Empowering Today’s Women Through Somatic Coaching
The Wholeistic Practice
We are here for the modern day feminine desiring to return to her free, un-tampered, natural state.
Experience holistic and somatic healing with a dedicated somatic coach.
As your somatic coach, we will explore the core aspects of your being and uncover the narratives and beliefs woven throughout your body that keep many of us trapped in patterns of distress and automatic responses.
Today, we often find ourselves living on autopilot, following societal scripts that dictate our behaviours, feelings, and beliefs in a never-ending quest for success, acceptance, and belonging. Living according to the narrative of "how women should look, feel, and behave" can lead to an ongoing epidemic of chronic health issues affecting the psyche, body, and soul.
The realm of a woman’s natural intelligence—her truth, wisdom, voice, integrity, emotions, sensations, and wholeness—once came as naturally as breathing. Now, this connection has been deeply ruptured, to the point where we often don't even know what it feels like to be our "natural self."
Taking a bottom-up approach to trauma, The Wholeistic Practice focuses on a woman’s inner landscape, environment, and belief system, designed to work with the natural intelligence of your biology through a multi-dimensional approach. This includes female body wisdom, soma, psyche, nervous system, and soul.
As your somatic coach, you can be assured that I will bring a soulful, magical, and energetic approach to your healing. Your sessions will be truly transformative, guiding you to repair and integrate parts of yourself while unearthing your body’s natural healing resources. While individual sessions will vary depending on your needs, The Wholeistic Practice is fundamentally rooted in your sustainable long-term healing.
(In-person or online)
Who is the modern day Feminine?
Empowered and Free Thinking: The Feminine is confident, guided by a somatic coach is self-reliant, and self-assured, pursuing her ambitions and making decisions that shape her life on her own terms.
Empathic Catalyst: Somatic coaching promotes healing and integration by actively working to dissolve systemic barriers, cultivating a nurturing space for all voices to be heard and valued.
Multidimensional and Diverse: The Feminine embodies a range of roles and identities—whether as a professional, caregiver, activist, or creative—embracing both traditional and non-traditional paths.
Self-Aware and Authentic: The Feminine values personal development, health, and authenticity, seeking to understand and express her true self without projecting.
Resilient and Adaptive: The Feminine has a sense of agency, navigates the complexities of modern life with resilience, adapting to changing social, economic, and cultural contexts while overcoming challenges.
Connected and Informed: The Feminine engages with global issues and participates in discussions that shape new societal perspectives. As a somatic coach, I help her move beyond traditional norms.
Creative and Innovative: The Feminine contributes to various fields with creativity, intuition and innovation, influencing change not trends and driving growth in both personal and professional realms.
Holistic and Balanced: The Feminine strives for balance in her life, integrating work, relationships, and self-care in ways that reflect her values and well-being.
Who would benefit from somatic coaching?
Individuals experiencing any of the following:
People pleasers inside work, family and relationships.
Highly sensitive and hypervigilant.
Sacrifices their own needs, body or self for connection and belonging.
Self critical/hard on self.
Stuck in the mind/constant over thinking.
A constant racing mind and an endless to-do list.
Feeling stuck in one or more areas of your life.
Feeling exhausted and disheartened by the challenges of building your soul-driven business.
Give more than you receive.
Fears about aging as a woman and feeling like time is running out.
Finding your voice and purpose.
Easily triggered and impulsive behaviours.
Disordered eating behaviours.
Obsessive thinking over people and things.
Struggle letting go of past relationships and heartache.
Feeling overwhelmed easily.
Something just feels “off” and not right.
Conflicting thoughts and emotions.
Feeling anxious inside romantic relationship and connections.
Struggles committing to things.
Struggles with structure and routine.
Staying in, or going back to, unhealthy relationships/connections that lead to ongoing anxiety and emotional/mental strain.
For those who want to bridge the gap between what they understand intellectually and what they experience in the body.
For those who are in active recovery and are looking to take the next step in their personal and spiritual development.
Those who have become resistant to cognitive therapy strategies.
“The Wholeistic Practice” is the birthing of somatic psychology, feminine embodied intelligence, nervous system health and celestial magic. I created this practice after noticing a gap in traditional therapies—where cognitive approaches, behaviour-focused tools, mindset coaching for women, and spiritual teachings were often developed and taught by men, rooted in a male-biased perspective of biology.These methods had myself, and so many others, in a vicious cycle of continuously asking the question “What’s wrong with me and why aren’t I getting better?” It wasn’t until I connected to the intelligence of the body where I began to collaborate with self and create a way of healing that sustainably worked FOR ME.”
- Chanel
“If you are searching for clarity in your life, in any aspect, and if you yearn to identify/create and put into action valuable lifelong tools to enhance your everyday functioning Chanel is your answer. Not only is she one of the kindest, most down to earth, personable and knowledgeable people I have had the pleasure to work with, she is truly invested in being fully present with you and wholeheartedly cares about your ultimate well-being and life trajectory. As a Registered Nurse, with a degree in Psychology, who specializes in working in Psychiatry and addictions my work life is always stressful and chaotic. Chanel has the ability to meet you where you’re at, in any stage of life, and to provide you with education, somatic tools and reassurance of how to de-stress your life. I would highly recommend connecting with Chanel for anyone wishing for further guidance or simply a strong sounding board to bounce ideas off of. She is a special person with a very unique approach.”
-Jocelyn
Here’s what the end result of working with a somatic coach like me could look like for you:
You´re less activated by things and people.
You’re less in your head and operate more from a body centred and intuitive place.
You experience the freedom of moving on and letting go of past connections and relationships, even after years of trying.
You’re less impulsive with your unwanted behaviours.
You feel much more at ease with the uncertain and unpredictable parts of your life.
You’re in flow and in trust with life and the universe.
Operating with clarity, confidence, trust and ease in your soul-aligned business.
Nervous system moves from default into coherency.
You've increased your capacity to receive love and connection from the right people.
You feel supported and relieved like never before.
You feel clearer on who you are and what you're here for.
You´re calmer and more relaxed in your body and skin.
Your ability to relate to others improves, your relationships are deepening, and you´re able to be more present in your life.
The way you relate to your body (and/or symptoms) has dramatically improved.
You're more in contact with your creative expression, gifts and purpose.
You have a deeper understanding of your own unique system, and its needs. You feel more resourced in giving yourself healthy nourishment.
You feel a deep felt sense of empowerment and agency - you have “control” over your life maybe even for the first time.
You have deeper clarity and trust in yourself and in your next chapter.
Feelings of joy and spaciousness move towards becoming your natural set point.
For the first time, you’re experiencing healing for things you thought would always be a part of you.
“Chanel held an energetic space so rooted in safety that I was able to access aspects of my knowing and intuition I had missed. She came to the session with so much presence and so quickly attuned that she caught the smallest shifts in energy, and was able to notice and bring into my awareness the precise areas where I was blocked. I felt immensely seen. She was able to articulate my experience in ways that it felt like she had known me for years and yet I didn’t feel boxed or constrained. She has an openness and curiosity that allowed her understanding to flow and evolve even as I shifted through the session. I walked away from the session with a deeper awareness of myself, what was blocking me, and actionable strategies to move through those blocks. If you’re looking for a way to leapfrog in your growth or to get past a block, I couldn’t recommend a session with Chanel more highly.”
-Sheena L
This is the process of somatic coaching. It involves deep, nurturing, and impactful work. During our time together, we'll collaboratively focus on building momentum using the following methods and areas of focus.
Exposure to somatic coaching and compassion based therapies, which can include the following; Internal Family Systems, Parts Work, Shadow Work, Inner Child Healing, Sensation Awareness, Archetypal Blueprints and Breathwork.
Embodied spiritual practices such as Earth Based Magic and Ancestral Healing.
Recognizing your default nervous system patterns that are keeping you stuck, and shifting them so that you can experience new freedom and momentum in your life.
Un-blending and dismantling imprints such as the good/nice girl, the achiever, the perfectionist, the caregiver, the people pleaser, etc…
Recognizing the deeper origins of a woman’s distressing symptoms and behaviours, while applying a compassionate and trauma-sensitive framework.
Identifying your unmet needs and feeling worthy enough to get them met so that you feel better nourished and taken care of.
Decentering men and bringing your life and wellbeing into the spotlight.
Finding your strength and courage to leave relationships that no longer serve you, while feeling supported through the process.
Somatic coaching helps to strengthen your capacity to receive - love, connection and belonging.
Unburdening the parts of you that are constantly striving and on alert and in survival, so that you can feel calmer and more at ease.
Bringing more spaciousness and play into your life.
Boundary repair and implementation that builds your confidence, ease and freedom into your life.
Processing past hurts so that you can love more deeply and be in relationship with people who are good for you.
Exploring a new understanding of what it means to be a soul-aligned practitioner/entrepreneur in this world today.
Getting to know who you authentically are vs. what you have been conditioned to believe.
A life design that honours your natural cycles and increases your capacity, vitality, resiliency, and sense of aliveness.
Deepening your connection to your unseen support team (whatever that means for you) so that you feel more connected to something bigger.
Connecting with a community of like-minded people.
This is a great option for those who are serious about changing the course of their life through exploring a personalized multidimensional approach.
Working with me 1:1 could look like:
A personalized approach to meet you and your nervous systems specific needs.
Energetic Tracking: Together, we will outline your unique system, its adaptive strategies, and how it operates in the world.
Integrative body-based coaching and therapy blended with “witchy” intuitive guidance.
Access to feminine body-based teachings.
Features
Sessions are 60-90 minute private appointments.
I offer in-person in Vancouver, British Columbia and online through zoom.