mBODYed Coaching

Three months to restore ease, presence, and creative capacity

When you’ve spent years showing up under pressure, the body often starts telling the truth before you do.

Maybe your breath tightens before you enter a room. Maybe your jaw or shoulders brace the moment responsibility kicks in. Maybe you finish a day of work feeling wrung out instead of fulfilled, even when things “went well.”

This isn’t a lack of discipline or commitment. It’s your system doing everything it can to keep you functioning.

mBODYed Coaching offers a space to slow down and listen to what your body has been carrying. Together, we unlearn patterns of chronic tension and over-efforting, rebuild trust with your internal signals, and restore a sense of choice in how you move, work, and create.

This work supports people who want to stay engaged without self-override. Who want presence without collapse. Who want to continue doing meaningful work without paying for it with their health, joy, or sense of self.

If you’re unsure where to begin, start with a free Somatic Mapping Session.

Schedule your FREE Somatic Mapping Session

Is this you?

You might recognize yourself here:

  • You push through pain, tension, or exhaustion because the work still needs to get done.

  • You notice familiar patterns in your body, clenching, bracing, collapsing, that don’t change no matter how much you understand them.

  • You feel distanced from your work or your creativity, even as you continue to show up and produce.

  • You’ve tried technique adjustments, mindset shifts, or taking breaks, but nothing seems to create lasting change.

  • You find yourself wondering about longevity. Can I really keep going at this pace?

    If any of this feels familiar, your body isn’t the problem. It’s the part of you that has been compensating for too long.

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What can change in three months

Over the course of three months, many clients describe:

More ease in how they work and move
Less gripping and forcing. More support from the whole self rather than isolated effort.

Breath that feels available, not scarce
Breathing that responds to phrasing, speaking, emotion, or decision-making, rather than urgency or panic.

A steadier inner climate
Less self-attack. More curiosity. Enough internal space to make mistakes without collapse.

Sustainable energy
Being able to work, teach, create, or lead without needing days to recover afterward.

Clearer expression and direction
A growing sense of “this is how I want to show up,” no longer dictated by fear or perfectionism.

A body that feels like home again
Trust in your own signals returns, so you’re no longer overriding yourself just to get through.

This isn’t magic. It’s the result of giving your body, your nervous system, and your way of working consistent, attuned attention over time.

mBODYed Coaching

As your system begins to settle, certain patterns become clearer. These aren’t flaws or bad habits. They’re expressions of how your body has tried to protect you over time.

Your archetype is the doorway; your body has always been your compass.

When you step into this coaching space, we slow down just enough to listen to the signals your body has been sending for years. Your Somatic Archetype helps us see how your system learned to navigate pressure, belonging, and expression. We begin not by correcting you but by trying to honor the intelligence in your pattern and helping you toward something more than we think.

This is the Integration Tier of the mBODYed Journey. A three-month somatic coaching experience that deepens ease, widens breath, and restores steady creative presence.

WHY THE ARCHETYPE MATTERS

Your archetype is not a label. It is a doorway into understanding how your nervous system learned to cope with pressure, belonging, and expectation.
When we name the pattern with accuracy, we can meet it with care instead of judgment.

Working through your archetype helps us choose practices, pacing, and somatic tools that match your system. You learn to shift from protection into presence at a rhythm your body can trust.

What are the Six Archetypes?

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    The Over-Efforter

    From control to coordination
    Ease becomes possible without losing excellence.

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    The Burned Out Artist

    From survival to sustainability
    Energy returns as your system learns to rest.

  • The Impostor

    From proving to belonging
    Visibility becomes safer and expression becomes more authentic.

  • The Disconnected

    From absence to aliveness
    Sensation and presence return without overwhelm.

  • The Seeker

    From pursuit to embodiment
    Curiosity settles into practice and clarity.

  • The Integrator

    From knowing to being
    Consistency, rhythm, and grounded presence become daily realities.

Why now?

Your body has been working hard for a long time. If something in you is tired of carrying it alone, this is a place to rest for a moment and see what might be possible.

This is not an urgency. It’s relational honesty.

FAQ

  • What we might explore in a session

    No two clients are the same, but sessions often include:

    • guided awareness and orientation

    • body mapping to clarify how your structure is designed to move and support you

    • applying Alexander Technique principles to real artistic tasks

    • exploring Somatic Archetypes as patterns of protection rather than problems to fix

    • experimenting with new ways of standing, sitting, breathing, or moving with your instrument

    • talking through the pressures of your environment and how they live in your body

    You are always in choice.
    We go as slowly as your system needs, and as deeply as it feels ready for.

  • The arc of our work together

    You don’t need to remember these phases. They’re here so you can feel the shape of the journey.

    Phase 1: Somatic Mapping & Orientation
    We begin with a Somatic Mapping Session to understand how your system is currently organizing around safety and performance. We listen for the patterns that have been working too hard on your behalf. Together, we choose a starting point that feels doable.

    Phase 2: Unlearning tension and protection
    We explore how your body organizes around tasks you care about: playing, teaching, speaking, showing up in front of others. Through gentle experiments, we invite gripping, bracing, or collapsing patterns to soften. Nothing is forced. We work at the pace your body can genuinely allow.

    Phase 3: Repatterning support, movement, and expression
    As your system finds a little more space, we build new options: more support through the whole body, more responsive breath, more coherent movement, more honest expression. We weave this into your real artistic and teaching contexts rather than keeping it theoretical.

    Phase 4: Integration and future-proofing
    We gather what you’ve learned, name what has changed, and design ways to keep supporting yourself. You leave with practices and perspectives you can return to as your work, body, and life continue to evolve.

  • This coaching is for people who sense that their body is asking for something different.

    Many who arrive are highly capable, responsible, and deeply committed to their work. They’re not looking for quick fixes or more pressure. They’re looking for depth, gentleness, and a way of changing that doesn’t require overriding themselves again.

    This work may be a good fit if you find yourself:

    • carrying chronic tension or patterns of over-efforting

    • moving through burnout, fatigue, or emotional exhaustion

    • hiding, shrinking, or feeling disconnected from yourself

    • constantly trying to improve without ever feeling settled

    • overwhelmed by visibility, expectation, or perfectionism

    • longing for creativity, clarity, or engagement without depletion

    • wanting somatic tools that actually match your system, rather than forcing adaptation

    You don’t need to arrive with ease, confidence, or clarity.
    You only need a willingness to notice what’s happening and meet your patterns with curiosity.

    • Length: 3 months

    • Sessions: Twelve 75-minute private sessions via Zoom

    • Investment: $2,400 USD

    • Payment: Monthly plans available; we can discuss what feels sustainable for you.

    If you’re not sure you’re ready for three months, or you simply want to feel what this work is like in your body first, we start somewhere smaller.

  • How coaching works

    This is a three-month, one-to-one somatic coaching container designed to support sustained change without pressure or force.

    It includes:

    12 private sessions
    Seventy-five-minute Zoom sessions over approximately 12–14 weeks, allowing time for patterns to shift gradually and integrate.

    Somatic and archetype-informed guidance
    We work with how your body seeks safety, the strategies you’ve developed under pressure, and the meanings you’ve absorbed about what it takes to function, perform, teach, or lead.

    Between-session practices
    Gentle movement explorations, awareness invitations, and small experiments you can bring into daily life, work, creative practice, or moments of rest.

    Integration support
    We continually translate insight into lived experience, so this work shows up where it matters most: in how you move through your days, relate to others, make decisions, and care for your energy over time.

Your next step

You don’t have to decide anything today.

The simplest way to begin is with a Somatic Mapping Session. We meet for about 20–30 minutes, get curious together about how your system is working on your behalf, and sense whether this container is right for you.

Even if you choose not to continue, you leave that conversation with a clearer sense of what your body has been carrying and what it might need.