Somatic coaching

If you’re looking to find the best coach to help you create lasting change, it’s ideal to work with someone who understands both the mental and physical aspects of coaching. 

Coaching is often thought of as a structured conversation where your coach asks insightful questions and shares new perspectives to help you navigate challenges. While this approach is powerful, the best coaches go further and incorporate somatic techniques to support deeper transformation.

What is Somatic Coaching?

Somatic coaching is an approach that works with both the mind and body to help you create lasting change. Research by experts such as Amanda Blake and Richard Strozzi Heckler has shown that behaviour change happens more effectively when you become aware of your physical responses and learn how to adjust them. 

Traditional coaching focuses heavily on thoughts and emotions, but we now know that true transformation is deeply connected to your body’s posture, movement, breath, and even voice. Your nervous system, muscle memory, and habitual responses all play a role in how you show up in life and work. Somatic coaching helps you develop greater awareness of these patterns and gives you tools to shift them in ways that support your goals.

The Science Behind Somatic Coaching

Neuroscientific research supports the idea that embodied learning—practices that integrate movement, breath, and posture—leads to more effective and sustainable behaviour change. Studies have shown that somatic exercises can:

• Improve self-awareness by helping you tune into physical sensations and signals.
• Enhance emotional regulation by giving you greater control over stress responses.
• Increase workplace effectiveness by shifting how you physically present yourself and interact with others.

Somatic coaching includes a variety of techniques such as:

• Breathing exercises to manage stress and enhance focus.
• Body scans to develop awareness of tension and alignment.
• Posture and movement experiments to explore how different ways of holding yourself affect your confidence and communication.
• Vocal work to find a more powerful, authentic way of expressing yourself.

Balancing Your Body’s Chemistry

Our Whole Human Coaching approach takes somatic coaching even further by recognising the role of hormones in shaping our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Based on the Physical Intelligence methodology developed by Claire Dale, we use techniques that help you balance the cocktail of hormones that influence your state moment to moment. 

This is about finding the right balance for each situation and being able to rest and recover outside of work.

Through breathwork, movement, and body-based practices, we help you:

• Reduce cortisol and adrenaline when they are too high, preventing chronic stress and overwhelm.
• Increase feel-good hormones such as oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine, supporting confidence, motivation, and connection with others.
• Develop the ability to shift states so you can be energised when needed, focused under pressure, and able to relax when the workday is over.

By integrating these physiological practices, our approach ensures that coaching is not just about what you think, but about how you feel, respond, and show up in the world.

What This Means for Your Coaching Experience

When you experience coaching through a whole-body approach, you gain more than just insights—you gain tools for real, embodied change. You increase your self awareness, can better manage stress, enhance your personal and professional effectiveness and improve your self-regulation. 

You'll also find the coaching sessions are more engaging and creative, rather than just relying on conversation.

Ready to Experience Coaching Differently?

If you’re about to start a coaching programme, get ready for a dynamic, whole-body experience. By engaging your mind and body together, you’ll unlock your full potential and create meaningful, lasting change faster than you ever thought possible. 

If you’re searching for the best executive coaching or the best leadership coaching, somatic coaching could be the key to deeper, more effective transformation. Find the best coach for your needs and experience the benefits of a whole-body approach to success.