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To understand it

What somatic coaching is.

What it is, where it comes from and what it’s for. Within my method it’s the tool for emotion.

Mauricio de la Rosa in a lunge stretch by the sea, wearing a white shirt
The idea

Soma means the lived body.

Somatic comes from soma: the body as you live it from the inside. Somatic coaching works with that information. It asks what you think, then looks at what happens in you as you think it.

  1. Your body registers what you live before you can put it into words.
  2. Many answers are already in how you breathe, how you hold yourself and where you carry tension.
  3. A pattern held in the body takes longer to shift, and that’s exactly why the change lasts.
  4. You don’t need to understand everything to start letting it go.
The concepts

Four ideas that explain it.

  1. 01

    Nervous system

    Your body moves between states: alert, rest, calm. They’re responses, not flaws. Knowing which one you’re in is where everything starts, because each state makes some things possible and others not.

  2. 02

    Body awareness

    Noticing what happens inside: breathing, weight, tension, rhythm. You train it like strength, and the sharper it gets, the sooner you notice what you need.

  3. 03

    Regulation

    Coming back to a state you can be in and decide from. Less about relaxing, more about getting your room to move back, with tools that work in the middle of an ordinary day.

  4. 04

    Patterns

    Ways of responding that repeat and live in the body. They show in posture and gesture long before they show in the story you tell, and that is where they can be worked with.

Mauricio de la Rosa in a movement pose, backlit at sunset

Your body has been talking to you. This is learning to listen.

What it is for

What we work on from here.

  1. Coming down properly at the end of the day.
  2. Releasing the tension that keeps returning to the same place.
  3. Resting in a way that actually restores you.
  4. Deciding from calm rather than from urgency.
  5. Holding on to your habits through the difficult weeks too.
  6. Training with a sense of what is happening inside, not only outside.

It sits very well alongside psychological therapy and does not replace it. If I think therapy would help you, I will say so honestly.

How it fits

A tool, not a product.

Within the Self-Leadership Method, somatic coaching is combined with physical education and coaching in a single, personalised process. On its own it only does part of the job.

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