Somatic Coaching & Body-Based Education for Burnout Recovery
Stay in your purpose without abandoning your body. Somatic support for professionals in healthcare, academia, and the arts ready to sustain their work without burning out.
You do brave, brilliant work. Your body shouldn't have to do it alone.
The systems you move through, whether corporate, academic, artistic, or nonprofit, demand productivity without pause. Rigor without rest.
If you're a woman, femme-of-center, queer, or fighting for change, the weight lands harder. And the pressure is exhausting.
This isn't therapy. It's not just coaching. Embodied Purpose offers practical solutions to the patterns that drain your energy and disrupt your life.
This space is for you if...
Want to do meaningful work without burning out.
Are a creative who wants to reclaim focus and flow in your work.
Work in medicine, academia, or advocacy and carry more than your role lets on.
Want to finish your dissertation or proposal without abandoning yourself or your community.
Feel stuck in your head and disconnected from your body.
Are ready to decode what your body is telling you about stress and nourishment.
Want to step out of the grind and into your own rhythm.
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Burnout happens when your environment fails to respect your need for rest and recovery. Weeks, and sometimes months, of overwork, caregiving, or creative output accumulate in the body. The passion fueling your work can quietly erode your energy, often ending in a sudden crash.
This isn't a personal failure. It's what happens when systems ask more than they give back. And it affects everything: your focus, your relationships, your body.
What I Offer
As an embodiment coach and somatic educator, I offer two ways to work together.
1:1 Somatic Support Sessions
Personalized, body-based education designed around your actual life. Together, we'll identify what's draining your capacity and build sustainable practices to support your work, relationships, and whole self.
Group Workshops
Build embodied skills in community. Virtual workshops offer a space to learn, practice, and connect with others navigating similar pressures. Topics range from burnout recovery to creative flow and can be customized for your group.
How Somatic Coaching Works
Book a free discovery call
We'll talk through what you're carrying and whether this work is a good fit.
Choose your path
Whether you need a single session or ongoing weekly support, we'll find the right fit for your goals and capacity.
Build body-based practices
During our sessions, you'll develop small, sustainable habits that create meaningful shifts over time.
Stay in your purpose
As you progress, sessions adapt to your evolving needs and keep you grounded in your short and long-term goals.
What Sets This Work Apart
Unlike therapy or mindset coaching, this work doesn't dig into your past or push you to perform better. It expands your capacity to respond, recover, and stay present under real-world pressure.
You'll build resilience from the inside out. Working with your nervous system, you'll learn to recognize stress patterns, restore capacity, and respond with choice instead of override.
Values: Resilience-informed. Identity and body-affirming. Culturally humble. No fixing, just transformative resourcing.
What Clients Are Saying
"Micheal's practice is deeply healing and transformative. They combine somatic experience with the sensitivity of queer frameworks that attune with your body." — Asher F.
"Micheal consistently helps me manage autoimmune flareups during stressful times." — H.R.
"Working with Micheal gives me a spiritual experience of learning how to be in my body." — L. Jackson
Somatic Coaching & Workshops: FAQs
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Somatic coaching is a body-based approach to personal growth and resilience. Rather than focusing only on thoughts and behavior, it works with the body's signals and responses to help you build capacity, reduce stress, and move through challenges with more ease.
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This work is educational, not clinical. It focuses on building body-based skills and resources for the present, not processing past trauma. This work pairs well with therapy but does not replace mental health care.
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This is for high-performing professionals, academics, grad students, creatives, and anyone navigating stress or burnout while still wanting to show up fully in their work and life.
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Sessions are 1:1, held virtually, and tailored to your specific needs. We'll work through what's draining your energy, disrupting your focus, or keeping you stuck in cycles of overwork and crash. Using body-based practices, somatic education, and practical strategies, you'll build the capacity to stay consistent, set boundaries, and keep doing your work without losing yourself in the process.
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Yes. Virtual workshops are available for individuals and organizations. Workshops cover topics like burnout recovery, embodied capacity building, creative blocks, and sustainable work practices. Contact me to learn more about bringing a workshop to your organization.
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All 1:1 sessions are held virtually via Zoom. Workshops are available virtually and in person in the Tampa Bay area, Gainesville FL, Asheville NC, and Brooklyn NY.
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Absolutely. Embodied Purpose is an identity and body-affirming practice. Queer and trans clients are welcome and centered in this work.
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Yes. This work intentionally names and notices how systemic oppression, including whiteness, moves through bodies and shapes lived experience. Your body doesn't exist outside of the systems you navigate, and that's always part of the work.
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Book a free discovery call to talk through your needs and see if this work is a good fit for you.
Ready to stop running on empty?
Your work matters. So does the body doing it. Together, we can explore what’s getting in the way and how you can live beyond the grind.
