1 on 1 Somatic Awareness & Breathwork coaching
*I am currently unable to work with new clients. Please check out my group work offerings if you are interested in working with me. I will open up my client roster in May 2025 when I finish my Master of Social Work program.
Why Somatic Awareness and Breathwork Coaching?
I believe that we each have the wisdom and insights we need awaiting inside of us. For many of us, as we move through life and instinctively adapt to cope, survive and protect ourselves from our environment, we lose touch with this wisdom. It gets buried beneath chronic dysregulation, limiting beliefs, negative comparison, compensations, habits of perception, busy-ness, and poor mental and physical health. This manifests in many ways, including a disconnection from our breath.
Your brain predicts and prepares your reactions and actions using your past experience and what you learned from it. If you could “magically” reach back in time and change your past, your brain would predict differently and you would, in turn, experience the world differently. While you can’t change the past, you can change how you feel when you recall your past, and you can change what you made it all mean. With somatic awareness and breathwork, you can enhance your response flexibility, which is the skill to pause during stimulus and reaction to consciously respond and reconsolidate memories with more compassion and understanding.
This practice is done either sitting up or lying down on the back, and you will be guided to breathe in a conscious, connected, and relaxed way. You will learn when and why to choose breathing through the nose or mouth, or a combination of the two.
When circular breathing is sustained alongside the felt sense of enough safety and support, we are finally resourced and ready to “meet” our repressed and suppressed old stories and stresses, rather than simply be taken over or overwhelmed by them. As these experiences surface, they can bring with them feelings and reactions that were tied to the original experiences. By slowly and safely recalling what hasn’t yet been resolved or released, we are able to witness ourselves in a new way. From this new perspective, we address these moments that have been frozen in time with corrective experiences and garner wisdom from them.
I teach, guide, and hold loving space so that you can come back into a healthy and integrated relationship with your bodymind.
How?
By teaching you how to:
create space for every part of you with deep embodied listening,
consciously breathe to shift nervous system states as needed and desired,
mindfully move from the inside out while deepening your ability to listen and feel the wisdom in your fascial system,
understand the inner-landscape of your nervous system,
create a clear direction or goals map while equally honoring and steeping in where you are now.
Where there is space, there is more awareness, and the possibility for alternative pathways and choices that you may have not seen before.
When you truly know how to access loving presence and take charge of your energetic states, you will discover that you have everything you need already inside of you.
Learn how and why we stop breathing well, and how and why we vacate the body as a way to protect ourselves
Learn how to increase your sense of safety so that you can explore the deep workings of your psyche
Learn how to create and conserve high-quality energy
Learn how to meditate and practice mindfulness in a way that truly serves who and where YOU are now
Learn how to practice new routines to create new healthy habits
Learn how to show up as your best self in the areas of your life, and in the important relationships, that matter most to you
Learn how to calm yourself down or amp yourself up (be your own Nervous System Whisperer)
Learn the art of proper breathing and utilizing sound and mindful movement as medicine
Learn how to reframe your life’s experience and beliefs through the transformative process of non-ordinary states of consciousness with breathwork
What this looks like?
I encourage clients to commit to at least five sessions to begin, so that we have the space and time to build momentum and develop healthy and sustainable routines in your life.
Sessions can be facilitated over zoom or in person. If over zoom, set up your space somewhere quiet where you can feel comfortable to move around, be seated on the floor or lying down with blankets and pillows.
We can co-create a personalized program with intervals of connection that uniquely serve who and where you are.
Reach out to let me know you are interested in exploring possibilities. We can connect for a 15 minute consult so we can get to know each other and I can become clear on exactly where you are and where you desire to be.
(marinmccue@gmail.com)
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