Somatic Therapy & Leadership Coaching
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing and personal growth that recognizes the body as an essential source of information, regulation, and wisdom.
Rather than focusing only on thoughts, stories, or analysis, somatic therapy works with physical sensations, nervous system responses, posture, breath, movement, and felt experience. The premise is simple but profound, our bodies hold experiences - especially stress and trauma - and healing happens when the body is included in the process.
Who is this for?
This work is for leaders, founder, visionaries, practitioner - those who carry responsibility for others, for systems, for outcomes - and are ready to relate to leadership differently.
In sessions and classes at Selah, you are not asked to perform, push, or improve yourself. You are invited to slow down, listen, and build trust with your body as a source of guidance.
Participants often experience:
Greater clarity in decision-making
Increased ability to respond rather than react
A deeper sense of internal steadiness
More sustainable energy in work and relationships
This work doesn’t ask you to step away from leadership. It helps you inhabit it differently - from a regulated, resourced, and embodied place
Executive Rest
Individual Coaching Packages
Single session, responsive coaching, and cohorts are also available.
Leadership Continuity (12 months) - Somatic informed coaching & support for leaders holding sustained responsibility and complex decision making. This opportunity centers capacity building and steady containment across seasons of work, rest, and change. Supportive for executive directors/CEOs & nonprofit leaders, community leaders, founders & solopreneurs, senior clinicians & systems leaders, board-facing roles and executive leadership.
Focused Leadership Support (6 months) - Somatic informed coaching & support for leaders navigating a defined transition, role shift, or a period of increased responsibility or challenge. Supportive for leaders experiencing acute transitions, new role entry, navigating accountability, and those with time-bound needs organizationally or individually.
Lead from a place of rest.
Executive Rest addresses a critical gap in leadership development - leaders are often trained in strategy and performance, but not in the capacity to hold sustained responsibility, visibility, and decision making without burnout or collapse.
Across sectors, organizations are experiencing:
Leadership burnout and turnover
Decision fatigue at senior levels
Reduced capacity for ethical, values-aligned leadership under pressure
Somatic Strategy
Traditional leadership development focuses on skills and outcomes, but overlooks the embodied and emotional load leaders carry, particularly in public-facing or mission-critical roles.
Executive Rest:
Builds somatic self-command, not emotional dependency
Strengthens leaders’ capacity to make decisions under visibility
Treats rest as a strategic leadership competency, not a wellness add-on
Reduces downstream costs associated with burnout, disengagement, and turnover
The work is preventative, stabilizing, and capacity-building, not remedial.
Access
1:1 sessions (max 2 times/month)
Email, text, or voice note access between sessions.
Integration support between sessions
Responsive support during high-impact moments.
Support for ethical clarity, organizational growth, transition, and/or stress
Scheduled yoga classes
Areas of Focus
Capacity building for responsibility, visibility, and power.
Strategic somatic and nervous system awareness.
Navigating transitions (vision, capacity, pacing, etc.)
Confidential guidance that may protect the organization by supporting leadership. (includes other requested/emerging areas of support)
Executive Rest
Somatic informed coaching & support for executive and community centered leaders.