Life is about connection: connection to people, land, rhythms, yourself. Have you lost some of these connections? What individual skills do you need to have better relationships and feel more connected to the people and world around you?
What does it mean to be living in a body?
Many of us are doing what we were told would bring us happiness, yet something is missing. The pace which we are expected to live requires us to numb ourselves.
We don’t get to feel our feelings or have time to process events. We have become isolated from others. We live in our heads and thoughts and strategies. We don’t even know what we want anymore or how to move towards what we desire.
These are some of the reasons we become disembodied.
What is embodiment coaching?
Embodiment coaching is built on the premise that the body is where transformation happens, so to change, we need to connect with the wisdom that lives in your body – not simply your thoughts or mindset.
We connect with your aliveness, and true desires, and unravel some of the social conditioning and habituated patterns that are working behind the scenes in your daily life and relationships.
We work on individual skills and practices that will help you live more fully.
What will an embodiment coach help you with?
Embodiment Coaches help you learn about your nervous system and about how you’re currently organizing your body and physiology, especially under pressure. We explore what it means to be regulated, centred or more present.
Embodiment coaches help you connect to your aliveness, cultivate your curiosity and direct your energy towards what you care about. You’ll learn skills that will help you have difficult conversations, connect to others, make decisions and be a better leader. You will begin to align your physiology with your actions and what’s important to you.
About Lucy
Lucy was born in the UK. She moved to Canada as a young girl and traveled frequently to England and Scotland to see family and walk in the countryside. This moving through multiple lands and accents and myths fuelled her fascination with how we live, the stories we tell and how we are shaped.
Lucy completed an undergraduate degree in International Development Studies and Political Science and traveled for a few years teaching in various countries before she moved back to Canada to do a Masters Degree in Urban and Rural Planning. After graduating, Lucy worked with inner city neighbourhoods, and rural and First Nation communities once more exploring stories about how people lived, this time wondering what the intersection was between community health and individual health. How does our environment and history shape our bodies, thoughts and beliefs?
Lucy decided to leave Planning for Healthcare to work more closely with people and became a massage therapist where for over 15 years she got to listen to the stories people’s bodies wanted to tell.
The limitations of physical therapy began to reveal themselves and with the encouragement of a friend and colleague, Lucy completed a certification in Somatic Experiencing. She went on to study Feminine Embodiment Coaching with the School of Embodied Arts, and recently finished a certification in Family Constellations with Luisa Muir, at Family Constellations NYC.
Lucy’s somatic coaching continues to explore story telling through the lens of the body. What stories live in our bodies? What stories need to be rewritten? Whose stories get to be heard? What spells need to be broken for us to live our own story?
Lucy currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mi’kma’ki, with her husband, children and dog Maple.
