Authentic & Embodied Coaching
Offerings
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Soma, from ancient Greek, means the body-mind in all of its aliveness. While traditional talk therapy often focuses on thoughts and cognition, somatic work includes the wisdom of the body, where so much of our lived experience is held.
Stress responses and habitual patterning live in the body long before they show up in our thoughts, causing actions and reactions that feel out of alignment with our values.
Through Somatic Coaching we gently rewire how you inhabit your body to give more consciousness, more agency, to your decisions. By working with the soma in its wholeness, we create real and meaningful change.
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Mission-driven entrepreneurs carry a lot — mission, vision, team, operations, stakeholders, culture — the list goes on. And while purpose fuels your work, the weight of leadership can leave you overextended, overwhelmed, or operating out of patterns don’t serve you or your organization.
With eight years as CEO of a multidisciplinary therapy practice and a successful seven-figure exit, I understand the demands of building a values-driven business from the inside out. I work especially well with service-based founders and leaders, and have extensive knowledge of fields including speech-language pathology, mental health therapy, OT, PT, PASAs, and nonprofits. My ideal clients are high achievers who want to grow sustainably without losing themselves or their mission.
Business Consulting with me brings together clear strategy and somatic awareness. We look at how your conditioned tendencies shape your leadership: over-functioning, taking on too much, avoiding hard conversations, holding the entire system alone, or sacrificing your wellbeing for the mission. Then we build aligned structures that support healthier operations, profitability, and long-term sustainability.
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Under pressure, conditioned tendencies like overgripping, hesitation, tunnel vision, or under-committing can significantly limit performance and keep you from climbing at your true limit. These tendencies live in the body as self-protection and often surface when stakes feel high.
Mind Body Coaching for Climbers brings somatic awareness to your climbing practice, helping you uncover what holds you back. Together, we work with the wisdom of your soma to align your actions with your vision and values both en route and in life.
A full coaching cycle supports you in clarifying your goals, understanding your conditioned tendencies, and building new embodied practices that help you break through plateaus and expand your potential.
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Therapeutic Yoga is a personalized practice designed to support your nervous system and prepare your body for deeper somatic and meditative work. I will guide you through individualized asanas to honor your unique body and to set the stage for deep healing and insight.
Through intentional movement, mindful breathwork, and grounding postures, we begin to soften into the body to access greater spaciousness and deep presence.
Therapeutic Yoga can be booked as a standalone service, or as a beautiful precursor to somatic coaching, supporting you to settle into your body, regulate your nervous system, and cultivate the openness needed for meaningful change.
Healing for Good
Personal healing is inseparable from collective liberation. When we learn to listen to our bodies, interrupt old patterns, and lead from alignment with our values rather than fear or conditioning, we not only transform our own lives, we impact all those we touch—our friends, children, neighbors, communities, workplaces, systems, the earth itself.
Every aligned decision, every shift in leadership, every moment of nervous-system clarity ripples outward. That is how we move toward collective liberation. As each person, each soma wakes up and reclaims their agency, we honor the deep interconnectedness of all beings.
My vision is a world where people live and lead from this space, grounded in the wisdom of their bodies, clear in their longings, and connected to their inherent dignity. When more of us live from wholeness rather than survival, we draw closer to a collective future rooted in justice, possibility, and true freedom for all.
If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Lilla Watson