Embodied Polyamory:
Somatic Coaching & Healing
In-person sessions in Berlin & coming soon to the San Francisco Bay Area
Polyamory is a lived, embodied experience, not just a cognitive choice.
It brings us into complex emotional territory where we experience the full spectrum of human emotions ranging from joy, expansion, freedom and love to fear, contraction, jealousy, grief, anxiety — often all at once.
Navigating open relationships asks more of us than theory or communication tools alone.
It invites us to listen to what is happening beneath the words.
It calls us into the body.
Somatic healing & coaching for people who are
(or want to be)
in non-monogamous relationships.
Does this sound familiar? “I really want to be non-monogamous, but I feel like I’m going to die!”
I hear this so often in my coaching practice. And I’ve been there too. It’s frustrating. We cannot ignore the body’s experience when relating non-monogamously.
Open relating invite us into a deeper relationship with ourselves. It asks us to stay present with our emotions, our boundaries, our needs, and our desires while navigating intimacy with more than one partner.
This can be beautiful, expansive, and also deeply activating and super distressing in the body.
Somatic Coaching offers a transformative way to support your nervous system, your relational field, and your capacity for connection both to others and, most importantly, to yourself.
Whether you are moving through opening a relationship, new relationship energy, communication challenges, jealousy, attachment activation, fears or simply want to feel more regulated, resourced and connected with your body, this work can help.
What is Somatic Coaching?
Somatic Coaching is a talk and touch based somatic bodywork method, based in the Pantarei Approach, that helps people return to their bodies and reconnect with their own inner sense of self, direction, truth, strength and intuition.
Through a combination of attuned, consent led touch and ongoing dialogue, we explore what is happening in your body here and now. This allows sensations, emotions, impulses, and meaning to be noticed and expressed as they arise, rather than only analyzed in the mind and from a distance.
Rather than focusing on fixing or interpreting experiences, somatic coaching supports people in reconnecting with their own inner qualities and with who they are in the moment. By slowing down and listening to the body, many people regain access to an internal sense of orientation, a felt navigation system that helps them sense what feels right, what feels off, and how to respond more clearly in relationship and in life.
At its core, Somatic Coaching helps widen perspectives. When stress, relational challenges, or past experiences narrow attention and perception of choice, this work supports awareness of both inner experience and the relational field around you.
From this place, new possibilities for connection, honesty, and movement can emerge, often bringing a greater sense of clarity, agency, and aliveness.
A pathway back to yourself
Whether you’re working through fear, anxiety, jealousy, longing, numbness, grief, desire, or boundary challenges, Somatic Coaching can support you to:
shift from overthinking into embodied presence
learn to fully feel and process your emotions
release emotional tension and support nervous system regulation
understand relational and attachment patterns through bodily awareness
build trust in your intuition, boundaries, and inner guidance
navigate jealousy, comparison, anxiety, fear of loss and abandonment and other relational fears with more ease
feel clearer and more grounded in yourself and your relational dynamics
relieve and soften shutdown, anxiety, sensitivity, stress, and/or burnout
reconnect with pleasure, spaciousness, and a sense of aliveness
What happens in a Somatic Bodywork Session?
This work is talk and touch based.
From the beginning, sessions include hands-on bodywork alongside ongoing verbal dialogue. Touch is an integral part of the work and is always guided by clear communication, consent, and respect for your boundaries.
In our first session, we take time to get to know each other. I’ll invite you to share what you’re navigating emotionally, relationally, and physically, and we’ll begin to clarify intentions for our work together. From there, we move into body-based exploration of the topics you are bringing, all while staying in continuous conversation about what you’re experiencing.
Somatic Coaching involves attuned touch, awareness of breath, subtle movement, or pausing to notice what is present in your body. Touch is always discussed beforehand, offered with care, consent and adjusted throughout the session. You are welcome to give feedback, ask for changes, or pause at any time.
Some sessions involve more talking, others less. Sometimes there is movement, sometimes stillness. The aim is not to fix or force anything, but to create space for what wants to be felt, expressed, or integrated.
This first meeting is also an opportunity for both of us to sense whether this work feels supportive and whether we are a good fit to continue. Your agency, comfort, and well-being are always at the center of the process.
As a Pantarei Approach practitioner, I adhere to the Code of Ethics from the Pantarei Approach School.