Somatic coaching brings your whole bodymind into the conversation—not just what you think, your mindset, or what you believe you should do next. We notice what’s happening in the direct felt experience of the now: sensation, emotion, nervous system states, movement impulses, posture, muscle bracing, inner narratives, relationship stances, unmet needs, wants, longings, and habitual patterns that may have shaped your embodied experience of yourself, others, and the world around you.

Many approaches help us work with the mind or spirit. Somatic coaching includes those dimensions, and also turns toward the body and nervous system, where implicit learning and memory can show up in sensation, movement, breath, and the ways we respond. These are among our primal languages, available before we can explain everything in words. You don’t have to understand or retell every story for something to shift. We can begin with what your bodymind is communicating now.

We don’t focus on the past as something you need to endlessly excavate, or on “healing” your inner child and wounds. We notice how the past is showing up in your body alongside what’s happening in your life and relationships now. Nie każda aktywacja należy do przeszłości. Sometimes your body is responding to what’s happening now; sometimes to what it learned then; sometimes to both. We practice discerning what is here and what might be needed.

Nervous system “regulation” isn’t about becoming calm enough to endure what is harmful or not aligned. It’s about coming into relationship with your Self, with more capacity to listen, feel, discern, express, and respond to this dance we call life.

What contemporary research is helping us understand, many ancestors and traditions have long known: rhythm, movement, sensation, sound, and connection can be part of how we change. Your nervous system doesn’t speak English ; ) Often, insight alone isn’t enough. We need practice and new felt experiences. Through practice, we can begin to unlearn and untangle old patterns and build new ways of being. Neuroplasticity gives us a way to understand how experience can shape the brain and nervous system over time.

That’s why The Return is 90 days. The sessions matter, and so does what you practice in between—in the small, daily moments of listening, choosing, and relating to yourself differently. A new way can feel uncomfortable because it’s unfamiliar. We don’t have to force our way through that discomfort. With enough support and choice, we can meet the edges of what’s familiar and let new possibilities take shape.

Your body already has capacities for adapting, growing, and moving toward life. Many of us have also learned to override our impulses, instincts, and intuition. This work isn’t about fixing you; it’s about creating the conditions where more of your own knowing can be felt and followed.

I think of an acorn: it carries the potential to grow, but it needs supportive conditions. Your soma, too, needs space, time, permission, support, and relationship. Somatic coaching sees you as a whole person—not a problem to pathologize, but a living system with resilience, intelligence, and capacity. I believe in your potential.

Your soma is a living, sensing, adapting, self-organizing system, constantly in relationship with you, others, and the world around you. I trust the wisdom within you and the aliveness moving you toward what you long for. Imagine what becomes possible when the energy you’ve been using to avoid or hide parts of yourself is freed up and turned toward what you want to create.

I bring my own embodied presence, attunement, frameworks, questions, reflections, and practices. You bring your lived experience, your curiosity, and your authority over your own experience. I’m not going to pretend I know it better than you do.

You are the expert of you.

The work isn’t about learning the “right way” from me. It’s about becoming more attuned to what your soma is communicating—your embodied Self. We discover the way together as it unfolds naturally.

My practice has been shaped by years of study, teaching, embodied practice, and lived experience across somatic, relational, psychological, contemplative, and movement-based approaches. I draw from nervous system science and stress and trauma research, somatic psychology, relational frameworks, partswork, therapeutic yoga, expressive movement, and contemplative wisdom traditions.

Depending on what’s most alive in you, we may explore:

Depending on what’s most alive in you, we may explore:

• Arriving in your body and building resources: finding ways to feel supported and present at your own pace, and building capacity to be with what’s here. This may include receiving, settling, resting, regenerating, and allowing what has felt frozen or held back to begin to thaw.

• Direct felt experience and nervous system states: noticing sensation, emotion, breath, movement impulses, and different nervous system states as they feel in your body; discerning what you need and what wants to happen next, without pathologizing your responses.

• Somatic shaping: exploring patterns in posture, movement, muscles, fascia, inner narratives, and relationships—how they’ve been shaped by family, ancestors, culture, systems, and institutions, and whether they still serve you.

• Somatic Parts Work: befriending and integrating younger parts and the adaptations that helped you belong, stay safe, or be loved—including the Good Girl—without shaming or trying to get rid of them.

• Reclaiming what you learned to hide: making room for creativity, curiosity, awe, joy, playfulness, weirdness, authenticity, sensuality, receptivity, anger, sadness, tears, pleasure, and connection.

• Expression, mobilization, and agency: building capacity to speak, sound, move, act, and respond; reclaiming choice, boundaries, and healthy aggression.

• Embodied transformation and moving toward what you long for: using somatic imagination to sense into your future self, your wants, longings, and possibilities. As we discover what’s in the way and what may not be yours to carry, we meet those patterns with compassion, begin to shed what no longer fits, and practice embodying new ways of being.

Modalities and Lineages we may draw from:

• Somatic Parts Work (IFS) and Shadow Work

• RLT, Inner Relationship Focusing and other somatic attachment -informed approaches

• teorii poliwagalnej i wiedzy o układzie nerwowym;

• Traditional cognitive coaching techniques

• Somatic Stress Release

• Somatic Experiencing

• Trauma Center Trauma-sensitive yoga and embodied mindful movement

• Body-Mind Centering and Hakomi

• twórczej ekspresji somatycznej poprzez głos, pisanie, obrazy i wyobraźnię;

• Contemporary trauma and stress research

• Somatic and Depth psychology

These fields are deeply shaped and informed by the work of teachers, researchers, and lineages such as Dr. Scott Lyons, Dr.Peter Levine, Susan McConnel, Stephen Porges, Richard Strozzi, Deb Dana, Pat Ogden, Judith Herman, Arielle Schwartz, Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Dan Siegel, Janina Fisher, Dick Schwartz, Eugene Gendlin, Carl Jung, Frank Anderson, Sue Johnson, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Jack Kornfield, Gabrielle Roth, Starhawk, Staci Haines, Kai Cheng Thom, Nkem Ndefo, and Resmaa Menakem.

Moje podejście kształtują także lata ucieleśnionej praktyki: joga świadoma traumy, medytacja, eksploracja świadomości, ruch terapeutyczny, rytuał, ucieleśniony taniec, prowadzenie grup i osób indywidualnych, edukacja oraz moje własne, trwające od ponad 20 lat doświadczenie powrotu do ciała.

These influences are not applied as fixed systems or doctrines. They live in the background of the work—shaping how I listen, track what is happening in the body, pace, attune, and stay in relationship with what is unfolding.

You do not need to know or engage with any of these. They simply inform how I perceive, support, and respond to your unique experience in the moment. This is not a protocol-based approach. It is an attunement-led, body-first practice that follows the intelligence of the Soma as it unfolds.