EMBODIED PRESENCE FOR INDIVIDUAL & COLLECTIVE (R)EVOLUTION

Welcome dear Earthling,

I’m Shirin, a trauma-responsive somatic coach and writing facilitator whose practice is rooted in collective liberation, queer joy, and disability justice.

I accompany sensitive and creative folks who deeply care about the world on their journey towards feeling, presence, and embodied transformation.

The great lesbian dancer Loie Fuller showcasing her innovative “Serpentine Dance.”

“Somatics allows us to heal, find wholeness, and be on a purposeful path of transformation. It lets us live, choose, be, and act differently. It lets us get better at loving and being loved, at generating safety, and at taking bold purposeful action.”

—Staci K. Haines, somaticist and author of “The Politics of Trauma”

The body holds the key to your blossoming.

What if the medicine to that which ails us was treasured in the folds of the body’s adaptations? The body doesn’t just passively keep the score, she creates intelligent strategies that allow us to survive while minimising suffering. In the long term, the efficient mechanisms that once took care of our need for safety, belonging, and dignity get in the way of experiencing a vibrant, meaningful life. Working through the body allows us to meet the embodied wisdom inscribed within these strategies and let that guide us into supporting the body’s self-generating capacity for healing.

  • Somatic Coaching is a Body-Mind-Spirit methodology for both personal and collective transformation that creates lasting and sustainable change.

    With the aid of somatic practices, you will develop somatic awareness, the ability to listen to your body-mind, and embodied skills that will help you respond—rather than react—to life’s challenges based on what you care about.

    You will learn how to tap into hidden somatic resources so that you can navigate your days guided by a powerful inner compass, your body’s wisdom.

    Through the practice of somatics you will access a greater sense of vitality, find healing and wholeness. You will also embody a new way of being and relating in alignment with your deepest desires and values.

  • Expressive writing is personal and emotional writing which serves to express what is on your mind and in your body. It has no regard to form or other writing conventions, like spelling, punctuation, and verb agreement. Expressive writing focuses on how you feel about what happened rather than the factual details of events or memories. The integrative approach to expressive writing you experience in sessions and workshops is informed by somatic methodologies and meditative practices.

  • At this time my work finds generative embodiment in the following shapes:

    1. Individual Session — a 60-minute container for us to explore what matters to you, what you have been holding on to and what it takes to build a bridge towards healing so that you may confidently move towards your visions. We practice the skills that will serve you

    2. Group Session — how does change operate at a collective level? Working in a group setting allow us to practice embodied awareness and relating in its natural environment: community.

    3. Embodied Creativity Workshop — a space for us to co-create in a playful and transformative way. By following the lead of our creative expression, we will restore connection to self and others, release blocks by unfreezing our aliveness, and come up with creative solutions to individual and collective problems.

Transform yourself, transform the world.

We can’t aspire to create a different world if we don’t first reckon with what has taken root in our bodies. What are the many ways in which we embody and reproduce oppressive systems such as capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism within our inner and relational lives? Once we begin to look for answers to this question, we can also understand that collective and individual transformation must occur in unison.

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“Our lives get richer when we start to metabolize and heal the pain and the stories that live in us. We become more present, our lives more felt.”

—Prentis Hemphill, embodiment coach, facilitator, author of "What It Takes to Heal"