welcome home somatics
cultivating dignity, belonging, and resilient wholeness
Embodied transformation for our lives.
Welcome!
Welcome — I’m so glad you’re here.
I’m Regan Brashear (they/she), and this is the online home for my somatic integration practice.
Through one-on-one and group work, I support people in coming “home” —
home to your body, home to presence, home to a felt sense of aliveness, belonging, and dignity that’s already within you.
I bring to this work my background as a filmmaker, union organizer, and a white person committed to dismantling white supremacy and creating conditions for collective liberation.
As someone who identifies as queer, genderfluid/nonbinary, disabled/chronically ill, and fat/larger-bodied, I’m especially passionate about supporting people in these communities — as well as creatives, educators, activists, and organizers doing the long-term work of justice and transformation.
If you long to feel at ease in your skin…
If you crave a world where everyone has what they need to thrive…
If you are building towards that world in your own way…
If you’re curious what somatic coaching might open up for you…
You’re in the right place.
If you’d like to explore whether somatic integration coaching or one of my groups would be a good fit, let’s talk.
Why turn toward somatics when the world feels like it’s unraveling? Because these practices help us remember our humanity when everything around us pulls us away from it. I think of the Strozzi / generative somatics lineage as offering us “somatic survival skills,” not because they fix everything, but because they help us meet these times with presence, clarity, connection, and deep resilience.
What Is Somatic Integration?
Have you ever experienced a powerful moment of insight—only to feel it slip away hours or days later? Real, sustainable transformation doesn’t come from thought alone.
Somatics works with the body’s wisdom—our sensations, emotions, internal stories, and relational habits—to help you live with more purpose, presence, and power.
At Welcome Home Somatics, I blend nervous system awareness, embodied practice, anti-oppressive values, and trauma-informed somatic coaching support to help you:
- Clarify your values and the vision you want to live into
- Transform old patterns that hold you back
- Build embodied capacity for courage, clarity, and presence
- Align your actions with what matters most
- Create sustainable change — not just temporary insight
- Lead, love, live, create, and organize from a grounded, powerful center
This is practical, relational, body-based work designed to support your real life and real goals.
“Most of all, I appreciate how you embody what you teach. You have such an open presence, I feel safe. As a result, I notice how parts and awarenesses arise when I am with you that do not with others.” – A.R.
“Working with Regan is really increasing my ability to be present in my own life, with myself and those I care about. Their approach is very practical and focused on learning tools that I’ve been able to put to use right away. Regan is kind, funny, extremely knowledgeable, gentle, and a joy to work with.” – N.T.
“Regan is a gem in this Santa Cruz County community. They have studied somatics work deeply and have a lot to share. What I learned in the series that Regan led for SURJ members has transformed some of the ways I hold both my own personal care and my responsibilities in the greater community.” — Erin Wood
“Regan has been an amazing coach, meeting me where I am with kindness, insight, and compassion, and helping me find practices and perspectives that support me to embody my values and grow in my own self-compassion. If you’re looking for a caring guide to personal transformation, check out Welcome Home Somatics!” – Jeanne Rewa
“I was touched most by Regan’s embodied way of being with our group, their presence, attunement, respectfulness, and care. This moved us to be more present and connected with ourselves and each other.” — Leslie Potenzo
“This felt like spiritual massage!“
– A.M.
“Regan’s approach to Somatics has shown me how important the mind-body connection is when trying to heal from unresolved traumas. As a person with a physical disability, I constantly struggle with my relationship to the world around me. Regan’s understanding of how our bodies can both confine and reveal our experiences and emotions has set me on a path of awareness and discovery long hidden by my own shadow. Her coaching, body-centered techniques, and guided practices have cultivated a new found image, love, and respect for the body that dances with my spirit.” – M.A.
“Regan demonstrates her passion and commitment for expanding our individual and collective movement work from the depth of somatic alignment. Her training sources from a rich and deep vein of the possibilities for our collective healing and transformation” – L.P.
“Regan’s somatic coaching made flowers bloom amidst my challenges and anxieties. Her inner joy and guidance towards body-knowing gave me a lasting gift of self-awareness and inner strength.” – M.M.
“I appreciate your flexibility, humility, and, above all, the deep compassion. I feel truly honored and held in a way that makes it feel okay to do this very vulnerable work. ” – J.R.
“I feel very fortunate to have been coached by Regan on Somatics. I was raised to dismiss my needs and true feelings and Regan taught me practices that help me understand and become more attuned to who I am and how I want to be in the world; to draw healthier boundaries and take them further than I might do without these teachings.” – L.S.
“Regan offers a range of practices, insights, and resources, and, by bringing some of those practices into my life, I’m beginning to feel more at ease in the world and in my body. They are also such an advocate for disability justice, which I also appreciate immensely. ” – E.W.
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)