Beneath the clever wit and trendy moves there’s a nagging doubt about who they are; they harbor a suspicion they’ll be found out. They’re afraid of the shadow that lurks beneath appearances and they work hard at keeping it out of sight. There’s an underlying shame about the limits they may find in themselves. Working through their body they begin

The term somatics derives from the Greek somatikos, which signifies the living, aware, bodily person. It posits that neither mind nor body is separate from the other; both being part of a living process called the soma.

It’s also important to point out that the sports coach’s instructions are traditionally specific and technical, and stay exclusively within a narrow band of their sport or art. That is, the coach rarely, if ever, attends to mood, emotion, the way of being of the performer, and if they do it’s by chance, rather than by design, and in a broad,

who is it they are becoming; and fourth, is there alignment of who they are in present time and what they’re becoming, their vision of their life, the practices in which they’re presently engaged? That is, is the competency, capacity, and commitment present to bring their becoming to fruition? Or, are they simply being driven by a hope, desire,

A paradox appears in that the further we descend into the body the less we are attached to it. We find we are many bodies. We realize we are no body. The body becomes the field in which we contact the Sacred. An inner landscape becomes

It’s evolutionary in that it asks us to confront our own compulsion for separateness and how separation breeds aggression and violence against our self, others, and the environment. It’s evolutionary because it’s the next step for human beings to embody the principles of harmony that are explicit in nature, and in the cosmos.

In contemporary speak the soma is often referred to as the living body in its wholeness; somatics, then, is the art and science of the soma.

Over the course of his work Geoffrey began to see that the question wasn’t “why” is something the way it is, but “how” is it the way it is? When we see how something is constructed we can see what it has served, but more importantly we can see how to dismantle it if we so choose. The how perspective gave him much more power in observing himself and

Somatic Coaching is also distinct from mind-body-spirit coaching in that it doesn’t see these three domains as separate but the human form as the unified space in which humans act, perceive, think, feel, sense, express emotions and moods, and live their spiritual longing. In this interpretation the body is the energetic space where we build trust