My somatic coaching places ALL of you at the heart of the process for your transformation

Jan Normanton • December 17, 2024

You are centre stage, a 360 degree exploration of your needs, your dreams and desires, aims and ideals incorporating mental, physical, energetic, spiritual, emotional, relational, behavioural aspects of you.

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If you are stressed, consider somatic massage or somatic coaching and know that your body has a whole set of inbuilt ways to help you manage your inner states.

My style of somatic coaching is non directive.


Yes I have a whole toolkit full of practices, techniques, ways in which I can support you, to come into your true self, to drop in, to slow down, come out of your head and tune into your innate wisdom which resides within the body; to access this sense of gnosis, knowing, your truth.


It’s my privilege to be able to hold space for that and to support you with whatever you need for you, for me to bear witness, to hear and listen in truly to what you need, to what your grievances are, to how I can help you.


And for you to really hear yourself, for you to connect with yourself, so that you can really come into a sense of who you truly are below all the noise, all the to-dos, all the commitments, all the responsibilities that we have on the daily.


So my somatic coaching affords you that opportunity to do that. I’m not here to tell you what to do, how to do it, when to do it – that would be infantilizing you.


So for me to bear witness, to listen in truly, this is my aim with somatic coaching.

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