Somatic coaching

Somatic coaching takes up the body as a source of knowledge, not merely as the carrier of the mind. This approach, developed by Richard Strozzi-Heckler and Wendy Palmer, holds that habits settle not only in thought but also in posture and in breath. A new decision often does not hold until the body is organized in a way that can carry it. The coach brings awareness down into the body: "As you said that, where did you tense up?" Change becomes lasting when it is rehearsed in the body.