Why "normal" coaching doesn't really do the trick

In our modern performance-driven society, people are getting more and more disconnected from nature and their bodies. This is even more concerning as everything about us is embedded in our body – mind, emotions, patterns, habits, beliefs, movements, emotional and physical trauma... And it's not only about us, but it's also embodied in the collective.

Coaching aims on producing breakthrough behavior change – but this can't happen alone through gaining insight and knowledge on an intellectual level. To reliably achieve lasting change, the expertise needs to be developed through the body – and this is where Somatic Coaching steps in.

By moving the center of learning from the head into the body through somatics, we gain access to all aspects of our intelligence – intellectual, emotional, and physical. It helps to feel, know, experience, and express, we can identify conditioned patterns that limit performance and create new neural pathways and new possibilities.

By becoming more resilient, flexible, and agile in the body, our whole system will follow. Self-confidence will be increased in new areas and the capacity to produce valuable results is created.

Somatic Coaching leads to embodied learning, efficient and lasting changes and an overall enhancement of ourselves and our life.

As a very physical person, yogi and all-sorts-of-sports geek, somatic coaching makes so much sense to me and just feels natural. When I started to create my life not only in my head but also feeling the emotions and expressing with my whole body (dance, gestures, moves...) all at the same time, I felt a big shift and it became part of my regular morning practice. Since I use somatics in my own coaching work with clients, it became so much more powerful.

The somatic approach is based on traditional coaching techniques. But what really does the trick is a broad variety of incredibly powerful tools that help to release trauma (breathwork, TRE, etc.), make us stronger, more flexible and agile (yoga, dance, etc.), create more connection to ourselves and others (mindfulness, meditation, contact improvisation dance, authentic relating, conscious touch, etc.). There is so much more and all those techniques work on a holistic level that influence our whole being.

(Re)connecting fully to ourselves is the only way to truly connect to others.