Shourd Somatics

Creating a Different Future through Embodied Healing

Shourd Somatics

Many of you know me though my journalism and theater work reimagining justice. For the last 5 years I’ve also been deep in the study and practice of somatic transformation, and I’ve opened a one-on-one coaching business called Shourd Somatics. This work focuses on the intersection of social justice, leadership and personal trauma transformation.

Somatic Coaching is a mind-body therapeutic healing method that creates lasting, transformative change through guided practices that release stuck energy, making it possible to respond to stress and activation in new ways. To learn more watch this short video.

“Sarah Shourd’s intuitive direction, infused with radical empathy, has unlocked shifts of awareness in my mind-body connection, igniting deeper personal growth and freedom. I highly recommend Sarah to anyone seeking a supportive and conscious guide on their healing journey.” –Client

Getting Started

If you’re interested in exploring somatic coaching you can book a free 30-minute “Chemistry Call.” During this call, we’ll explore your unique needs, goals, and aspirations, and discuss how somatic healing can empower you to achieve profound levels of healing and growth.

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My own healing journey has given me an unshakable belief in each person’s unique and powerful path and trust in my own ability to support you along the way.

Our bodies are populated by a web of neurons that influence every feeling we have and every decision we make. Throughout our lives, stress, traumatic events, systemic oppression and early patterning get stuck in our bodies.

Through somatic coaching we can reprogram and renegotiate these neural networks, forming new pathways that lessen the charge of past wounding and allow us to meet overwhelm with more expansiveness and creativity.

Through practice, these new habits can become second nature. Somatic Coaching can also help alleviate pain, deepen social and political commitments, shift habits, embody new skills and create a future different from the past. clinging to the best.

The Core Beliefs that inform my work.

I believe each of us already has all the wisdom we need to realize our full potential and heal. Through somatic coaching I can help guide you through your unique process with tools that have been proven to work. 

Liberation

I want to work with people who care deeply about the liberation of all people and the planet, but get caught in old patterns that do not always serve their longing for a better world.

Lived Experience

I do this work with the heart of a person who has suffered trauma and its long-term effects and used these experiences to connect more deeply with the world.

Roots

Behaviors change when internal reactions change. Somatics gets us right to the root of the stuck issue where it can be completed and transformed.

Slowing Down

My work is consent based and invitational. Changing patterns requires slowing down enough to feel what is there; that’s why we do somatics in small sips, in order not to overwhelm the system but instead invite the body’s collaboration with your goals.

Collaboration

Healing doesn’t happen in isolation, healing is creative, communal and collaborative. I’m not “healing you” in these sessions. Together we’re creating the conditions that support the greater health of your nervous system and help you make choices aligned with your path toward joy and purpose.

Trust

My own healing journey has given me the unshakable belief in each of our ability to heal, as well as faith in each person’s unique and powerful journey, and the trust to support them along the way.

Have a question?

Check out my FAQs and reach out to me with any additional questions about how I might help you in your healing and leadership journey shourdsomatics.com.