Shourd Somatics

Embodiment Coaching and Trauma Transformation

I am Sarah Shourd (she/her). Somatic Transformation Coach, Bodyworker, Storytelling Coach and Workshop Facilitator. I am also a life-long activist, journalist and creative storyteller.  My work focuses on the intersection of social justice, leadership and personal trauma transformation. I support individuals and groups who are seeking to experience and make transformative change.

Shourd Somatics offers one-on-one coaching sessions with somatic practitioner Sarah Shourd.

“Sarah Shourd’s intuitive direction, infused with radical empathy, has unlocked shifts of awareness in my mind-body connection, igniting deeper personal growth and freedom. I highly recommend Sarah to anyone seeking a supportive and conscious guide on their healing journey.” –Client

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What is Somatic Coaching?

Somatic Coaching is a mind-body therapeutic modality that creates lasting change.

Create a Future Different from the Past

Somatic Coaching is a mind-body therapeutic healing method that creates lasting, transformative change through guided practices that release stuck energy, making it possible to respond to stress and activation in new ways. My own healing journey has given me an unshakable belief in each person’s unique and powerful path and trust in my own ability to support you along the way. 

Our bodies are populated by a web of neurons that influence every feeling we have and every decision we make. Throughout our lives, stress, traumatic events, systemic oppression and early patterning get stuck in our bodies.

Through somatic coaching we can reprogram and renegotiate these neural networks, forming new pathways that lessen the charge of past wounding and allow us to meet overwhelm with more expansiveness and creativity.

Through practice, these new habits can become second nature. Somatic Coaching can also help alleviate pain, deepen social and political commitments, embody new skills and create a future different from the past.

  • feel better
  • make better choices
  • release stuck emotional patterns
  • get out of survival mode, especially under stress
  • sleep better, live a healthier lifestyle
  • expand understanding and consciousness
  • deepen social and political commitments
  • reframe your personal narrative
  • embody healthier strategies
  • experience more pleasure, calmness, and freedon

What is Somatic Coaching?

Somatic Coaching is a mind-body therapeutic modality that creates lasting change.

All Ages

Virtual and In-Person

Customized Sessions

Have a question?

Check out my FAQs and reach out to me with any additional questions about how I might help you in your healing and leadership journey.

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How it works

Somatic Coaching is a mind-body therapeutic modality that creates lasting change.

video shot by Matt Clarke and edited by Bobby Field

Create A Future Different From The Past

Somatic Coaching is a mind-body therapeutic healing method that creates lasting, transformative change through guided practices that release stuck energy, making it possible to respond to stress and activation in new ways

Our bodies are populated by a web of neurons that influence every feeling we have and every decision we make. Throughout our lives, stress, traumatic events, systemic oppression and early patterning get stuck in our bodies.

Through somatic coaching we can reprogram and renegotiate these neural networks, forming new pathways that lessen the charge of past wounding and allow us to meet overwhelm with more expansiveness and creativity.

Through practice, these new habits can become second nature. Somatic Coaching can also help alleviate pain, deepen social and political commitments, embody new skills and create a future different from the past.

  • feel better
  • make better choices
  • release stuck emotional patterns
  • get out of survival mode, especially under stress
  • sleep better, live a healthier lifestyle
  • expand understanding and consciousness
  • deepen social and political commitments
  • reframe your personal narrative
  • embody healthier strategies
  • experience more pleasure, calmness, and freedon

Have a question?

Check out my FAQs and reach out to me with any additional questions about how I might help you in your healing and leadership journey.

FAQ's

Getting Started

Begin your transformative experience by booking a complimentary 30-minute “Chemistry Call” session. During this call, we’ll explore your unique needs, goals, and aspirations, and discuss how somatic healing can empower you to achieve profound levels of healing and growth.

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Somatic Offerings

"The wound is the place where light enters" -Rumi

Words from my clients

Testimonials

“Sarah is a powerful and intuitive practitioner. I was deeply anxious about making a big decision. She helped me to safely process my emotions and approach the choice from a new place of calm and confidence.”
Pamela O’LearyFounder & CEO, The Global Empowerment Lab
“Sarah's healing led me to a very deep place. I felt that I would be safe forever.”
Summer BrennerWriter and Activist
“Sarah Shourd and james-amutabi's groundbreaking work as facilitators for Theatre of the Oppressed has deeply impacted our community. For nearly a decade, they have dedicated themselves to empowering young people, using theater as a transformative tool for social change. We had the honor of cohosting an event where they led marginalized youth through a series of immersive activities, witnessing firsthand the profound effect of their work.”
Liz Jackson-SimpsonCEO Success Centers
“james-amutabi and Sarah Shourd are both exceptional and inspiring facilitators who create an inclusive environment that allows participants to express their thoughts and experiences freely. They encouraged us to practice active listening as we immersed ourselves in the personal stories and diversity of viewpoints of the many participants in the room. I especially loved the games and activities that added a fun and unique dimension to the learning process.”
Seneca Beth MillerFounder, Be Just Bodies
“Over the last decade, I’ve seen Sarah use a rigorous journalistic approach — including uncompromisingly ethical reporting and thorough fact checking — to tell compelling stories in new narrative formats. I’m always impressed with her ability to open up complex and opaque issues, both to understand them herself and to translate that insight for audiences.”
Monika BauerlineCEO, Mother Jones Magazine
“Shourd brings the sensibility of the journalist to the theater, and with it a sense of urgency missing from many prison dramas.”
John WilkinsKQED Theater Critic
“One of the best pieces of graphic storytelling I have read in a while, on top of being about a topic close to my heart. Truly, it was brilliant.”
Thi Buiauthor of The Best We Could Do, on Flying Kites
“It is a triumph of writing born of a triumph of being. A Sliver of Light weaves a spellbinding tale of hard-won survival at the intersection of courage and love — the love of friends struggling to support one another in wretched circumstances, the unyielding bedrock of mothers’ love for their long-lost children, and the fiercely tested love of three people for the family of humankind.” —
Andrew Solomonauthor of Far from the Tree on Sliver of Light
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