science of embodiment and transformation, I was a Business Coach/ Vision Midwife for 5 years. I used a lot of transformation tools to help people get out of their current jobs and start their own business, or find jobs that were more in alignment with their passion. If you are interested in transforming your life specifically in the area of life purpose, business, or entrepreneurship, I have many additional skills to offer you in that particular area of transformation. I can offer high-level visioning, strategical consulting, project management, team building, communication, brand development, leadership skills, program development skills, sales coaching, etc., as well as embodiment skills. If you are interested in getting support in this particular area, let me know in your free 40 min exploration call and we can talk more about this.

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What is your training/background in?

My biggest education came from a 12-year-long Tantra apprenticeship (4 of those years were led by renowned Tantra mentor, David Cates, and the rest of those years were guided by rotating leadership amongst the members.) I am a certified practitioner of Vianna Stibal's Theta HealingⓇ technique from the Theta Healing Institute of Knowledge. I studied energy work, anatomy, and embodiment with Laura Hames Franklin for a year, whose husband developed the Franklin Method. I got my 200-hr Iyengar yoga certification at the age of 19. I spent 30 years studying emotion and embodiment through dance and studied education and the psychology of learning as a dance teacher for 8 of those years. I did 2 one-year-long programs in mindful inquiry through "The Work of Byron Katie" with Seattle based practitioner Grace Bell. I have informally studied Somatic Experiencing Therapy as a client through my personal therapist. I took multiple workshops with love coach and Non-Violent Communication Practitioner Scott Catamas. There have been endless amounts of books I have read and workshops that I have participated in over the years on the topics of business, community building, relationships, education, healing, nutrition, spirituality, etc., that have been amazing and are too much to name here, but feel free to ask me about them!

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Do you give refunds if I find out this work isn't for me?

It's a complicated answer, but essentially, No I do not. I do offer the opportunity to pause and resume your sessions at another time if you have a personal or family emergency come up or any other circumstance that requires you to pause. You may also change the frequency of our sessions and move around dates if you are traveling or need a break from them. I also do my best to make sure we are a good fit for each other in the Introductory 2 session package before you commit to a 3 month package. This is a test period to see if we fit well together. I also encourage frequent open communication between me and my clients so that we can do everything in our power to make your journey absolutely worth it for you. Because of the considerable amount of time and energy it requires for me to invest in a client, apprentice them, make my schedule available inside and outside of sessions, etc. I do not give refunds once you've purchased a 3 month package. After each 3 month package you can assess if you want to stop working with me or continue another 3 month journey, and you of course may discontinue working with me at any time during the middle of a 3 month package, but will be required to pay the remainder of it.

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Have you integrated awareness around racism, sexism, classism, gender/sexual orientation etc. in the work you do?

I believe that context is really important in understanding how to heal and how to transform. I've worked with all kinds of bodies from all different kinds of backgrounds and upbringings. While I cannot truly ever experience what someone else has gone through, I have found that empathy is crucial to healing, and the principles of healing and transformation are universal and widely applicable. I will be curious about your religious and cultural background, as well as your conditioning. I will respect your pronouns and sexuality, I will not assume that my experience in this body with this skin color and presentation is the same as the experience in your body. I believe that privilege is real and needs to be acknowledged.

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However, one of my strong core values is open-mindedness and being willing to understand anybody's perspective. If you are someone who looks for safety by getting someone to fully agree with your world perspective or religious ideology (by religious i don't mean just spirituality, because religious mentalities show up in every field of thought from science, education, and nutrition, to politics, activism, and identity politics) that is not me. I do not fully agree with or align with any ONE particular ideology, as I find benefits and drawbacks to each ideology. I will honestly and compassionately question your ideology if I believe that it is diminishing your power or self-awareness.

 

So with that being said, I have noticed that I tend to work better with people who DO NOT overly identify themselves or are entrenched in identity politics, their victimhood, or are hair-trigger sensitive to political correctness. I work well with people who value cultivating a sense of humor, who are willing to embrace the paradox of reverence/irreverence towards all things, are curious, and are dedicated to question binary thinking in pursuit of their own highest truth and empowerment.

 

I have found that transformation is not possible unless you are willing to embrace the paradox of acknowledging BOTH realities of who you are... someone who may have been a victim to conditioning and circumstances AS WELL as a powerful being that exists beyond identity and is capable of transmuting any pain into power. I believe that in order to experience your power you HAVE to be willing to leave your mental constructs behind, and the mind is the birth place of identity, ideology, and binary thinking.

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As an example of my personal attitude towards transformation... I have had straight and queer relationships, open relationships and closed relationships, but I personally don't feel the need to identify as a queer person or as a polyamorous person or need people to recognize me as such. I have been a victim of sexual abuse and believe in equality and respect between genders but I've never identified as a feminist, or blamed/hated men. I believe that loving myself, having radically open and curious conversations, working to understand all people and perspectives (even your 'enemies') without villainizing them, and persistently focusing on cultivating my power in any situation is my path to freedom and empowerment, and so far it has worked well for me.

 

If you resonate with some of the people i respect and admire like Byron Katie, Daryl Davis, Africa Brooke, Carolyn Elliot, and Gabor Maté  (people I believe who have tremendous empathy and compassion, but also challenge collective and self-sabotage/victimhood mentality) then I believe you will resonate with the work that I do!

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If you are looking for a specific container that more emphatically works with sexual, racial, cultural, gender, and class identities, this is probably not the container for you, and I recommend you finding another practitioner or program that supports your needs.

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