At Standing Strong Within, somatic coaching is about helping you reconnect with your body’s natural wisdom to create deep, lasting change from the inside out. This approach invites you to listen to your body, understand your emotions, and uncover the inner strength that’s been within you all along. Through awareness and intentional practice, you can learn to navigate life’s challenges with confidence, calm, and courage.
Somatic Release is a body-centered approach that explores the connection between the mind and the body. This approach uses both traditional discussion with somatic techniques. We will use body-mind exercises that will help you release emotions and trauma that are negatively impacting your physical and emotional health.
Mindfulness is the tool that allows you to connect the mind and body. You will be guided into somatic experiencing exercises that will enhance your awareness of your body’s sensations so that you begin to understand your body's language and its innate wisdom.
Where the language of the body and the language of the mind are connected so that you can have a new future full of possibilities, joy, and peace.
To free the body from the mind we need to build internal awareness. Somatics strengthens your internal awareness to unlock patterns that bounce back and forth between the minds and our bodies and affect our behaviors, our reactions, and how we respond to life.
What Is Somatic Coaching?
Somatic coaching is a body-centered approach to personal development and emotional growth. The word somatic comes from the Greek word soma, meaning “body,” and in this method, the body is seen as an intelligent partner in your healing and transformation.
Rather than focusing solely on mindset or behavior, somatic coaching helps you tune into the physical sensations, patterns, and emotions that live within your body. These sensations often hold clues to where you feel stuck, disconnected, or out of alignment with your core values. By learning to interpret and respond to these cues, you can move from reaction to awareness — from emotional overwhelm to empowered choice.
In somatic coaching sessions, you’ll explore how your body holds stress, fear, and resistance, while also learning to access the strength, clarity, and calm that already exist within you.
What Is Somatic Emotional Mastery?
Somatic Emotional Mastery is at the heart of Marna’s signature 12-week somatic coaching program, “Flip Your Thinking.” Visit this page to get our free downloadable guide as an introduction to this program. This transformative program is designed to help you gain control over your anxiety and emotions by cultivating emotional intelligence, expanding body awareness, and strengthening the mind-body connection.
Through guided practices, mindfulness techniques, and personalized coaching, you’ll learn to:
- Master anxiety, transform your life, and embrace change.
- Understand the messages your emotions carry.
- Recognize and shift unhelpful thought patterns.
- Build resilience and inner calm, even during stress.
- Realign with your values and purpose.
- Create new, empowered responses to life’s challenges.
- Achieve inner peace, emotional clarity, and a feeling of personal power.
- Create a life you’re excited about and love waking up to.
The “Flip Your Thinking” program helps you turn emotional reactivity into emotional wisdom, empowering you to take a stand within yourself and create the life you desire.
Is Somatic Coaching Effective?
Yes. Somatic coaching is a highly effective approach for anyone seeking meaningful, sustainable change. Unlike traditional talk-based methods that focus primarily on thoughts and behaviors, somatic coaching integrates the whole self — mind, body, and emotions. By engaging the body’s natural intelligence, clients often find that change happens more deeply and more quickly.
Research and client experience show that body-based approaches can improve emotional regulation, reduce stress, increase self-awareness, and foster confidence. With consistent practice, the insights gained through somatic coaching can reshape how you think, feel, and act — creating transformation that lasts.
What Are the Benefits of Somatic Coaching?
Somatic coaching can help you:
- Build emotional resilience and stability.
- Release old patterns of stress and tension.
- Improve relationships through clear, value-based communication.
- Strengthen your confidence and self-trust.
- Reconnect with your purpose and passion.
- Create healthy boundaries that align with your authentic self.
- Experience more joy, ease, and freedom in everyday life.
When you work with Marna, you’re not just learning tools, you’re embodying change on every level.
Who can benefit from Somatics?
Anyone can benefit from somatic therapy.
If you have been doing traditional talk therapy and are still feeling stuck somatics emotional coaching might be a good next step. Somatic can help you move forward and really let go of the past and its limiting beliefs, stories and emotions.
Do I need to like mediation or know how to do it?
NO. Meditation is not for everyone but we can all build internal awareness using mindfulness. And you do not have to know how to quiet your mind to do so. Meditation is not always what you think it is.
What Are the Different Types of Somatic Coaching?
Somatic coaching can take many forms depending on your needs and goals. Some of the most common approaches include:
- Somatic Awareness Coaching. Focuses on increasing your awareness of physical sensations, posture, and breath to better understand your emotional landscape.
- Somatic Movement Coaching. Uses mindful movement and gentle body-based practices to release tension, restore balance, and improve emotional regulation.
- Somatic Emotional Coaching. Helps you identify, feel, and process emotions safely through body-centered awareness rather than mental analysis.
- Embodied Leadership Coaching. Guides you to lead and live with authenticity, presence, and purpose by strengthening your connection between body, mind, and action.
No matter the approach, the goal is the same — to help you come home to your body, so you can live from a grounded and authentic place.
What Is the Difference Between Somatic Coaching and Somatic Therapy?
While somatic coaching and somatic therapy share similar roots, they serve different purposes.
Somatic therapy is a clinical approach focused on treating trauma, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. It’s guided by a licensed therapist and often involves exploring past experiences and emotional wounds.
Somatic coaching, on the other hand, is a forward-focused, empowering process designed to help you grow, thrive, and realign with your core values. Rather than diagnosing or treating, somatic coaching emphasizes awareness, choice, and embodied transformation.
Marna Caballero brings her extensive background as a licensed somatic practitioner to her coaching work — blending deep empathy, body-based insight, and decades of experience to help clients create profound shifts in their lives.
Learn More About Somatic Coaching
If you’re ready to reclaim your confidence, connect with your body’s wisdom, and master your emotions, somatic coaching can be the pathway forward. Take a stand within. Discover how you can live with more freedom, authenticity, and purpose. Start your journey with Marna Caballero today.