welcome home somatics
cultivating resilience, dignity, and embodiment
through coaching and community
What is Somatic Coaching?
Have you ever had a brilliant insight about yourself only to lose touch with the clarity of that epiphany a week, a day, an hour later? We can’t heal and transform our lives in a sustainable way through our thoughts alone. Somatics honors, integrates and works with the wisdom of our body, mind, spirit, emotions, moods, internal narratives and how we relate to others, to support us in living with more purpose, clarity and impact. It helps us identify what we’re truly longing for, what it is that we value most and who we want to be in the world to live out our vision and values, and offers a practical, grounded path towards living in alignment with those goals.
Welcome!
I’m so glad you’re here. This is my online home for my somatic coaching and community offerings. My name is Regan Brashear. Through 1:1 somatic coaching and small groups, Welcome Home Somatics is here to support you on your journey “home,” coming home to your body, to the present moment, to an awareness of your interconnectedness with all of life, or to a felt sense of your own full unapologetic aliveness and inherent dignity. As a filmmaker, artist, community organizer, and a white person with a lifelong commitment to ending white supremacy, I have a passion for supporting fellow creatives, racial and economic justice activists and organizers. As someone who identifies as queer, genderfluid/nonbinary, disabled/chronically ill, and fat/larger bodied, I have a particular interest in serving these communities. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe in the values of collective liberation and beloved community, and yearn for a world where we all have what we need to thrive, and you’re curious if somatics might help you on your path, let’s talk!
Why is somatics important when the world is on fire and so many things demand our attention right now? I think of this lineage of Strozzi/generative somatics as “survival skills for the apocalypse” because I genuinely believe that it offers us a path for staying connected to our humanity so that we can meet this moment with the purpose, clarity, power, connection and deep resilience that our present conditions require. While these aren’t the only survival skills we will need, somatics offers a crucial and practical foundation from which to build.
Welcome Home Somatics Community
Why does Welcome Home Somatics believe in creating community spaces for healing and transformation?
“Last year, the U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, issued a 71-page advisory warning of an American ‘epidemic of loneliness and isolation,’ with all the danger that classification implies.” At the same time, the World Health Organization decided to make loneliness a “global public health concern.”*
I believe that one of the most insidious ways that white supremacy culture and late-stage racial capitalism manifests is in a rampant individualistic “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality which has resulted in deep social isolation, massive inequality, and a pervasive sense of loneliness and disconnection from our bodies, each other and the earth.
Experiencing authentic community where you can be seen and feel held is one of the “survival skills” which nourishes true resilience and is something that humans, pack animals that we are, all dearly need.
The harms exacted by systemic oppressions, such as racism, ableism, anti-fat bias, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, etc… are not things we can heal from, end or solve solely on our own in the individual coaching or therapy space. These oppressive systems require collective push back, organizing and dreaming to dismantle and build life-sustaining ones in their wake.
Lastly, somatics can be accessed and applied at many levels. For many people, this tradition of somatics offers a lifelong path of self-discovery and transformation, and finding others who are also on this path, working within a similar framework, can be incredibly supportive.
It is to these ends that Welcome Home Somatics prioritizes community spaces where we can learn, grow, heal and transform together. I’ll be inviting guest teachers to join me in facilitating a number of virtual group spaces. Please visit the community page for more on all of this!
(*N.Y. Times Magazine, Why Is the Loneliness Epidemic So Hard to Cure? By Matthew Shaer)