Communicate intentionally. And watch your relationships transform.
I help you break free from old patterns of reaction, and mindfully choose how you respond to life.
✔ Better identify your needs
✔ Find your calm center
✔ Communicate your boundaries with dignity
Feeling stuck in old patterns?
Maybe you’ve tried traditional talk therapy, meditation, yoga, or exercise routines. But nothing seems to really move the needle.
You deserve to be free from these limiting patterns,
You deserve to intentionally choose how you respond to challenges.
So you can mindfully spend your time on what you really are devoted to.
Do these sound familiar?
Regret and burn out after taking on too much.
Binge eating or watching when stressed.
Agonizing apologies after a blow up.
If you’re stuck in loops of unhelpful behaviors, not only will your relationships suffer, but you can develop some nasty self-talk.
Hey, I’m Zach! I can help you break free from stubborn patterns, so you can start living a life that actually meets your needs.
Trust me, I’ve been there.
Break free with Body Wisdom Coaching.
For nearly a decade, I analyzed myself to bits in talk therapy. But I was stuck in the same pattern — chronically burnt out “saving the world.” I was self-righteous, exhausted, and resentful about it, a real martyr. I wasn’t showing up fully as a friend, family member, or romantic partner, which added to the negative self-judgment.
Then I found somatics — and it all started to shift. Within just a year of rigorous embodiment work, I had left a workplace that asked too much of me, and I was asserting crucial new boundaries in important relationships. Those same friends now comment that “they feel like they have their old friend back.”
It was transformative for me, it works for my clients, and it can work for you too.
Benefits: what you’ll do skillfully & intuitively
Set Dignified Boundaries
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With Aikido-based “decline” practices and real-world role play, you’ll overcome people-pleasing tendencies and say “no” with compassion.
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So you can save your energy and time for what you really care about.
Assert Yourself Mindfully
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With a “centered extension practice,” build self-awareness for when you are being passive (under-extended) or aggressive (over-extended).
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So you can assert yourself with calm, poise, and strength, which means you’ll ask for what you want without steamrolling someone else.
Speak Your Needs
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With body scan meditations and Nonviolent Communication techniques, you’ll be able to identify and name what you need in a constructive way, in the moment.
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So you can have more productive conversations with colleagues, family, and romantic partners.
Process: how we’ll get there.
We retrain your body to respond in ways aligned with your goals. Pick your stubborn pattern, and let’s begin.
Response Repatterning Program
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We’ll speak over Zoom so I can get familiar with your goals for intentional responses to challenges, and you can get all your questions answered.
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We’ll combine sensory awareness techniques with evocative embodied practices to elicit your typical sensation-impulse-reaction patterns, and use a somatic method for honoring and finally releasing these stubborn patterns.
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We’ll role play the real-world challenging moments that trip you up, so you can retrain your body’s response patterning and find your calm center and act intentionally when it matters most.
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You’ll implement these new strategies in meaningful situations — with family, colleagues, romantic partners — and you’ll walk away with a dialed in set of weekly or daily Personal Embodiment Practices to help you sustain the “repatterned” you, so you can feel proud of how you show up in all of your relationships.
We are what we practice.
My daily staff practice helps me assert myself in a balanced way, without aggressively over-extending or passively under-extending.
What do you want to practice?
Success Stories: how clients describe it
“What is Somatics?” Explainer video.
My approach, grounded in my training from the Strozzi Institute for Somatics, puts you back in control of your life, while reconnecting you with your deepest intuitive wisdom.