welcome home somatics
cultivating dignity and belonging, rooted in resilience and community
Welcome!
I’m Regan Brashear (they/she), and this is the online home for my embodied transformation practice (aka somatic coaching).
Through one-on-one and group work, I support people in coming “home” —
home to the body, home to presence, home to a felt sense of aliveness, belonging, dignity, increasing access to our individual and collective power.
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/neurospicy, and fat/larger-bodied, I’m especially passionate about supporting people in these communities — as well as other creatives, filmmakers, 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 somatics might open up for you…
You’re in the right place.
If you’d like to explore whether somatic 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?
These practices help us remember our humanity when everything around us pulls us away from it. The Strozzi / generative somatics lineage offers us “somatic survival skills,” because they help us meet these perilous times and take action with presence, clarity, connection, vision and deep resilience.
What Is Somatics?
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. Somatics offer a roadmap back home to an embodied sense of self, integrating body/mind/spirit.
Have you ever experienced a moment of insight—only to feel it slip away hours or days later? Sustainable transformation can’t come from thought alone.
At Welcome Home Somatics, I blend nervous system awareness, body-based practice, anti-oppressive values, and trauma-informed somatic coaching support to help you:
- Deepen in your felt sense of embodied dignity, belonging, and resilience
- Clarify your values and the vision you want to live into
- Transform old patterns that hold you back
- Build embodied capacity for courage, clarity, presence, and connection
- Create sustainable change — not just temporary insight
- Lead, love, live, create, and organize from a grounded, powerful center
This is practical, relational, emergent body-based work.
Testimonials
“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.
Embodied transformation for our lives.
LEARN MORE ABOUT MY OFFERS
Welcome Home Somatics Community
Why community spaces matter
We live in a culture shaped by white supremacy and late-stage racial capitalism that relentlessly promotes individualism—the idea that we should be able to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.” This mindset fuels isolation, inequality, and a deep sense of disconnection from our bodies, one another, and the earth.
As humans—pack animals that we are—authentic connection is not a luxury. Being seen, held, and supported in community is one of the essential survival skills for cultivating real resilience and well-being.
Welcome Home Somatics is rooted in the belief that healing and transformation happen most sustainably in relationship. Alongside individual coaching, I offer somatics-based group spaces where we can learn, practice, and grow together—supported by shared intention, collective care, and a commitment to justice.