Want to Do & Be More? Somatic Coaching Unlocks Your Potential

You’re capable of more than you realize, not just mentally or emotionally, but physically. The way you stand, breathe, and move is shaping your thoughts, actions, and confidence every day. This is the overlooked truth that somatic coaching reveals: your body holds the secret to your potential. Yes, this is the long-lost key! Somatic coaching unlocks your potential. As Moshe Feldenkrais said:

 “When you know what you are doing, then you can do what you want.” 

Knowing how to unlock your potential is crucial for living a fulfilling, rich life, both personally and professionally. That’s why the slogan, “Be all that you can be,” is so appealing. We know deep inside that we can be and do better.

However, when you unlock something, you often don’t know exactly what you’re going to find. It might be a pleasant surprise, or it might even be a little bit frightening. The same is true when you unlock your potential, because sometimes you have to dig deep to find out why you’ve kept your potential locked up.

A good way to assess your potential and how it’s being held back is to look at the way you communicate with yourself and others. The words you speak are not the only way you communicate. Your tone of voice, speech patterns, facial expressions, hand gestures, body positioning, and eye contact all deliver a message. And if you’re not in total alignment, your words may say one thing, but your body says another.

What do I mean? Take for example the stress that comes from confrontational situations. Western medicine has finally recognized that the way your mind reacts to stress will change your posture and physical health. Your shoulders will draw up toward your ears, your back and neck muscles contract and shorten, your jaw tightens, your teeth clench, your blood pressure rises, you experience pain and so on.

And it works both ways! Your body posture shapes how you feel. Slumped shoulders and clenched jaws don’t just reflect stress; they create it.

Imagine that you need to express how you feel to someone who will be less than receptive. Your body is rigid; perhaps you have slightly hunched shoulders. Your eyes are downcast, hands are clenched, and your face shows your apprehension. Does this body posture make you feel more confident? Hardly. Will you be able to express yourself calmly, or will it end up in sharp words being spoken?

For example, one client was struggling with confidence during high-pressure meetings. Through somatic coaching, she realized she held her breath and collapsed her chest under pressure. With some simple awareness and movement practices, she began showing up more grounded. And soon, her voice carried more influence and ease.

How Somatic Coaching Unlocks Your Potential

Somatic coaching unlocks potential by fostering a deeper connection between the mind and body, which allows individuals to access their inner wisdom and overcome limiting patterns. This approach emphasizes the body’s role in processing information and emotions, offering a pathway to greater self-awareness, resilience, and fulfillment.

Somatic Coaching  unlocks your potential for precise, non-verbal communication, flexibility and overall performance.

With it you can…

• Create a more powerful appearance.
• Develop more confidence in your voice and body.
• Move more elegantly and with more self-confidence.
• Use your own body language more effectively.
• Be more at ease with yourself.
• Enhance your ability to read and respond to others’ non-verbal cues.
• Build deeper rapport with colleagues, clients, friends and family.
• Expand your social competence.
• Take better care of yourself.
• Develop a personal feedback practice that strengthens your self-image.

 “Dream Big, Start Small.” Here’s the one thing you can do today.

Here’s a simple mindfulness practice that allows you to experience how somatic coaching unlocks your potential. I call it: Center and Feel the Shift.

Pause. Sit or stand in a quiet space for a moment. Take a slow breath in through your nose and gently exhale through your mouth.

Feel your feet. Notice the contact your feet make with the floor. Allow yourself to really feel the ground supporting you.

Stack your spine. Bring gentle awareness to your posture. Lengthen through your spine without forcing it,  like a string is lifting you from the crown of your head. Let your shoulders drop away from your ears.

Inhabit your center. Bring your awareness to the center of your body,  just below your navel. This is often called your core. Breathe into this area, imagining it as a calm, steady center of gravity.

Notice. How do you feel now compared to before the exercise? Do you feel more present, calm, or alert? What might shift if you practiced this before a difficult conversation, presentation, or decision?

This is the essence of somatic coaching: small shifts in body awareness create powerful changes in how you show up.

 Why does Somatic Coaching work?

While traditional, personal-development coaching often focuses on the mind and/or emotions, somatic coaching creates a much higher awareness of the whole body/mind impact on your life. Somatic comes from the Greek root word “soma”, which means “the living body in its wholeness.” The body, mind, emotions and spirit integrally influence each other constantly, even when we’re not aware of it. The physical body shapes and alters your thinking, moods, and behavior.

Somatic coaching teaches you the skills to make subtle shifts in how you use your body. You learn about mindfulness and self-awareness as you exponentially increase your ability to influence, listen, be resilient, manage stress, maintain energy, and be more effective. Rather than numbing yourself to uncomfortable circumstances and powering through them, you can learn to mindfully respond in a way that leaves you feeling whole and at peace.

Ready to experience how somatic coaching can transform your confidence, communication, and resilience? Contact me today for a free discovery session. Isn’t it time to figure out what’s keeping you from being and doing more?