The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion

The experience may be slightly different from practice to practice (and lesson to lesson), but the essence revolves around discovering (or rediscovering) the wisdom of the self.

Somatics, as a genre, centers on the individual who is having the experience in the present moment.

Somewhere in this thinking is the notion that a hamstring has ‘become short’, a hip has ‘become stiff’ or the core has ‘become weak’, as if these areas have an independence from the rest of the human being and have decided to behave in an unhelpful way. This is nonsense. If an area of the body appears tight or weak or stiff, it is generally because

Clearing away stress and holding patterns in hands-on processes is a major purpose of listening through touch. Flow repatterning of movement, finding easy developmental pathways through matching, and then providing guidance, depends on sensitivity to touch and movement. One cannot repattern movement without first finding what patterns are present t