“I describe nature as my co-host, it’s a facilitator in itself… I feel like there’s some sort of ease when I take people outdoors, that I’m not doing it on my own, that I’m in partnership with nature”
Leah Davies, a Somatic Life Coach, joins us from Cardiff, Wales, to share her experiences of working with people who have experienced loss.
Somatic Coaching focuses on being embodied, in the moment, and Leah has found that taking her clients out in to nature really helps to support the emergent themes of Somatic Coaching.
Describing nature as her partner and co-host, Leah shares examples of clients who’s whole state has shifted, and solutions to their challenges have emerged, simply from seeing blossom on the magnolia trees. Something that could never have happened indoors.
Leah is also working on developing her coaching practice further by offering her “Grief in Nature Programme” that can be accessed online, providing a way to share the benefits of nature with people further afield.
Leah is very candid and open about her own experiences with loss and grief, as well as how nature has helped her to feel more connected and able to accept her loss.
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Leah is an accredited somatic life coach that creates experiences that bring people to life!
Her work is experiential and is underpinned by mindfulness-based practices, polyvagal theory, and body-oriented practices, that allow people to bring their minds, hearts and bodies into the here and now so that they can enjoy a full-bodied life.
Her background of working with people with addictions and teenagers in residential care taught her that we are all little kids inside big bodies. We carry our fears, worries and insecurities from the past and get very good at pretending we are winning at life!
Leah shows people they don’t have to pretend anymore and supports them to return to the person that they really are – their true nature.
Leah believes that to feel fully alive we need to befriend all of our emotions and experiences particularly our grief and loss, and offers spaces for people to pause, rest and grieve together in group circles.
She offers individual coaching experiences online and outdoors in nature, workshops and events, and writes ‘Leahs letters’ on Substack. You can find her online…
