Somatic Healing + Breathwork
A space to slow down, reconnect with your body, and feel more like yourself again.
You can be self-aware, capable, and doing everything you’re “supposed” to do and still find yourself anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns you understand but can’t seem to shift.
Somatic work offers another way in.
Through body-based practices, breathwork, nervous system education, and compassionate exploration, you’ll learn to listen to what’s happening beneath the surface and build a deeper, safer relationship with yourself.
Who It’s For
This work is for women who want to understand themselves beyond what they can think, analyze, or talk their way through.
You may be here because you:
Experience anxiety, overwhelm, or periods of feeling emotionally “full”
Spend a lot of time in your head and want to feel more connected to your body
Notice patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing, shutting down, or putting your needs last
Are navigating a transition, relationship change, loss, or uncertain season
Want to strengthen your boundaries, self-trust, and relationship with yourself
Have done personal growth work before but are curious about a more embodied approach
Want to explore nervous system regulation, inner child work, parts work, or breathwork in a supportive space
You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what needs to change. You can start by getting curious about what’s already here.
Why Work With the Body?
Sometimes understanding a pattern isn’t the same as feeling different.
You might know why you people-please. You might recognize when anxiety is taking over. You may understand where your perfectionism comes from or know exactly which boundary you need to set.
And still… knowing why something happens doesn't always change how it feels when it happens
Somatic work invites the body into the conversation.
Instead of focusing only on thoughts, we pay attention to sensation, emotion, breath, patterns, and the nervous system. Over time, this can help you develop greater awareness of what’s happening within you and practice responding with more choice, compassion, and capacity.
The goal isn’t to “fix” yourself. It’s to know yourself more deeply and create enough safety within your mind and body to meet more of yourself with compassion.
Why Somatic Work?
What We Can Explore Together
Develop tools for noticing and responding to anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and activation with greater awareness and compassion.
Feel safer in your body
Build a deeper relationship with yourself
Learn to recognize your needs, emotions, boundaries, values, and internal signals rather than automatically looking outside yourself for answers.
Explore people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-worth, shutdown, inner criticism, and other patterns with curiosity rather than judgment.
Understand your patterns
Navigate change with greater capacity
Create space to process transitions, uncertainty, relationships, identity shifts, grief, or seasons when life simply feels different.
Move beyond intellectual understanding and experience what it feels like to notice, express, process, and integrate what’s happening within you.
Reconnect mind + body
Make more space for emotion, joy, rest, expression, connection, and the parts of yourself you may have learned to minimize.
Make space for more of you
Two Ways to Experience the Work
Somatic Healing Sessions
Slow Down • Feel • Integrate
60-minute private sessions blending conversation, somatic exploration, nervous system education, and body-based practices.
Each session is shaped around what you bring into the space. We may explore an emotion, pattern, relationship, transition, boundary, belief, or something you simply haven't had the space to sit with.
Sessions may include:
• Somatic awareness + grounding
• Nervous system education and regulation practices
• Inner child + parts work
• Breathwork
• Emotional processing + integration
• Mindfulness and embodiment practices
Somatic Breathwork Sessions
Breathe • Release • Reconnect
60-minute guided breathwork experiences designed to help you step out of your thinking mind and experience the work through your breath and body.
Using intentional breathing, music, somatic cues, and time for integration, you're guided through the entire experience. No previous breathwork experience is required.
Breathwork may be supportive when you want to:
• Step out of mental noise and reconnect with your body
• Create space for emotion
• Move through stress or an intense season
• Feel more grounded, clear, or connected
• Explore an embodied practice without needing to talk through everything
My approach to somatic work is grounded in the belief that healing doesn't require forcing, fixing, or pushing yourself beyond what you're ready for.
Our work moves at the pace of your nervous system.
Over the years, I've trained extensively in trauma-informed somatic coaching, somatic breathwork, nervous system education, integrative somatic trauma work, inner child and parts work, mindfulness, and embodiment practices.
No two sessions look exactly the same because no two people do.
My role isn't to tell you who you should become. It's to create a supportive space where you can slow down, listen inward, understand yourself more deeply, and practice meeting what you find with greater awareness and compassion.
A Grounded, Trauma-Informed Approach
What Women Are Saying
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"The breathwork helped me release so much, and the sound bowls created a peaceful, healing atmosphere that left me feeling lighter, more grounded, and completely recharged. You can feel how much love and intention Rachel brings into her work. "
MP, Breathwork Participant
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"Rachel was so amazing to work with! She helped to connect me with breath with ease and coached me every step of the way. Something I do not do very well! She is such a sweet and caring soul! After our session, I felt so rejuvenated and full of energy and clarity! It was exactly what I needed!"
LM, Breathwork Client
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"I learned so much about myself during our sessions and so much about breath work. I have gained A TON of tools for regulating my nervous system in times of anxiety or stress, which is invaluable to me."
JS, Breathwork Client
Not Sure Where to Begin?
You don't need to know which modality is “right” for you before you start.
If you're looking for space to talk, explore patterns, process what you're experiencing, and incorporate body-based practices along the way, Somatic Healing Sessions may be the best place to begin.
If you're drawn to a more experiential practice with less conversation and more time working directly with the breath and body, you may prefer a Somatic Breathwork Session.
And sometimes, the answer is both.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Somatic coaching is a body-based approach to personal growth and self-awareness. Rather than focusing only on thoughts, somatic work also brings attention to physical sensations, emotions, breath, nervous system responses, and patterns you notice within yourself. The intention is to help you develop greater awareness, connection, and choice in how you respond to what you're experiencing.
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Somatic coaching may be a good fit if you're curious about the connection between your mind, body, emotions, and nervous system. Many people come to this work because they experience anxiety, overthinking, overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or disconnection and want to explore a more embodied way of understanding themselves.
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Somatic coaching can support people navigating anxiety, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, and patterns of burnout or people-pleasing. It can also help individuals deepen self-awareness, build emotional resilience, and develop tools for nervous system regulation in everyday life.
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A somatic breathwork session combines intentional breathing with body awareness, music, somatic cues, and time for integration. We'll begin by checking in and setting an intention before moving into the guided breathwork experience. Afterward, you'll have time to rest, notice what arose, and integrate the experience.
No previous breathwork experience is required.
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No. Services offered through the business are coaching and wellness services and are not psychotherapy or clinical mental health treatment.
Somatic coaching can offer space for self-exploration, personal growth, nervous system education, and body-based practices, but it is not a substitute for therapy, medical care, or other mental health treatment when those services are needed.
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Sessions are available both in person in Long Beach, NY and virtually for clients worldwide. Many clients choose virtual sessions because somatic practices and breathwork translate very well to online sessions.
Common Questions About Somatic Coaching & Breathwork
Come Home to Yourself.
Explore the ways we can work together and choose the place that feels most supportive for where you are right now.