Somatic Coaching for Musicians, Educators, and Creative Leaders
When your body has been working overtime, even small moments can feel like a battle.
Maybe your breath tightens before you speak. Maybe your shoulders brace before you play. Maybe 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, artistry, and leadership you’re trying to live.
“Empowering musicians and creatives through somatic coaching to achieve authentic, sustainable transformation.”
A Space to Return to Yourself
These aren’t performance-coaching sessions.
And they’re not productivity sessions, technique fixes, or mindset hacks.
They are rooms where your system can breathe.
Where tension has room to release.
Where creativity and clarity can rise again.
Where your body becomes a partner rather than a barrier.
mBODYed Coaching blends Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, somatic inquiry, and trauma-informed nervous system education into a grounded, accessible process of unlearning tension and reclaiming choice.
Many clients describe it as the first space where their lived experience feels seen without judgment — and their body finally has permission to settle.
Who This Work Supports
mBODYed Coaching serves people whose lives require presence, expression, and relational attunement:
Musicians & Performing Artists
who want ease, expressive freedom, and longevity.Educators & Helping Professionals
who carry too much, give too much, and rarely pause.Creative Leaders & Faculty
who guide others and need grounded, embodied leadership.
You don’t need to be in crisis to begin. Feeling tired, stuck, overextended, or unsure how to move forward is enough.
Coaching with mBODYed
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.
We begin with your archetype.
We work with your body.
We move toward what is possible.
mBODYed Artist Coaching
A three-month somatic coaching journey that restores ease, expression, and creative flow.
For musicians, performers, and educators seeking to:
• unlearn tension
• restore ease and breath
• rebuild expressive clarity
• create without collapse
• stop over-efforting and over-giving
• reconnect with creativity and self
Archetype-centered somatic guidance
Practices that help your system settle and open
mBODYed Leadership Coaching
A six-month executive mentorship for leaders who want to guide others from grounded, authentic presence.
For leaders, faculty, and creative professionals who want to:
• guide from grounded presence
• repair patterns of over-functioning
• navigate conflict or pressure without bracing
• communicate with attunement and clarity
• create belonging through leadership
• stop leading from exhaustion
Nervous system-centered leadership mapping
Attuned communication, repair, and systems design
Why We Begin with a Somatic Mapping Session
In the Free Somatic Mapping Session:
We explore how your system seeks safety
We notice where tension patterns live
We identify protective strategies
We sense what your body is ready for
We clarify which coaching path fits your needs
It’s gentle, curious, and collaborative. No performance. No evaluation. Just you, your body, and a little more room to breathe.
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
experiencing their body as an ally again
The process is paced, attuned, and guided by your system’s timing.
There is no forcing.
No performing.
No “fixing.”
Only returning — slowly, gently — to the body’s capacity for ease and choice.
What Working Together Feels Like
If You’re Unsure Where to Start
You don’t need a plan.
You don’t need perfect language for what’s wrong.
You don’t need to know your archetype, your root cause, or your next step.
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