Somatic Coaching for Musicians, Educators, and Creative Leaders
“Empowering musicians and creatives through somatic coaching to achieve authentic, sustainable transformation.”
Our Approach
These aren’t performance-coaching sessions. They’re spaces for nervous-system repair, creative clarity, and embodied leadership.
Somatic Coaching at mBODYed blends the Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, and trauma-informed somatic practices to help you unlearn tension, reclaim ease, and lead from presence.
This work isn’t about fixing.
It’s about remembering how your body was designed to move, breathe, and belong.
“Shawn is truly the artist’s artist, and he approaches his work from the perspective of artists and their shared experiences. As an accomplished educator who transitioned from adjunct to tenured studio professor, he understands the stresses and demands of the academic environment, as well as the physical and emotional toll that the freelance hustle takes on both mind and body. This understanding, combined with his Somatic Wellness Training, provides participants with a holistic coaching experience that is relevant and applicable to artists’ professional lives and personal well-being."
-Dr. Amy Hardison Tully, Dean, College of Fine Arts, Texas Christian University
Explore Our Types of Coachings
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Becoming mBODYed Somatic Coaching
For artists, educators, and professionals ready to reconnect with ease, expression, and belonging.
Each session offers time to slow down, feel, and listen. Together, we explore what your system has been holding — the patterns of over-effort, collapse, or disconnection — and invite your body to find safer, kinder ways of being.
You’ll learn to:
Regulate your nervous system through somatic awareness
Repattern habits of bracing, over-helping, or self-critique
Rebuild trust in rest, presence, and creative flow
Integrate body mapping for pain-free, embodied movement
Format: 75-minute private sessions (online or in-person)
Schedule: Weekly or bi-weekly options
Investment: Tiered pricing available -
Executive Somatic Coaching
For department chairs, leaders, and creative executives integrating embodiment into their leadership.
Leadership doesn’t have to cost your body.
Executive Somatic Coaching is a six-month mentorship that helps you lead from coherence, not control. We work at the intersection of nervous-system literacy, embodied communication, and humane systems design.You’ll explore:
Regulation as leadership currency
The somatic voice of authority
Repair and communication through attuned presence
Designing sustainable systems of belonging and care
Format: Two 75-minute sessions per month (online)
Optional shadow coaching during teaching, rehearsal, or public-speaking contexts
Duration: Six months
Investment: Custom proposal following discovery call
What to Expect
Every session begins with grounding, space to orient, breathe, and notice.
We move between dialogue, guided somatic awareness, and movement experiments drawn from the Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, and trauma-informed somatics.
The goal is not performance, but integration, so that regulation, creativity, and leadership become embodied capacities rather than strategies.
Ready to Begin?
Change begins with a single pause.
Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call to explore how Somatic Coaching can support your work, artistry, and wellbeing.
“My work with Shawn this past year was transformational. My ability to spot the connection between my students’ playing and the dynamics of their movements gave me an entirely new teaching toolbox. Over and over again, I come back to Shawn’s idea of focusing on learning organic movements rather than learning correct notes. This concept helps my students internalize piano music in a more intuitive, fluid way.”
— Dr. Tali Morgulis - Associate Professor of Piano, University of Houston
“As a classically trained musician, I know what it means to aspire to the work of a master teacher. As a military veteran, I know how to trust another’s authority more than I trust my own. With Shawn, I began unlearning both.
I stopped imitating my teachers and deferring to perceived authority. I began trusting my own guidance to bring this work into the world in a way that felt authentic, powerful, and effective. And when old habits resurface—as they naturally do—I now have the awareness to recognize them and choose a more empowered response.”
-Jilian McGreen, DMA. Becoming mBODYed, Cohort 1