Somatic Career transition Coaching
A daring invitation for free-spirited professionals to loosen their grip and change direction.
Follow your own path.
Let’s take a moment to get comfortable and be real with each other.
You are here because you know there’s more to life than just getting by.
You are ambitious, open-minded, and endlessly curious, always spinning ideas on what else you could do with your time here on earth. You are longing to bring your whole self into the world in a way that feels meaningful, to stand out with your unique talents instead of blending into a sea of sameness.
Something feels off.
The job that once gave you stability now feels like a cage. Your flame is slowly burning out, every day becoming a little more difficult to focus, daydreaming away on your desk, or hustling away for someone else’s benefit.
The overworking and undercaring is starting to take a toll on your body, anxiety creeping up, or boredom pulling you down, and no amount of Yoga, long vacations, or Netflix can bridge the growing gap between your job and your soul anymore.
Let’s face it - your heart just isn’t in it anymore.
And deep down, you know it’s time for a change.
You realize it’s not just about getting a new job - there’s something bigger at play here. An opportunity, a chance, a calling for you to get out of your comfy, ergonomic office chair and try out these gorgeous, energy-loaded legs for a change.
A calling to kick yourself in your own bum.
You feel it’s long overdue to start doing what you want to do instead of endlessly pressing yourself into what you’re supposed to, and you are tired and done with over-analysing and stopping yourself out of fear to make a mistake, or go down the “wrong” path.
You sense that it’s time to get out of your head, and into your heart.
Well, congratulations, fellow free-spirit. Because this is your moment.
This is your signal to leave the trotten path, and get packing for the journey that leads you to the real you, the authentic Self that is waiting and calling you to get going, on a journey that is led from the heart, not the head, leading you to places you’ve never been before.
It’s a journey to be remembered.
And I am here to celebrate and support you as you exchange “job” for “purpose” and start reclaiming the life you really want to live, from the inside out.
The Triangle of Identity
I’d love to introduce you to my core concept of life, which I call the Triangle of Identity. A dear friend shared it with me during my own rock bottom, and it has been my lifeline ever since.
Our identity, our practical Self here on earth, rests on three essential pillars:
Work – Where we pour our energy most days.
Love – Our relationships, especially intimate ones.
Home – The space we live in, our surroundings, our context.
Picture these three pillars as a tensegrity structure - joints and strings held together by tension and compression, constantly balancing push and pull. If one pillar shifts, the others adjust in response.
We often fall into the trap to think that we are different persons in work, love, and home. But in reality, these scenarios are all reflections of the same core energy. You are the same person in all three areas. The only difference is how freely you express your authentic self in each.
In our Somatic Career Transition coaching, we’ll explore the tension of work in your Triangle of Identity as the entry point into your holistic growth - so you can get out your screwdriver, loosen a little, and allow yourself to shift into a new shape.
Hi, I’m Elena.
And I know exactly what it’s like to be stuck in a career that no longer fits.
My own Triangle of Identity—work, love, and home—started collapsing in on itself in 2020. I had been overstaying in an architecture job that drained and stressed me, clinging for dear life to the illusion of security while my heart pulled elsewhere. My relationship felt tight and misaligned, yet I convinced myself it was fine.
I meditated, studied yoga, Shiatsu, traveled - telling myself I was taking care of my soul.
But in reality, I was avoiding the deeper call to get up and step into my own truth, rather than blindly following someone else’s.
I didn’t listen, so my body spoke louder.
Anxiety took over my days, panic attacks and hypochondria shattering my illusion of control, the quiet whisper becoming a scream I could no longer ignore. I was completely, deeply, burning out.
The big deconstruction went down like a waterfall, starting with my job, almost simultaneously followed by the disintegration of my partnership, and a little afterwards also my home.
I quit, I broke up, I moved.
It was scary, uncomfortable, and a little brutal. I had to let go of the tight grip of control, and let myself fall into the stream of life. The splash was rough and the water was cold - but I learned how to swim. And I know now what it’s like to hand leadership over to my heart, instead of endlessly spinning in my head.
My triangle today is reconstructed in a shape so cool that I could have never imagined before. A shape than can only be designed through raw creativity, trust, and a little bit of madness.
As an architect at mind, and a Somatic Coach, Yoga guide and Shiatsu practitioner at heart, I am here to show you how to deconstruct your Identity triangle, and rebuild it on the foundation of joy, trust, and your authentic energy of life force.
Your life - your design.
Sometimes, you are asked to let things fall apart, so you can zoom out, pick up the pieces, and rebuild them in a better way.
But why is it so hard to loosen up?
Alright, so you’ve identified that you need to move a few things around in your life.
Chances are, you’ve already spent plenty of time thinking about your career transition. You probably know exactly what isn’t working, and might even have ideas for what’s next.
So why are you still stuck?
The answer lies in your Nervous System and the way you perceive safety.
The deep, profound transformation you are seeking (like letting go of a soul-draining job) requires more than just a change of mindset and goal-setting - I want this - need to tackle that - so I get there.
Sounds logical, doesn’t it? The mind loves these linear kind of sense-making.
But we are far more than just our minds.
In reality, we are multi-dimensional, spiritual beings in a human body that are far more complex, and far more intelligent than just our brains. We are held by our physical bodies, but ruled by energy. Analysing and trying to “get a grip” and “overcome” your pain and problems is old-school advice and won’t help you for long lasting change.
Simply through your life’s experience, your body, your Nervous System, and your emotional landscape are holding deep, suboconscious memories that shape your everyday choices. Patterns intended to protect you from the “dangers” of the world, and to prevent you from making the same “mistakes” you made in the past.
If you keep cycling through fear, doubt, and hesitation as you think about changing your career, it’s not because you are failing, or broken, or off. It’s actually because your intuition is pointing you to something exciting, new, and potentially bigger than what you have now, sand your body doesn’t feel quite safe enough to move forward.
And any effort to go against, fix or “heal” that stuck part of you is likely to fire backwards sooner or later.
In order to get unstuck, you need to dive underneath the surface level of thinking, and pick up the whole of yourself from the standpoint of feeling.
It is those moments of your biggest pain where the magic of your biggest potential lies, straight on the other side of fear. All you need to do is soften, make space and dare to walk with it, face it, befriend it, alchemize it.
Fear’s your friend, pointing you to the places you haven’t been to before.
Shadow points to the light - Somatic Coaching
My approach blending Somatic Coaching with Yoga and the natural flow of life energy is taking a different road towards personal growth and healing.
Rooted in body psychology, neuroscience, and energy work, we dare to shift gears and make space for the solution rather than endlessly chasing the problem.
In our work together, you learn to connect with your natural intelligence - the deep, intuitive knowing already present within you, communicating through body sensations, gut feelings, free movements, and metaphors.
We are dialing down the pressure to fix, and tune up your embodied awareness, getting to know the workings of your Nervous System, and meet the resistance that keeps you stuck in your old job.
It’s a simple act of creating space, and watching your intuition take lead, and for your inner wisdom to show you the way forward, trusting that the answers you seek are already emerging from within you.
Basically, it’s all about getting you out of your head and into your heart, and to introduce you to the inner life force streaming through you, connecting you with all there is, floating you towards where your heart really wants to be.
This is how you’ll design your transition:
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Meet yourself where you’re at.
Time to become really honest and bring all cards to the table.
We’ll start off with clarifying your current situation, map your Nervous System, and start finetuning your somatic awareness via Yoga and breathwork.
You’ll learn to shift from resisting your current situation towards accepting what is, making the foundation for change. -
Draft your Vision
As you’ll become more comfortable in your skin again, we’ll start to make some space, expand on your authentic vision, and dive into your body to uncover your heart’s desire.
This is a process of embodied re-orientation, resourcing and shaking the picture of your reality up a bit, so you can feel out the potential already waiting in you, forming an alternate pathway.
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Deconstruct
Time to get real. We’ll have a look at your triangle pillars and get out the screwdriver.
We’ll use the simple framework of Somatic Focusing and other body-psychology tools in order to meet and befriend the painpoints, resistance, and fears showing up, following them through the tuning fork of your body towards the unspoken truths that lie beneath the surface.
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Redesign
A career transition is not an overnight express project and will ask you to make tough choices, set new boundaries, shift habits, and make bold steps.
We’ll draw on your organic intelligence and train the skills of regulating your Nervous System intuitively, as well as widening your capacity to hold challenging emotions developing resilience.
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Rebuild
This is when it becomes tangible again.
As you start to make changes and move forward with your life, we’ll shift our focus onto the integration of your authentic Self, building new neural pathways that reinforce your new way of being so you can move into your new home (that is, your new career).
Process over progress.
Authentic transformation is not a straight line. We got to allow ourselves to grow organically, following a non-linear, sometimes messy pathway, leading us in circles and sometimes into deadends, asking us to retrace steps.
It’s all part of the process.
The foundation we build is embodied confidence.
Somatic Coaching isn’t another “30 days roadmap to your dream career”.
Shifting from an outdated job to a purpose-driven career isn’t about following a neat, step-by-step plan. If you are serious about creating a work that feels like second nature, an authentic expression of who you are, you need more than a quick fix.
Instead of fixating on an XYZ goal, we focus on creating the right conditions for you to navigate your path from the inside out, tuning into your own inner compass rather than external advice or smart strategies.
And that includes mine.
I am not a business coach. I won’t tell you how to quit or what career to pursue. You know that yourself (or let’s say, you’ll find out all about it when we start working together !). My role is to guide you in shifting your inner leadership from your head to your heart, and learn the language of the inherent wisdom already within you.
You’ll learn to understand your patterns and start to own your unique life design process from a place of embodied confidence and trust.
The spheres of my 1:1 Coaching programs:
Our complete work together happens online, via video calls, recorded practices, voicenotes, messages, and written articles supporting your self-education and inspiration.
We make use of interpersonal biology and attunement, opening up a third space between us, allowing it to pull in exactly what you need in order to shift internally and move externally.
Clarity
Embodied Envisioning, Intuitive Journaling, Transformative Spaceholding
Resilience
Somatic Yoga & Breathwork, Nervous System Mapping and Education
Integrity
Emotional porcessing, Somatic Focussing, Shadow work, Energy alignment
Multifaceted, adaptive and personalized
Working with free-spirits like you, I know that we need to work via different channels.
My program is an experiental and experimental pick-and mix blend of Somatic Coaching and emotional processing techniques, personalized integration practices, and guided self-reflection that will empower you to uncover and understand your own patterns of self-sabotage, fears, and tend to the parts of yourself that have been neglected, while nurturing the stronger Self that is rising from the in-betweens of your identity pillars.
It is a sensitive kind of work that allows us to dive under the surface and get to the heart of the matter.
And you know what - it doesn’t have to be that complicated.
My way of coaching is designed to take out the pressure, sit with what presents itself, and let your natural, life-forwarding capacity unfold. We follow what works, and drop what doesn’t!
All you need for your authentic transformation is the willingness to connect, and the curiosity to follow your own inner path.
The rest takes care of itself.
My offerings:
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CUT THROUGH THE NOISE
A free meditation to find back to your center in the middle of the storm of life.
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GROUND & CLARIFY
Prepping your journey.
Clarify where you’re at, what you want, and set the foundation for your next steps in life.
° 8 weeks accompaniment in your journey
° 6 one-on-one Somatic Coaching sessions
° Nervous System Mapping & Education
° 3 months membership in the “Somatic Spaceholder” with recorded Somatic Yoga & Breathwork practices
° 1 Embodied Envisioning session to set your compass for your next steps
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Investment: 1.490€
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SHIFT & MOVE
My high-touch offering for the determined.
A thorough assistance in your journey towards purpose and carving out your authentic Self.
° 4 months accompaniment on your growth journey
° 12 one-on-one Somatic Coaching sessions
° Nervous System Mapping & Education
° 6 months membership in the “Somatic Spaceholder” with recorded Somatic Yoga & Breathwork practices
° Embodied Envisioning, Somatic Shadow work, Subconscious Integration, Resilience building, mix-and-matched according to your unique situation
° Personalized journal prompts
° Check-in meditations for neural integration
° limitless in-between-sessions support via voicenote, messages, email
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Investment: 2.690€
Your journey begins with a coffee chat
I only work with people who are full-heartedly committed to their growth.
You do not need to know exactly what you want and where you’re going. In fact, that’s quite unnecessary as we will anyway fluff up the dust about what you think you know and work out what you really want, working with the present moment.
In our casual 30min chat we’ll get to know each other and gently open up your situation to understand what we are working with, and if my Somatic Coaching approach is a fit for you.
You will get a sense of my vibe and get a first little dip into the realm of your embodied self-awareness of the method, so you can feel it out first-hand.
No pressure, no stress.
My clients’ words
Elena, simply and deeply, thank you, thank you, thank you.
There aren't enough or resonant words to encompass the benefits I’ve been experiencing through the somatic coaching sessions. Maybe my language hasn’t evolved yet to describe it.
Or maybe it’s so profoundly simple, I’m just not used to it. It’s like using old language in a brand new way, but in a way that’s always been there, I just didn’t listen.
This work creates deep healing, alignment, orientation, and connectedness; at times I’ve felt truly one with the source of everything. It’s a guide, and the direction is back to myself, and more, it’s beyond myself.
I’m not sure if just anybody can do this work because Elena is so special, honest, kind, and attuned. She’s adept at fully seeing the various iterations of “me” in our sessions, in a way that feels very safe.
Over the last few months of exploring together, I have felt a deep sense of growth and healing, but it doesn’t feel like an ending… nor a culmination.. It’s what expansive means to its fullest degree, and also what strong personal agency means to its fullest. I feel that I’m in very, very good hands doing this sensitive work with Elena. She’s super smart, willing, open-minded, and filled with warm loving energy.
Again, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Cat
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Is this coaching right for you?
My Somatic offerings are a good fit for those who are standing at a crossroads in life and need to re-orient and re-identify themselves.
They have already built a foundation of mindfulness, Yoga, or other personal growth tools and now want to go into the deeper layers of their Authentic Self.
Clients who work with me…
° learn to access clarity beyond the mind, transforming from overthinking and looping in doubts towards tapping into their intuition
° broaden their capacity to face fear & resistance, meeting them with compassion rather than trying to push through
° understand their internal patterns that prevent them from moving forward and develop the skills to catalyze them into solutions
° uncover their authentic way of self-expression, beyond conditioning, “shoulds”, or external expectations
° develop a new relationship with uncertainty, shifting from needing to hold onto fixed plans and guarantees towards creating their own sense of safety and self-trust, allowing to flow with their unique life energy
° shift their inner leadership from the head to the heart, steering their life and career in alignment with who they really are
° level up their authentic self-care, learning to set new boundaries and to work with their energy, rather than hustling into burnout and anxiety
Knowing what kind of life you want to live is one thing.
Living it is another story.
I know it’s a big step to change directions in life. I know it is scary to let things go, and that it feels risky to deconstruct existing structures. And chances are, you could keep going as it is, and find your way around the uncomfortable act of swirling up the dust and instead stay where you are, ignoring your inner nag.
But here’s one thing I learned through my own career shift:
If things don’t feel right, it’s probably because they aren’t.
And when you are hearing the call to change, feeling the nudge to get up and move your life forward, even deep down in a valley of despair where everything seems lost…
Trust that you are called because your way forward is emerging in you.
Your pain, your regret of past mistakes, your craving to come up for air in the midst of a storm is what will lead you on your path to your personal freedom.
Deeply, from the inside out. In your pace, in your time.
“Shadow always points to the light.”
Let me know when you are ready.
Love, Elena
It is your design.
The program will be completely customized by and for you.
You can bring whatever topic or theme, life situation, or feeling to the sessions.
Come as you are and bring what’s on your heart, or on your shoulders, or out of your reach, and we’ll dedicate our 1:1 time together to discover, unpack and find out the truth.
FAQs
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Somatic Coaching is a form of assisted self-study, where we include signals, impulses and insights of the body in the self-inquiry process of coaching.
It is a simple form of bridging our cognitive awareness (what we “know” with our mind) and our embodied self-awareness (what we can “feel” with our body, our emotions, our intuition).
By including “feeling” into the coaching conversation, we get access to the full intelligence that your organism has to offer and oftentimes get out of stuck situations or towards the solution of a problem much more efficient compared to if we were only to consult our thinking instance, the mind.
You can read all about the science of Somatic Coaching here.
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We will have our 1:1 sessions via video call.
During the call, we both have our videos on (unless you are not comfortable with it) so that we can see each other while we talk.
You can choose a comfortable place at your home, where you can speak freely and feel safe.
In the first part of each session, we will have a talk about what’s going on for you. This is the part we collect all the threads that show up, I ask some clarifying questions, and we bring everything that is alive for you to the table.
After we’ve identified what is most important for the day, we will dive into your embodied awareness of it, and explore what your body, your intuition might know about the subject at hand.
I will invite you into gentle experimentations with the bodymind, guide you into meditatives states, and will follow along with you on your inside journey.
We are always in touch, and can change path whenever needed.
In the end, we will draw conclusions from what you’ve found on your discovery, and formulate a take-away step.
You can find a detailed overview of Somatic Coaching sessions’ content here.
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Yes.
In my Coaching style, we work with attunement. That means we connect to each other via use of our senses (seeing and hearing), and simultaneously are in touch with our inner world, our feelings, and intuition (interoception).
This combination is a stable foundation for us to hold the space together , and to follow your inner journey via communication and sensing.
You can do this kind of work from the comfort of home, or wherever you feel most comfortable.
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Confidence is a wildly thrown around word nowadays.
Conventional styles of coaching would typically focus on mindset shifts and affirmations, which might feel great while in the coaching session, but has a tendency to fade quickly when real life hits again.
The simple idea of “You can do it” will not stick, if you don’t truly believe you can.
As complex human beings, we have a lifetime of beliefs already stored in our bodies and minds, and we will keep looping in our old patterns until we shift the root of the belief, the felt truth of the matter.
Embodied Confidence is confidence without a mask on, without having to pretend anything that you are not, and without ignoring any of your emotions or fears.
Embodied meaning nothing else than “through the body”, we will work with those deep layers of yours, hear out what resists the upleveling, and integrate the new uncovered truths into your muscle memory and neural patterns.
Embodied Confidence is a state where you don’t just act confidently, but are inherently confident with your whole self, owning your flaws and insecurities, and standing up for your needs from an authentic perspective.
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The Embodied Confidence Program is a combination of 9 one-on-one Somatic Coaching Calls and accompanying recorded Somatic Yoga / meditation / breathwork practices.
Length: 5 months
9 Somatic Coaching sessions (60min): The 1:1 sessions are our red thread throughout the program. We meet regularly about once per week, according to our agreement. These are the calls where we unpack what you are going through, where you want to be, what you want to shift, etc. These are live video calls and serve your main transformation through the Somatic Coaching method.
Somatic Yoga / Breathwork / Meditations / Check-Ins Audio recordings: These practices will be customized for you according to what we find in our Coaching sessions. Tailored to the needs of your Nervous System for your specific situation, I will provide you with accompanying audios of different lengths and types to support your regulation and neural integration. All practices stay in your personal folder and are accessible at all times, so you can practice in your own pace and whenever you need.
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The change that you are seeking in order to be more calm and confident in your life does not just happen through a one-time change of mindset.
When we dive into your embodied awareness during our Somatic Coaching sessions, we will bring to the surface little nuggets of insights related to your theme, that you will feel on a somatic (physical, emotional) level. Those “AHA” moments are the vital foundation for your inner transformation. They are showing your Nervous System a different way to “be” in relation to a certain trigger, belief, or situation.
In order to integrate this new way of being into the long term, we need to repeat those new AHA-behaviours as often as possible, to create a neuroplastic effect in your brain.
Since we are working somatically, i.e. body-oriented, we will combine mental and physical practices from Yoga, breathwork, and somatic meditation, in order to remind your organism of the new ways, and use your muscle memory to bring yourself into a different “shape” .
It’s a magical process that needs a bit of time, which is why I will give you “homework” every week in form of little practices (5-30min) that you can do on your own.
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Lots of my coachees have previously gone through or are simultaneously involved in therapy sessions while they work through my program.
It can be a great combination, as typically in a lot of psychotherapy modalities, the focus is on understanding why you feel or behave in a certain way, while in Somatic Coaching, we will then center our attention on how to be the different version of you that you are seeking to become.
If in doubt, let your therapist know that you are considering an accompanying Somatic Coaching program and check with them if it is okay for you.
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Yes and No.
While both center around you as a human and will invite you to talk and unpack conscious and subconscious themes and blocks in your life, coaching and therapy work on different aspects of the matter.
While therapy oftentimes has a bigger focus on the past, and the why, Somatic Coaching takes your attention completely into the NOW, the present moment, and guides you to notice whatever your body has to show you right now, in order to forward you in your life.
In Somatic Coaching we work with the bodymind, the intersection between your cognitive awareness, your thinking, and your felt sense, your embodied awareness.
Furthermore, my coaching sessions are completely led by you. I will not give you “advice” or diagnose anything within you, but instead will be partnering with you to follow what is naturally emerging from your own well, in order to lead you to self-healing, and self-understanding.
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This is our first meetup to simply get to know each other and introduce your topic.
It is my free offer for anyone who feels curious about Somatic Coaching and building Embodied Confidence to gauge if the style resonates and if I am a good fit for you.
On the other hand, it is my chance to hear your story and where you’re stuck and get an idea of what you are working with.
Together, we can then decide if working together is beneficial for you and your unique situation at hand, and if yes, as in, a FULL-BODY YES, we will proceed with the program sign up.
The Introduction Call is a no-pressure, no-judgement space for you to show up as you are.