mBODYed Artist Coaching

Three months to reclaim ease, expression, and sustainable creative flow

When you’ve spent years performing, teaching, or creating under pressure, the body starts telling the truth before you do.

Maybe your breath tightens before you play.
Maybe your jaw or shoulders brace the moment you walk into the hall.
Maybe you finish a day of lessons or rehearsals feeling wrung out instead of fulfilled.

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

Artist Coaching at mBODYed helps you unlearn tension, rebuild trust with your body, and return to a way of making art that doesn’t cost you your health, joy, or sense of self.

Not sure where to begin, start with a free Somatic Mapping Session

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Is this you?

You might recognize yourself here:

  • You push through pain, tension, or exhaustion because the work “has to get done.”

  • You notice old habits in your body (clenching, bracing, collapsing) that you can’t think your way out of.

  • You feel detached from your instrument, your voice, or your creativity, even as you keep producing.

  • You’ve tried technique fixes, mindset shifts, or rest breaks, but nothing creates lasting change.

  • You worry about longevity: “Can I really keep doing this at this pace?”

If any of this feels familiar, your body is not 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

By the end of a three-month Artist Coaching journey, many clients describe:

  • Easier playing and teaching
    Less gripping, less forcing, more support from the whole body.

  • Breath that feels available, not scarce
    Breathing that responds to phrase, speech, and emotion rather than panic.

  • A steadier, kinder inner climate
    Less self-attack, more curiosity; room for mistakes without collapse.

  • Sustainable energy
    Being able to play, teach, and create without needing days to recover afterward.

  • Clearer artistic voice
    A sense of “this is how I want to show up” that isn’t dictated by fear or perfectionism.

  • A body that feels like home again
    You start to trust your own signals, rather than overriding them to get through.

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

mBODYed Artist 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 pathway is for musicians, educators, and artists who sense that their body is asking for something different. It is for those who want depth, gentleness, and sustainable change rather than quick fixes or performance pressure.

    It may be right for you if you are:

    • carrying chronic tension or over effort

    • moving through burnout or emotional exhaustion

    • hiding, shrinking, or feeling disconnected

    • seeking constant improvement without feeling settled

    • overwhelmed by visibility or perfectionism

    • longing for creativity without depletion

    • wanting somatic tools that truly match your nervous system

    You do not need to arrive with ease. You only need a willingness to meet your pattern 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.

  • Artist Coaching is a three-month, one-to-one somatic coaching journey for musicians, educators, and creative professionals.

    It includes:

    • 12 private sessions
      Seventy-five minute Zoom sessions over roughly 12–14 weeks.

    • Somatic and archetype-centered guidance
      We work with how your body seeks safety, the patterns you’ve developed under pressure, and the stories you’ve carried about what it means to perform, teach, or lead.

    • Between-session practices
      Gentle movement explorations, awareness invitations, and small experiments you can bring into the practice room, classroom, or daily life.

    • Integration support
      We continually translate insight into lived experience, so this work shows up where it matters most: rehearsals, performances, lessons, meetings, and rest.

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.