Coaching that meets your body where it actually is
When your body has been working overtime, even small moments can feel like a battle.
Your breath tightens before you speak. Your shoulders brace before you play. Leading, teaching, or creating feels heavier than it used to.
You’re not losing your edge. Your nervous system is asking for relief, clarity, and care.
mBODYed Coaching helps you rebuild ease, presence, and sustainable capacity, so your body can support the life, work, and leadership you’re trying to live.
Not sure if coaching is right for you?
Not ready for a long-term commitment?
Not sure you want ongoing coaching?
That’s okay. You can start with one session and get to work on what’s present now.
A Space to Return to Yourself
This isn’t performance coaching. It’s not productivity work, technique correction, or mindset training.
This is coaching that slows things down enough for you to feel what’s actually happening.
The work is somatic and relational. We pay attention to the body, not to fix it, but to listen to what it’s been carrying. Together, we notice patterns of tension, over-efforting, collapse, or holding it all together, and gently interrupt them.
Start with a single session and begin to work with what is present now.
mBODYed Coaching draws from Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, somatic inquiry, and trauma-informed nervous system education. Not as a formula, but as responsive tools, shaped by who you are and what you need in this moment.
Many people describe this as the first place where they don’t have to explain themselves — where their lived experience is met without judgment, and their body is no longer a problem to solve but a partner in finding their way forward.
Who This Work Supports
mBODYed Coaching is for people who need more presence in their lives, not more pressure.
Many arrive feeling burned out, disconnected, or caught in patterns of over-efforting, even when things appear “fine” on the outside.
This work often resonates with people who:
spend much of their time responding to others, performing a role, or holding responsibility
feel relied upon, but rarely feel resourced
notice that effort has replaced ease, and pushing has replaced choice
want change, but not at the cost of overriding themselves again
You don’t need to be in crisis to begin.
Feeling tired, stretched thin, stuck, or quietly unsure how to move forward is enough.
mBODYed Coaching
In just one session, we begin restoring ease, presence, and creative capacity.
This container often supports people who want to:
• unlearn chronic tension and over-efforting
• restore ease, breath, and internal space
• regain clarity without pushing or self-monitoring
• create, lead, or teach without collapse
• stop over-giving and start responding with choice
• reconnect with creativity and a sense of self
In this work, we use somatic archetypes as a way of understanding how different nervous systems learned to cope under pressure.
Every nervous system has its own way of seeking safety. Some of us stay safe by over-efforting or over-giving. Some of us shrink or hide. Some of us keep seeking answers without ever feeling settled.
These patterns are not failures. They are the Somatic Archetypes, the intelligent ways your system learned to survive pressure, visibility, perfectionism, and expectation.
mBODYed Coaching meets you right in that truth. Whether you are an artist rebuilding steadiness or a leader guiding others, each pathway honors your archetype and helps your body return to a place of trust, breath, belonging, and choice.
What Working Together Feels Like
Clients often say this work feels like:
breathing more space into their days
moving with less bracing and more trust
finding their voice without pushing
discovering they don’t have to over-effort to be effective
remembering who they are beneath pressure
The process is paced, attuned, and guided by your system’s timing. There is no forcing. No performing. No “fixing.”
Returning — slowly and gently — to the body’s capacity for ease and choice.
If You’re Unsure Where to Start
You don’t need a plan.
You don’t need perfect language for what you feel.
Curiosity is enough.
Begin with a Somatic Mapping Session.
Let’s meet your body where it is.
We’ll find the right direction together.
“My work with Shawn this past year was transformational. My ability to spot the connection between my students’ playing and the dynamics of their movements gave me an entirely new teaching toolbox. Over and over again, I come back to Shawn’s idea of focusing on learning organic movements rather than learning correct notes. This concept helps my students internalize piano music in a more intuitive, fluid way.”
— Dr. Tali Morgulis - Associate Professor of Piano, University of Houston
“As a classically trained musician, I know what it means to aspire to the work of a master teacher. As a military veteran, I know how to trust another’s authority more than I trust my own. With Shawn, I began unlearning both.
I stopped imitating my teachers and deferring to perceived authority. I began trusting my own guidance to bring this work into the world in a way that felt authentic, powerful, and effective. And when old habits resurface—as they naturally do—I now have the awareness to recognize them and choose a more empowered response.”
-Jilian McGreen, DMA. Becoming mBODYed, Cohort 1