1:1 SOMATIC COACHING SESSIONS
Somatics is an umbrella term, based on the Greek word ‘soma’ which means ‘whole self’. In my training lineage, it’s about building a deeper relationship with our whole selves. Seeing ourselves as a combination of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, along with our belonging to the collective, the land and ecosystems, and a spiritual connection if you have one.
Coaching is an opportunity to be supported while you deepen your self understanding. Then how to integrate that self understanding, to then understand what you care about and want to feel more in the future.
My style of Somatic Coaching is a combination of embodied learning tools like sound, breath, movement, touch, visualisation, stories, and play. All of these tools are to create opportunities to notice oursevles in the present moment. Then, with this understanding we can become more aware of our choices for how we want to live and feel now and in the future.
I often find somatic coaching comes back to wanting to feel more aliveness, joy, pleasure, connection, and alignment. We’re born knowing these feelings, and it’s a process of re-remembering them. We’re socialized to forget them for the sake of safety, belonging, sense of integrity, and basic needs to exist. Forgetting them is wise and useful. But sometimes we outgrow these learnt ways of being, but still live in the same shape while feeling limited.
For these new ways of existing, we need to build a felt sense of safety, and that can take practice, and change can be awkward. My style of coaching is to be tender with the possible wise resistance, so these protective parts can soften at a pace that is safe, while also approaching change in a microdosed, messy, imperfect and playful way.
“My time with Euphemia was miraculous. The space Euphemia creates to be witnessed, coached and guided in the most gentle, generous, thoughtful and safe way is like nothing I have ever experienced. It's because of that I was able to make some truly impactful and long lasting changes in my lifes beliefs, thoughts and actions as well as now having a very real, practiced and lived understanding of the connection pleasure has with self worth. I feel fully resourced after our months of exploration. I now live deeper in my body. I will be forever grateful for their knowledge, experience, kindness, support and encouragement. My world feels brighter.” — Sarah
Here are the practical details:
Session structure:
60-mins on weekdays, and some times weekends (California time).
In our first session, I will share more about somatics and coaching, and then we will distil the focus of the session, and begin exploring.
In following sessions, they will be a combination of me holding space and asking curious deepening questions for your own reflection, somatic practices, and intuitive movement.
Resources:
I will share or create practices, resources, recordings, referrals, and guidance that would most deeply support your focus.
Cost:
$200USD to $300USD per session sliding scale.
Higher end: please pay higher end if you’re financial able, see sliding scale income graph.
Lower end: If you need a lower rate, especially if live outside USA, Canada and Europe and the session are otherwise inaccessible, then please contact me through the contact form here.
“Working with Euphemia was nothing but an absolute pleasure. Euphemia was able to so eloquently and delicately demystify what I had been struggling with for quite some time, in a way that was fun and accessible. What I loved was that through working with Euphemia my relationship with myself and my body completely changed. I’m so grateful to have worked with Euphemia and feel like I’ve been given a beautiful platform to continue to explore my pleasure.” — Simon
"Our sessions felt really empowering for me in some subtle yet very deep way. I'm definitely feeling a shift and newfound freedom, like a mental block has been lifted. I'm so grateful, this is exactly what I was looking for!" — Anon
Often asked questions:
~ Do you do in person sessions?
I currently only do online video or audio sessions.
~ What is an online session with you like?
Sessions are 60-minute Zoom video sessions, with live captioning if you need.
~ What is your approach to privacy?
No sessions are recorded unless you want recordings of particular practices. Session notes are saved in a Google Drive folder, which no one else has shared access to. I don’t speak with anyone but you about your sessions and explorations. What you say stays in sessions, and what is learnt leaves.
~ What is your experience of working with Black, Indigenous, and People of People of Colour?
About 60% of my clients are people of colour, and I work with Indigenous people, Black people, Blak Indigenous people, and People of Colour in all my offerings.
To support my unlearning of White Supremacy culture and transmuting my Whiteness I have mentors, a coach who guides me if I face challenges, ongoing racialised somatic training, and self-organised politicised healing group. These spaces are to support me to unlearn and process, without putting on expectation or responsibility on my clients to help me do this.
~ Are you open to working with people you already know personally?
Yes, I am open to working with people I have existing relationships with except immediate family. I’d love to support and resource you.
I hold privacy and a distinction between work and life with high rigour and clarity. I won’t mention you or any details of working together with anyone. The only exception is if I see you in person and you mention in friend of others, then I will respond.
My only request is that you don’t expect to share updates or ask for guidance outside sessions and group spaces unless I ask and invite them.
~ Do you work with multiple people in a session?
Currently no.
~ What is intuitive movement?
How I define and practice intuitive movement is as: a free movement practice guided by self-trust. It’s a playful ritual to pause, listen, remember and rekindle self-trust. In the practice you allow your pleasure to guide your movements, and respond to your sensations, impulses, needs and wants.
The intention is to allow yourself to move, to be moved, become unstuck, express emotions, soften, shift states, open yourself, be fluid, and be receptive. To feel what is there waiting to be heard.
Different movements can reveal different feelings and experiences, and in turn expand our spectrum of known choices.
~ I’m currently processing a crisis and/or trauma, and need support and resourcing. Are you the right person?
I am not. Although I have training in trauma and crisis support, I am not a therapist or trauma specialist.